The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-11-28
Fuum Peaks Sun.
Notwithstanding Beer.

that docs not iutoXicate. IL ~ made
Of malt and hops, Is said to taste
exactly like beer, only the ingredi-
ent that j. put into ordinary beer
to iutoxicate is LEFT ont. aud Il man
might fill himself so full OF the
new beer that he could skim false
teeth off the top OF it, and il would
have ma more effect on him than
20 much water. That will be the
most melancholy beer that ever was
fired down a mans neck, 1t will
never fill a want long felt. 1t will
simply bea not dangerous rival Of
pop. The notwithstanding beer is
said to have been invented to evade
the prohibition law in Iowa, but it
can never be a zee People
might us well drink water at once.
The only reason men drink beer
Instead of water is because there is
IL grain OF deviltry in it, a little OF
something that intoXicates. Not
that all men who drink beer de-
sire to be intoxicated, but they
want to feel the peculiar sensation
of almost being intoxicated, and
know that the stuff is i'll the beer,
if they take enough of it. People
do not drink beer generally lat fl 81,
because they like it. They are not
much mashed on the bitter taste,
but after it gets down in the stom-
ach, amongst the cold victuals, and
skermishes around there among the
vitals, there is a sensation that is
not unpleasant, we are told. The
sensation is not caused by the BIT
ter taste, or by the color of the
fluid, or by the foam, but by the
little devil, alcohol, so agreeably
combined with the other stuff. Say
there is a teaspoonful of alcohol in
a glass OF beer, and YOU should,
instead of drinking the beer, take
the same amount of alcohol in wa
ter. You would have the intoXi-
cant concealed about your person
all the same, but it would not have
the same effect. You would sort
OF be ashamed Of yourself and feel
sick. 1t is not the alcohol alone
YOU want, but the combination,
and the brewers have got it down
so fine that they take the cake.
But Notwithstanding beer will take
the same place in beverages that
imitation coffee does, coffee made
OF burned peas, and chickery. 1t
will be like grease butter beside
dairy butter. 1t will be like glu-
cose beside pure sugar. 1t is said
the new beer will be charged with
carbonic acid gas, like soda water,
and that it will sparkle like cham
payne. But it will not do,
gentlemen. You may smuggle it
into a man, and fill him so full of
atmosphere that he will gulp wind,
and it will escape through his nose
and ears, but it will not be old
beer, and it will not make him feel
like the morning star, and yon will
never get it in him but once. Plain
water is good to take, because man
does not expect anything i'll 1t, but
when you take water and doctor it
with sugar, and hops, and malt,
and forget to put the little devil in
it, you spoil it. 1t is spoiled for
water, and is a poor counterfeit of
beer, The people OF Iowa have
voted to prohibit the sale Of intoXi
eating beverages, but it is not be
cause they do not like them. The
old Adam Is still in the Hawkeye
people, and though they have vot-
ed prohibition as a sentiment, in
eleidence to a craze, they want
their beer, and will have 1t, ard do
have it, law or no law. And any
body that tries to play doatored
water o tie prohibition state si
Iowa, gets left. They will know
the difference in Il minute, and il
the notwithstanding beer were Civ