Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-09
DAKOTA.
YANk1oN
Friday Evening, August ., 1873

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Friday Evening, August 8, 1873
BEER As A BEVERAGE
A Dissertation Called ost By the ks.nsy
Sermon. M
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The writer wishes II understood from the
beginning that he believes in the right Of .
minister Of the gospelto an open expression
Of opinion Oh either side Of The. Temperance
controversy, but does not believe that 1
minister Of .God-least Of all men-should
give public expression TO statements which
are not founded on evident truths and sound
beyond cavil OF peradventure. While such
q course may be compatible with the view
Of an interested advocate, It il radically In
consistent with gospel teachings: for, to take
q decided stand upon the side Of an admit
ted evil is to assume : responsibility which
even laymen Of calm thought. and logical
i~nstincts shrink from. !. /. AZ. 81 5Ts .4.s
Moral ethics furnishes no question 20
tender Of approach a this one Of temper
ance. While it is q whole question, II is at
the same time made up Of innumsrable side
issues, purely controversial. in their nature,
and affecting the commercial as we'll as the
social status Of a people. When, therefore,
the. evil is evident and admitted the better
course for the minister to pursue, would be,
TO my mind, to preserve a discreet silence
OF, if that be impossible, place himself at
once and definitely upon that side having
q tendency to the greatest social and moral
good. 1t does not affect the moral status OF
the temperance issue whether, in the old OF
new world, drunkenness is on the decrease
or increase. The only point to be settled is,
whether or not intemperance is an evil.
This gives US the affirmative and negative
of one of the most important problems ever
presented 10 thinking men out Of the lines
Of religious controversy-and beyond this it
is not necessary for men to go who wish to
arrive at an honest solution of a problem
which, during the last fifty years, has become
an active factor in the moral, social and
political world.
Rev. Mr.. II. G. Kinney, of Chicago,
claims to have given a study Of half a dozen
years 10 the subject of intemperance. It i,
we'll that We are informed of this fact as il
serves to show how little . man may learn
in a period of rs months. In . Sermon
delivered in Chicago a few daysago extracts
of which appeared in this journal, and
which was published in a paper in the liquo,
interest called the Western Brewers fact
which shows the value the rum interest
places upon the utterances of ministers OF
the gospel when arrayed upon its own side
and which alone should lead gentlemen Of
the cloth 10 be wary and chary of what they
say in behalf Of the great evil-which ser.
mon was classified under seven heads, which
had no bearing whatever upon the question
save in q matter of statistics, wherein he
attempted to show that beer conduces to
temperance, and the "inexpediency of form.
ing temperance societies or places of refor.
nation for reformed drunkards." In refer
ring to beer as favorable to temperance this
divine says-"that a drinker Of beer must
swallow ten glasses before he gets a gill Of
alcohol" verify, friend Kinney, thou art
an innocent abroad! 1t is an ordinary thing
for beer drinkers to do away with three
times ten glasses Of beer during the day, i IN
the warm season. and the same quantity in
the evening and 1 am assured by one Of
long practice in beer guzzling, that such a
quantity is far inside the limit of many men
he knows-here We have six gills
or n pint and a half of pure alcohol,
enough to intoxicate any ordinary man,
without the auxiliary aid Of the beer, and if
persisted in to make a common drunkard
Of any man of mediocre physical calibre. In
the stage of his sermon" Mr.. Kinney un-
Intentionally shows how easily a man may
be made Q drunkard. He would have him
begin as, do the arsenic eaters in the mines.
Speaking Of the latter q we'll known chem.
list Of New York Gays:
Il have seen q great deal Of arsenic eating
in Europe, especially in styria. II Is said
that the men who workin the arsenic mines
there can only protect themselves against
the toxic influence of the materials in which
they labor by taking It internally, and its
use is encouraged: by tho superintendent
and other persons having authority In the
mines. The crude white arsenic looks much
like q lump Of porcelain. When q person
there begins taking it the practice il. to be.
gin BY licking such 9 lump. The first day
one lick is given the second, two; the
third. three. and 20 on up to twenty or thir.
~. Then they begin nibbling off particles.
l have known men who had 80 accustomed
themselves to 1t that they took with impun.
ity five and even six grams daily. They
seem to gain flesh, and think they are stron.
ger for It's 8 But the moment they leave
it off they have oil the symptoms of arsenic
poisoning. Once begun, its use must be
continued all their livea-that is, if they
ever get 10 taking It IN any considerable
quantities. II does not seem 70 have any
immediate effect upon them. At least il
does not Kill them within fnur or fvo vasro