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...pointing out that, under prohibition, Pennsylvania had last fall seen its first coal strike not marked by disorder. The Bishop, like all Dry witnesses, tended to show that the effects of prohibition upon the morals of the young were grossly exaggerated. And also the Bishop strongly insisted that beer, although slower to work, "produces greater stupefaction." He said he had known of 40,000 whisky drinkers who had reformed, but only 200 beer drinkers...
...again before the committee to amplify certain complicated figures which he had previously presented. All went well with him until Senator Reed, mighty Missourian, began to quiz him in tones now jocular, now earnest. The Senator tried to get him to admit that some of the "light wine and beer bills" would, if passed, solve the enforcement question. The General refused to make any such admission. Then the Senator got to putting hypothetical questions, hedged about with hypothetical qualifications. Finally the Senator produced this Homeric question...
...understand you, General, your opinion is this, that particularly in view of the bad quality of hard liquor that is now sold in this country, if beer, healthful beer, could be manufactured, a beer that is non-intoxicating in fact to the average person, and distributed by the Government under regulation, not allowed to be sold in saloons or public places, or drunk upon the premises, the people would take to the drinking of that sort of beverage instead of drinking the vile hard liquor that we now have, and that it would promote temperance and would...
...Prohibition does not exist in Canada, outside of some of its maritime provinces and Ontario, which, however, does not lack 4% beer. Yet, the economic welfare of Canada during the last five years, as evidenced in building and other material activities, is so amazing that at times the Canadian dollar has commanded a premium over our dollar...
...second point, on which all agreed, was that the laboring man wants his beer...