Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-06-01

| beer does not seem to engender the
combative element aroused by alcoholic
drink; it has rather the reverse eff
feet. for 1t not only satisfies the thirst.
but contains a food quality, which re-
sists the small percentage OF alcohol,
rendering the recipient contented with
himself and his surroundings; q kindly
beverage, invented. one might fancy.
to smooth away the cares OF life n
the workaday world. satisfying at once
the spirit and the man.
Tho H~ofbraIhaus.
OF course there are other breweries
besides the Hofbrau In Munich. The
Hofbrau is merely a crown property,
an inheritance of the Wittelbachs, the
reigning family. which dates into the
ages so far that the memory OF man
runneth not to the contrary. Though
eminent lain and has no monopoly.
Nevertheless, the Hofbrauhaus is still
by odds the most popular resort of the
city.
This Hofbrauhaus was built in 1914.
Ludwig the Severe (1255 to 1294), we
are told. already possessed a brewery
in Munich and under him regulations
for h brewers were first drawn up.
In III 10th century the white wheaton
beer came from Bohemia to Munich and
took the place of the brown barley
beer. The brewing of this beer was.
OPRSO Wy GAS IN "a
authorities because it was held to be
injurious to health. Whereupon the
duke m~onopolized h right of brewing.
and so originated the ducal white brew
house, when, in 1889, lin the interest OF
the royal purse a brown" or 'Hof-
b%rauhaus" beer was again brewed In
the HOf, which was enlarged in 1881.
In 1908 brown beer was also brewed
In the white brew house." but ince
1907 only brown beer has been brewed.
AS early as the 18th century the
brewers assumed an important position
among the t~radespeople OF the town.
In the e a 1900 there were already
10 beer breweries in Munich. In
1900 a consumption of $4,000 kilder-
kins was calculated for the summer
months alone. and for the year 15O, 1000
kilderkins, according to which 1t aver
aged three kilderkins a head. for the
population at that time of 4O.500. The
"Einbeck' beer, called later Book" and
brewed only by the Hof. was sold for
two months beginning on Ascension
day 300 years ago. The Hofbrauhaus.
as l said. is the most f%requented beer
house in Munich, and the beer is re-
garded as the best. But the old priml-
tive place has been enewed and looks
most respectable, the Hofbrauhaus re-
built n brought somewhat to date.
The rooms. however. are still furnished
In the style of the time of its Ounda
ton, and are decorated with paintings.
Deer's head adorn the -antechamber In
the first story. Passing through this
room WI come to the large hall with a
vaulted roof and Gothic windows, alle-
tween the windows, and at the ends
symbolical mural paintings. From the
roof are suspended chandeliers with
electric light. In the entresol there Is
a richly decorated "Trinkstube," and
everywhere one meets an air Of medic
val grace with modern comfort.
No Disorder.
The throngs tha gather here are q
sight to see. 1t is perpetually crowded.
The nObleman and the rkm touch
elbows. Women and children come and
go Of their sweet will. Disorder
of any sort is undreamed Of. The a
of beer served for "a pfennigs (six
cents) Is double the size OF the stein
known In America. When his can is
the cask and has 1t refilled. Cheese
and sausage are the food staples. This
has been going on day in and day out
for hundreds of years, and furnishes q
complete answer to the dogma of the
American prohibitionists that we can
no more conduct the liquor business
without producing drunkards h we
can run ra~ttlesnake ranches without
raising poison" One might as we'll say
that we cannot run banks without rails
ing embezzlers: or railways without
encountering accidents: or cucumbers
and cabbage without the risk of chol-
era morbus. the thief. the wreck. the
bellyache. like the drunkard, being the
exception. Shall we have no more fiscal
institutions, no more lines of transport
tation. no more truck gardens and 40
more cakes and ale? Perish the
thought. for what has been and is in
Bavaria can be in Kentucky OF any
where else where the rule of sanity and
moderation is observed.
We think we are q free people. We
agree that the world is too much gov
erned. Yet nowhere is individual lib
erty so assailed as In the United
States. The prohibition wave, now hap
PLY subsiding. was q to free
institutions. Thoughtful people are be-
ginning to see that there are worse
evils than the drink evil: evils more
subversive Of he character of a
ton. because more general n perva-
sive. less obvious and ~rcachable. The
| drunkard Is usually in evidence. He
may be dealt with. 1t is otherwise
| with the varying forms of personal and
! political corruption. Virtue is self
! resistance to vice. not enforced obedi-
| ence to drastic regulation. Morality Is
| relative. That may be moral in n
| country which is immoral in another
! country. Circumstances alter cases.
Time and place must be regarded. This
Is strictly exemplif1ed by the Hofhrau-
] haus OF Munich.
district the city is n~oticeably free from