The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-06-25
THIRD PAPER.

hnuIyLttlOll SitoWS bIEtt tDout
ty per cent of the body of lager-beer is
water-and very nasty water, too, some
times-five and II half per cent. alcohol,
and four and half per cent.-if the
beer is pure-is II dccOction of barley
malt and hops. Now, as neither the
water nor the alcohol contains any food
product, we will evaporate the four and
half detection Of malt and hops to
dryness To develop the nutritious con-
stituents-that which goes tn make
blood, fibre, bone, muscle, flesh or brain
in man, and we can put the entire solid
product of II gallon of lager-beer on n
two-cent piece. Baron Liebig says.
eve can prove with certainty that us
much flour as can lie on the point of II
table knife is more nutritious than eight
quarts of the best Bavaran beer" In
about the same proportion, ! suppose
the product of II thriy-one gallon barrel
would equal two ounces of good wheat
flour. ID would take about one hundred
| barrels-enough To drown Il dozen of
the latest beer-drinkers in New York
| To equal IL dozen loayes of bread. You
would have to fill the lake in Central
Park to equal Il couple of truck-loads of
| flour, and Il receptacle filled to its ut
most limit MS large us New York Bay
on which might float the navics of the
world-tO equal canal boat load of
| flour, as Il food product for man. DIR.
Il. w. Richardson, the noted English
| physician, in his address last year in
the Shcldonian Theatre, Oxford, gave it
as his opinion "that alcohol-the chief
constituent Of every kind of beer-has
| no claim whatever Ia be considered II
supporter of animal temperature, and
claim whatever to be thought support
| err of muscular force. On the contrary,
| that, from the moment II physiological
effect is produced in the body from al
cohol, and onward, so long as the effect
| is kept up by the addition OF the agent
| To the body, the animal heat, the ner-
vous control over the muscles and the
independent power resident in the mus
cles themselves begins and continues to
decline, until mt last the body, cold and
senseless, falls to the ground, checked
only by its own utter helplessness, and
rs a living form imbibing the last drop
that would make the death absolute.
| "From all these facts reason that al
cohol cannot he in any sense, scientif-
cllly considered, II food for man or any
other animal; that il cannot be set down
as necessity for man; that, useless as
IL food, il is miscellaneous rs Il luxury and
| ~
danger0usa destroyer To he intruSted to
the general management of manhood
or To the hands of those who, because of
its luxurious temptations, fall under its
power
| DIR. Lees has written largely on the
| physiological effects of alcohol, and al
WAYS maintained the doctrine, that un-
der no circumstances can il be consid-
cred fOod-product fitted for the use
of man.
Baron Liebig says of the Bavaran-
the original lager-beer-that ga person
who is able to consume daily two gal
Ions of beer, obtains from it i'm year i'm
the most favorable case, exactly the
amount of nutritious constituents which
is contained in II iive-pound loaf of
bread, or i'm three pounds of beef; that
is, i'm 80 gallons 1.-TWO gallons a day for
q year, there is no more nutriment than
there is i'm three pounds of beef. Just
think of a man drinking 730 gallons for
| this mOrsel of food. AS he would use
with other foods as much as $50 pounds
of meat annually, then he must drink
| fifty times 80 gallons in order to obtain
in one year as much nutriment as he
does from his meat, which is So 800 gal
Ions, equal to 3! barrels per day." and
| there is no more reliable authority than
| Baron Liebig. His estimate reminds
us of II COW that drank Il barrel of swill
to get one small potato mt the bottom of
the barrel.
Now, this is assuming that lager-beer
| is as pure as originally made; but what
must he its effects when poisonous drugs
are substituted for the only nutritious
constituents of beer-the malt and hops
small in quantity as they are. Then
lager-beer is simply water and poison.
We have reason to believe that but q
small proportion of the lager-beer-so-
called-made and drunk in this country
is absolutely pure-perhaps none. AS
| to this drinkers must look out for them
selves At best the article is simply
"swill' and swill so poor in quality that
hog fed on it would starve To death.
| mention as Il singular fact, that
brewers, when seen together at their
festive board, avoid beer of their own
brewing, much as they would contagion.
They invariably order champagne,
Rhine wine, brandy, or beer of foreign
makers, but never lager-becr made by
any brewer present.
a chemical department is attached to
all breweries, and this secret depart
ment, under skilled chemist, is as in
dispensable as any part of lager-beer
manufacture. Comment is unnecessary.
The Brewers Journal says more than
900, 600 people depend upon the beer
traffic for support, and give that as II
reason why the business should not on
" be sustained, but increased in magnl-
tude.