Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-26
42,926.366

In other words about one barrel to each
inhabitant of this growing country. No
wonder that the Brewers association offer,
through the columns of the Herald, a re-
ward of 81 600 to any one tho can find any
authorizations in the products of their
breweries. If there are 331a gallons of
beer in barrel, there should be 512 glass
es. The 5000 barrels of beer and ale con-
sumed in the past three years, reduced to
single drinks run up to the amazing COM
putation of q, 973, 100000 glasses phase
of refreshment so utterly beyond human
appreciation as to be utterly non-under-
standable. The astounding progress Of
this industry can be shown by aniappeal to
official data, as follows: Barrel tax in 1880,
$12,347, O77.26; special tax in 1880, $2O1.-
1857; dealers tax in 1880, $282,329.31;
total, $12,829, 802.84. Barrel tax i'll 1881,
$12, 1891, 7OO.63; special tax in 1881, $685.
3O8.52; dealers tax in 1881, $267 .232 O6;
total, $13, zoe, 241.21. This total shows an
increase in the fiscal year of $780, 1887,
while the advance in the first nine months
in the year, closing in the early part of
1882, is over $2,OOO,O0O.
The capital employed in making beer in
this country is 1888, OOO, 900. and while over
$4,000 persons are directly engaged in its
manufacture, twice as many more are in
directly interested and employed. The
extraordinary figures culled from Off
cial sources, and the signif-
can't fact that enormous
breweries are built here as well as in the
west, warrant belief that malt liquors are
destined to supplant, in time, the whisky
and brandy of to-day, as in turn they took
the place of the rum and molasses of our
fathers. Ten years ago the average con-
sumption of beer here was but trife. Of
tea the average sale is pound and half
per capita per annum; of wines about
qnart; of whisky, gin, and rum, two gal
Ions, while the 100000 people of the
United States, using nearly 100000 bar
rels of beer per annum. would appear to
drink about one third of barrel each.
Millions of men and women never touch
it, but other millions drink enough to make
up the average.
Within six months past it has been pub
licly charged that while in New York and
vicinity about five million barrels of malt
liquor are brewed annually, the brewage of
beer as a whole is the most adulterated in
the world, and consequently very injurious
| to the general health. 1t has been assert
ed that the quantity of hops grown here,
with the addition of imported hops, is not
| half sufficient for the amount of malt
liquor manufactured annually, and that
| lager beer is a made up and adulterated
beverage, and that substances more or
less poisonous, such as strychnine, opium,
belladonna, henbane, tobacco, ignatius
bean, cocculus indicus, aloe, etc., are large
| ly used at the present time in its manufac-
ture. These drugs are used to initiate the
bitter and aromatic properties Of hops,
and the deadly narcotic to reproduce the
supplying effects of alcohol.
And other authorities explicitly said:
SIN beer alum, opium, nux vomica, green
copperas, vitrol, sub-carbonate of potash
and jalup are used. Cocculus indicus is
used largely to give strength to beer.
Three grains of it will produce nausea and
prostration, and ten grains will throw a
strong dog into convulsisns. Foxglove
and henbane are used for the same pur-
| pose as cocculus indicus. Oil of vitrol is used
to increase the heating qualities. No gen.
uine lager beer is made in New York. Al
l one time large quantities of tobacco stems
were used in many breweries, and it is be.
| lieved that tobacco is still used in the al
legged lager sold for five cents schooner
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