The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-09
BLAST FROM THE BREWERS.

A BLAST FROM THE BREWERS.
THE MALT LIQUOR coNGREss-BEER AND TIKI
FINANCEs-wHAT THE BREWERS THINK OIL
CRUsADING - PERSONAL LIBERTY DE
MANDED
Boston, June AT the session of the
national congress of brewers to-day the fol-
lowing general resolutions, acco mpanied by
a long preamble were adopted:
Resolved, That this congress does au.
thorizs and empower the executive commit
tee of the chief association to lay before the
national government and the legislatures OF
the various states all the facts and statistics
they have gathered in relation to the brew
ing business so that the national government
aud the various state legislatures may
oe fully cognizant of the position
claimed for their business, and being thus
fully informed they may be inclined by ju-
dlclous laws TO recognize the same and to
afford protection against those who are ig-
norantly and unjustly its enemies. And ii
Is further
Resolved. That measures be adopted to
induce the government to remit the duty on
barley imported from Canada and by no
means TO increase the dGty on hops. And it
Resolved, That this congress, duly rec
ogniZing the necessity OF contribution
to the expenses OF tine government, the re-
duction or the national debt and the main :
tainance ofthe national honor of the coun-
try does urge upon brewers, individually
and collectively, the wisdom of zealousiy
watching the source OF revenue to which
they so largely contribute, so that by all
possible means it may be increased by an
Increase OF business and in no way retarded
for personal gain. Further,
Resolved, thai committee be appointed
by the congress who will consider The ac-
ceptance OF suitable address by which the
public may be reached in order to lay before
them their true position as brewers,
A second series called temperance resolu-
tons were also adopted as follows:
Resolved, That we brewers of the United
States in congress assembled do hereby
solemnly protest against the course taken
by the so-called temperance societies to
hold up the use of malt liquors as tending
toimmorality, vice, crime or pauperism and
against their efforts to influence the United
States or state legislatures against their
manufacture, and.
Resolved, That through our local associ-
atoms, by personal efforE, and by means of
our Official organs and the press generally,
we will enieavor to influence public opin,
ion in favor OF
THE USE OF MALT LIQUORS
as wholesome, nutritious, and absolutely
necessary as healthfnl restorative, without
in any manner or form tending to the in
jury of person or property, and therefore
not calling for any police regulations. and
Resolved. That local associations and indi-
vidual brewers in the several states are
hereby called on to make every exertion to
prevent legislation against the use of malt
liquors, and where laws now exist Of this
character to have them repealed; and it is
further
Resolved, That each and every brewer is
called upon 10 encourage such candidate
for Office, whether in the local, state or fed
eral government, who will approve the en-
acting of laws prohibiting the sale of all fer
mented liquors, and also, whenever practical
BILE, will use his influence to have all fer
mented liquors sold under a discriminating
license.
A long address to the president and peo-
pie of the United States followed the reso-
lutions, embracing the statistics of the trade
in malt liquors, advocating their substitu-
ton for alcoholic drinks as a prevention of
and demanding a modifica-
ton of the tariff assessed upon the raw mae
terial. The address says: "The continued
agitation OF total abstenance to be forced
upon the people by prohibitory laws, by un-
seemly parade and by the self-debasement of
female crusaders, whom we consider to be
but misguided tools in the
hands of INSCRIPTIONS men, aiming at per-
sonal ACKNOWLEDGMENT, forcibly either
by the statute laws or otherwise,
the stoppage of the manufacture
of all trade in beverages, must, we assure
our fellow citizens, ultimately deal death
blow to the finances of the country. There
is another and higher than a mere finan-
cial issue which we propose to submit to the
people of the whole country. 1t is that OF
personal liberty. This right to personal lib
erty no man and no community OF men has
any legal power to interfere with. The
right to pursue any honest calling
or t.ade, to change from one to
another, to move from place to place, to live
where and how one pleases, are but coroi-
larry to this'incontestible right" The address
concludes as follows: "Let the watchword
be maintain the credit and honor of the
United States, preserve the sovereignty of
the individual, and as union and national
liberty triumphed so will the financial sta
bility of the national government be upheld,
the welfare and prosperity of the people be
advanced, and personal liberty be ever vic
totious."
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