The Evening critic., 1882-03-20
Practical Temperance.


The people who make apple-jack, peach
brandy and the seductive products OF the
Monongahela and Bourbon valleys, have them
selves to blame in part that people are losing
faith in them. There was a time when pure
liquors was the rule and not the exception.
The art of imitation in taste, smell, flavor,
''bouquet and all else, even TO the after-effects
which used TO constitute part OF the trade
mark Of good wines and liquors. do not all go
together In modern times. Capital has tried
to double itself up too many times. TWAS
not content with more than fair gains, such
gains as banking, real estate and even horse
jockeying are satisfied TO score. As conse-
quence, the business he's been over-done. The
buyer has lost faith in names and brands, and
good beers and light wines look as If they were
helping 10 macadamize the road toward mod
eration. In nearly all the cities, as well as
States, the Increase during the past year in
the quantity of beer and other malt liquors Is
very remarkable. The statistics are collated
from the New York BrearerS' Journal by the
Philadelphia Times, and are as follows:
For the fiscal year ending May /, 1881, the
average increase in the sales OF such liquors
In dozen of the principal cities was 13 per
cent, the highest average, 81 per cent, being
shown by Baltimore and the lowest 8 per
cent, by ooklyn, In only one city was
Albany, where the falling on was but little
over one per cent. Next in gain to Baltimore
following are Newark, 10 per cent; Chicago,
ID per cent; st. Louis, 13 per cent; Buffalo,
IL per cent; Boston and New York, each a
little over 10 per cent; Cincinnati, a little
| less than 10 per cent; San Francisco and
Philadelphia each, little less than per
| cent. New York city sold 2.627, ,52S barrels Of
| malt liquor last year, more than three times
| as much as any other city. Philadelphia
| stands next, with S32,55S barrels. st. Louis
sells I'll 1913. Milwaukee, Brooklyn, Boston
| ard Cincinnati rank nearly together, between
| 64l 900 and 6S1 600, there being difference
OF only 275 barrels between the sales a Bos-
| ton and Cincinnati, in which "the Hub" has
| the lead. Tho total sales of malt liquors FOL
| the United States for the year 1881 were
| 1855, T49 barrels, and there were five States
Nermont-in which no sales were made Two
| States, Alabama. and North Carolina, each
report but four barrels sold during the year
1t is hard TO tell which more deserve com
miseration, the five States in which 10 sales
| at all are reported, or the two In which only
| four barrels We're sold, and presumably nc
| moro malt was drunk. But the fault may be
| properly represented, but since the holding oi
the Atlanta Exposition II is more than proba
| bic that those who attended from the North
! may have introduced the beer fashion and, II
| so, Alabama Will not be slow in following the
| lead OF Georgia. The extent 10 which beel
| shall he made TO take the place of "hard
| ware mainly depends upon the brewers
themselves. So long as they insure a pure
| and wholesome article IL will be popular. Blu
1t must be kept pure.
In Arkansas there Is n great deal of beel
drank. 1t is mostly from St. Louis, several o
the large breweries OF that city running
special beer cars loaded with their product
st. Louis beer is held in high esteem through
out the West and Southwest, where beer an,
light wines are slowly taking the place o
whisky and the like hard and fiery drinks
ED. CRITIc,l