Song and Verse from the Watering Hole – Drinking Songs of the Ale House – A Beer drinkers Book of Poetry

DURING the last ten or fifteen years considerable attention has been devoted by philanthropists and publicist. It to the subject of Malt Liquors. It grew into imposing prominence in our State during the liquor law excitement, from the leading position of New York, as one of the foremost hop growing States in the world. The question was argued from every stand • point. One writer was opposed to the law, as referring to malt beverages, on the ground of State policy, State health and State wealth. Another, taking a Biblical view of the subject, and instancing the recommendation of certain drinks to be found in
the Scripture- -in Genesis, Nehemiah, Ecclesiastes, Leviticus, Ephesians, Peter, &c., was of opinion that the "beverage so frequently referred to was no other than barley wine, or beer."