Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21
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vile, Kentueky-if the composing room abridges it to "Ky." will nassschree the staf of proof read CTS when get home.-is much like writing from Louisville, Kentucky, to Munich, Bavaria, because the es- sential difference between the two, like that between politics and par. ties in the United States, is of s fluid condition and kind; the idiosyn- erasy of Kentucky, whisky, Of Ba- Saria, beer.
 There are other simiisTities. Mu- mich is the most beautiful city in Germany. Louisville is the most beautiful city in America. Vienna gets it's pretty girls from Munich. Half the pretty girls on Broadway come from Kentucky. The Germans of Louisville are the best people in the world They seem part and par eel of the Germans of Munich.
 don't know much about whisky, have never drunk enough of it to learn-they tell me the Kentucky brands are the best ever and can well believe it, taking the Kentucky women and the Kentucky horses as the worlds standards of excellence but I am an expert on beer, and l do say-''without the peradventurc of n doubt, or fear of successful con tradietion that there is no brew on earth ~qual to the Bavarian Hof brau; howbeit, the especial brew which AdolphEs Busch makes for Tony Faust, comes near to if, whilst there is good beer to be had in Nil waukee, in Louisville and even in Cincinnati, bless her poor cid soull
 l hope shall not too greatly of fend the Kentucky distillers, when I declare that, if I had the power, I would translate every distiliery into a brewery. The cure for drunk enness, if there be any cure, is light wines and lager. The ease-hardened prohibitionist who eoRfesses himself unable to distinguish between glass of grog and a stein of bee.-nay, who still further discredits his jndg ment by admitting that ke is uR- able to realize the amazing con traries betwixt bottle Of whisky and a hole in the grounds as much opposed to the one as tc the otGer. He makes no discrimination. Al! drinks look alike to him, each hell bent and sot-breeding, the most in noeent tipple along with the strong est spirits. The experience of con tinental Europe is proof of my con tention. Here in Bavaria the oeer consumption is universal and cnor- nous, and there is no drunkenness of the sort so common with us. l am indebted to Consul General Thomas Willing Peters for valuable eolla- tion of facts bearing upon the drink question from this point of view.
 The laws governing the sale Of beer. wines and liquors in Munich are in the nature of the people and the ease extremely liberal. Accord ing to the census of 1905, there wero in Munich 53s.93s inhabitants, all, or at least Q very high percentage, requiring liquid nourishment, pTinei- pally in the form of beer To meet this need the authorities granted permission to ,4SO saloons, in which beer may be sold; l20 wine restau- rants, eighty-one cafes and eight tea houses, making an average of one establishment for the sale of such refreshments to about 319 persons, exclusive of the floating population Considering that beer is both food and drink and of universal cOnsump- ton, this is not Q high percentage.
 Any respectable person making ap- plieation to the proper authorities and securing permission can open hdi0OH AOf tue SdAc oA E11Af StN
 bar where other liquors as well as beer are sold is subject to the re-. striction that it must be 400 meters distant from any other bar of the same description, nor will permission be granted by the authorities unless they are satisfied that the public re- quire such additional saloons for its convenience. Besides the regaiar in come tax, a license fax has to be paid according to the rent which the saloon keeper has to pay The pro prietor must keep an accurate ae- count and return a certain percent age on the profits of his business The hours for opening the beer sa- looms and wine houses are ordinarily from a. m., closing at Il p. m, in cIuding Sundays and holidays, the tea rooms and coffee rooms closing at o'clock p. m-
 The question of prohibition is un- known. The moral zealot would be considered a crank Beer is not only drink, but food, for a large propoT- tioD of the population. The manu- faz4nre of boor io ,ndar fhe strict