The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-15
ABOUT BEER DRINKERS.

| The average citizen can scarcely conceive any
idea ofthe effect that the drinking OF beer has upon
the human mind. 1t is sufficient for man to par.
take of a few " Beechers" and two or three ''ban-
dittis to become profound politician, great
statesman and military critic of the first water,
and to decide in the last resort upon all the aues
| tions that agitate the human family.
Our countrymen are becoming gradually edu-
cstedi in that school, and before the United States
gets much older lager beer will have permeated
the intelligence of the whole people and made
every citizen, when under the proper and GUS
tomary influences, an arbter of the destines O,
the world. There is doubt in the minds of
practical philosophers and political economists
whether 1t is happy thing or not that the
ideas Of our lager beer statesmen, politicians
and warriors should have 80 little sway
or Influence. But this is neither here
nor there. The great fact is patent. Lager beer
is power and can not be hereafter ignored. Il
is an essential element In politics. science and
the art of war Without it there would be a
scarcity OF profound politicians, dearth of first
class warriors and no eminent statesmen worth
mentioning.
This subtle LIQUID acts In various wars. oc-
cording to the different constitutions OF the i'm
bibers. Some will swill down the beverage and
Immediately become revolutionary and blood
thirsty, ready, upon The slightest provocation to
talk against the powers that be, grumble at
everything that is going on, and, at pinch, will
ing, IL not able, to overthrow the government
others, on the contrary, are Modified by the ef-
feots of the soothing drink.
few glasses will pant the emanations of
their brains with prismatio hues: they will, after
sufficient absorption, find everything lovely in
thpir xui1ll 1-
and whatever the established government NAV
say or do will meet with their entire and uponai-
fed approval. They will not fight for the gov
ernment because they are not fighters but any,
thing that can be classified under the title of
moral support will be brought to bear by them
to sustain whatever may possess the semblancs
Of legal authority.
We draw the conclusion therefore, that lager
beer Ia very good thing in te way in that It
eplsrges the capacity Of the stomach and widsns
the intelligence OF the citizen 10 general but it Ia
after all most uncertain beverage "a TO it's
effects, and. politicians who apply 1t to definite
uses must be very careful in the study of the
characters and idiosyncracies of the parties whom
they undertake to handle with this trescherous
and not to- edepsnded-upon liquid.
All things considered, we think that ND to the |
present day there has not been sufficient atten- |
ton paid to the uses and effects OF this powerful
beverage, which might be used as q great lever
in the guidance of nations and the workings of |
statesmanship il properly handled by original |
and grasping minds. BY calling the attention of |
the administration to this import ant subject we
believe that we have performed a sacred duty.
and cur conscience is at ease.