The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-22
Brewers in conv sntion De-
clare Against All Forms
of Adulteration and De-
mand Uniform Standards
WILL PUNISH TRANSMISSION
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED BY
COLONEL DENNIS j. COLLINS,
OF ELIZABETH; MAYOR HINcH,
CLIFFE, OF PATERSON. AND
HENRY R. KINGSLEY, OF NEW
ARK.
Special to .The Jersey city News.


NEWARK, Dec. %. 905.-Resolu-
tions faroring the enactment of fed
eral law to establish uniform standing
of purity for all articles of food and
drink and to prevent and punish adulter-
convention of the New Jersey State
Brewers Association, held in the
Krueger Auditorium. Representatives
of breweries throughout the State Joined
in the discussion of questions affecting
the industry.
Gottfried Kruger, the president, call
ed the. convention to order at 11.30
o'clock, and in his opening address out
lined the development of the brewing
trade in New Jersey, and asked that the
discussion on various questions confront
ing the body be just and fearless. He
said, in part:
we intend, in the course of our own
work, to appeal to the sober judgment of
the people and to enlighten them on
everything that pertains to our trade
and the nature of our product We well
come the greatest publicity. We invite
the closest inspection. We challenge the
ignorant and the -prejudiced and the evil
| n,;ndad 20 d;eo,,sss 80, aoeo hofo,a +1,a
public, am quite sure that the public,
| always fair-lninded and just, will give
us a hearing, and hat is all we want
John Gardener, president of the United
! States Brewers Associat ton, spoke on
the legislative questions which faced the
| brewers of the country.
Colonel Dennis j. Collins, of Elizabeth,
presented these resolutions:
Resolved. That the brewers of the
State of New Jersey, in common with
| their fellow manufacturers throughout
the United States earnestly appeal to
the lawmakers to adhere to this policy
of encouraging and fostering an Ameri-
can industry which produces one of the
most heafhful and nutritious bevera gss,
containing a smaller proportion of alco-
hol than any other fermented liquor, and
therefore universally recognized as a
most effective temperance agent wherev-
er the evils of alcoholism demand remed-
LA. legislation.
Resolved, That, in view of the fore
going facts and inasmuch as beer forms
part of the regular diet of an exceed
ingly large proportion Of the working
people, being, in fact, both food, a
thirst-Quenching drink and mild stim-
ulant. and not in any sense a luxury, JUS
tice as we'll as a due regard for the ply
Steal and moral welfare of the people
demand that the burden of taxation at
present borne by the brewing industry
be reduced to the rate imposed during
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 to-day, and when the expendi-
lures of the government were infinitely
larger, per head Of population, than at
any time before 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 moi
one of the many enormously profitable
industries protected by high tariff com
tribute single dollar to the Federal
! treasury; while the American brewers,
who now pay about $50,000.O00 of inter
nal revenue tax annually, and since 1862
paid into the Federal treasury the eaor-
nous sum of $95z, ,556.574,34, and blythe
| doubling of the beer tax. were made IL
| bear disproportionate.y large part g.
the expense of the Spanish-American
War fwhiskey bearing no part of this
burden), are also heavily taxed by a hign
prosperity the brewing industry gladly