The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-28 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH CORREBPONOENOE.

THE CRITICS ON THE TEMPERANCE
MISSION.
To Mc Ectilor.

Sin—Timid and slow.thinking folks are always ready to
criticise a tautens enthusiasm, sad, as one who was long
dray/slip' through the prejudices ot non-teetotalers, I can
understand Dr. Lash and "A. 0. who,in a contemporary,
appear to nibble at the great work. Teetotal.,, who have
sulotiiuted the true stimulant of hatred for the wrong
thing instead of the mere animal stimulant or strong
drink, must not forget that e :en hatred of wrong is a lower
motive than love for the rev,. and Casson Wilberforce
may be atimulat xi by Dr. la eh to the greater use of the
higher excitement, oh even " the dark aide of the brew.
ing trade," admitted by Dr. Lusk, may be lost sight of In
an earnest &mire to win instead of to crush. But when
Dr. Lush fells so heavily on the C .non, he surely forget"
that Canon Wilberforce bas probably seen deeper into As
evil than the doctor, and so rises iron the contemplation
inspired with • noble rage. One woild like to hear the
worthy doctor speak out about the dark side which be
"knows too well, according to his own word., and that
would be more serviceable teen his protest. As to the
Buxton, who worked so beauty for the destruction of
slavery, he struck at an evil defended by am strong vested
interests. and championed by es many clergymen, as mock I
perverted Soripture, as the customs of strong drink. That
iniquity we. then ripe for destruction, and I mu glad to I
tlnd now that even • Buxton and • brewer declares that
oh. battle against the pubs and the giu shops is part of 1
the battle between heaven and hell. The noble rage is I
not yet died out of the Wilberforce' and the Sextons, even
though the tatter be brewers. Ii the C. E.T.S. is the fruit
of a senses silicas effort to melt down the evil, it most
be warm on the question; built it be. sham and • trick
to divert the people-born ere of teat asthma into the
strengthening of the State Church, it may chill the
enthnsinalm, it may draw the worker. off the labour at a
work of dupacity, and settle dotes flat and dull, se soon
ea it likes. Already there are signs of blindness to the
fact that at ponover time the Jews were com-
mand= to purge out every bit of leaven and every.
i =Lig that was leavened, and therefore that the wine of
I the Lord's Supper coold not have been fermented, jilts
• theoed with the spirit of that commetud. Now, in the
I Cat T.& there are coatiee that the old drunkard's cry•
ine may return at the incest solemn time. Ingeniously
• perverse were the Turks, who, ordered by the Prophet not
to drink wine, took t 'wrack; but, remembering Wahronet's
intention, I venture to apply sane lines written to urge
the abolitioa of slavery :
Oh, shame I the Moslem thrall
That with his master to the Prophet kneels,
While turning to the ism= KAM feels
• Ris fetters break and fall
But our poor wretch in vain
Turns to the Christian shrine hie aching eyes;
Its rites will only rouse hie peanon's cries,
And rivet oa his chain."
If Dr. Lush will use his lama= with the brewers to
divert their enormous c giant 'mkt" setikkab.
merits, undoubted intelligence, and 000mdonal great
philanthropy, into the making of drinks that are not
intoxicating, he will do the beet to avert from them such
awful charges as those of Canon Wilberforce. C flee
taverns and tea-drinking are not enough ; the brewers'
power must be brought into the reform. Let it not to
forgotten that the evil is not in the hops, which contain
ifauto;:xl end
take arayoletemennativtir amt. alow.
t‘rnbgichtomvc, ...-
coffee, or quinine; the evil is not in the malt, the sugar
of which is good, mil may be pleasant rook; the evil is
not in the water, which was so providently brought into
Weymouth by the late Kr. J. A. Doyen= and others—
• great gift for which we have heartily to thank a brewer.
Whence then the evil It Primo at the very point when
by Um action of fermant—(yeest, wee.,or d.mying
matted—the sugar of the milker grapwialee, cane-juice,
apple-Woe dm, becomes divided into two poisons—
garbage acid sad alcohol. Let tb• brewers make US
drinks where we get the good hop, the good malt, yelling
their euthoete to pure water. without the intervention of
ferment, and the brewers will make up kw
thou good deeds. But while they divide the sugar into
two =none, one so fatally damaging to twain and body,
and so seductive, es alcohol, then such men = Cates
Wilberforce and Kr. Omen will, I few, continue to be
transported with. noble ragie.
