Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-08-22
Population in 1882. $4,000
Members of Temperance Societies, 5000


| was acquainted with two of the persons who
died, and who We're recorded ''Stricly temperate.
One of them had recovered from slight attack
of the disease, but afterwards ate immoderately
of cucumbers, was again attacked, and died in a
few hours. The other had been similarly attack
ed, recovered, Che clerk i'll the old Delavan
lIouSe,) ate from basket of pine apples, left
there BY traveller, and died soon after. The
case of one other OF the five was singular. The
report was bitterly assaulted in the Evening Jour-
nal, by the individual who had lost his wife by
the malady. lie concluded she was classei with
the Incorporate while the fact was otherwise
Dr. Stats, the attending physician, answered the
attack by stating that this poor woman probably
lost her life by the unfeeling neglect of her in
temperate husband; who, although warned by his
wife in the morning. that she required medical
aid, entirely neglected her during the whole day,
and whcn returning home at night from the grog
shop, he found it was too late.
| have no doubt of the safety of an entire and
immediate change from the moderate use of in
toXicating drink, ''pure'' Or impure" | be-
lievc at this time, when the atmosphere appears
charged with the Cholera, such a change is of
vast Importance. 1t is of my belief that with
total abstinence from the use Of intoxicating poi
sons as beverage, and with proper attention to
cleanliness and food, the disease would soon die
out, and | found my belief on facts. In 1852,
when the Cholera broke out in Albany, was en-
l.
erecting that large block of buildings on Green,
Beaver and Norton-sts. About one hundred men
were employed; they were all about abandoning
their labor, when they were persuaded to resume.
They all agreed to keep at their work and abstain
from strong drink. A beverage Of water m0las-
ses, vinegar and ginger was furnished them free,
and Of all those 100 men engaged in the work, not
one died, nor was thc work intermitted day.
One man not under the control of the builders,
Chose excellent mechanics Fish and HaWley) but
employed by the man who furnished the brick,
would not adopt the simple beverage offered him,
bat resorted to the grog shops. He fell victim.
AT the same time these buildings were erected,
had about fifty men employed in excavating clay
In the South part of the city. They were called
together and addressed on the same subject, the
same offer of the simple beverage above alluded
to,was made to them, they complied with it not
a laborcr IN my employ, in that clay bank, died.
same clay bank were other laborers, thirty of
them. To keep off the Cholera and stimulate
them to greater exertion the contractor furnished
them, at regular ntcr~olo, o.>s d~;-t-intovi-
eating poisons. Ten Of the thirty of these poor
Irishmen fell victims, not to the Cholera, but to
the whisky jug.
hope that they may operate as warning. Let
the laboring man, especially, avoid the grog shop;
for he may rely upon it, that the pestlence turks
there, watching to catch him. Let no one be be-
guiled for moment by the idea that he is safe,
because he thinks he gets pure liquor. He can
have no certainty of getting it, while he may be
sure in ninety-n cases in the hundred, that he
does not get it and if he does get it pure, he
may be sure that he gets intoxicating poison, new
er useful, ALWAYS injurious as q beverage in
health. Yours, very truly,
f. c. DELAvAN.
Ballston Centre July 18th. 1851.