The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-26
BEER IN THE FATHERLAND
DBSER PATIONS AS TO THE USE OF
THE NATIONAL BEVERAGE.
Heer Drinking and Vhislsey Drinking
COntrasted-A Great German City In
Which There In Little Drunkenness.

sEhhSh IN
I was interested in a paragraph re-
Gently printed in regard to the relative
effects of drunkenness produced by
drinking whiskey or beer. The purport
of the paragraph was that as compared
with whiskey beer is a temperance
drink. Inasmuch as whiskey contains
a larger percentage of alcohol than
beer, the conclusion reached is mathe-
matcally rorrect, and every observant
person must have seen that facts con-
very much like climbing the Alps to an
ordinary walk. OF course one can over
do an ordinary walk if one keeps at it
long enough; but if one keeps on the
level ground one cannot fall down a
precipice and break his neck, which is
just the danger which 1t is difficult to
ice-covered ridges of the Alps. The
smaller the percentage of alcohol in any
liquid the greater is the quantity of it,
of course, which is required in order to
produce intoxication. But by benefit
cent principle Of nature mans stomach
10 good deal of temperance organ.
and when too much of anything, wheth-
er good or bad is poured into it, it gen.
SO when man tries to obtain the effect
of intoxication from beer he often only
makes himself horrible sick, and two or
three experiences of this sort are apt to
make him more cautious about turn
ing his stomach into beer barrel.
Whiskey is not properly beverage, be-
cause it does not satisfy thirst, but
generally creates more thirst. Whiskey
is really medicine and as such it is
a most useful article especially when
advancing age makes mild and whole
some sit1mulant an aid to digestion.
Unlike coffee and tea, good whiskey
does not change the tissues of the
stomach, but really helps them do their
proper work. This is only true, howev-
err when whiskey is taken as a medi
cine, in proper quantities and at proper
times, and not as a beverage-and also,
perhaps, when the stomach has not
been injured by an excessive and un-
necessary use of Whiskey in earlier
years. Beer, on the other hand, does
possess the quality of satisfying thirst,
at least partially: and as between beer
and iced water, I think that most stom-
achs, if they could speak, would say
beer. This does not mean that the nat
ural stomach Graves beer instead of
water. What the stomach really
Graves is about so much liquid once in
so often according to the outside tenn
of course more in sum-
mer, when the pores of the skin are
profusely giving off the liquids of the
body in Precipitation, than in winter.
But the normal stomach never Graves
iced water-it is the throat which Graves
that; for it is a fact that the thirst of
the body, as distinguished from the
thirst of the throat, is perfectly salts
fed when one drinks water at its natu
raj temperature, or even a little warm
err. Beer is more Of liquid than a
stimulant, just as whiskey is more of
stimulant than a liquid; and therefore
when the body is thirsty, beer answers
the purpose of satisfying this thirst,
and whiskey does not.
I imagine that every rational man is |
Interested in the temperance question, |
by that the moderate and |
use of whatever beverages !
may be in vogue, whether wine or beer |
Dr. coffee or tea or soda water. I think |
that the existence of this general inter |
sst Is proved by the fact that the men |
Of our times do not, as rule, make use
Of the strong liquors-brandies, Whis-
keys and heavy wines-with which our
ancestors filed themselves and then
ell under the table. The fashion of |
leavy drinking has passed away. |
Men drink, as it is called now, and
possibly always will drink, but the
whole modern tendency, almost
throughout the civilized world, is to-
ward the mildest kind of beverages
beverages which refresh and invigorate.
ind in some cases exhilarate, but which
more and more seldom carry one to the
Joint of intoxication. It is safe to say
o-day, that no man who Is charged
With responsible affairs, either private
n public, and almost no man who re-
cards himself as a gentleman, permits
llI1SelI TO become QtuHh. i IBIS ~ do
rue of Europe, I think, outside per-
laps, of Russia and the Balkan States,
IS it is of the United States. Common
ense and good taste, and more re-
med public opinion, have combined to
tamp a drunken man as a pitiable OBJ
ect, and as in rather definite sense a
isgraced person. To be drunk in these
lays is something to conceal. and not
to be proud of. Drunken adj
airals or generals are no longer tolera-
ed. In short, moderation is more and
nore the keynote of the best modern
ociety. To enjoy the good things of
he world is still thought to be highly
to abuse these good
hings (meanng, of course, good things
or the palate), and thereby to turn
hese good things into bad things, is
ow very generally thought to be both
polish and little disgraceful.
Germany is very fortunate in it's
GERS as compared with wine-drinking
ountries. There is some drunkenness {
] Germany, if one searches for it, of {
purse, just as there is in all countries {
lack of self-restraint unfortunately t
cling q property of human nature, and I
OF of any particular nation. But the :
in Germany, such as it is, {
nd in no quarter conspicuous, does not y
me from German beers but from