The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-02-28

which, but those who. for purposes Of trade or bns
ness are trying to keep out of all schisms euds fac
tons fights and nsscs In this class are the coiserr
atiyes-men who may be radical enough in principle
but conservative, cautious. and compromising IN
measures and methods of applying those principles
Solid men-good men-the best kind of men are found
in this middle class OF course, there good men
in the license class but the of the community
are always to be found there, too.
The purpose of this communication i 10 sugge6 .
of compromises plan by which the two extreme
classes may each concede little to the other, and st
tie the dispute without bitterness and vranglng II
is agree that the City Council may grant incenses
fair price for the sale of beer but not for the sale
of distilled beverages The misehiefis in the distilled
liquors. The murder, the crime, the paeperism, the
delirum-tremens, are there. True, men who have
already become nebriates, and destroyed the mucus
membrane with whskey, will sometimes continue be-
sotting themselves with beer, but beer cannot and
ought not to be blamed for what whiskey has done.
A person who has never drank anything stronger
than beer has received no injury thefefrom, and in
no sense is an inebriate or q arunkard. Mr. Medill,
editor of the Chicago Tribune, after long stay in
Germany, wrote home to his paper an interesting
communication upon beerdrinking, &C., from which
l copy the following paragraph:
Everybody and his wife drinks beer, and the chill
dren cry for There are scores of parks in the
City, and 900 fashionably dressed respectable look
ing quietly behaved people sit stroll about under
the huge old trees, each Sunday afternoon and
ming, drinking beer aud coffee, and smoking. The
Emperor and the members of his family often sit down
among them, and do likewise. The Bishops and the
reverend clergy countenance the practice by taking
part in it, and sharing the quiet with their fOcks. If
beer is poison is SO strenuousy asserted by
some wellmeaning Americans on account of the or
per cent of alcohol it contains can only say. in
reply thereto, that in Germany it is avery sor poison
haze
over two thousand years, and they still a very
hearty, robust people, any one will testify who has
travelled through the Teuonic portions Of Europe. In
all my travels. have yet to see q drunken man in
Germany. Whiskey is not sold here, there being
demand. Distilled liquors are only kept in drug
stores, with other medicines, and when chance
American traveller spies out pays for and swallows
glass of it, the act is witnessed with unfeigned aston
ishment and disgust by the native by-standers.r
Gerrit Smith once said that absolute prohibition
absolute folly" In view of the fact that the hu
has always and everywhere indicated uni
form desire for mild nourishing, and Strengthening
drinks it is hardly wise reasonable to attempt
of determination against all kinds of beverages,
the mild with the strong-the innocent with the guilty.
If the reform is to be conducted upon abstract prnci
PIES then incnde tea coffee, buttermilk. cider root
beer. and all kinds of acid drinks. Hot drinks. too,
said to be deeterious to health The consistent
abstraetionst will drink nothing but cold water. But
when person-man or woman-gets to running alb
stractons they generally run them into the ground
and run themselves into lunatie asylum. The right
course the wise course the prudent course generally
lies somewhere midway between the two ex-
tremes .......
Alcohol taken out of its natural combination with
other properties by iistlation and made into bev-
erage is rightly termed liquid damnation- But left
in that combination nature made it, it will harm
no one. As beverage, beer is more healthful than