New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-05-31

are crowded during pleasant weathe
with the most respectable classes
, society, ranging from the highest |
rank 10 the peasantry, all joining tc
gether in q republic of pleasure
drinking in moderation while enjoy
ing the best of music. This is ful
nished as q rule by some one Of tn
numerous military bands. It is tn
same during the winter months witt
the indoor places.
Upon many journeys through Ger
many I have never seen one singl
case OF drunkenness in any of thes
halls or gardens. Treating, with it
concomitant evils, is practically un
known. Each man pays for what h
requires, drinking no moro than h
wishes. Sometimes the general thirs
on q warm summer day 10 gitanic IL
its capacity for consumption. But
Notwithstanding the vast quantitiet
consumed, beer does not seem tc
engender the combative element
| aroused by alcoholic drink; it has
rather the reverse effect, for it moi
only satisfies the thirst, but contains
a food quality, which resists the small
percentage of alcohol, rendering the
recipient contented with himself and
his surrounding; a kindly beverage,
invented, one might fancy, to smooth
away the cares of life and the work
aday world, satisfying at once the
spirit and the man.
The Criminal Record.
I have never doubted that the rela.
ton of strong drink to crime and Of
the lighter wines and beer to crime
would, as indicated by the police sta
tistics in every land, show much to
the advantage of the latter as against
the former. That the brewers of our
country have to answer for an over
plus of low divers set up by them
where liquors as we'll as beer are sold,
is true enough. On this point Adolp-
hus Busch himself spoke in no uncer-
tain terms less than year ago. But
this is an incident which does not
affect the argument in favor of the
vinous and malt fluids. Washington,
though himself distiler, was of this
opinion. Jefferson, who had seen
n ore of the world-assuredly more of
the European world - than Washing
ton, went the length of making a
strenuous effort to introduce wine and
beer to Virginia by offering bonus
20 the winners and brewers who
would come and try the experiment.
Not until the Germans arrived in
great numbers, however, did the beer
industry prosper.
Touching this relation OF drink to
rhine, as revealed by the police re-
lords, am permitted by Consul Gen.
raj Peters to make the following quo.
alton from the latest date compiled
y him.
The statistics of arrests for all eau
es will give some idea of the effect of
eer on crime although it does not
ecessarily follow that the crime was
irectly the result of beer. On the
ontrary the percentage of intoxica-
on which Influenced crime possibly
as very small indeed, the percentage ,
f arrests for all causes in COMPARE
On with the population was very small
nd decreasing in remarkable man
er from 1901 when there we're 9, 33 ar ,
ests with a population OF 1925 to
9O7 with a population of 538, 1888 and
nly 1888 arrests for all causes.
Inebriety is not crime in Munich ,
or will one be arrested for it unless
onnected with some other cause which ,
ay have been the result of inc briefly. .
There are times, the present is one ;
T them, when a beer called "Salva- ]
or" is brewed; this beer is double i
le strength of ordinary beer and t
UGH desired by the people. Only.a
,rtain amount of this is brewed and {
consumed in two or three '
eeks. During this time there is q G
,rtain amount of intoxication among ]
e people, not violet character as
at produced by alcoholic drink. s
The following table of arrests will
low the decrease of crime since 1901: I
'Ol there we're. 1874 arrests {
|O2 there we're. ........ &, $50 arrests
|O3 there were. ,Ol5 arrests
'O4 there were.. ........S,8Ol arrests
there we're. ..6,9l7 arrests
|O6 there were. ,O12 arrests '
w there we're. SS3 arrests C
In 1901 Munich had a population of 9
3, 255, in 1907 53S.6s3, while in 1910 u
y. O53 The statistics of arrests for I