Daily Republican., 1879-06-07
Lager Beer.

Lager Beer.
For several days past the beer manu-
facturers have been in session in the
cty of st. Louis, and every thing good
or bad in lager, good especially, has
been fully brought out by the leading
manufacturers. Mr.. Reuter-, Presi-
dent of the Convention, in the presen-
ta.ion of the annual report, gave the
statistics of this beer drank in this
country, and he predicted in the next
year that ten million barrels of beer
would be consumed Those who have
large faith in the humanitarian inAu-
ences of lager have in this showing the
largest reasons for rejoicing, indeed
their faith should be very full. Mr..
Reuter- in speaking of the good quail
ties of beer was loud in his praise OF
"the decided nervous animation exper-
fenced after partaking of it, but then
this is the very thing for which it is
drank. No member of that convention
however is more emphatic in his
prais, of lager than Mr.. Frederick
Lauer of our neighboring city OF Read
ing, he being one of the largest manufac-
turers in the Union. We're Mr.. Lauer's
iieas correct, there has been a great
deal Of money spent uselessly in trying
to christianize the heather. Lager beer
would do it much more etfectually and
the reform worked would no doubt be
much mors permanent. Kegs and bar
r,ls Of lager would be much more easily
tr ms orted across the great oceans
than missionaries and cost less.
what Mr., L,uer says be true, it
may just be possible that a great mis-
take has tesn made, and that in chris
tianizing this heathen world, there have
been too many missionaries and too lit
tie lager sent out in missionary work.
What are Mr.. Lauer's experiences !
He gives them from notes of observation
mad personally by himself, and he
choo5 5es as an illustration Of his ideas
the effect of lager upon the South in
tbs plan of political recons,ruction.-I
Two years ago he visited the South and
found the inh abitants confniug them
selves almost exclusively to old bour-
bon whiskey, which produced, as he
says, riot, outrage, dissension, BULLDOG
ing and confusion generally. Of course
this was all from drinking whiskey.-I
Two years later Mr.. Lauer made anoth-
er trip to the South, AMI after Laving
been over the same ground he found
marked change for the better. Perfect
peace, good order and harmony IRE
vailed between the races where but a
short time before they were ready to
imbrue their hands in each others
blood. The occasion of this wonderful
change, according to the views of Mr..
LaIer, lies in a greater consumption
o. beer and decrease in the demand
for bourbon whiskey. But the enthu-
siastic Lauer does not stop here ; he
goes 80 far as to declare that in his
opinion large expiration Of lager to
Louisiana and Mississippi would pre-
vent the exodus of negroes from those
States.
This would, indeed. be an easy way
Of settling veXed problem; and
whether Mr.. Lauer be right or not,
beer would doubtless be better for the
bulldozers than bourbon, if only they
could be persuaded to drink it, which
W. doubt If Mr. Lauar would substi-
tute au immigration of Germans for an
increased consumption Of beer, he
would not probably be far from wrong
in his prophecies. The beer would
follow as a matt4r of course, but the
good effect would result from the pres
ence of the drinkers and not from that
of the drink. We have no idea how
ever that the views of Mr.. Lauer will
be acquiesced Of in generally, for there
are 50 many contrary people in the
world who will Insist on seeing things
in very different light from what Mr..
Lau.r seas them. No doubt there are a
great many ministers Of the gospel who
will still insist that the old way is the
best way for the conversion of the world
to habits Of peace and happiness.
According 10 the "Railway World"
nearly four hundred thousand persons
are employed on the railroads in this
country, and five times that many de-
pend upon the reads for support. 1t is