Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-05-18

gallons, giving ten gallon, or sixty bottles, tc
every man, woman and child in the country,
while In drunken Scotland the average is only
eleven gallons, or sixty-six bottles, for the men
alone. DIR. Huss Of Stockholm, in a work re-
Gently published, states that it is a common
thing for a working man to consume from FIVE
to six glasses of brandy daily, that many habit
ual dram drinkers will consume from twelve to
fifteen, and that he has known some who drank
from sixteen to twenty glasses This unpar-
aleiled intemperance Of the lower classes of the
Swedish population has originated terrible dis
order, which he designates Alchohsmus Chroni-
Gus, and states that no fewer than 139 cases of
this disease were treated in one hospital in the
course of single year, All success we say to
the king and his subjects in their laudable en-
deayors to put an end to their national dis
grace.
We rejoice to hear the Times saying, in ref
erence' to the speech of this temperance King
"Itis a popularity of ofsp&t-drinking that the
money spent in it is, at the best, thrown away,
and in general far worse than thrown away. 1t
neither supplies the natural wants of man, nor
offers an adequate substitute for them Indeed,
it is far too favorable view of the subject to
treat the money spent on it as if it were cast
into the sea. Yet, even SO, there is some
thing exceedingly irritating in the reflection
that great part Of a harvest raised with infinite
care and pains on an ungrateful soil and in an
lnhospitablc climate, instead of adding to the
national wealth, or bringing the rich returns
that in this season of famine it could not fail to
command, is poured in the shape of liquid fire
down the throats of the nation that produc it,
and, instead of leaving them richer and happier,
tend to impoverish them by the waste of labor
and capital, and degrade them by vicious and
debilitating indulgence. A great portion of the
harvest of Sweden and of many other countries
is applied to purpose, compared with which
it would have been better that the corn had ney-
er grown, or that it had been mildewed in the
ear No way SO rapid to increase the wealth
of nations and the morality of society could be
devised as the utter annihilaton of the manu-
facture of ardent spirits, constituting as they
do an infinite waste, and an unmixed evil. To
this task the King of Sweden is about to ad-
dress himself, and we heartily wish his Majesty
success in the attempt.
{" The man who shall invent a really efficient
antidota to this system of voluntary and daily
poisoning will desire a high place among the
benefactors of his species. He will increase the
riches of nations and the morality ofindividuals
not with the demand of any extra labor, or the
sacrifice of any rational or healthful pleasure,
but merely by Il better distribution of those
funds which the industry of a people has crea-
ted but which their folly dissipates in the con-
sumption of these baneful compounds. Whether
| ne be the occupant of a throne or d cottage
the king the preacher, or the peasant-such a
man is the great want of the day and when he
appears, all right-minded persons must respect
him, whether he come in the shape ofa crowned
head or poor priest of the Roman Catholic
Church in Ireland"