Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-01-28 | Page 1 | National Grange Master Declares Farmers Opposed to Beer Bill

y National Grange Master Declares Farmers Opposed to Beer Bill m By Associated Associated- run Press WASHINGTON Jan 28 The 28 The American farmer was described today to to- day as opposed to beer Louis J. J J Taber master of the national national na na- grange was the first opponent to the Bingham 4 per cent bill to be heard by a senate manufactures sub sub- committee Proponents of the measure measure measure mea mea- sure already have testified Taber r said sald farmers were against the bill on social moral and economic economic eco ceo grounds We oppose this bill he said because be cause we favor the eighteenth amend amend- ment and desire its retention Its It's preposterous to sa say we can have beer beerI I and the eighteenth amendment at the I same time time time-It Tf Taber said experience had proved to the farmer that he received less for products going into liquor than for any other similar article going Into food A A million drinks of beer and a million drinks of whisky he said takes a small amount of grain compared compared com com- pared with a million glasses of ot milk and a million pork chops Do you mean to say asked Sena tor Bingham author of the bill that if a person wants a n glass lass lass' of beer he will take a pork chop instead Im I m not making that point Ta Taber Ta Ta- ber replied Im trying to show the insignificance of ot the relationship of grain to liquor and the substantial relationship of grain rain in food