St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-28


century has seen remarkable advance
in the line of true temperance in this
country. Intoxication has year by year
become more disgraceful. 1t has not
been many years since the great man
of a village or community was the
"four-bottle' man, and the hero Of the
occasion was the man who could ''put
all the others under the table," ALI this
has been changed, and the man in an
assembly of gentlemen who gets drunk
becomes obnoxious, is condemned and
his company fought shy of ever after.
This increased sobriety DR.. Kelley, the
head of the ''Keeley institute" for the
cure of dipsomania, believes to be due
to the free use of lager beer instead of
spirits. Statistics show that in this
country in the last half century the
consumption of beer has increased
enormously, while the amount of spir-
its used has correspOndingly decreased.
The consumption of beer has increased
from 1.36 gallons per capita in 1910 to
sumption of spirits has decreased from
2.52 gallons in 1910 to lao gallons in
1890; and this change from spirits to
beer has brought increased sobriety to
the people. Drunkenness is common
enough yet, but it is less common than
it was in the days when rum, whisky
and gin held the leading place in the
line of drinks, but there is less dis l.
patton among American men than in
the past, and it is growing less
every year. DR.. Kelley on his re-
turn from a trip through Europe
in the early part of last summer, where
he studied the phases of drunkenness
in Germany, Switzerland. Austria,
France and Italy. said that in bis wan
behring's over the continent he saw but
two drunken men, and they were boat
men in Naples. He attributed the gem
eral sobriety of all continental nations
to habit of light wine and beer drink
ing, which, so to speak. begets the
power of resistance that makes stronger
alcoholic drinks unnecessary. This, he
said, is on the principle of vaccination
as preventive of smallpox. He is so
positive of this that he would have the
drinking of beer and light wines ell
couraged by the government to the ex-
clusion of strong drink.
Better do this he said, land have parents
form the tastes of youth, SO that wine and
beer would be associated with meals and not
with debauch, than have the habit of strong
drink secretly contracted"
beer consumed in this country has made
the brewing of it one of the great in
dustries of the country. In nearly every
town or city there are one or more
breweries, especially in the Northern
states, and wherever barley and the
other elements used to make beer are
produced. And in this as in most other
industries, st. Paul has been keeping
pace with the growth of the
city, although she has never at
tempted to do a great deal
in the country tributary to her-that is,
brew beer for the export trade. This,
however, is now to be changed. and in
the next two or three years st. Paul
beer will be as famous in the North west
as the beer of Rochester, Buffalo and
Philadelphia is in the East and that of
st. Louis and Milwaukee in the West.
st. Paul RreWeries.
Every factory and workshop estab-
liShed in ST. Paul helps to build up and
develop the city. All branches of busi-
ness, wholesale, retail and manufacture
ing, are given so many more consumers
right at their doors who must of neces-
sity buy from local merchants their sup
plies of food, clothing and other neces-
Saries of life. For these reasons the
people who live in st. Paul ought to, and
they do, give warm SuppOst to all home
manufacturers. The interests of every
resident of st. Paul can best be promot-
ed by this city becoming great manu-
featuring center, and every one ought
to buy st. Paul-made goods and prepa-
rations in preference to those made i'll
any place. Few realize what boom
this would give the goods of home man.
ufacturerS. No one interested in the
growth and welfare of the city should
fail to ask his merchant for
st. Paul-made boots and shoes,
st. Paul-made cigars,
st. Paul stoves and tinware,
st. Paul furniture,
st. Paul clothing,
st. Paul furnishings,
st. Paul woodwork,
st. Paul packing house goods and
meats,
And hundred other articles that are
made more cheaply and more honestly
in this city than in any Eastern manu-
featuring center-by men, too. who re-
side in st. Paul, and who will help to
advance her interests just in proper
ton to the amount of support extended
them by the people. Prominent among
the Industries of st. Paul at the present
time stand the beer-brewing interests.
The brewing of beer for home consump-
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for many years, but the growth of the
business has, of course. been greatest
in the last decade, and is now increas-
ing at rapid rate, although of the beer
consumed IN st. Paul but little more
than so per cent Is of home manu-
facture. Were this due to the fact that
the home-brewed beer is of an inferior
quality, some excuse might be made for
it. But this is not the case. There are
nine breweries in this city, and the beer
made by any one of them is equal in
quality and as low in price as any of the
imported beers. Were the people of st.
Paul to drink only home-brewed beers.
the business could be doubled in one
year, and without taking into consider
alton the boom it would give the home
brewers in the manufacture of beer for
export. To the list given above should
be added the Injunction:
Drink st. Paul Beer.
Drink st. Paul beer. While st. Paul
does not brew ali the beer consumed
within her borders, she has brewing in
terests that are larger than exist in