Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-19 | Page 2 | Brewers' Business Steadily Decreases

BREWERS' BUSINESS STEADILY DECREASES New Orleans. Nov. 19. A general discussion ol the prohibition move-I move-I ment occupied today's sessions of the United States Brewers' association convention here. The board of trustees trus-tees in their annual report made the statement that the. government by grace of the new tax on beer now is- getting three times the revenue from beer that the brewers themselves them-selves get. The trustees also pointed out that during the last half of 1913, beer sales decreased 2 1-2 per cent, due they said, to disturbed business conditions During July, August and September of tins year, the business decreased 10 per cent, as compared with the same period the previous year.