MORE TRUTH ABOUT BEER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 2, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 14.

MORE TRUTH ABOUT BEER.

AMONG the canards, that are floated by the advocates of open beer saloons is that in Germany they do no harm, that the workmen are all sober, industrious, and happy. The Evening Post announces this misrepresentation in a recent editorial:—

So serious has the drawback of beer-drinking workingmen in Germany become, and so thoroughly is it recognized, that a movement has been started to exclude the drink from the factory premises. It has been not uncommon for a man to consume ten pints a day in his shop, while the average is put at not much below a gallon per day, excess being especially marked among moulders. Several experiments have already been made in educating workingmen to dispense with the morning and afternoon recesses for beer, and one firm making electrical apparatus in Berlin has found an increase of ten per cent in its product per man since the change was made. There is no arguing against such facts as these.

A Munich employer of many skilled workmen, in speaking of the difficulty of competing with foreign concerns, laid stress on the cheapness of Munich beer as one of his greatest handicaps. Said he: “If we were on equal terms in every other respect the fact that my men's brains and bodies are sodden with beer day and night would put me behind in the race.”

Even in North Germany complaints are frequently made by employers of the “sodden condition” of workmen on Monday from beer-guzzling on Sunday.—Christian Advocate.