Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-16
BOTTLED BEER AS A TEMPERANCE DRINK

BOTTLED BEER AS A TEMPERANCE DRINK.
We hold that beer, if not prevented BY
unjust legislation, will drive whisky out Of
use in the United States, and leave US free
from the pauperism and crime %engendered
by distilled liquors.
In support of this position we appeal to
the history of Germany, as sufficient proof
for the purposes of this argument. If beer
will thus drive out whisky in this country
as it has in Germany then beer should be
left free to do it, even if beer be in itself
only a lesser evil on the same principle as
we vaccinate a child with a disease called
kine-pox, in order to guard against the
worse evil Of smallpox. But we DO not be-
lievc beer to be an evil at all.
Taken by itself, beer, (meaning Ale and
Lager,) is a nutritious invigorating, cooling
and palatable drink, assisting the mother to
nurse her children, and strcnthening the
father IN his work to support them.
Beer does not incite men to deeds Of mad
ness as does whisky, nor does beer lead to
whisky as some pretend to suppose. Who
ever thinks beer leads to whisky let them
invest in a cargo of whisky to Germany and
see what luck they have in selling it to beer
drinkers, who have been leading to whis-
ky for fifteen generations, father and son,
and haven't reached it yet.
Why, then. if beer be good in itself and
leads to nothing bad, do so many our laws
and temperance pledges put beer and whis-
ky together into the same criminal calen-
dar? We answer. because beer and uhisky
are sold at the same rAaces. The fact il,
whisky has no more business in a beer "a.
loon than opium has in a cigar store, or a
wolf in a sheeptold. But, nevertheless, there
they are together.
The men who lead the s~o-called temper
ance movement are not remarkable for calm
and temperate views, or careful discrimina-
ton.
Ii they cared to look they would find
that a few years ago we were all whisky
and rum in this country, and that beer in
forcing itself in is forcing the whisky out.
But so long as the two are sold at the same
places VIC must not complain if the scatter
ing temperance blunderbusses aimed at the
whisky barrel hit also the beer kcg on tap
alongside.
Get tie beer out Of range Of tic uAySRy and
1t aeont get hit. How shall this be done
We answer: lst, By masking the license
fee for selling whisky so high that the ordi.
nary saloon keeper will conine himself to
selling beer, and then the lager beer saloon
and aie house will cease to be a scape-soat
for all the sins of whisky.
But in order TO regulate the license bus.
isess, as suggested, the whole community
must be made to see the justice Of discrim
mating between whisky and beer. To do
this we must enligbtan the whole COM
munity with Information through news.
papers, pamphlets such as the argument of
President Henry II. Ructer, and true tenn
perance tracts, till every honest. sensible
American citizen shall see the folly Of in
GLIDING a cooling drink, called beer, in the
same law or in the same pledge as a fiery
drug called whisky.
But in this great and laudable work of
separating beer from whisky, in fact and in
law, we have suddenly a new ally and ar.
gument in the shape of
BOTTLED BEER.
Bottled beer needs no skill to tap it, draw
it, or keep it cool in q special ice chest, as
does the beer in keg.
Bottled beer does not become flat" as
does the key when not quickly emptied
after tapping.
A pint bottle contains two glasses of beer,
just enough for a man and his friend, or a
man and his wifi, or laboring man with
his dinner.
Bottled beer can be sent anywhere, kept
anywhere, sold anywhere, and drank any.
where, especially at home.
There are tens of thousands Of American
citizens worn down by work, pale, thin, dys.
peptic or consumptive, to whom a glass OF
beer at night, or with their meals, would
be a God-send Of IMMIGRATION and health.
Nine physicians out Of ten will prescribe
it for them.
But they do not feel at home in the beer
saloon and will not 90 there to get il.
Now (or soon they can order a dozen OF
beer from their grocer and have it sent
home with their sugar and coffee, and drink
it as they do their coffee, only with a good
deal better result in point Of health and
strength.
Then, perhaps, our New England Ameri.
can will become as ruddy and healthy and
hearty as our German American.
Bottled beer benefits the whole commune
ty by giving US everywhere and in all sea
sons a cool, creamy, delicious, ~strenthening,
family drink. "The coming man" ii Gen.
sible, will certainly not drink whisky he
may, or may not drink wine but he Ger.
tainly will drink something, and that some.
thing will be beer.
So, no longer in the fiery bane of poor
Rip NanWinkle, but in the best Of Bottled
Beer.
Here's to your health and your families.
and may you lire long and prosper"
dow