are denounced as the call of the siren to eternal dam- nation from drunkenness. It is useful to point out to sented as the pitchfork with which the souls of his the organized temperance movement approaches, and to call to mind that it was not always thus, that the victims are thrust into the torments of everlasting fire, 154 sips in the saloon where saw-dust or white sand covers had well nigh been made abortive by the intemperate nation, when the refreshing drink which the poor man the floor is described as a veritable hell-broth to eat those with whom we talk, that all this beneficent work prince of darkness, when the mashing tool is repre- favor of beer and wine, that those who brought light it. beer to America were acclaimed as the saviors of the much headway for even so determined a foe to stop ample clothes the cloven hoof and long tail of the out his vitals and shut him out from everlasting life fathers of this country thought otherwise, that Jeffer- son held that no nation is drunken where wine is cheap, Brewers Agree with Statesmen. demands of the teetotalers and prohibitionists, were it in these days it is well to pause, as the centennial of that Hamilton desired to discriminate by taxation in when the joyful strains of the orchestra in our cafes not for the fact that the cause had already gained too