CHAPTER XII
—Conclusion, 151
APPENDIX A—Total production and consumption of Beer in various countries and cities, 166
“ B—Analyses of Beers, 170
“ C—Illustrations and descriptions of Breweries, 177
“ D—List of Brewers, with product for the past two years, also product by states, 185
ILLUSTRATIONS.
1. JACOB VAN ARTEVELDE, “Brewer of Ghent,” Patrician, Orator and Ruler of the Province of Flanders. Killed July 17, 1345. Taken from the original oil painting in possession of Jan Van Artevelde, in Amsterdam.
2. MYNHER JACOBUS, Brewer and First Burgomaster of New Amsterdam [the present New York], 1644.
3. WILLIAM PENN, the Quaker Brewer, and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718.
4. ISRAEL PUTNAM, the great American General, Brewer and Tavern Keeper, at Brooklyn Conn., 1718-1790.
5. Sign of General Putnam’s Tavern in Brooklyn, Conn. (Original of which is now in the Rooms of the Historical Society, at Hartford, Conn.)
6. Portraits of the officers of the United States Brewers’ Association.
7. Portrait of Hon. Frederick Lauer of Reading, Pa.
8. Portrait of Hon. M. T. Bass, M. P., of Burton on Trent.
9. View of a Brewery of the old Egyptians, as described by Manathos (3d century B. C.), High Priest in Heliopolis. (Said Brewery must have stood at El Kahirch, the present Cairo.)
10. View of a Brewery connected with a convent in Bohemia, as described by Thaddeus Hagecius, ab Hayek, 1585, in his book written in Latin, under the title “De Cerevisia.”
11. William Penn’s House and Brewery in Pennsbury, Bucks County, Pa.
12. Brewery of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wis.
13. Brewery of the Hon. Frederick Lauer, Reading, Pa.
14. Brewery of the Hon. Gottfried Krueger, Newark, N. J.
PREFACE.
Our object in presenting the following pages to the public, is to call attention to the value of pure beer as a preventive of intemperance. Few persons are aware of the amount of patient investigation this question has received at the hands of eminent social economists and men of science, or of the mass of facts and testimony that has been collected, and lies ready at the hand of any one who is able and willing to work it over into a compact consecutive form, in which it shall be easy of access, and available for use in the further discussion of the subject. This we have attempted to do thoroughly and fairly. Great caution has been used in making statements and no inference has been drawn that could be considered in any way forced or doubtful.
There are doubtless many persons to whom some of the facts and conclusions here presented, may seem strange or even startling, and to such it must be said that the authorities quoted are generally men whose reputation for accuracy and sound judgment stands so high that they cannot afford to make a mistake or a loose assertion.
The work has involved much labor and historical research, and the author believes that the information contained in the following pages cannot fail to be of value to those who are interested in any phase of the beer question, whether as brewers, legislators or students of sociology. The end proposed to be served is that of temperance, and the method suggested is one that has been successfully tried in other countries. From the total abstinence party we ask the candid examination of our facts and arguments that is due to a fair statement from all who claim respect for their own opinions, and are honest friends of real temperance.
BEER,
ITS HISTORY AND ITS ECONOMIC VALUE
AS A
NATIONAL BEVERAGE.
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