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