The report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington as far back as the year 1866 speaks as follows: “The intemperate use of beer is like the intemperate use of anything detrimental to health, but a moderate use of pure beer will aid digestion, quicken the powers of life, and give elasticity to the body and mind and will not produce any of the terrible results named by fanatics and ignorant people. In certain forms of dyspepsia it is a valuable assistant to other remedies and in some cases of debility requiring a mild tonic and gentle stimulant beer has been found of the greatest benefit.” Touching the nutritious properties of beer as compared with the grain from which it is made Professor Mulder says: “The food value of beer as compared with grain is as one to fourteen, no account being made of the food value of the alcohol contained in beer. The albumen value of beer as compared with grain is as one to six, the fat as one to seventy and the chemical salts as one to twenty-five. On the whole, the latest and most trustworthy results of scientific investigation go to show that a well brewed beer, properly compounded with hops and well matured, is to be considered a beverage which has a most beneficial influence on the transmutation of substances in the human body; if moderately taken.” Sir Henry Labouchere, editor of “Truth” and formerly member of Parliament for Windsor and Middlesex, an accomplished linguist, and fitted both as an original thinker and by experience in the diplomatic _corps_ at most of the capitals of Europe, to form a just opinion, says that experience shows that beer is a most wholesome beverage, that when pure it is not intoxicating and can be drunk freely, that its use adds to the health and strength of man, that intoxication hardly exists where it is the national beverage and that its introduction in all parts of the world would be a blessing to mankind. Professors Ure and Huxley, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Abercrombie and Bayard Taylor, the celebrated traveler and recent ambassador at the court at Berlin, as also our great statesman and historian George Bancroft, all came, after careful study and personal observation, to the same conclusion, that beer is not only healthy, refreshing and enlivening as a beverage, but also an excellent means of rooting out the love of strong drink and securing genuine temperance.