The daily Cairo bulletin., 1881-10-23
Bottled Beer as a Temperance Drink,
2 w. LAWRENCE.

b1 W, 4. lANhENCE.
We hold that beer if not prevented by
unjust Legislation, will drive whiskey out
Of use in the United States, and leave Us
free from the paupcrsm and crime en-
dangered 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 whiskey in this coun-
try as il has in Germany then beer should
be left free TO DO it, even if beer be in its
self only lesser evil on the same principle
as We yaccinaIc child with a disease
called kinc.poX in order TO guard against
the worse evil OF smallpox. But We do
not believe beer to be an evil at all.
Taken by itself, beer jmeanDg ale aud
lager, is nutritious, inygoratiug, cooling
and palatabe drink, assisting the mother
to nurse the children, and Strengthening the
father in his work to support them.
Beer does not incite men to deeds of
madness as does whisky, nor does beer
lead to whisky as some pretend to sup
pose. Whoever thinks beer leads to whis-
ky 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 whisky for fifteen gen
crations, father and son, and hayn't reached
it yet.
Why then if beer be good in itself and
leads TO nothing bad, do so many of our
laws and temperance pledges put beer and
whisky together into the same criminal
calendar We answer, because beer and
whisky are sold at the same places. The
fact is, whisky has no more business in
beer saloon than opium has in cigar-store,
or wolf in sheepiold. But, nevertheless,
there they are together.
The men who lead the so-called temper
perance movement are not remarkable for
calm and temperate views, or careful dis
crlminauOn,
If they cared to look they would find
thata few years ago we were all using whis-
Ky and rum in this country, and thatbcerin
forcing itself in is forcing the whisky out
| But so long as the two are sold at the same
places we must not complain if the scat
terng temperance bluuderbusses aimed at
the whisky barrel hit also the bcer-kcg on
tap alongside.
Get the beer out OF range of the whisky
and it won't get hit, How shall this be
douet We answer lst BY making the
license fee for selling whisky so high that
the ordinary saloon keeper will confnc
himself to selling beer and thcr the lager
beer saloon and ale house will cease to be q
scape-goat for all the sins of whisky,
But in order to regulate the license busi-
ness, as suggested, the whole community
must be made to see the justice of discrim-
mating between whisky and beer, To do
this we must enhghten the whole commu-
nity with information through newspapers
pamphlets such as the argument of Presi-
dent Henry H. Rueter, and true temper
ance tracts, till every honest sensible
American citizen shall see the folly of in
cludng cooling drink, called beer in the
same law or in the same pledge as a fiery
drug called whisky,
But in this great and laudablc work of
separating beer from whisky, in fact and in
law, we have suddenly anew ally and argu.
ment in the shape Of
BOTTLED BEER,
Bottled beer needs no skill to tap it, draw
it, or keep it cool in special ice chest, as
does the beer in kcg,
Bottled beer does not become "tlat, us
does the keg when not quickly empted
after tapping.
A pint bottle contains twoGlasSes OF beer
lust enough for man and his friend, or {
man and his wife or n laboring man Will
his dinner.
Bottled beer can be sent anywhere, KEEP
anwhere sold anywhere, and drank any
where, especially at home.
There are tens of thousands of American
citizens worn down 10y work, pale, thin
dyspeptc or consumptive, to whom a glO'I
of beer at night, or with their meals woulC
be God-scnd of !nvigoration ana health
Nine physicians cut Of ten will prcscrib
it for them.
But they do not feel at home in the bee
saloon and will not go there to get it,
Now (or SOON they can order dozen O
. beer from their grocer and have it sen
: home with their sugar and coffee, aud drlnl
a it as they do their coffee, only with goo,
: deal better result in point of health an,
/. strength.
Then, perhaps, our New England Amer
ican will become as ruddy and healthy AM
hearty as our German American,
Again, bottled beer can be brought I
the consumer as cheap as beer as in tn
saloon. The aloonkeeper has to be paid 70
,, u his time and his rent, and he therefor
y charges five cents for glass of beer,
rs At five cents per glass for bottled beer
&c g., ten cents per pint bottle, or $l.20 pc
le doz. pints, it can be delivered at almos
6. any house or hotel in the United States
and the bottles returned, at living prof