New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-20
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
To the Temperance Men Of the State OF New.
York.


The near approach of the period when
the Electors of our State accustomed to Sc
ect the candidates for their sufrages at the an
nual election, and the vast interests which are de-
pendent on this choice, conjoin to admOnish US rs
well of our reciprocal and personal duties, as of
our rights as members of the body polite. As
these duties are discharged so are our rights main-
tanned or impaired Rights and duties under
Representative form of Government, are consla-
tive terms. There is in them natural sequence,
which cannot be severed, but as the cost OF their
vitality.
The urgent question of the day with US is, what
are now our duties as Electors, to ourselves, our
families, TO each other and to the great commu-
nifty Of which we form an integral part, in refer
ence to the widely spread evils of lntemperance
We profess to believe that no people of the old
world or the new, have ever been blessed with
system Of government go admirably calculated to
secure personal rights and happiness, social peace
and prosperity, individual and national wealth, an
enlarged intellectual and moral development, and
high relative position and influence in the great
family of nations as that devised and transmitted
to US by the great minds and the brave hearts of
the last century.
And vet we find that all is a necessary APP
pendsge to every county, and poor-house to al
most every town, while prisons seem essential to
complete the roll of our State institutions. Why
is this
In the Investigations which the obseVant and
humane have carefully made, conoborated by Of
fetal returns the great MACS Of pauperism, vice
and crime is most distinctly traceable to the free
and unrestricted use Of intoxicating liquors Of
peculiarly pemicious character, by very large
part of our population.
To counterfeit this growing and deplorable con
ditien of things, associations OF various names
and forms have for many years, and By iDnumera-
Die and almost endlessy varied appeals to the
moral sense endeayore1 to stay the desOlating
scourge, and reclaim the victims of depraved ap-
petite 10 sobriety and virtue. But earnest and
peT.eye,ine a. have been these endeayOrs, the evil
has gathered strength from year to year, until
from an importation of 8 i2S S43 gallons in 1914,
when our total population according to the |. ,.
Treasury Italics was 1924 61O we have risen IN
1850 to an import Of ii 1876 10 gallons, with
POPULATION of g 1860 Or, while the pOpua
lion increased but % per cent, the import Of IN
tOxicatiDg liquors OF all kinds rose 20 per cent
AND the domestic production, meanwhile, mas Kept
pace i the re gn trade, no less than S},'92 bo
gallons lnat liquors being estimated at So gallons
per DBL according to the late census, having been
manufactured in the United States IN 1880, and
this too without including the products OF six
States and two Territories, from which no returns
were received. Thus showing the manufacture
and import in 1870, to have been together equal
being 9j l2s 29i gallons 10 over FOUR gallons Tor
eyery man, woman, and child, white, black, and
Indian. within our borders. And of this appalling
amount, only 707 ,j46 gallons of foreign, and
lO33 $40 gallons Of domestic liquors. n both cases
estimating wines and ales in bottles az q gallons
to the dozsn,J were exported, to do their work Of
death in other lands.
But, while blushiDg for our common country, let
US in faithfulLess see how much Of the shame we
are TO take to ourselves. la the year 1850, there
were manufactured within our own State 81 06l 500
gallons of malt liquors and spirits Of all kinds, be.
ing about three. eigtths Of the whole product OF
the American still. Lest this should discourage
the f. int hearted, it may be observed that the
comparatively paltry sum OF s2.5S1,9OO capital
oply were emplo, ed in the manufacture. while
but $50 HANDS were sufficient to keep open the
sluic.s whence poured the fiery stream.
To show the precise quantity OF m o1cat1ng
lquors which is used IN the United States "as q