The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-08-05
IDAHO WORLD.
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The New York Journal Of Commerce, high
toned and politically neutral paper, has the fol
lowing remarks on the prohbtory liquor Ia"
of Radical Massachusetts,, and its enforcement
The new liquor law of Massachusetts ap,
pears to be expressly intended to humlllate and
annoy the Germans. Had the law not prOhib
tied lager beer, the aggravating spectacle would
have been afforded to Puritan eyes OF parties
of Teutons ENJOYING themselves over their ia
yorite innocuOus drink, while heads OF brandy
mines and rum casks were being knocked in all
about them. This of itself would have been
sufficient evaporation for the gaunt and smile
less advocates of the new law. Nothing is SO
maddenng to your grim fanatic as the sight OF
another man laughing; and the proper supple
mentary statute to the new liquor law would
be decree making chuckle or grin penal
offence. Being thus happily gifted with the
faculty of getting merry over so thin potation
as lager beer, it was necessary for the perfect
happiness of the modern fanatics that the Ger
mans of Massachusetts should be deprived of
that matchmaking beverage All the leading
hotels of Boston are spared by the cOnstabulary
and these men may get sullenly drunk on the
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patrons of those places are not the humble
Germans, whom this law is designed to casti-
gate, but Observation-Disclosures good and true,
many of them doubtless, if the truth were
known And then they toss off their glasses
in our sOlemn Yankee way, as if they were
taking castor oil, and not in the jolly hilarious
fashion of the Germans. The Germans are
Germans and they will laugh and grow fat
those are crimes for which Radical Massachu-
sets will not forgive them. So the Constabes,
blind and deaf to what is going on in all the
great hotels and through the best society of
Boston, never fail to visit the cean-sanded
ground floors or easements of the German
lager beer saloons, dispense the sober inmates
German wOrkmen and their fraus innOcently
disporting themselves after their daily toll
and rob the proprietor of his stock of lager,
the poor mans whole property. The heaviest
items in the lists of advertisements of liquors
seized and forfeited are lots of lager beer.
There are dozens of kegs of this where there
Is one of whskey, gin or rum. If the law were
justly and fairly enforced against all persons,
and not against the Germans In particular, the
proportion should be the other way; for the
Germans are but small part of the whole
drinking population of Massachusetts. If, at.
ter what we have said, any one doubt the spe-
by the latter-day zeaots, let him note that cider
is exempted by the law This exemption is for
the benefit of those Massachusetts Radicals |
who, while inexpressby feroclous upon the
use of other kinds of liquor for other people. |
demand for themselves the privilege of getting
drunk, II they choose, OF hard cider OF their
own make. Hard cider, as everybody knows
who ever drank it, is more tipping than lager
beer. by expOsngit to freezing temperature,
and drawing off all that remains untroZen
potent liquor may be Obtained-strongrr than
any OF the wines OF commerce. This being
native product and consumed almost exclusive
Iy by natives, may be made and taken in any
quantity; while lager beer, beverage upon
which the regular drinkers never become in
tOxicated is Forbidden and confiscated when
the makers and consumers
are chiefly foreigners, Germans, the class whom
it suits the Radical party of Massachusetts to
single out for their hatred and persecution.
Our advice to the Germans of Massachusetts
ls-tO leave that State ut once, shaking the
dust off their feet and come to this city Here
they make and drink their national beverage
in peace. We welcome them as we do the
refugees from small-souled tyrants everywhere
This Is the home of the exile and the stranger
This is the city which, with q larger wisdom
Lhdh tdssacHuseltsc'er dreamed or, nails every
accession to its composite population, seeing in
Zach fresh admixture of hardy, intelligent in
1ustrlous races new guaranty of its continu-
I'd supremacy as the metropolis of the nation.
We are not writing in the interest Of lutem
oerance. No German was ever seen drunk on
ager beer. 1t is little more stimulating than
ordinary root beer. Its use has saved thous-
lnds from the drunkard's grave Those who
labitually use it are sober, steady, Industrious
citizens. 1t is great mistake in the name of t
temperance to inaugurate such 4 crusade
lgainst this harmless beverage