Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-05
SHALL WE ADVOCATE THE-us OF
BEER AND WINE?
From the Cleveland Herald

Quite large Class OF pcfSohc DchC'C
that beer and wine are harmless, others
that they are really beneficial strength
ening the body, enliyening the mind,
and producing health and long life,
others still that they prevent the use OF
distilled liquors and so accept lesser
evil instead of a greater, while much
larger class, regardless of results, favor
their use to gain votes for their party.
1st. Are these fermented liquors ns-
tritious? Professor Leibig, the greatest
chemist, not a foe to beer, said of Bava-
rian beer, which is considered the most
nutritious and best, eve can prove with
a mathematical certainty that as much
-four as can lie on the point of table
knife is more nutritious than eight
quarts of the best Bavarian beer; that
person who is able to consume daily
that amount 1.-TWO gallons) of beer, OBJ
tains from it in whole year exactly
the amount of nutritive constituents
which is contained in five pound loaf
of bread, or in three pounds of flesh"
That is, he must drink twenty-three
barrels of beer tie get as much nutriment
as in a fiye-pound loaf of bread or three
pounds of meat.
vi Wual Is DttT hiduC. LII. Doha, u
Boston, says "of malt, hops and water.
The water is not food, the hops help
preserve the liquor, but have no feeding
properties, and malt is vegetated bar
ley. In making a gallon of beer, SIX
pounds of barley are used. This under
goes four processes, mailing, mashing,
fermenting and fining. There were
ninety-six ounces of grain at first, now
less than ten ounces. For the eighty
six wasted ounces, you have gained
three ounces alcohol, which hinders di-
gestion and poisons the blood. In
pint of beer then, you have fourteen
ounces water, part of an ounce extract
of barley, and nearly one ounce Of alco-
hol." H
DIR. Lyon Piayfair, Professor of
Chemistry in the University of Edin-
burgh, has analyzed a specimen of beer
and reports that of blood forming mat
ter it contains exactly one part in 1866
parts.
DIR. Hassals, in enc gallon Of ale, con-
tanning 10000 grains, says all the food
of any kind is l-70 pounds sugar.
What of wine? DR.. Lees says: "The
albumen of the grape is valuable nour-
lishment, but in fermentation becomes
yeast, which is corrupting matter.
while the sugar becomes spirit. The
ljuice of the grape, before the decaying
process of fermentation, is healthful.
The grape itself contains no fermented
wine, its very composition being. such
as to carefully exclude the air, and thus
prevent fermentation. Wine is, OF
course, worse than beer, because in its
pure state it contains from 13 to % pei
cent. of alcohol, while beer contains
) from to IL per cent"
If such in its pure state, what shall We
!. say of it in its adulterations?
Saws DIR. Fowler, President of North
western University: aThe whole cham
pagne district produces only SO0,OOt
baskets of wine per annum, Russia con-
sumes $50, 900, France 162, 900, England
j 100000, Germany 10000, leaving fol
, America 10000, and yet we censum!
more than ], 900, 600 baskets yearly, 81
that we Zone use 200, 600 baskets mor'
than the whole district produces. Only
: 80 900 barrels of wine are produced oil
the island of Madeira; we buy 5000
, here. There is sold one hundred time
, as much port wine as is produced A
gallon of the real juice is made into fiv'
BY the aid of beet whisky, elderberr!
/, Juice and water. This, in London, il
t made ten by potato whisky, red saun
{ ders, and other drugs. In New YOrl
| this becomes twenty by strichnine o
, belladona, whisky, opium and logwood
In the wholesale houses it becomes for
ty by the same agencies. In the retail
!, er's hands eighty by tobacco juice, wa
l ter, burnt sugar, aloes and sugar o
c lead"
In the adulteration of beer, DR.. Dunn
says, s'sugar, molasses, honey and liq
uorice are used for malt, alum, opium
l gentian, guassia, aloes, tobacco, nu,
e vomica, and immense quantities of CO
e cuius indicus are used tor hops, salt
r petre, lime, marble-dust, nut-galls
bruised green copperas, &C., to preven
, acidity.''
Do we want @the duties on foreigl
r wines lessened," that more of such stui
! "may come into general use?"
p ID. Do they enliven the mind?
o James Parton writes: "Close observ
. ers of the famous beer countries, such a
Saxony and Bavaria, where the beer
: pure and excellent, speak of it as til
r chief enemy of the nobler faculties an
r tastes of human nature. The surplu
wealth, the sulphur time and the sur
= plus force of those nations are chief,
: expended in pudding their brain wit
beer"
De Quincy says that swine disorder
+ the mental faculties and unsettles tn
Judgment
Sd. Do they strengthen the body?
Prof. Leibig says: s'Wine is quite su
perfluous to man. 1t is constantly fol
: lowed by the expenditure of power"
e There is abundant testimony by Di
n Edward Smith, f. L. s., Sir A. Car
f lysle, a celebrrted surgeon, DIR. lnmar
of Liverpool, and DR.. Lees, that tn
idea so prevalent among America
/ mothers that beer drinking is strength
: ening to themselves and their infants
= erroneous and Injurious to both.
n 4th. Do they prolong life? /.
DIR. Lees says: "sIn France everybod
drinks, young and old, male and fc
3 male, add we find one centenaria
s amongst 1865, 900 persons; in the Unite
States one in every 1900. In the Bri
- ish Army reports from India, it
= i found that alcoholic spirits killed 6
!, soldiers per 1000, porter 81 in l ,0O'
l. pale ale II i'm 1000, or just double th
v natural morality. In statistics of Gla!
d cow hospitals for 1864, by DIR. Gairdne
" mortality lessened exactly as dose
. alcohol or wine diminished. An avel
e age of "a OF. of wine in given numbt
y of cases, resulted in the death of IL pr
n cent. of patients; reduced to ~ o,
If death rate became IL per cent. OF q
children under Is years of age, treate
without alcohol not one died, thoug
y the same class of cases treated wit
y stimulants had a mortality Of six p'
l. cent.
,r 5th. Do they lessen the use of di
D. titled liquors, whisky, rum and brandy
! "Carlton," the correspondent of Il
Boston Journal, says: England spent
Is 500 900 600 on beer yearly. The poi
Id who cannot find a place to sleep night
D. will have their beer"
is Rev. Mr.. Thayer, of Boston, sa.
from official reports: "More distille
r. liquors are drank per capita in En-,
- land now. than were forty years ag
'e when the Ale and Beer Act was passe
ID for the very purpose of lessening the u
ly of distilled liquors. The consumptic
of distilled liquors has increased 1
per cent. in the last fifty years."
er Recorder Hill, of Birmingham, a hil
E. authority, says: "The sale of spirits hi
e, increased. The establishment of be
r. shops is universally denounced as
IN curse upon the land"
" The report of the Convocation of Ca
- terbury, published in 1863, which h'
D. ecclesiastical supervision of 10000
r persons, (the committee consisted of 81
u arch-deacons, three deans, seven cano
as and two prebendaries, all men of di
tv tinction,) says: "This ale and beer &C
y though introduced for the avowed pu
of pose of repressing intemperance