The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-11
CITY AND STATE NEWS.

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THR BENEFIcIAL EFFECTS. OF MALT
LIQUORS. -On Saturday we were present
ed with the report of the Commissioner,
appointed BY the United States Brewers
Association to the United States rev
enue Commission on the Taxation ana
Manufacture of Malt Liquors Ihese
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in number, -yis
;,sd Enrops for the purpose of obtaining
inflammation relative to the excise law,
and other facts connected with the brew.
INC interest The report is document
Of some forty eight pages of printed
matter and abounds in useful informa.
non. 10
The brewing interests are. becoming of
great Importance to the agriculturalists
Of this country The estimated annual
production of malt liquor in the United
States is 5 100000 of barrels, in the manu-
acture of which 100000 bushels Of
barley and 100000 pounds of hops are
required. To grow this large quantity
Of material; at an average yield of thirty
bushels of barley to 1000 pounds ofhops
per acre, there must be employed in the
cultivation of the former, say 400 900
acres, and in the latter $1,000 acres of
land, or 200 acres for both.
In concluding their report, the COM
missioners give the following as their
opinion of the effects of malt liquors:
We feel that the manufacturing and
vending Of malt liquor is not injurious
TO our fellow citizens, but that the more
themanufacture and sale of it is ex-
tended, the more will temperance be,
promoted, and the revenue of the Gov
eminent be increased. Malt liquor has
been pronounced by high medical al
thority mot only an innocent, but a
salubrious beverage for those whose diet
is not very nutritiye" Happy is that
country" says an eminent English ply
stefan, "whose laboring classes prefer
such a. beverage to those mischieyous
potations Of ardent splits Our own
observation, and information derived
from others, both attest the truth OF
this rsmark We have seen thousands
Of persOnS-men, women and children,
In the German States assembled, drink
ing their national beverage and enjoy
ing their national games and sports
with the greatest hilarity, and have
failed to see drunken one among them.
The natives of these States, who emf
crate to this country, bring with them
their preference for the beverages, and
aud the sports and amusements of their
fatherland. No policemen are required
to protect the public peace from any
disturbance of it by "Sangerfest" or
'Turnerverein'" When the services of
ihe police are required at these festivals,
It is to guard their peaceful reunions
and inHocent enjoyments from the inso-
tent and iintous intrusion of rufiians
ospred By quite different potatiols
The consequence oi an babitual il0al-
gence which leads 81 frequently IT, the
.Xcessive use of spirits - that, when
the stimulus is w ithdrawu, The nervous
system is depressed below its normal
tone. The result is that craving which
we call the thirst for liquor. An artifi-
cial stimulous then is necessary to re
srdre their normal condition, and the
quantity required for this purpose con
stautly increases But no such effects
follow from the use of malt liquors,
which have nutriment in the malt, a
tonic in the hop, and contain but a
small percentage in alcohol. They are
,timulants, it is true; but like tea and
coffee. they cheer, but not inebriate y