The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1876-06-23
BEER-pRINKING AND TEMPERANCE.

IernapS the temperance question Is not
exactly solved in Munich L don't know if
it was eveTraised indeed the intemperance
question has made so little progress that the
,thcr has probably not been reached. You
couldn't say that the~Nlunchcrs are mod
cate in the use of beer. / have seen peo-
Ise at homc-ind raging thirst seems to
be our national bir.hright-d water just
aNrccklessly, dclugiug the pale and drepch
i'NS stomach with the cold, icy cold fluid
lrobably the German would expatiate eio-
qaenty upon the horrors Of watcrdrinking
:, Il he had any experience in that line
The MuL,Cher is cOuiouV not to try any
hazardous experiment; having struck the
medium way of beer he deviates neither to
water on the one hand nor vino on the
st~- And it was not he but Prussiau,
? ~ sn-st @;cc whose apiaion and expert.
ence gavs his remark some weight, who
saidso me, the other day: GAS for me,
when can get good water, pure fresh water,
| let the beer stand one side, and drink
wine" 1t makes all the difference in the
world with ones temperance principles
whether he jives on the Rhine or on the
lscr. There is a saying here that a Mum
ich man is,a beer cask in the morning, and
a caSk of beer. at night; the epigram needs
no explanation here tbGt it might be misun'
derstood elsewhere If one were disposed
philosophically to study the temperance
problem, Munich would be a good field for
it, for one can see here exactly what is the
enoct of unrestraincd liberty, though, in
applying what one learned here to our own
country, you would have to allow for the
| difference of climate aud of the tompera-
'nent of the people. 1t doesn't at all follow
that what would do for Munich, would dc
;or hartford Probably you could not find
in the whole city aman or a woman who
has ever thought of what we call total alb
stin, nee, and they could not comprehend
the ilea. But there are plenty Of temper
"sc. ,eople-that is, people who drink bce1
rc; ,ularly and never ovcrstcp the bounds o
moderation. The observation that one makes
in MWich is that drunkenness is rare
exception In residence here of man,
months have never seen more than one ol
two In sxlcatc,' people in the streets. and tn,
were ut marked bv tKc-> 'wildncss of vicious
lns.pf our strong-liquor ncbricty, Y,.t ut seem
be rather good huu,"red carls, who Kau
los osAhcir WY. and didn't seem to care whe-
ther ,hcy ever found it. But this seems very
ran'a kablc, When there is a beer house cv-
'ry halfblock, and you cannot select a resi-
'cncc in any part of the town that is not
us handy to Il hclLr as it is to a public
school ora church Aud cannot see that
IN Hi -. beer tends j. any habit Of
oSeI iy..Rihg. I harcknoWn stfangers to
indulge freely in beer here the whole season
and be- just as good temperance people at
the end as they were. in the beginning
'hc:rer the Germans, especially the men,
do n' waste II good s'asal of time in beer
halls, afternoon altcn afternoon, and night
after hight, swigging endless mugs, is an
pr question. And it is Il fair question
tE"aise. The question is, however, more
speculative one, SO long us the Germans con-
tinnc t. produce SO many scholars, philoso-
Pliers, men Of incalculabc cruditon, won.
deEuliy energetic travellers and explorers,
and cpl,l;,ru