, 1859-03-11
The Introduction Of Lager Bier-A Real
TemDeranCe Reformation.

The legier bier question is again mooted
in the medical journals 1t is said that
large quantities Of Cccalus Iadicuy, poi
sonous and Intoxicating drug, are imported
to this country for use in the manufacture
Of lager bier. Since that beverage has
come into extensive use the importation Of
CoeHluS Endicas is said to have largely in,
creased. 1t is used by dishonest brewers
because their bier requires less malt when
the COcSlas is an Ingredient of it.
We do not know how true the above
statement may be, but we sincerely hope
that there is nothing in it," The lager
bier movement promises to work cut u
vast temperance reformation, and it would
be public misfortune should the mean and
dishonest motives here suggested he carried
into effect.
The grand mistake of the managers Of
the Temperance cause" is based on total
ignorance of the laws of organic life, and
their failure to accomplish any considerable
good iC necessary consequence. StimU-
taatS are, in sense, the sources Of life
the remote agencies Of the ris rilG-and
when they no longer affect the organism,
death has sUpervened and the body is given
up 10 the opposing laws Of chemical reac-
tion. Ordinarily, the stimulus of our usual
food, with that Of the atmosphere, light,
&c, should be sufficient, but we live un-
naturally, crowded in cities, with high sea-
soned aud artificial cookery and a thousand
other things that help to make our exist
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tea alone are enough to prevent the funC-
tionS Of digestion. They are takea hun
dred degrees above the natural tempera-
ture of the body, indeed many would con-
slider themselves actually scalded we're the
coffee they take into their stomachs at their
morning breakfasts cast upon the outside
of their persons, their naked legs or arms
And yet the delicacy and complexity Of the
mucus membrane, the inner lining Of the
stomach, is, when Compared to the outer
surface of the body, as velvet eontrasted
with sole leather. Climate, and even sea-
sons too, have vast influence over the Or
gnnism-thus, while the Creole of Cuba is
content with cup of coffee, the Russian
or POlander swallows down pint Of bran
dy with no more effect on him than the
coffee has on the former.
The temperance "refOrmer" dreams Of
original perfection, of O condition where
stimulating drinks are needless; but until
our habitudes, our eating, drinking, our
whole system Of social life, are changed,
and everything is perfectly simple and nat
ural, it is only dream. Meanwhile, the
whole hope of temperance reformation
consists in the introduction and use of
healthy stimulants-those that combine nu-
trative with mild stimulating qualities
The frightful results Of American intem-
perance are not dependant on the stimElG-
Ting but rather on the poisonous qualities Of
American liquors. The thousand or two or
more drinking houses in this city do not
deal out stimulants, or stimulunts in the
proper sense, but Pois0ns, aud the most acid
and terrible poisons ever invented by the
Gvarice or Villainy Of man. II, therefore,
we can get rid of these by the introduction
of the grape and by the almost equally
mild aud natural beverage termed lager
bier, we shall secure wide and most be-
nifcent temperance reformation, not mere
blind and unmanly reform" dependent on
legislation or personal pledges" but re-
form based upon reason and the laws Of
organic life.