.
The next critic is " and I desire to deal goal,
with him as I ought, twain, been„possessed with the same
prejudices for yea= Yet A O. is unfair when he Ws
the cases are always eought out, and when particularly
painful elaborately served up. It is really necessary to
suppress the very cuss that come wider our knowledge in
our own towns, so acute would be the pan given by their
recital. What mounds w mild be re-opined were we to tell
In Weymouth and Dorchester Only. 01 husbands who have
seemed to take them woo" drink without hurt, yet whose
wives have fallen into wretcoednese I Qf fathers who
mimed to escape for years, but mold not bear the mention
or thus l Of brothers who hare gone on, dreaming of no
danger, till their beothere dropped Leto the gap I Wives
who me their huthatele glide agirsi are Nag too montnon,
and their misery too intense Who out gay that, though
he bee boob drinking strong ddilk Well for room ill his

family have been kept from berm? Who one sel` IS haw
never taken pot In the ruin of some weaker one Muer
f..:on. dinner,
uk_stog Irons
ne
I. it • grand dinner that is got up by an hoepitable meat
P••••P• some Poor serving woman, who has @inutile&
against the trmptation year., smelts the wipes prepared
or he
and dies in delirium
tremens -• human flicrillOn to the gentleman s fserk
Were Winne .oth sae. only to be told aloud. Weymouth
wool I be quivering with horror, but the pain In the
living forbid.; I will write only of such as are distant
enough in place and , Imo not to hurt personale' Mom wthr
may re id this, yet they happened in ml tinlfferitmon. In
the same town at I lived a tradthoenn went From
ordinary drinking of strops liquor to ere much that his
customer' began to go, and trade fell off; eves his wife
and children were eventually obliged to heath him let
.iomdri.nken agatireiN entirely IreP"ms"d 1". .
NMI-protection's sake. The man "went through" sty-
thing, and beelines a boaselme wanderer in his own
town, getting warmth at the linerrkilna. Ose night,
drunk with stuff given him, he My on • limekiln
which we. just lighted, and by next morning one-
third of his body was burnt to rhea. Tee jury
found • verdict of "Death from lying on a borniag
lint thiln, he being intoxicated at the time." I was at thak
inquest, and I was naked "Oh. don't say *mythic, .thout
the lmt pert of the verdict !" '' Why r asked. "Oh
because %would tie sgsiothe the trade." aalf-arrekened In
the toyetery of the litruht think traffic, and refusing to
suppress any pa: t of uth verdict, the writer wag yet ligin
made a teetrotthr, nor even though I have witnessed
horrors, the welch to tell of without name' would mess
them to he remignised in Weymouth perhaps by living
reletiver. Sir, of violent deaths from intoxicants to spy
experience, I have attended one inquest Cu death from
opium taking, three from Oshawa use of chloral, and of
tome one or two were to relieve from drunkenness, while
shoes from ordinary alcoholic drinks have been browses
30 and 501 0.04 I have known where the fact ef
drunkenness hes been concealed at the inquest, thrush
openly known to the witnesees rrth say—" Them
are instauces if the abuse." Si said 1, till a sad Man came
oftbe very smell amount which may bring • man in hie
death. A carter at Pre.ton was mot to Weymouth with
a lost, and to return. Ilis with, with perhaps . awl per-
Metiment, impressed on hi in—"Ohl renseruier, you have •
team of young nor boom you. an I n• tois
She was so earnest that be drove into w•yrnouth,
charged his load sod got his return freight without any
drink or accident. When not far from home he met foes
companions, and wit. them he went into • publichouth,
onl they bad four pint, of fourthony ale. That min
curie out cheer( al and Fur • moment locautleue, be creaked
hts whip as be ought nit to have done to the young teem
toey start d, he run to the lender's War, but ware born*
town ant ktilod by rho wheels Stye • teem Ihed Man.
