The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-06-27
The Blessings Of Beer.

the United States, delivered at the open
ing OF Its thirteenth session, in the cit,
or Cleveland, ought to convince the no
BILE army Of fprOhibitionists that they Ia
Dor under strange misapprehension of
: the nature of the mildest OF tonic bever
: ages. and extort from their prejudices' 9
! confession that beer is national blessing
u AS the address occupied more than two
hours i'm its delivery, no newspaper in
Cleveland seems to have been equal to
its publication entire, so that we have
only tolerable full extract of il in the
daily prints. We are, however, persuad-
Ell, from this extract, that The brewers
/, Of the United States cannot do hand
sOmcr thing for their cause than to order
few hundred thousand copies for dis
trlbution by cOlporteurs among those
who have dieted intellectually during
their lives Oh the food supplied by the
National Temperance Society.
The brewers Of these United States,
Mr.. Clausen says, are engaged energeti-
Ically in providing US "a healthy and nu-
ltritious beverage, a mild. pleasant and
refreshing stimulant, and source Of
innocent and harmless enjoyment" for
(which, 1t is his opinion, they are entitled
to encouragement and should receive
the thanks of grateful people. So vi
tai to our progress and prosperity does
beer seem to be in the opinion Of Mr..
lClauscn, that falling off in the con-
1 sumption Of this famous beverage would
Indicate that our country is retrOgrad-
ing. The manufacturers of good and
wholesome malt liquors 'are bcnefactors
to the human race, inasmuch rs they pro-
vide refreslment and nutriment when
solid food is unnecessary" Not only
do they soften the asperities of the hui
man appetite and enable a man TO be in
dependent of the butcher and baker,
but thew temper and modify the impu-
rites OF the ever-changing mineral. ami
nal and vegetable properties Of the
water provided by n bountiful Provi-
Idencc for the sustenance Of this great
continent" thus Mitigating the labors Of
the medical profession and Increasing
the average period Of human life, to the
satisfaction Of all students of vital statis-
tics. Nor do these sum the benefactions
conferred upon mankind by the philan-
lthropic brewers. Their enticing bever-
ages protect the human system against
the seventies of the climate and the
changes of tine seasons. and therefore
make less imperative the necessity for
much clothing.
Regarded from Mr.. CIauscn's point Of
view, beer is physically, morally and eco
nOInically, blessing sweet boon to
the human race. and it is not surprising
that he should pronounce those who op-
pose its manufacture and consumption
as fanatics and fools. among whom he
includes 1.-The Jcsuits Of America mean
ing thereby such Of the clergy as ..pro- |
claim from their pulpits and harangue
about temperance" and clothed with /
the robes of the Church. and sanctified
by their holy office, "through their |
sneaking and creeping manners, work
themselves into the favor Of the ladies
and make dupes Of their husbands,
Mr.. Clausen has neither charity nor pity
for the ''lank and cadaverous" advocates
of the holy rites of cold water, and goes
for their staple arguments against beer
with an array of stunning statistics.
Let us endcavor .riefy to put the
points of their arguments and his replies
before our readers. Beer drinking. saws
the teetotaler. leads to whisky-drinking. I
Not SO, replies Mr.. Clausen, 1.-THE reverse !
is the fact" by which we infer that
whisky-drinking leads to beer-drinking.
Dealers in whisky complain that the
supply is in excess of The demand, while /
the production Of malt liquors "jumps
at the rate of many a million barrels a
year." But says the teetOtaler, beer
drinking destroys the physical and i'm
pairs the mental powers of the human
race. Mr.. Clausen counters on this by
the statement that the beer-drinkmr
nations, those who have for centuries
fed upon the mild and tonic beverage.
when solid food was not necessary, are
in the van of civilization physically,
morally, and intellectually and are to-
day the arbitrators of the destinies of
Continental Europe. Contrast, he saws,
the rOtund forms and rosy cheeks of the
newly arrived beer-drinking German
emigants and ''the lean, lank, angular. !,
and cadaver0us people from Mainc,-
who are made nominally abstinent by /
law ; or compare them with New jersey. I
Maine last year brewed only seven
glasses per head New Jersey 292 Der
head Of population. During the last
ten years the population Of Maine de-
creased thirty-four per cent. while New
Jersey increased twenty-four per cent.
The physical stamina Of tho race in
Maine is going down. says Mr.. Clausen. |
''They are born slower and die quick |
Ter than in States where they have more
lgenerous and more nutritive drinks.'
It must be confessed the champion ofl
the brewers puts clincher Of facts TO
nail he has driven, and he is not less
successful in answering for the intel.
|lectual consequences Of drinking malt
liquors. He points to the fact thai tho