This pic is from William Hogarth, you can click on the pic to enlarge it. It’s an engraving of an imaginary neighborhood called beer street where everyone is happy and jolly eating ham and drinking beer.

The point of this and Friday’s post was to encourage the banning of gin, which was a new invention and was to London at the time what crack was to Baltimore in the 80s.

Even all these years later, they still do their job cause I feel like gin is vile and causes misery, while beer makes everyone happy.

The poem at the bottom reads:
“Beer, happy Produce of our Isle
Can sinewy Strength impart,
And wearied with Fatigue and Toil
Can cheer each manly Heart.
Labour and Art upheld by Thee
Successfully advance,
We quaff Thy balmy Juice with Glee
And Water leave to France.
Genius of Health, thy grateful Taste
Rivals the Cup of Jove,
And warms each English generous Breast
With Liberty and Love!”