" iii. 1.0 Ilf.rs min eht hare eici,ed him." Er-n tam,.
et Isolated oy the itt, draw of entail stuff, 't••• weigh
to make his wife • widow and toile children
fatherless, and if a men can hers, to die for
a pint " rourpeony,- I eak--" Wcere the. he
line? That'. sign ebouga 1. r me, and toetotelies
alone is so." "A o.'' take of the Russian peewit
being fond of eolith, as if tom were an excuse for thil
rather should the Woeful outrasos orrothrstret in Mamie
make us ashamed of beiog at all Ilk, such a drlale
utreddszoed rec.. As to the loth Li the revenue. the cost of
threedourthe of the pulp:dem end crime, and the greater
Dart of the luithiry. must indeed he little if it d see
eutirely where tim lose to the rev•nua, to say nutting of
the cost of the strong drink itself. "A. 0. is wrong when he
writes of the tax falling .m the wife's articles if strong
drink were given up. Of the cases, ad produced by
drink, eh ch engaged ou' magistrates lest Monday, the
inajority of suff were the women. It has on.. Is
thie nos that wherries the drunkard used to be the man
wit. beet bis wife, the women are turning round, sad,
inspirer' by drink,
" inetthem of strawberry gormandising falls
Hof the children he mentioned been rating partly
rotten strawberries, the tsadber would be very willing is
set an exempt+ of total abetioence It is not the straws
berry, the apple, the grape, or evert the melt, to which
tletouilers object; it le the terms, ation, or o nomenos
meat of dedompoliti di, Viet introduom the new subethem
edutvol—if pure or newly si, a dewily poison, and when
diluted a torrible enemy to the brain. To say that the
wins made by the Lord Jthue bad this Out ustiv• and
dangerous fathom:rho net up seems t • roe in. p•orrile and
ran tone • statement aa to eager t that the wine drunk at tba
I...ritie Sapper was intoxic.tiort. root Sc.iliture
wins wa ferment. I is • iruism, a. tth' of in,
welch
uoCui .001 or Agee no snow ii. • puntahmeet; but the
distinction it Meetly rival in Pr ,eerb• soda- 31. "Lock
not thou upon the wine when it is red. when 't ffimith
at. colour in the cup, when it moveth itself
aright" Grape juice, in general, I. not red ; but
when fermthred rib. ref colour of the skin, is
dimolved by the nascent alcohol, and it " (ivet\
Ms colour in the cup." The juice of white grapes
as well ae chat of red, when lerulen:ing " womb itself
aright," from the bunbling of carbonic acid gas at he
dia.olution of the moth. " A. 0." has gone lOW Greek; but
even test haa told a. notninu t i chew ti e Lord's wise had
begun to ferment, the Mi. r neither smelt n r• saw (that
we ere told of) that it was tunnel at MI, only when he
tthted. It we deal with the Original Tongue. of the Bible,
I believe they woad shoe that fermented w,ne is
depre &trod or forbidden and the most terrihle warnings are
thundered moot it .r ii.. users, wade wise thet has sot
begun to rot "chthreth the heart." It is true that when
the ferinentafion has emoted over to th, ecotous, and
produced vinegar instead of a'cohol, the intro again
become. site. " A.t)." having introdufeed Our Lord, I
beg to 'satin,' him that on the only occasion when the
use of intoxicants is enigma'y allowed in onfietalree•
"Give strong drink t oim that is ready to pariah," the Lead
set the
to drink ethougu ffl wise
m.m.inttriekloiwthiLtbit:m:y.nrger.rh..a:°bruip"t"l!„..yreogiiviledHsir.;
up I
Wroth teetoteiere wish to tomb by epees/the, •r tine, sad
ex oople re that at the point where a, ohol Is developed,
drink is hurtful and dthgerous ; they their* to ovens*
the customs of tusking and drinking it at that stags, and
even though drinker, nt.y dthlthe • nee pleasure is pee.
ducal, they are Wadded with toe juice as it coulee hem
the nand or God, ant serkiog no other delisht thee fie
has put there, web to let 11.1ir "moderation be known
onto all men; —Yours truly,
Weymouth, February BSI

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