The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-02
y Few Facts About the Price of
Beer.

mentioning the dissatisfaction among
certain saloon-keepers in this city re-
garding the extra duty on beer ALLOW
me To say Il few words. The advance
on beer was not made at the pleasure
and instigatiOn of the Cape Brewery
X Ice Company for the purpose of
making IL larger profit on its output.
Far from it, but the advance in price
was brought about and forced upon
the Brewery by the Government in
creasinT the beer tax from one dollar
to two dollars per barrel. This caused
the Cape Brewery and all other brew
cries in the country TO advance the
price of beer.
1t is not generally known, but it is
fact all the same. that all products
Used in the manufacture of beer have
advanced twenty pes cent since the
first of January. lSgS. but thisu aG-
vance did not cau>.. the brrwries TO
make Il like advance on the price OF
beer. They were willing to stand this
twenty per cent. but when the Govern
ment placed tax of an additional
dollar on every barrel of beer turned
Gut by brewery the profits on the
manufacture Of beer We're too small for
the hrewerie-S To stand all this extra
expense. Il now requires economy
for the brewery to make a profit of
one dollar per barrel on beer.
The average sale of beer to saloon
keepers in this city is about se"Vn or
eight barrels of beer per day The
drivers EXPENSES. not considering
other expenses. i> alone from s.. - to-
&2.5G pee day on his route te deliver
this h"er. thus actually leaving a
profit for the brewer of aboa: seventy
five reCtS per barrel
la the year lS93 the Cape Brewery
reduced the price af beer from 500
to $40 per barrel. or $LT-J per keg,
giving the SaiO0n-keepers the benefit
of twenty-five cents with the under
standing that the beer d,iver was not
10 spend so much money. but this
agreement was H@var upheld by the
saloon keepers and certain saloon
keepers insisted that the beer drivers
shoHld keep on spending ten and fiji
teen cents on every key of beer they
delivered and some of them even went
SO far as To keep ten cents out of the
due the driver on the beer he
delivered.
Since the Cape Brewe.y X Ice COM
pany began business beer and ice are
much cheaper than beE0rc this enter
prise was established. In former
time, the price Of beer per keg was
from 500 to $500. Ioe was from sew
enty-iivc cents to one dollar and twen-
tyiive cents per hundred pounds. Now
beer costs 800 per key and lee from
the brewery ice plant has never been
higher than fifty cents per hundred
pounds.
The Cape brewery is nome enter
prise. employs home la Dor. Uses home
products as far as can b. secured in
the manufacture of its output. and be-
sides spends about twenty-thousand
dollars annually in salaries and 9th
az expenses. These are items worthy
Of consideration by all who have the
interests of the city at heart.
We have quite Il number of So-rall- !
I'd progressive men in this city who !
are always anxious to have manufac- |!
turing establishments locate here to !
promote their earnings and interests. |
)ut as soon as manufacturer settles !
lOwn here and begins to make a sue
.e~s of his business some of these |
Sould-be progressive citizens, are I
'eady to drive the manufacturer away
md knock down what the real pro-
rressive men nave built up.
The Cape Brewery, like any other
is in business for profit,
md it is common sense that the Brew
ry is not in business for glory The
Brewery is 4 home enterprise and the
itizen Of Cape Girardeau who stand
n the way of the success of home /.
is not good citizen.
y HOME MAN