Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-06-01
TEMPERANCE LECTURE

drinking no more than he wishes.
Sometimes the general thirst on q
warm summer days is titanic in its ca
| pacity for consumption. But, notwith-
| standing the vast quantities consumed,
beer does not seem to engender the
combattve element aroused by alcoholic
drink; 1t has rather the reverse eff
feet. for 1t not only satisfies the thirst,
I but contains a food quality, which re-
sists the small percentage Of alcohol,
| rendering the recipient contented with
himself and his surroundings; a kindly
beverage. invented, one might fancy,
| to smooth away the cares OF life and
| the workaday world, satisfying at once
the spirit and the man.
| The Hofbrauhaus.
or course there are other breweries
besides the Hofbrau in Munich. The
| liofbrau is merely q 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
| beer is the national beverage, the gov
eminent claims and has no monopoly.
4 Nevertheless, the Hofbrauhaus is still
by odds the most popular resort of the
city.
| This Hofbrauhaus was built in 1644.
Ludwig the Severe G255 to 1294), we
are told, already possessed a brewery
l III Iuulilcu anu UnueT ulI1 res uldIloIlS
| for the brewers We're first drawn up.
In the 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.
however, stopped by the police au-
| authorities because it was held to be
| Injurious to health. Whereupon the
duke monopolized the right of brewing,
ana so originated the ducal white brew
house. when. in 1889, '.in the interest of
! the royal purse brown or "Hof-
| bTauhaus' beer was again brewed in
the Hof, which was enlarged in 1851.
III 1908 brown beer was also brewed
/, in the white brew house." but since
| 1907 only brown beer has been brewed
! AS early as the 18th century the
brewers assumed an important position
among the tradespeople of the town.
I! In the year 1900 there We're already
| 10 beer breweries in Munich. In
1900 a consumption of $4,000 kjlder
lins was calculated for the summer
months alone, and for the year 100000
kiiderkins, according to which 1t aver
aged three kilderkins a head, for the
population at that time of 40,500. The
"Einbeck" beer, called later Book" and
brewed only by the Hof, was sold for
two months beginning on Ascension
! day 800 years ago. The Hofbrauhaus
AS said, is the most frequented beer
house in Munich, and the beer is re-
L
tive place has been renewed and looks
most respectable, the Hofbrauhaus re-
| built and brought somewhat to date.
| The rooms, however, are still furnished
!, in the style of the time of it's founda-
ton. and are decorated with paintings.
Deer's head adorn the antechalnber in
the first story. Passing through this
room we come to the large hall with a
| vaulted roof and Gothic windows, allie
gories and notices on the walls be-
| tween the windows, and at the ends
symbolical mural paintings. From the
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 that gather here are q
| sight to see. 1t is perpetually crowded.
! The nololelnan and the workman touch
| elbows Women and children come and
| go of their own sweet will. Disorder
| of any sort is undreamed of. The can
1 of beer served for "a pfennigs (siX
centsD is double the size of the stein
\ known in America. When his can Is
| empty the habitue takes it himself to
| tho cask and has it refilled. Cheese
| and sausage are the food staples. This
4 mas been going on day in and day out
| for hundreds of years, and furnishes
| complete answer to the dogma OF the
l American prohibitionists that we can
I no more conduct the liquor business
without producing drunkards than we
| can run rattlesnalSe ranches without
| raising poison" One might as Wen say
| that we cannot run banks without rails
ing enbezzlers; or railways without
| cncountering accidents; or cucumbefs
\ and cabbage without the risk OF chol-
era uorbus the thief. the wreck, the
,,ellyache. like the drunkard, being tine
| ayccntion Shall we have no more fiscal