The recognition by brewers of the force of public opinion is a recent affair.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
It includes, not only the poor labourers who live on wages, but the great capitalists who live on profits; the great cotton spinners, ironmasters, brewers, bankers, contractors; the very men, in short, of all the world, whom the new productive forces have most conspicuously and enormously enriched.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The brewers may furnish free beer in public houses where voters are collected before going to the polls, and yet the candidate has done nothing to forfeit his seat.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell