Show BEER IS NOT CONDEMNED and Brewers give opinion special dispatch to the standard washington if C eded 11 officials hero 0 the great temperance or j of the country including the W C T U are taking deep interest in the fostered fos by tho brewers and sustained by facts and opinions ot eminent physicians that j beer Is really a temperance beverage a well as an of food desera 1 ing the good will oc the temperance people ot the united states figures recently presented liy the large brewers of the country to the president lofting that beer contains only about 3 12 1 2 per cent of alcohol far less than plain cider and that it alcoholic contents are so small as to behy prevent it being ranked in that class of drinks have gone far toward removing pie and eroneous enone ous impressions in the minds of leading temperance advocates members of congress now express the opinion that there will be less severe opposition on tha part of the W C T IT to replacing beer in the army canteen than heretofore due to the of misconceptions that have long existed conspicuous army officers including general chaffee and general fred D grant hac all urged that beer again take a place in the canteen as a promoter of temperance ana morality in the army following these things come resola irions just adopted by the stats brewing of new york and ia annual convention asserting hat alcoholism is almost ain known in european Eui coun tiles where i malt are largely consumed hat switzerland and other european governments discriminate between malt dahnk and ardent spirits by heavily taxing the former iud exempting beer altogether that such should be ll 11 e policy of the government of the united siak s and the temperance people that aper is a diet of the working people and other classes recognized by physicians of worldwide world wide reputation as possessing more building properties than any similar drin lt appealing TO the lawmakers of the country 0 o make ilna lion in our own laws urging temperance inclined to calmest 1 to study iwer demanding that beer ini stead of being classed as a liquor shall be regarded as a pure food and willi angly ashing congress to adopt such oppre food laws as will insure against any impurity hi any direction in the pio duci such iw attitude on th art of the industry Is naturally attract ang widespread attention in ami out of the temperance world |