Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-27
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LANCAsTER, PA, APRIL 81, 1889.
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Judge White, of Pittsburg, who
'slAughtered 10 savagely the licensed
houses Of Allegheny couty, seems to have
been animated more by hostility TO bad
II liquor than by devotion TO prohibition.
\ Especially is he inimical to beer, which
5 he denounces as a vile decoction Of hurt
s. fnl ingredients, as IL IL made and sold in
y this country. He says that he enjoys
glass Of beer but that the article he gets
\ IN Pittsburg does not agree with his
ntomach and that his suspicion that II
: was not an honest beer, was con-
+ 5lrmed by his experience In Germany.
s"When went to Germany, "he declares,
. eand tried the beer there, knew that
l drank beer with pleasure for am not
one Of the narrow-ininded creatures who
hold IL a crime to drink beer, and found
+ the German stuff very different from
ours. II IL, i'm fact, wholesome drink,
while our American beer stupefies the
a driuker and arouses In him brutal i'm
] pulses"
The judge Is undoubtedly right in his
!. denunciation of much of our home
+ brewed beer and indeed nearly all of it,
as dishonest. IL Is the experience of
every one who drinks beer and who
d0es not possess a cast iron stomach, that
IL very often makes him unwcll, and
that taking more than one glass is an
excess ofw which he will repent.
There are some hardened insides that
can swallow q vast deal, even Of Bar
tholomay beer, without apparent dam
age but that does not show that they are
drinking honest beer, but simply that
Y they are made, as Is an ostrich, to digest
anything. The injury suffered by the
Judge White constitution I'm drinking
home brewed beer, and the safety with
which the imported Budwciss or Kaiser
is taken, show that there is good deal
3 Of rottenne $ in the home brewerics.
Doubtless some are honest, but where
are they Our friend Spnngcr tells us
x that his beer Is made of pure malt and
hops, and brewer Rciker and the rest
cay the same, and doubtless truly. But
Herr FRANKIE used 10 satisfy us that he
never used drugs /; yet after his departur,
{ from amongst us, there IL well authen
ticated story that receipt was found
among his papers showing nasty com.
position of drugs.
Honest brewings and Installations are
wholesome and agreeable as beverages
: and medicine and we believe that Judge
White Is right in saying that If the Legs
lature would pass laws adequate to sccur,
y Ing the sale only Of pure liquors they
would do much towards repressing Grim,
s. from drunkenness. He believes that il
" is the drugging Of liquor, rather thar
g the liquor, that has intiamed to ugly
mood the criminal IN the dock II is q
IA Reasonable conclusion, and certainly i
I is the duty Of the Legislature to protec
the citizens from the brewers fraud.
It's one which readily is contrived anC
difficult of detection. There should b,
state chemist, rs there lately was, ant
board of inspectors Of all manufactures
whose duty II should he to see that the,
are what they purport To he. And thcr,
should be heavy penalty and punish
ment imposed upon the sale or manufac
ture OF any article Of food or drink that
~ other than II seems, and that may be
injurious to the consumer. Certainly tn,
Legislature owes it to the citizens To pro-
tect them from fraudulent and poison
Gus things.
But Is there not virtue, even i'm the
present law, to punish the brewe.
aNQf drugged drinks? We should
think that there was, were /,
y not that Judge White does not seem Il
find it. The sale of beer that IL NOT beer
surely IL a fraud /; and the infusion OF
s. dcleterious drugs into ii ought to be
punishable as crime under the general
law against ofienses against tile person.
III Judge White confers with tn,
Allegheny district attorney upon the
\ matter, possibly he may find way to
bring the Pittsburg brewer to brewing
honest beer, without taking his license
away. But perchance he thinks that
the speediest way is to stop his brewing ;
and we confess that we think he s quite
justified in taking license from any
! brewer who puts drugs in his beer such
4 rascal ought to be hung. We hone
4 that there are none such among o,Ir
readers but 4f there be let them shrive
themselves and turn over "A new leaf.