The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-25
BEER AND TEMPERANCE.
An Intelligent Americans Observe
lions and Conclusions.

tiOns and Conclusions.
Charley Dudley Warmers Munich Letter
to Hartford Courant.
Perhaps the temperance question Is not
exactly solved in Munich; don't know if
it was ever raised: indeed, the ntemper
ance question has made 80 little progress
that the other has probably not been
reached. You wouldn't say that the
Munlchers are moderate In the use Of
beer. l have seen people at homeland
raging thirst seems to be our national
birthright-drink water just as recklessly,
deluging the pale and drenched stomach
with the cold, icy-cold fluid. Probably
the German would expatiate eloquently
upon the horrors of water drinking-lf
he had any experience in that line.
The Municher is content not to try
any hazardous experiments; having
struck the medium way of beer he devil
ates neither to water on the one hand
nor wine on the other. Atd it was not
he, but Prussian, and an officer, whose
opinion and experience gave his remark
some weight, who said 70 me the other
day: "As 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
lives on the Rhine or on the Iser. There
is saving here that Munich man is
beer cask in the morning, and a cask of
beer ut night; the epigram needs no ex-
PLANTATION here, but it might be misunder-
stood elsewhere.
If one were disposed philosophlcallyt to
study the temperance problem, Munich
would be good field for it; for one can
see here axactly what ia the effect OF IN
restrained liberty; though, in applying
what one learned here to our own coun-
try, you would have to allow for the diff
ference of climate and of the tempera
ment OF people. 1t doesn't at all follow
that what would do for Munich would do
for Hartford.
Probably you would not find in the
whole city a man or woman who has
ever thought OF what we call total absti-
nence, and they could not comprehend
the idea. But there are plenty of tenn
perance people-that is, people who
drink beer regularly, and never overstep
the bounds of moderation. The obServa-
ton that one makes in Munich is that
drunkenness is rare exception. In a
residence here of many months L have
never seen more than ore or two intoxi-
Gated people IN the streets, and they were
not marked by the wildness or vicious.
ness of our strong-liquor iLebrlety, but
seemed to be rather good-humored carls,
who had lost their way and didn't seem
to care whether they ever found it. But
this seems very remarkable, when there is
beer house every half block. and you
can not select residence ia any part OF
the town that is not as handy TO Keller
as it is to q public school or church.
have known strangers tn indulge freely
in beer here the whole season, and bejust
as good temperance people in the end as
they were in the beginning.
Whether the Germans, especially the
men, do not waste good deal OF time in
beer-halls, afternoon after afternoon, and
night after night swigging endless mugs,
is another question. And it is a fair
question to raise: What must be the final
effect upon the intellect of people who
SO many hours day soak in this mild
but descending fluid and an atmosphere
of smoke? The question is. however, q
mere speculative one, so long as the Ger
mans continue to produce SO many schol-
ars. philosophers, men of incaiculaole
crudition, wonderfully energetic travel
ers and explorers, and conquering sold
iers.