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

Ierhaps the temperance question Is not
exactly solved in Munich don't know if
1t was everraised indeed the ntemperancc
question has made so little progress that the
ther has probably not been reached. You
COULDN'T say that the,NIunichcrs are mod.
tt'atG ln the use of beer. | have seen peo-
lre at homc-and raging thirst seems to
be onr national r:hright-dlink water Just
a, rccklcssly, dclugiug the pale and drench-
3 ,tomach with the cold, icy cold fluid
1iobably the German would cxpatiate elo-
qaently upon the horrors Of watcr-drnkins
Zn he had any experience in that line
The MuL,Uher is cUn;c..C 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
Sfs- And it was not he but Prussiau,
@ssr, whose opision and expert,
Fence gavS his remark some weight, who
saidf me, the other day: ''As for me,
when can get good water, pure fresh water,
L let the beer stand one side, and drink
wine" 1t makes all the difference in the
world with ones temperance principles
whether he Dives on the Rhine or on the
iser There is a saying here that Mum
lch man is'a beer cask in the morning, and
ca>k of beer at night; the epigram NEEDS
no explanation hssetbGt it might be ulisuns-
derstood elsewhere. If one were disposed
phllosophically to study the temperance
problem, Munich would be good field for
IT, Tor one can see here exactly what is the
ciact of unrcstralned liberty, though. in
applying what enc learned here to our own
country, you would have to allow for the
difference OF climate and of the tcmpera-
ncnt of the people. 1t doesn't at all follow
t''ot what would do for Munich, would do
.!2r Aartfor'. Probably you could not find
IN the whole city man or woman who
has ever thought of what We call total alb
stin, n,nec, and they could not comprehend
the lea. But there are plenty Of temper
-'T. cople--that is, people who drink beer
re;,ularly and never ovcrstcp the bounds of
nodcrntion The observation that one makes
in MWnch is that drunkenness is a rare
exception. In 4 residence here of many
moiSis have never seen more than one or
woin H5xica,aa,p people in the streets, and thy
were 'ot marked by tny"ildncss of vicious
4 Af our stroug-liquor inebritr, y, ~ u, seem
g 3bc rather good huurred carls, who nau
los { heir Wy. and didn't seem to care whe
ther lhey ever t"und It, But this seems very
rtn'a }&ablc, When there is becr-house ev
,ry Klfbock and you cannot select resi-
,cncc in any part of the town that is moi
as handy to II hclkr as it is to a publ,
school or. church. Aud | cannot see thai
;tls 'hs .seq. beer tends + any habit g g
7 Ortt!uas sskibg. havckno%n stfangers tc
indulge freely in beer here the whole season
and bel Just as good temperance people al
the end as they were in the beginning
'hc3ler the Germans, especially the men
do n' waste II good Cical of time in beer
halls, afternoon a!tct afternoon, and nigh,
ai' = night, swigging endless mugs, is an
{ Or question. And it is fair question
false. The question is, however, moro
spocula i've one, so long us the Germans con
tinuc t. produce SO many scholars, philcso
pliers, men Of incalculablc crudition, won.
detully energetic travellers and explorers
and conquering soldiers.