Year: 1874

that the theatres always give you farce
with the tragedy. So also, as we hao
| the tragedy of the women led off to jai
| by the Police Commissioners, we had the
| farce of Nast's cartoon, in which the SAID
Commissioners and friends assumed
their natural proportions. But Mast was
of course fanatic" 1t may be said OF
him, as johnson said of TIE Elector ot
Bavaria assuming to be Emperor in op
position to Maria Theresa


The bold Bavarian in a luckless hour,


assumed the pencil and was transformed
into a fanatic" But, thanks to the
Brewers Convention he is not alone
either in fun or fanaticism.


Now, for the convention It has
proved two things conclusively. First,
that said brewers are very much alarmed,
and have reason to be; and, secondly,
that temperance beer must get the aid of
temperance whisky, in order to stand.
They adopt the old maxim of the boozy
individual who hugged the post, united
we stand, divided we fall"


The brewers manifesto is decidedly a
funny document. Its strong point is, of
course, the revenue; but to show that
as important, it was necessary to show
that the beer revenue was necessary 1t
was for this reason that in the midst of
the document was a eulogy on that
brilliant gentleman Dawes, of the Ways
and Means. What it was for we could
not imagine, until recollecting that
Dawes had represented the revenue as
going out the little end of the horn, and
the nation about to be bankrupt This
was just about equal to Richardson when
he commenced paying the fractional
currency in silver at five per cent. pre-
MUM If Grant can conveniently ap-
point Dawes Envoy Extraordinary to the
Republic of Hayti, no doubt Congress
would feel greatly relieved. And if
Massachusetts, can conveniently forego
any more claims upon the Treasury De-
partment, the Nation will feel equally
relieved The truth is, Massachusetts,
great men have gonesto seed. But, to
the point. Dawes represented the Nation
as poverty-stricken; and the Brewers
Convention seize upon it to show the
vast necessity of the brewers revenue
Well, we propose to put Mr.. Dawes, and
the Brewers Convention, and the brew
ers' revenue on their true footings, and
show exactly where they are.


In the first place. beer does not pay
one-fourth the revenue it ought to do,
and, therefore, cannot do a fourth part
of good (by the brewers standard) it
ought to do. A barrel of whisky pays
about 30revenue, and barrel of beer
(probably about half only 81. Why
should there be such an enormous differ
ence? Suppose it was regulated by the
amount of alcohol. Even then barrel
should pay at least So revenue instead of
ST.. Why notP We suspect that when
Congress put the tax on, the members
had the German vote upon the brain,
for upon no other principle can it be ex-
~ That 1ioaoga Sc oh
at an end. That German vote, which
we got by the strong aid of the VoLks-
freuad and such Republican papers, we
think we can afford to lose; and such
boasting as Carl Schurz gives, we think
we are better without.


But this by the way. Let us now take
the figure. Mr.. Dawes says we are going
into bankruptcy, and the brewers say
they pay the revenue. Let US see. By
the 1st of February the revenue began
to exceed the expenses, and in the spring
months we began to pay off the PUBLIC
debt. The month of April is the last
one we have and the result was:


Decrease of the public 965, ,45I As
Average monthly revenue from malt


liquor 765,5OO Ot
Public debt paid beyond the whole


beer revenue.-............ l99,95l 4e


That is pretty good months work for
bankrupt country. And two millions
of public debt paid in one month without
any aid from beer is queer evidence that
beer furnishes the national revenue.
Verify, the Brewers Convention is a
| funny body. But we have not done with
their revenue ideas. We have given
their side of the revenue, which shows
that their part in it was of no more use
than the fifth wheel of coach. But
there is another side of the brewers
revenue business, and propose to look
at that What did the brewers and their
beer cost the country in taxation Some
| body, according to their statistics, has
drank near 20O,000,000 gallons of beer
That is FIVE gallons of beer to every
| man, woman and child in the United
States. How much pauperism, insanity
and crime has that made2 Can you be
gin to estimate it? Beer drank to ex
cess, as it is by thousands, intoxicates
stupefies, and brutalizes. The brewers
! have voluntarily united themselves with
| the distillers, and must share with them
| the taxation they have brought upon the
country. We shall take some samples Of


pauperism:


| In New York, receiving public


| aid. at some time in the


| In MASSACHUSETTS,, receiving
| public aid at some time in


These bes SeHH two states contain oi'0OO- oOO'OO


seventh part of the popula-


ton, which gives for all......... Sl7,240,o ,oO


But this amount, great as it is, is moi
half. When We have got the cost o