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What is Malt Liquor?

of dccayed barley, a few particles of hop,
and pint and quarters of water
2. How much nutriment is there in
malt liquor2 Not more than farthing's
worth in a quart, although one and a
half pounds of good barley are used in
making it.
8. What is malt? 1t is simply barley
brought into the same vegetated state as
wheat when it sprouts and spoils in un-
seasopab!e weather, destroying much of
the nutrition.
4. Why, then, do they malt barley?
That the ale may be more intoxicating.
Sugar is the basis of all spirits. By malt
ing, some of the starch is changed into
sugar; in mashing, this sugaris dissolved,
and in fermentation it is converted into
alcohol.
5. What induces people to like beer2
The alcohol; evaporatc that, and nothing
remains which could induce any person
to taste it.
6. Does not the alcohol add to its
value? Nothing; on the contrary, it
produces thirst, stimulation, intoxica-
ton, with all the immense train of evils
which constantly spring from beer-drink-
ing.
+. What is the influence of the hop2
To make people heavy, sleepy, dull and
stupid.
8. Does beer quench thirst2 No; it
increases thirst, and the more man
drinks the more thirsty he is. All beer
is simply colorcd and fired water, and
hence ale-bibbers drink much more water
than tcetotalcrs.
0. What is there to support a
man in ale or beer2 The water and alco-
hol go Immediately into the veins,
and while the alcohol poisons and
deceives, the water unnecessarily dilutes
the blood, overcharges the vessels, and
loads the kidneys and bladder, and there
remain an ounce and half of indigesti
BILE extract of malt, which has been
grown, roasted, scalded, boiled. embit-
tered, femented, and drenched with
water and alcohol, till it seems unfit for
the brute, and certainly not for the hum an
stomach. Yet this is all that is left in the
stomach to be digested. No wonder TINT
all beer drinkers feel a constant pain and
sinking in their stomach, and that the
are always craving more drink.
"Do not call it Sir John Barleycorn: 1t
is libel. In the farmers hands he is
'barlcycorn:' in the brewers hands a
goodly portion of his vital parts are alb
stracted, and, after the malt. crusher has
broken every bone in his body, the
brewer, by scalding and fermcnting,
finishes his career, and turns the poor
knights best blood into aqsa oit0, cast
ing away his last remains as 'barrel-bot'
tomsn Poor Sir Johnr-M G. T. Q.
What Converted Judge Lochrane.
Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, Ga, who
has always been good liver, has emptied
all his wines and liquors into the gutter,
and while in New York the other day
astonished his friends by declaring him.
self full-hedged prohibitionist, and
glorying in the fact that he helped to
carry Atlanta against the saloons. He
gave the following explanation of the
causes that brought about prohibition in
that city.
"You see our government had come to
be a government of whisky, by whisky,
and for whisky. The liquor dealers
asserted their ownership of the entire
country, and their control of the entire
population. 1t is only question of
time under such a condition of things
when men will rise up and smitc them
hip and thigh. 1t is thing that must
be done in order to preserve the man:
hood of the country You see drinking
in the South is not drinking in the North.
"Here in New York if man comes
| into barroom who is intoxicated, the
bartender will refuse to sell him any
more. If the man raises disturbance
he is promptly led out and away. But
with us fellow comes along bent on
having bender He goes into saloon
and takes possession of it. He announces
that he is the Handed Gray Wolf,
or Blue Ruin Jake, or Kaintuck Mose.
He drinks till he is wild. He makes
everybody who comes in drink with him.
! Sooner or later there is row and some
one is killed. If it was only the chap
who got up the muss who got killed We
could stand it, but nine chances out of
ten it is some innocent passer-by. Then,
when we attempted to regulate the sale
of liquor so as to have things decent,
the liquor men defeated every effort we
made. It came to pass then that we got
up and licked them out. 1t is what will
eventually be done everywhere unless
they sec what is coming and take modest
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