Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-22
The
SALOON DIVES.
New Jersey Makers Of Beer Want
Federal ImpOst Reduced Are
Against High License.

NEWARK, Dec. 22:-Meeting in
special convention in the Kruger Au-
ditorium in this city yesterday, the
New Jersey State Brewers Associa-
ton organized and then denounced in
the strongest terms the existence of
dives. This resolution, introduced
by Colonel Dennis F. Collins of the
Peter Breidt City Brewing Company
of Elizabeth, was adopted:
Resolved, That we, the brewers
of New Jersey, in convention assem-
bled, pledge to the municipal author
tiles throughout the state our best
efforts, both as individuals and an
organization, to second their EFFORTS
in forcing a discontinuance OF such
places as may be offensive to the NOR
al sense of their respective commun-
tiles"
Other resolutions, presented by
former Mayor Hinchliffe of Paterson,
also were adopted. They were in
part as follows:
I'VE denounce all places OF an IN
lawful and disorderly character and
heartily recommend the enactment OF
such laws as will effectually prevent
them and severely punish those who
attempt to conduct them
The convention Endorsed the move
ment for the enactment of pure-food
laws and laws establishing uniform
standards in all salable articles of
drink. The president, Gottfried
Kruger, in a speech said the organ
ization welcomed publicity in all its
proceedings.
Resolutions were presented and
adopted condemning high license
laws and %prohibitory measures,
which, it was said, fostered the pro-
duction and surreptitious sale and
consumption of ardent spirits over
malt liquors, forced the brewers to
pay more than their fair share of the
taxes and hindered the development
of an industry which, ii was held,
promoted the temperate use of liquor
in the country.
The resolutions asserted that sta
tistics showed that whereas fifty
years ago America was n of the
most incorporate of nations, today
she stood at the head of temperate
nations. This change had been
brought about, said the resolutions,
by the substitution of malt liquors
for ardent spirits.
Colonel Dennis j. Collins of Eliz-
abeth introduced resolutions on tax
alton as follows:
Resolved, That the brewers of the
State of New Jersey, in common with
their fellow manufacturers through
out the United States, earnestly APP
peal to the lawmakers to adhere to
the policy of encouraging and foster
ing an American industry which pro-
duces one of the most healthful and
nutritious beverages, containing a
smaller proportion of alcohol than
any other fermented liquor, and
therefore universally recognized as a
most effective temperance agent
wherever the evils of alcoholism de-
mand remedial legislation.
Resolved, That justice as well as
a due regard for the physical and
moral welfare of the people demand
that the burden of taxation at pres
ent borne by the brewing industry
be reduced to the rate imposed dur
ing the civil war, when the price Of
beer was twice as high, the cost of
labor and operating expenses only
half as high as they are today, and
when the expenditures of the govern
ment were infinitely larger, per head
of population, than at any time be-
fore or since then.
Resolved, That the abolition of
the rebate of ~ per cent, formerly
allowed for leakage and other losses
actually amounts to an increase of
the old war tax, and as such cannot
be justified, particularly in view of
the fact that not II of the many
enormously profitable industries pro-
tected by a high tariff contribute a
single dollar to the Federal treasury,
while the American brewers, who
now pay about $50, 100000 of in
ternal revenue tax annually, by the
doubling of the beer tax We're made
to bear a disproportionately large
part of the expense of the Spanish
American War (whisky bearing no
part of this burden), and are also
heavily taxed by a high protective
tariff for the benefit of the American
farmer, for the sake of whose pros
perity the brewing industry gladly
and ungrudgingly bears this addition
al burden"