OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF THE UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION. 109-111 East 15th Street, New York. The following is a complete list of the officers and committees, viz.: BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Term Expires JULIUS LIEBMANN, Pres. and Chairman Board of Trustees. 1909 ANTON C. G. HUPFEL, Treasurer.. HUGH F. FOX, Secretary... EDWARD A. SCHMIDT. AUGUST GOEBEL, JR.. E. A. FAUST.... JOHN M. LEICHT.. LAWRENCE FABACHER.. EDWARD RUHL... JOHN BENZ.... JOHN HARTMETZ. ANDREW HEMRICH. 1909 1909 1909 1909 1909 1909 1909 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1911 1911 1911 1911 1911 C. FEIGENSPAN... 1911 JOSEPH THEURER.. 1911 RUDOLPH J. SCHAEFER, Chairman Publication Committee. 1909 1909 LOUIS B. SCHRAM, Chairman Advisory and Labor Committees . 1909 JOHN GARDINER, Chairman Federal Relations Committee. 1909 1909 PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. RUDOLPH J. SCHAEFER, Chairman, New York City. HUGH F. FOX, Secretary, New York City. H. A. RUETER, Boston, Mass. JOHN F. BECKER, Brooklyn, N. Y. A. W. WOEBKEN, Philadelphia, Pa. JOSEPH E. UIHLEIN, Milwaukee, Wis. M. MONAHAN, Editor Literary Bureau, New York City. FINANCE COMMITTEE. JACOB RUPPERT, JR., Chairman, New York City. C. A. SCHULTZ, Financial Secretary, New York City. COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL RELATIONS. O. F. STIFEL, St. Louis, Mo. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. LOUIS B. SCHRAM, Chairman, Brooklyn, N. Y. ACTIVE MEMBERS. G. W. LEMBECK, Jersey City, N. J. JOHN REISENWEBER, Brooklyn, N. Y. CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. JULIUS STROH, Detroit, Mich. SIMON SEIBERT, Buffalo, N. Y. ERNEST FECKER, JR., Danville, Ill. ALBERT LACKMANN, Cincinnati, Ohio. VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. (In addition to those named below this Committee includes the gentlemen who constitute the Publication Committee). ALBERT LIEBER, Chairman, Indianapolis, Ind. HUGH F. FOX, Secretary, New York City. A. L. STRAUS, Baltimore, Md. AUGUST UIHLEIN, Milwaukee, Wis. WM. J. LEMP, St. Louis, Mo. CHARLES VOPICKA, Chicago, Ill. H. F. HEEB, Dubuque, Ia. W. H. HULL, New Haven, Conn. WM. F. FEIL, Philadelphia, Pa. HERMAN STRAUB, Pittsburg, Pa. JOSEPH H. STRAUS, Baltimore, Md. THEODORE FINKENAUER, Philadelphia, Pa. PERCY ANNECKE, Duluth, Minn. PAUL O. REYMANN, Wheeling, W. Va. CHARLES WIEDEMANN, Newport, Ky. B. ADOUE, Galveston, Texas. M. MONAHAN, Editor Literary Bureau, New York City. LABOR COMMITTEE. LOUIS B. SCHRAM, Chairman, Brooklyn, N. Y. HUGH F. FOX, Secretary, New York City. CHARLES PFAFF, Boston, Mass. CHARLES SCHUTTE, Newark, N. J. GEORGE F. GUND, Cleveland, Ohio. COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION. WILLIAM HAMM, Chairman, St. Paul, Minn. E. A. FAUST, St. Louis, Mo. JNO. A. MCDERMOTT, Manager, Chicago, Ill. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION 'ROM the earliest Colonial periods, even while the brew-kettle FROM the ear a st Colerable part in the domestic economy of the American household, commercial brewing occupied quite a noteworthy position in the fiscal history of our country. It was, in fact, a source of revenue invariably resorted to in times of stress and need. Its tax-burdens actually mark the critical periods of our national existence; for it was not continuously or permanently taxed, except since 1862; but with every war the tax was sure to come. In the only war since 1862 it even assumed the shape of a double tax. The United States Brewers' Association, organized in November 1862, is an indirect product of the most momentous crisis of our national life. The beer tax, a part of the internal revenue system, then embracing every branch of commerce and industry, was the direct tangible cause of its organization. There were other reasons, however; considerations of a nobler, a loftier nature. Patriotism, ready to sacrifice self-interest, was the most potent motive of those who organized this body and those who joined it. Nearly all of them were men of German birth or extraction, and, like the vast majority of German-Americans, ardent Unionists. The attitude of the German-Americans during the Lincoln campaign and particularly during the subsequent events, when 200,000 of them obeyed the call to arms, is a matter of history. Unbiased historians admit that the more important border States were saved for the Union by the German-Americans, and among them-as in fact throughout the country, even in the |