The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-03
The Bre,uers, Cnnaress.

Schade, editor and proprietor OF the
Washington Sentinel, delivered lengthy
and instructive address. After review
ing the 81 atistics presented by the Pres
ident in his address yesterday, he pro-
ceeded to show that the reduction Ill the
number OF breweries in the past year had
produced but a very small diminution of
the amount of beer manufactured and
used, and that even this would prove
only temporary. He said:
regard the so-called temperance question
simply as political one. The handful Of real
temperance fanatics have never alone been
abe 70 injure you. They nave even been Of
ing in their societies many an incorli gible
drunkard, who 30 often proves pest to every
well-regulated tavern anu hotel. IL they would
conHne themselves 70 convert all the old whis-
Ky topers, VINO can not control their passions,
into temperance men, they ought to have, and
have no doubt they Will have, your most
hearty support.
The dangerous enemies of personal liberty
are, therefore not that handful OF ex-drunk-
aras forming our so-called temperance socie-
ties. Wemust look for them elsewhere, and
we find them in one or the other Of the two
great political parties OF the country They
enact and keep alive those atrocious prOhib
itory. restrictive and damage laws-and not
have those laws struck from the statutes of the
various States, or prevent the establishing of
new ones, we can not DO 1t in any other way
than by electing such men to the legislatures
who have not merely assured us, but of whom
we otherwise know that they are our friends
and not our enemies. Ii we find that one or
the other political partyis against us, we must
support the opposition party that's not against
us. The principal Of self-protection must In
such ins ances be our only guide. Taking that
position, no party can afterwards justly COM
plain of your no longer voting for it,.
There is no political liberty possible as long
1nn ind nall III Nh.t
that will destroy your business, considered as
honorable and legitimate throughout the
whole civilIz d world, will hardly ever con-
cede to you political rights worth having.
What do you care about whether the negroes
ride in flet-ciass cars and are permitted to
vote as often as they please in Louisiana, if
you have to close up your breweries and be de-
prived at one blow vi your hard earned prop
erty, the result of whole life's struggle? No,
gentlemen, first personal and then political
liberty! First "Beer and then Politics"-anl
il you are prudent ami awake TO your own IN
terests, you can have both aJ the same time,
without the one interfering with the other!
Support that party that supports you, and 20
against that which wants to destroy you. There
is no middle way for you in the great struggle
for rights and privileges which even the Euro
pcan despots do not deny their miserable sub
jects.
The Republican party has often betrayed
yon. 1t has gwen you those obnoxious laws,
and notwithstanding the severe punishment
it has received lately at the polls on that ac-
count, 1t is still unrepentant and ciings with
desperate tenacity to its prohiDitory policy.
You are men OF means and influence! Use
those means ana influence against the Kepub-
lican party until every temperance or damage
law has been eradcated from the statutes. and
until the very word ''temporance humbug" be-
comes nauseous to every Republican.
Continue that policy and our Republican
place the ''loaves and fshes' before mere party
politics, and who are smart enough not to touch
anything that does not pay, will soon be cured
of their Puritanical proclivities. Whoever
wants TO persuade you to do otherwise is not
your friend. Let the Republicans abstain from
making political capital out of a mere social
question:; let them In their legislatures abolish
all prohibitory laws, and give such proofs that,
il again in power again in those States which
recently they have lost they will not again be-
come faithless and pass such odious and OPP
pressive laws. and then only it will be right
and proper for brewer, If the political pIinci-
pies OF that party agree with his own, TO vote
the Republican ticket.
There are exceptions amongst the Republic
cans. and also exceptions among the Demo-
Gratis. There are some few good Republicans
and some few bad Democrats. Vote for the
former and defeat the latter.
So would, for instance, be very sorry If any
brewer should vote against the Hon. Charles
Foster, of ohio, and Gen. Jeremiah NJ. Rusk,
of Wisconsin, both Republican. Congressman.
They warmly assisted me In having the two
them had any particular interest OF bis own to
take care Of, they both renamed the whole long
night from the sd to the 4th Of March last on tue
floor Of the House. watching for an opportuni-
ty to have the bill passed. ! perform an act OF
gratitute in mentioning this fact.
Hard times is another cause which retards
your business. Why have we hard timesp
Has our land become sterile, our mines unpro-
ductive. our mechanics less skillful? No!
What, then, causes hard timesp The true an
swer is, the general corruption pervading our
pontical life, the wrong financial policy, and
the unnecessary immense expenditures Of the
Government, and, more than all that, the want
of true constitutional liberty. By taking the
proper position you can materially assist in
bringing back our former state Of happiness
and prosperity. For the enemies of personal
liberty are also the enemies OF political liberty.
Some slight all Grafton in our revenue laws in
relation to our brewerles Is necessary. The
Departments officers ought to have no right
TO interfere with the internal affairs OF brew
cry and prescribe to a brewer how he shall
brew ms eeer now ma many bush bushels OF malt it ne
is il right to make brewer swear how many
barrels Of unfinished lager beer or ale he has
on hand-for beer Is not finished until put in
kegs, stamped and offered for sale. That law
has to be changed, and ii l get the proper au-
thority and support, think we can accomplish
it during the next session Of Congress. The
Government is sufficiently protected, II its ofi-
GERS only direct their attention to the proper
UI DCcT OucTcu IOT 5dt6 anu SOius
Besides, it knows that the brewers are the
most honess Taxpayers In the country, and
that every one of them is willing to pay his
taxes. All the brewers ask is simply to be not
polested and interfered with.
1t was q certain feeling u satisfaction and
pride, when the other day Mr.. Robert Portner
and myself paid visit 10 the new Commits
sioner OF Intei nal kevenus, that could ex-
,tltingiy point out 10 Elm that if there was a
W hisky Ring, he certainly had never heard of
a keer Ring to defraud the Government
something which ne eagerly acknowledged to
De true. M $3.50
Through the kindness OF the Comm issioner l
have come in possession of list giving the
Of beer brewed during the fiscal year
en, ling June 30, 1874, by the leading brewers.
Doubling, however, the completeness Of that
ist, l viii c0nfne myself TO mentioning only
The names OF few. You, Mr.. President, have
che honor to know that your hrm-Messrs.
isueter Il Alley, of boston. Massachusetts,
stil occrlpy the front rank, with id4 9I3 barrels.
Next comes the lager beer King Of the West,
Cmrad oeipp, Of Chicago, Illinois, with 9S,55
barrels. Next to him appear Me, srs. VIM.
Ma .sey Il Co., of Philadelphia, with 6,2l0, and
slessrs. flanagan u Wallace, Of New York,
with 95, 253 barrels
They are followed by Messrs. Bergner &
Engle, of Philade phia, with e6,609- and Mr..
George Ehret, of New ! ORR, with ~ All barrels.
Is il not remarkable that Massachusetts, the
old nucSer aud temperance hnmbug State has
still the largest brewery in the United States?
But, after ali, our breweries, If for Instance
Compared with. the English Dreweries, are yet
in their Infancy. There are half a dozen brew