New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-25
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II there be any sincere friend Of Temperance
who stil doubts the expedeDcy Of sustaining Mo
raj Susson by Legal, we wish be could spend
few DAYS in Massachusetts with bis eyes open
The Bay State was the first. we believe to Al
tempt the repression Of the drunksrd manufacture
By law and, through evil and good fortune the at
tempt has been perssversd IN to this day her
Governor Lieut. Governor and most OF her law
makers are pledged champions OF Total Aost-
n.nce her laws condemn the Liquor trAnc
throughout her borders. And though at first re-
sisted and dehed as here. they are now very gen
orally enforced. There are probably few or no Ag'
rcultursl towns In which Intoxicating Liquors are
openly sold and there are townships Of Ten Thou
sand inhabitants or over, halt engaged in mtnufse-
lures wherein not drop Of Ardent Spirits can be
obtained at any price. Even in Worcester. the
largest inland town in New England, not drop Is
openly sold though perhaps it may be secretly OBJ
tanned al two or three places Even IN Boston We
did not see decantey Of strong drink in the course
Of extensive perambulstions. Of course, Liquor Is
sold there and circulates freely IN sly dens gam
bling houses, brothes etc. bat DO man can honest
Is plead temptation in excuse for drinking there
for Liquor openly solicits 10 man.
That this state Of things is exceedingly isvors-
bic 70 Temperance. no observing man, can doubt,
The contrast beyeesn the bloatsd and rsm burnt
faces exhibited b several in Congress and the at
ter absence Of such from the Massachusetts, House
must stnke the nnosteasual observer
1t has been urged here that Hotels Of the first
class cannot be sustained without the profits Of the
Liquor business. Rnt we doubt whether the Ho-
tells d any other American city, unless NevYork
be an exception, surpsss those of Boston. where
comparatively little liquor is sold even b. those
which DO not utterly and stubbornly eschew the
traffic. The United States Hotel, by Holman &
Clark, near the Worcester Depot. is, we think the
largest Of them, and as full Of bosrders it
fortsbly can be and does Dot profess 10 be TEN
perance House having list Of wines at the bottom
OF its bill Of fare yet among two hundred gentle
men who set down 10 its dinner-tsbe last week
we are confident that not half a dozen took wine
or any kind OF spirits and no signs OF q bar were
visible. We saw and heard nothing there which
intmates that the keepers found any difficulty in
sustaining good house at reasonable rates without
the profits Of the Liquor business
-New.England excels all the world beside In
the proportion Of her people who actually do same
thing for living, and falls proportionaly short in
the number Of loafers and drones. Men, women
and children are all at work-nearly ali producing
Or fabrcating very few helping others do nothing.
There land where else p you may see ths wives
Of Merchants, Lawyers, Clergymen, Bank Cash
srs, etc. doing all their own homework including
the care Of young children, and yet finding lime to
keep their mipds as well cultivated and their per
sons as comfy as while their health In the aver
,ge is better than that Of women Of their own class
,lsewhere. 1t will be difficult by any perversity
n caprice of policy to break down people at once
10 energetic and so temperate.
--Grsni.e and ice have been sneeringly declared
he chief staples of Massachusetts They are not
very promising at first sight and yet with Rail
Dads and good management they are not to be des-
pissed We understand that the Ice Export OF
Boston is steadily prosperous and that it is expand
ne at tha rate of some twenty FIVE per cent. per
.nnum. BY means Of improved processes and
RAILROADS. the ice Is cut, packed and shipped st
cry low rates In all probability the business is
"a in its infancy