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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

Irony.

By Editor

If the following resolution had emanated from any other source than a brewers' convention, it would pass for the keenest irony; and even with the knowledge of its origin before us, it is hard to believe that intelligent men could use such terms in such a connection and be in earnest. But it is actually put forth by the Detroit assemblage "in the interest of temperance and good order":—

"Resolved, That the propriety of the manufacturing of malt liquors—a drink food recognized as healthful and needful by the instincts of the human race and habits of temperate men; and whose consumption for centuries has been continuous and contemporary with the growth, prosperity, and progress of the most civilized and enlightened people—has passed beyond honest, intelligent controversy, and is only denied by idiots and fanatics; that we, as brewers, have some rights—neither more nor less than any body of men engaged in necessary, beneficial industry."