The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-06-05
EVILS OF TEMPERANCE.

We have heard a great deal said about
the evil effects Of a prohibitory liquor law,
and the friends OF temperance will be
amused to read the dolorous strains Of the
New York Herald upon the subject. 1t
says:
"Thc Liquor Law has been now car
red in three States Of New England
Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The result will be 10 keep travellers and
visitors away from tie principal cities OF
these states, and send them in another d.
rection. Boston, for instance, will be
Stunned by the sojourrcr and the man OF
leisure, who in future will turn TO the
city of New York, where fanaticism fail
cd to pass this blue-law, and were men
can obtain those beverages for dinner, or
at other times, TO which use has so ac-
customcl them that to drink them moj!,r-
ately has become 4 sort of ''scccnd ma
turc"-to many, perhaps, necessary 10
health, but at all events necessary to en-
joyment. The chief city of Rhode Island,
Newport, hitherto famous as watering
place, will be ruined by this law, and the
hotels and storckcepers of the watering
places oithc States Of New York and New
Jersey will be benefited in propor,ion-
Saratoga will flourish, and the gay, the
fashionable, and the invalid will lhrong
to its springs, while the grass will grow
upon the streets of Newport, and it will
soon present disappearance of & desert
ed village. Nor wi!lihis law be without
its effects in the rural districts. The
farmers, hitherto, were in the habit Of
giving men employment in havmaking and
other agricultural work, certain allow
ance OF New England rum, which did
not cost for each man more than two or
three cents, but which had the effect of
procuring great amount of additional
work, especially in wet meadows. Now
the men will be dissatisfied, and will not
work so hard, and the farmers will have
TO put on more hands; and their farming
operations will cost them more. while
their remuneration will be less, the mar
ket Tor the produce being rendered worse
In consequence Of the prohibition to use
1t In the manufacture of distilled or fer
mented beverages to be used temporarily.
Thus the law will work in those States,
TIL 1t works its own repeal at last"
Col. Wallace, of the Philadcl pl;a Sun,
thus hits off some of the Hcralds argu-
ments, (if arguments they might be
callcd,) which throws Bennett entirely
IN the shade. Hear him:
The idea that men will shun Boston
and Newport because they cannot get
liquor there, and visit New York and
Saratoga, where they can get drink in
'.second nature, ;" is Supremacy ridiculous
And what a doleful tale is told Of hayma-
king, just as if the hardy son of toll cam
not manage his scythc as well without rum
as with it! All experience has shown
that more hard work can be done on tenn
perate principles, with good Yankee
switched, than any other way. Liquor
may stimulate for time, but it eventual
~ enervates. Nor do we fear that farm
ers will fail to find other places to dis
pose of their produce than the distllerics.
Better far that Newport should be de
serted village" than a city of drunkards.
Temperance will do it no harm. The
surf will be as bracing, and the sea air as
pure without the use of alcoholic bevera-
ges."