The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-01-30
The Use Of Lager Beer.

The virulent vaporings of the Proli-
bition party, reported few days since
in these columns, and its attack upon
the ex-President of the State Board of
Health of the American
Medical Association, the most honored
leader of Massachusetts, physicians, a
noble gentleman, who has devoted his
life to the welfare of humanity-have
educed already two responses relative,
the one to the moral, the other to the in
tellectual value of such statements.
AS a temperance man of nearly forty
years standing, one of the earliest to re-
ceive the pledge at the hands of Father
Mathew, and one of the founders of a
temperance society when studennt of
Harvard; as one who has examined the
principal breweries of the United States
from Milwaukee to Machias, and during
five years abroad those from Burton to
Beersheba, and made careful study of
the statistics of intoxication in the
various beer, wine and spirit drinking
countries, may be permitted word as
to the physical consideration involved in
the suicidal policy of prohibiting the use
of lager beer.
1. 1t is an incontestable fact that every
nation always has used, does and will
use, some sort of external agency
capable of temporarily accelerating OF
retarding the action of the mental
machinery. The finding of the least
harmful among such agents is the desid-
eratum of sensible humanitarians. The
least harmful agent is lager beer, the
proportion of alcohol in this being nc
more, may be properly taken as food
for Psychologists have now ascertaine6
that alcohol, in small amount, is normal
| constituent of the tissues of the human
body. do dot speak of ''ale," which il
not beer.
2. Lager beer is too bulky to produce
| intoxication; particularly in the case O.
Americans, who drink, as rule sstand
ing" If those drinking it would only
sit down, as the Germans do, the res
| obtained would be as valuable as til,
tonic effects of the beer, and the sitter
would be more likely to substitute bee
| for bitters.
8. Beer is not stimulent, like spirits
which are like an application of whil
to an already over-tired horse; it is rath
er like good meal of oats. It is toni
and fattening food (being composed o
malt) and nervous sedative from tn
hops in combination.)
| +. w uAS bplIlbS SGluuldtS W flOlouC
and lust, beer produces merely somno
lence.
5. A taste for beer drives out or de
stroys the liking for spirits, thus provin
its raison d'etre, if only as the lesser c
the two evils, one of which must exist i
answer to the demand (real or fancied
of humanity.
6. The physical and psychieal abno1
malties of the New Englander are gau1
tiness of the body and nervous excits
bility. The characteristics of the beel
drinker are adipose tissue and mentf
placidity bordering upon stolidity. Th
philosopher, the philanthropist, th
patriot and the physician may well POI
der upon the relations of cause an
effect, and be grateful for fluid $
admirably caculated to obviate th
effects of our everyday atmosphere. A
step in the right direction may b
noted in little announcement in til
Aduertiser on the 11th inst, viz: 18Th
grog to be served on the Jeanette is to b.
not spirits and hard liquors, but bee
coffee and tea.
Z. In Maine, where beer is prohibited
bad whisky, being of lesser bulk, is tai
ing its place with bad effects.-BOstO
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