Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-01
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man. He is person with nerves, is ex.
citable and frey, and takes to beverages
naturally and on scientific principles.
There 10 something in the very atmos-
phere-in the climate and in the general
features OF the country--that impels the
universal Yankee to moisten his dia-
phragm, frequently If not oitener. 1t is a
settled fact that he will drink Every
body knows that he does drink. And we
may safely predict that he always will
drink. Tha great need of the period is,
therefore, that the average American (and
oil Amer,cans) shall have pure and whole
some beverages-that each and all shall
swear Off (and stay of) from the use Of
adultered and poisoned drinks BY so
doing they will promote their healthiness
and prolong their lives. That we might
procure the best results Cor absolutely safe
resu!ts) by drinking water exclusively, we
will not attempt to prove--as it would be
too large an undertaking to carry through,
successfully and completely, with the dog
days so close upon us. We are quite well
aware that much of the water used in the
country is impure, especially that taken
from wells in cities and villages. The
product Of our Springfield Water Works is
reasonably pure and may be drank, even
in cholera times, with comparative de-
gree Of safety. But tea Certainly the
Congressional Variety is largely adulter-
ated and it is well nigh impossible to OBJ
tain pure article. Whisky and beer are
almost universally impure certainly
so after the saloon man has
given the beverages his own
personal and final manipulation.
The grog. shop loafer who talks about pure
liquor, and smacks his lips as he talks,
never gets any Of it and doesn't know
what it is. This is also true of the fine-
blooded people who boast of their choice
wines. The pure product of the foreign
grape is almost unknown in this country,
and our native wines are now largely doc
toredl
The best beverage within the reach of
Americans is coffee, and if people will give
some study and attention to the purchase
and preparation OF the article they can
get it pure and will find its use, in proper
quantities adjusted to the individual
wholesome. 1t cheers and stimulates if
indeed it does not inspire. Intoxicating
drinks especially when doctored with
drugs and poisons, act upon the baser ami
NAL nature and arouse that which is vicious
and fendish in men. while coffee, golden
and fragrant, in flow of nectar reaches
the brain and the heart and awakens that
which is noblest and best in those who use
it. 1t quickens thought; it gives wings to
the pen of the ready writer, and 1t loosens
and glorifes the tongue of the orator.
Coffee should be the American beverage.
We should have coffee houses in place OF
the dens where other and poisonous bev-
erages are sold, and we believe they might
be SO organized and conducted as to sup
plant the nurseries of dissoluteness and
vice to which we have alluded. Then we
may add that hot water is better and
purer beverage than that which is cold
Its use promotes digestion, and conse-
quently good health. Then, too, hot
water has, in the heating, passed through
purifying process.
As summer drink, buttermilk--
which is pure beverages whole
some and very palatable. 1t is sold largely
in drinking places in the large cities, in
the summer time, and now that the New
Carlisle creamery is in full operation, we
have no doubt the article could be OBJ
tained in sufficient quantities for use here.
1t should be put on draught in our drug
stores and ice cream saloons, side by side
with the soda fountains; and if some of
the leading sample-room keepers would
clean out their drugged and doctored
beverages and put pure hot Java or Mocha
and buttermilk on draught, we believe that
they would make money-and would Ger.
tainly generate less deviltry-by the opera
ton. Cannot we have coffee and butter
milk saloon, by way OF an experiment, as
a practical illustration of an honest effort
to place pure and wholesome drinks before
the people2 We give our dealers this val
liable hint in full time for utilization be-
fore the Republican State Convention
meets, for we warn them that the gentle
men who are to visit US on that occasion
believe in pure and wholesome beverages
and that "forty.rod" whisky and the fluids
that disintegrate the intestines will not
go down with them--or into them.
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