, 1869-08-13
RADICALISM AND LAGER.

Within the last ten years $50, 200 Ger.
mans have landsd on our shores; $4,000
have arrived during the last three years, and
the tide OF emigration is daily bearing crowds
of these energetic and thrifty people from
the expressions of the Old World to the much
vauntej, if not somewhat over>rated, liberties
of the New. Influences upon which we do
not care to comment now have led large
proportion Of the German element to adopt
and support the political creed of the radical
party, and by their votes they have material
ly aided in fastening that creed upon the
country. There is then, kind Of poetical
justice in the suiicrnSs which our Teutonic
friends are at present undergoing in that
special home of radicalism-hbcral and en-
hghtened Massachusetts,. Ga the Sth of the
present month, as our readers are doubtless
aware, the liquor law went into practical op.
GRAFTON throughout that State, aud the city
OF Boston, particularly. Was made the scene
of very lively and interesting operations
Bar rooms OF all sorts and descriptions were
closed, and not drop OF spirtituous mois,
ture could be had for love or money within
the corporat, limits of ''the Hub"-except,
perhaps in a back room or dark closet in
some Of the first class hotels But, not sat-
i3ied with couf>cating whiSkies, brandies,
wines and bitters, the Jealous constabulary
laid an eGcctual embargo upon the lager beer
saloons, and placed the tavorite beverage of
King Gam5rinus under strict prohibition.
Seven hundred and fifty gallons Of lager in
wood, and three hundred dozen pints Of ale
in stope were seized in single day, and the
manufacture and sale Of malt liquors are alb
soutely ruined-ior the present at least.
The GerT an citizens, who there, as elsewhere
almost monopolizs this branch Of business,
are naturally the heaviest losers by this PEI
culiar and Characteristic development Of radir
cal picty and policy. The Post says:
Some spoke out in sorrow, some in indig
nation, some in anger. The universal senti-
ment was that of great injustice. Hundreds
of Germans are thus deprived of their only
business. They cannot easily turn their
hands to other business, even if opportunity
occurred Ninc.teDtEsa of these men were
order>loyiug, law abiding citizens, who re-
spected themselves and the good name of the
city. They mention-and who shall say
other than with reaSon-that their rights
are abridged, their property put in peril, and
their persons made liable to the punishment
and disgrace of prisons One German re
marked that he had carried on the business
for fifteen years. that he had educated his
children, and had given the best blood of
two Of them to his country. "Hou make
laws" he said, sat the State House which
take mans property, ana he can say moth
ing. The worst Governme under the worst
monarchy on the face Of the earth does not,
dare not, could not, without revolution, 60
to this extremity
What makes the Massachusetts Liquor
Law delightfully."- consistent is the fact that
while heathful and comparatively harmless
lager is abolished, cider, in whose treacher.
Gus depths lurk ten thousand COLES, Is shell
tered under the protecting 9giS OF our 1an.
kee brethren. Men may make cider, sell
cider, drink themselves drunk on cider, and
there are neither laws nor C0nstables 10 dis
turb them in so doing. Cider Is the bever
age of State; the juice OF apples, with all
its viIlainous ingredients a9d comblnatlons'
is crowned with glory and Rbnor, while the
extract of hops is excommuGicated with bell,
book and candle The manufacturers aud
dealers in cider will grow rich, the manufae,
turers and dealers in beer will starVe, aud
this OUTRAGEOUS discrimination is the legltl>
mate offspring of that progressive radicalism
which, under the name and guise of liberty,
is as thorough and complete despotism as
the world can show.
We commend this subject and its lessons
to the thoughtful consideration of every in
,ellirant German = Missouri ReDublican