Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-05
rHE BREwER's CeNvEATIoN
Second Days Proceedings Of fhe Enafon-
Al BreweE'a Cenvenfion-DeciaFa-
tiOn OF PrInoiples.

BOSTON, June AT The session of
the National congress Of brewers to-day,
the following general resolutions, accom-.
panied by a long preamble, ,wereladopted:
Res0lUed, That this congress- do now
authorize and empower the executive of
the chief association 70 lay before the
National governments ard legislatures
of the various States, ali the facts and
statistics they have gathered in relation
to the brewing business, SO that the Ma
tional government and the various State
legislatures may be fully, cegnizant of
the position claimed for their business,
and being thus fully informed, they may
be inclined by judicious laws to recog-
nize the same, and afford them protec-
ton against those who are ignorantly
and unjustly its enemies; and it Is FIR
ther
ResolUed, That measures be adopted
to induce the government to remit the
duty on barley imported from Canada,
and by all means to increase the duty
on imported hops; and il is further
ResolUed, That this congress, duly re-
cognizing the necessity OF contributing
10 the expenses of the government, the
reduction ofthe national debt ,and main
teuance of the national honor OF the
country, do urge upon the brewers, in
dividually and collectively, the wisdom
| of zeaiousiy watching the source Of
revenue to which they so largely con-
tribute, SO that by all possible means it
may be increased by an increase of
business, and in no way retarded for
personal gain.
Resolved, That a committee be ap-
! pointed by this congress, who will con-
slider the acceptance OF suitable address
by which the public may be reached in
| order to lay before them their true posi-
| ton as brewers.
A second series called temperance re-
solutions 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-ealled temper
anee societies to hold up the use of malt
liquors as tending to immortality, vice,
| crime or pauperism, and against their
efforts to influence the United States or
| State Legislatures against their manu-
| facture; and
Resolved, That through our local as
sociations, by personal efforts and by
means of our official organs and the
press generally, we will endeavor to in
| fluence public opinion in favor of the
use of malt liquors as a wholesome, nu-
tritiOus and absolutely necessary as a
/ healthy restorative, without in any
manner or form tending TO the injury of
person or property, and therefore not
| calling for any police regulations.
ResOLUed, That local associations and
| individual brewers in the several States
are hereby called upon to make every
exertion to prevent legislation against
| tile use of malt liquors; and where laws
now exist of that character to have
them repealed.
Resoloed, That e.ch and every brewer
is called on to encourage such candi-
dates for office, whether in the local,
State or Federal government, who will
oppose the enacting of laws prohibiting
the sale of all fermenting liquors; and,
a'so, whenever practicable, use their in
fluence to have all fermented liquors
sold under discriminating license.
A long address to the President and
people of the United States followed the
resolutions, embracing statistics Of trade
in malt liquors, advocating their substi-
tuition for alcohol drinks as prevention
of intemperance, and demanding mod
ificatiOn of the tariff assessed upon the
raw material. The address says the
continued agitation of total abstinence
to he forced upon the people by pro-
hibitOry laws, by unseemly parade of
self-debased female crusaders, whom
we consider TO be unconscious but mis-
guided tools in the hands Of Unscrupu-
lous men aiming at personal aggrandize-
ment, by foTeihly, either by statute law
or otherwise, compelling the stOppage of
the manufacture of and all trade in bev-
erages, which must, we assure our fell
low citizens, deal a death blow to the
finances of the country. There is yet
another and higher than q mere
financial issue, which we propose to
submit to the people of the whole cOun-
tryI Ii is that of personal liberty. This
right to personal liberty no man and no
community of men has any legal power
to interfere with the right TO pursue any
honest calling or trade. To change from
one to another; to move from place to
place; to live where and how one pleases,
are but coralls-y to this contestible
right. The address concludes as follows:
"Let the watchward be maintain the
credit and honor Of the United States;
preserve the sovereignty of individuals,
and as the Union and national liberty
triumphed, so will the financial stability
of the national government be upheld;
the welfare and property of people be
advanced, and personal liberty be ever
victOrioQs,n