Washington sentinel., 1901-05-11
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the premises had to be supplemented bl
the erection of a second brewery, anC
very soon the monastery beer drove al
the other kinds out of the local market
This, of course, was not pleasant fol
the brewers, but as the Trappist monks
work without pay and merely for theii
frugal sustenance, and the community
being religious body is exempt from
taxation, the lay competitors were too
heavily handicapped.
A journalistic campaign led to no
result, so at last the Tilburg brewers sal
down and indited an appeal to the Pope
for the suppression Of the monasterial
brewery. This also appears to have
fallen fiat, as the offending community
has been raised to the rank of an abbey
and the prior to bishopric, whilst the
business has continued to flourish so
that depots for the'sale Of Trapplst beer
are now to be found all over the Meth
eTlands.
With vote OF 245 against r33, the
English House OF Commons has passed
the bill regulating the sale OF beer which
provides that, il a beer has not been
made from malt and hops exclusively the
ingredients used must be stated.
The amount OF beer brewed in Great
Britain dnrlng the year 1900 was smaller
than In 1899, but still larger than the
quantity produced in 1898.
Ireland was able to record an increase
IN the amount of beer brewed during the
last three years; England and Wales
produced less beer in I9oosthan in 1899,
but still more than during 1898, whereas
the amount OF beer brewed in Scotland
IN 1900 was less than the quantity pro-
duced curing the previous two years.
The use OF sugar in the manufacture Of
beer has become more and more gem raj
in England. Scotland and Wales,
whereas in Ireland it has decreased
steadily during the past three years.
and amounted to 2,974, ,2SS cwt. IN 1900.
The beer produced by the breweries
of Alexandria, Egypt, does not meet
with public favor, and the opinion held
by many, that the local product would
seriously threaten the import of beer,
has not come true. To the contrary a
considerable increase in the amount of
beer imported into Alexandra has been
recorded during the past year. In 1900,
$4,000 barrels of beer and I26, 900 dozen
bottles of beer have been imported;
$4,000 barrels were shipped from Aus
tria, but the Austrian bottle beer has |
almost completely lost its market IN
Alexandria.
"A recent visitor in Buffalo was Col.
Jacob Rupert, Jr., Of New York. He /
Is the we'll known brewer and Represen.
tative in Congress for the Fifteenth
New York district. Col Rupert was
accompanied by John S Fillmore, ofthe
Votometer Voting Machine Company,
The object OF his visI. was to complete
for the construction Of a
booth at the Exposition for an exhibi.
tion of voting machines. Col. Rupert
was aide de camp on the staff OF Senator
Hill when he was Governor OF the
Empire State.
On the 18TH uIt., the American
Brewing Co, of Bennett, Pa, formally
opened its new brewing plant in that
city. There was a reception to a large
lumber OF invited guests, for whom
were provided, and the
plant, which has been completely rebuilt
'ince the present owners purchased it
rom the Michael Enz Brewing Co., was
greatly admired,
With the Improvements recently
the Diamond State Brewery,
owned by Mrs. Johanna S. Stoeckle, at
Del, has been transformed
nto one OF the most completely equipped
ind modern plants IN that part of the
1t cannot be denied says the New
fork Brewers Journal, that serious
ituation confronts the brewers Of the
United States and that upon the action
o be taken in the immediate future for
be protection OF their interests, their
rogress and prosperity must IN large
MEASURE depend. Alter struggle lasting
or nearly two years to obtain from
congress fair treatment and intelligent
onsideration OF their right to relief
rom the intolerable burden with which
be industry is oppressed, in the shape
f the tax ilevied in 1898 to defray the
Expense OF the war with Spain, terml-
afaH ha I,a |
rewers have seen their just demands Z
racticallY set aside in order to crafty
he desire of politicians and OF the Ad-
for a huge treasury surplus. Z
he history OF the trade, for several
ears past, records a succession of costly
forts or the part Of its members to
btain their rights from the Government :
! relation to taxes unlawfully collected I
nd other irreg ularities in official deal I
lgs with the brewers, while legislative
ieasures in which the industry Is inter-
sted, OF comparatively little significance /
, other trades, haye been curtly re- {
.cted by both houses at Washington, in J
leir eagerness to pander to the brewers
pponents The introduction and adop- {
on of the infamous anti canteen a
mendment and the discussion Incl =
entail thereto, plainly revealed the
,elIng towards this important trade
nat inspires the average member Of
congress. In many other directions, in
tate and local legislative bodies, the I
nemies of the trade have displayed r
nwonted activity of late end have Z
dopted the plan of masking their
ttacks by making them under cover of