The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-22
There Aren't as Many

| V heuser- Busch in St Louis, Schlitz, Pabst Premier and Miller in Mil- waukee, Ruppert in New York, Rayner in San Francisco, Alamo in San Antonio, Abner-Drury in Washington, and Schmidt in Phil- adelphia. l All these and many more have cereal beverage per- mits, and they have in their stor- age yats anywhere from a month to three months supply of real beer from which the alcohol has not yet been removed.
 These bre&eries are widely scat tered throughout the country. Of the 211 permit breweries now op- erating, A are in Pennsylvania, 30 in New York, 12 in Now Jersey, eight each in Illinois and Califor- mia, nine in Minnesota, five in Maryland. 27 in Wisconsin, IS in Ohio, four in Missouri, three in Colorado, and three in Indiana. The others are scattered through out the nation.
 An idea of the reduction in even these apparently large numbers Is had in the fact that before proll.- bition Pennsylvania had 166. New York 101. Ohio 7S. and Wisconsin 72.
 All of which means that the or g.1nized brewing interests have been not dead, but sleeping. And not exactly sleepfng. either, for in 1925 the SU. S. Brewers 3asso cia- tion began it's campaign for re- peal. This association includes most of,,the, big brewers in the country. It was organized in 1SG2 by Frederick Lauera of Reading, Pa, and grew to have great pollt- ical power in the coufitry until the Anti-Saloon league came along and went 1t one better.
 There is now one doubt what ever that the arrogance of this or ganized brewing power was one or the greatest factors in its abolition. The brewers admitted as. much in 1916 when, in5h series of curious advertisements, they regretted "the false mental association which linked them to the worst saloons, confessed that they were largely responsible for this, and offered to show if given chance that they were ready to reform the saloon and to promote stemperance.
 Rise and Fall of Beer.
 The rise Of lager beer tand that is what modern Americans have always meant by beer) dates from 1S42. The fiood~of German immi- grafton which came in the latter half of the last century led to the building of the great mid western breweries, and was gradually con verting the United states from q whiekeysdrinkiIg to q beer-drink- ing country. The names of Pabst. Schlitz, Morelein, Leisy. Stroh. Ehret, Ruppert. Busch ( were writ ten large against the sky, But the arrogant and short sighted tactics of the brewers led the rising tide of dry sentiment to be as bitter against beer as 1t had formerly been against hard liquor.
 By 1913 the brewing industry had a stake of billion dollars, and it played the game to win, often with little scruple as to method. The organized breweries controlled the saloon through mortgage bonds and the ability to control their. supplies of beer. Thousands of saloons were financed with brewers money, much as the big oil companies now finance gas stations. Money was dumped into doubtful states toscontrol elections.
 Members of the U. s. Brewers association paid dues of from a half cent to more than a dollar a barrel, according to how badly the money was needed to fight the drys. A million dollars was poured