The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-10-06
THE TRIBUNE AND REMITTANCE.

Since the New York Tribune has got
a "runi-shop under the Tall Tower (as the
San puts it, it is very indulgent of the beer
business and its correspondents take their
cue from its altered status and write in de-
tense of sour slops. One of its correspond
ents, Bayard Taylor, writes to that paper
that, at Portland
"We had twenty-five minutes for dinner,
an ample time had the attention been prompt;
vet cannot well complain, after finding that
genuine English ale, on tap, could be had in
stead of the usual terrors of tea and Coffee
We Americans are a curious, almost lncom-
prehensible race. There is nothing more re-
freshing, nutritive, and wholesome, than
GOOD ale there is nothing more discouraging
to stomach and soul than the overlooked, Bit
ter slops which are usually served TO us--yet
we rarely have chance to get the former,
and even when we have such q chance we
prefer-for the sake of appearance--to swal-
low the loathsome substitute"
Whatever man has passion or an appe-
lite for he can manage to clothe with some ex-
cellencies, and so it is not strange that Bay
ard Taylor should praise ale, neither is it
strange that the Tribune should publish it,
But with people who have used their faculties
of observation the mere assertion of this adj
vocate of beer will pass for little. As to the
refreshing effects of beer we cannot speak,
but as to its nutritive effects We are some
what posted. Baron Leibig, after Analysing
specimens of beers, states that there is in a
hogshead about the nutriment contained in
one loaf of bread. If therefore Bayard, the
traveller, is after nutriment, he will have to
guzzle at least three hogsheads per day in or
der to get respectable nourishmcnt. The as
sertion that ale is wholesome is proved to be
untrue from the fact that it bloats those who
drink II and that physicians have generally
noticed that slight scratch OH the flesh of a
consequences. 'Bittcr Stops" however, we
will agree, are not good, whether they are in
the form of beer, ale or coffee.
Bnt he continues
e Last Winter, during "a heightened tour In
the Western States I passed through many
towns which had been ostentatiously swept
with the bosom of the crusading women. The
proprietors of the hotels had been forced, by
the power of the movement, to sign pledges
to sell no beverages, and, as honest men, they
kept their pledges. But the loafers in these
towns were only rendered more contumacious
than before they Struggled their tanglefoot
whiskey in bulk, drank It more recklessly
than ever, and reeled about the streets of an
evening, when sober and respectable man
was denied the mild and harmless glass of
beer which he would fain have substituted for
limestone water or hayseed tea. Since the
German chemists have discovered that the
freshness of bread is due to the alcohol it
contains--eighty pounds of fresh bread being
equal to o bottle of brandy-we shall probably
next have prohibition of warm biscuits and
buckwheat cakes"
In his anxiety for beer Bayard forgets that
the "loafers " above referred to who were SO
s.n.eieua for uvhislsay. were in all probability
"sober and respectable" mon at one time,
who took the "miid and harmless drink -
that he SO much prizes. We always supposed
that " freshness Of bread " was occasioned by
the water it contained, but some German
chemist perhaps it is our friend Bayard) has
discovered otherwise. There is one consola-
tion for Bayard in this--if he has to drink two
hogsheads of beer to get one loaf of bread, he
can by eating eighty pounds of bread get one
bottle Of brandy. This will do.
He finally gets "serious :"
"But--in all seriousness--it Is melancholy
to see so much honest, conscientious effort
misplaced as In the case of the temperance re-
FORM. The root Of the evil lies deeper than
any prohibitory law can reach. The human
race never will submit to SO intimate an inter-
ference with its personal habits. Neglect in
the training of children--a low and selfish
ideal of Observation-Disclosures narrowness, in
tolerance, bigotry, suppression which pro-