Will Beer Intoxicate?

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

Will Beer Intoxicate?

THEY say that beer does not intoxicate; that it promotes health and happiness, and if its use should become general, would redeem society from much of the evil effects of liquor drinking. Along with such assertions put testimony like the following confession of a hard working man arrested recently for homicide: “I am forty-three years old, have been sixteen years in this country, and have worked at Tiemann’s paint factory fifteen years. I have a wife and three children. I live on the top floor, and Lippold on the second floor in the same house. We had some angry talk four weeks ago, since which I have avoided him and kept up stairs after getting through my day’s work so as to keep out of trouble. On Sunday I went for a walk by the river, and when I came home went straight to my room. Afterward I came down in my stockings. As I came out on the stoop he hit me, and I got mad and stabbed him with my knife. I did not mean to kill him. I did not say anything to provoke him before he hit me. I was not much drunk, I think, having drank only four or five glasses of beer. I never had any similar trouble before.”—The Signal.