The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-14
W.C.T.U. and Mission Column
IS BEER A TEMPERANCE DRINK
Josephine r. Nichols.

How does beer rank as an 'sArostle
of Temperance On all sides we
hear the cry, IF we would have the
country temperate we must make it 8
universal beer consum.ng country .
This claim OF beer as reformer, to
turn men from drunkenness to tenn.
perance, is the most absurdly pre-.
tentions and false claim it makes
If there is any one place in which 1t
proves itself more Lying beer -
than any other, it is here, for if there
is any foe to true temperance it is
lager beer. 1t is the decoy duck of
the liquor traffic. 1t is impossible
for any man or woman to drink lager
beer and remain wholly free from the
appetite that finally will destroy those
who indulge it. The memorable law
OF drink is that the appetite will
grow upon what feeds 1t. To indulge
the thirst for alcohol in any form is
to create stronger desire for it.
There is enough alcohol in lager beer
to incite a. desire for more, aud it
will require larger and larger
amount to crafty the appetite until
the time will come when the demands
of the system will not be satisfied
with the amount of spirit in beer, and
heavier liquors will be resorted to.
1t is subtle and dangerous foe, be-
cause man who has fallen through
Intoxicating drinks often feels that he
may safely use beer because Of its
alleged harmlessness, and through if
falls again. Here is the danger tk at
lies in lager beer. 1t leads men. on
to ruin unconsciously. It deludes
with smiles, when every smile is a
link in the chain that will ultn natelv
bind man with inexorable force.
The chain is made up of TIM links.
1t is the very smallness Of the links
that makes man or a wO1D an believe
that the chain is of no fore ;e. but il is
of the same metal as the chain forged
by whisky or brandy, and it fastens
the soul in the same low field of moral
debasement.
We are constantly he.ving impressed
upon us the assertion that the people
OF Germany are a temperate people
because they arr, so extensively q
beer-drinking pr ,ople. We have been
taught to belle We that Germany knows
no drunkennf ,ss, because it INDUCES
in this ligb ter liquor, this temperance
beverage; but those who have seen
the insio Q workings of this temperance
In Gerp lany, tell us that, 1.-THE reason
we see no more drunkenness is not due
to the fact that it does not exist, but
to 1.-THE better police regulations III
force there, which keep it out of
sight. = The beer drinking is carri ed
on in places down out of the pub lie
thofcughfares; and those who have
penetrated into those beer cellars de-
clared th at ''the vile scenes witne ssed
there are unsurpassed by the lowest
grogge ries in this country and 1.-THE
orgies nightly held in the thous ands
of beer dens in the city of Be Rim
alone, make them seem really hells
upon earth = When the followers Of
beer and the supporters of the beer
traffic claim that it will work tenn
perance reform in this country they
present it as "a lying beer. " II
these advocates Of beer could, as they
desire, evangelize this country by
making us UNIVERSAL drinking
population, we would not be, as they
assert, more temperate people, but ,