The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-01

Of the value Of the respective amounts Of these four
kinds Of grain produced and used in this State for this
bushel In the New York price current have for the
Barley 2Os2 $50 bushels at IS cents 81 567 $40
os. s1S1 So % s ssn,s SS as sss
Corn..... ..l,e47,2s6 do. Go cents. 1,o7o,722
Total value of grains. ............. 80, s22, 5la
To this must be added the value the hop crop OF this
State or rather that portion Of It which Is used in the
State in the ale This portion Of IT, ac
cordng to the unpublished census Of 1850 and certified
to Ike all the above data, by the Superintendent OF
the Census at Washington, is 5sl tons or lSll 80
Adding this sum- therefore, to the above value Of grain
we have the sum Of three million hundred aud Of.
teen thousand nine hundred and forty six dollars the
amount of money which would be taken the pockets
of the agrcultursts Alone of this State every year.
BY the enactment of this most fanatical and despotc
In the barley crop of the State thus principally appro
prated to brewing, and for which there probability
of demand for any other mode of consumption almost
county in the State interested there being
three counties in which II is not produced The thirteen
Livingston, Madison, Montgomery Onondaga, Ontario
0tsego Schenectady and Schoharic annually produce
1,S74447 bushels, worth million four hundred and
forty thousand Ave hundred and seventy mine dol
Lars independently of the value of their rye and hops
used ID the Of dstaton Of the drinks prohibited
by tho proposed law. Indeed the united value Of the
barley and rye alone produced and consumed in this
State for this exclusively amounts consider
The whole barley crop Of the State OF Maine is much
The eGaay State Is to be-
it's safest and most profitable farming interest This has
been verified by observant experience Of than
thirty years 1t yields crop, OF which the farmers of
this State may boast peculiarly their own for
is one which fails in the of few years. almost
every other State in the Union while here it is both
increased productiyeness and demand.
In illustration Of this fact may be pertinent to the
objects Of this statement to mention that while the
quantity of ale brewod in this State according to the
census Of lS40 was but 22 gallons 1t amounts
according to the census Of 1850 400 gallons
hundred and seyenty-one thousand two hundred and
seventy eight gallons, within ten years; and proving,
and heathfu beverage, by the people of this State
large export trade with other States highly lucrative
acquiring pre.emnent reputation in almost every other
State Of the Union, and diminishing the
foreign imports Of malt liquor
the greatly increased consumption Of ale in this State,
and in the country generally Is the means of diminish
ing that Of distilled liquors, in the ratio notwith
standing the vast increase OF population Accord
ing to the Of 1S40 the quantity Of whiskcy dis
titled in this State II, sis gallons. According to
the Of 1850 that quantity is reduced 700
gallons, being decrease amounting to two millions
seven hundred and forywo thousand one hundred and
fifteen gallons in ten years.
The increased Of malt liquors. compared with
sprituous Is farther proved by fact Of peculiar in
tity Of hops used in this State in 1910, but
~ $50 pounds it amounted, according to the
increase in the Of hops in this State of eight hundred
and sixty two thousand hundred and ninety pounds
Upon the extent to which other branches Of our agr-
cultural interests would be sacrificed by this law
have procured no data by which we precisely deter
But that the cooperage interest which is source Of in
come from forest lands, otherwise comparatively
profitable would be seriously impaired by this law ad
mits Of doubt many Of breweries alone have
each capital Of more than fifty thousand dollars invest
ed IN this branch OF their business independently Of
their demand for wood as fuel
The amount Of wine made in this State, chiefly from
garden vines berries little exceeds eight thou
orch arda
amounts TO Several hundred thousand gallons The loss
upon the sale Of these peculiarly domestic products,
otherwise enormous account which farmers have
aege against this law but the absolute nterdct which
sale Of these agreeable beverages the penalties Of
fine and imprisonment which Il attaches to their being
pretence Of giving" together With the universal spy
system which establishes them and of which any
fsnstical total abstinent may become paid agent
degrading annoyances, much more grievous than any
amount Of pecuniary loss.
Upon the sudden ruin rreparable loss which would
inevitably fall upon the domestic manufacture and sale of
the accustomed beverages II the people under this law
we have adequate statistics to present That IL in
wolves of the largest interests in the
State and vast capital in the real estate, Of msit
houses hop plantations breweries dstlees cooperes
glass msnusctores hotels and other buildings Is evil
dent and undenabe but the interest Is too extensive
and various and too inseparably blended with many
Others be accurately calculated until the fun census
loss this interest in the two cities Of New York and
Brooklyn is estimated 1T thirty millions Of dollars but
shall not voucS for any that Is not directly from
the specific and ocial returns of the census not yet
The consideration of property, however, and Of the
pecuniary interests Of agricuturasts manufactu
rers, and tradesmen is which the fanatics Of this
gusge Of publication from similar source, The
Plea for property Is idle and unworthy of moments
regard And ourselves admit II to be So In compa
rison with political social and moral degradation
which this odiousy and wantonly tyrannic law would
inict upon free people But we have not thought
| same time accompanied by an incalculable amount
ecuniary oppression, almost universal as its nsepa
In reply to this, however, It is profoundly said tina
the people would be repaid for all their pecunisry losses
and t. no doubt true that they might be s further
enriched by additional clause in the BILL restricting
their now expensive clothing to the undressed skins
beasts who conane themselves to the same beverage
But il s ncvertheless singulariy impressed upon
minds that such matters Of taste should be left to ind
II Is in perfect consonance with such arguments as
the above, that the fanatics advance the novel repub
be presented by petition remonstrsnce or otherwise
to the enactment Of this law should be adopted its
strongest recommendation and the only true criterion
venient to its advocates we have no doubt because
without any further effort their part II is which
win augment in force long the threatened law i'm
| ponds over the rights and liberties Of the people,
That there has not been an amount Of popular oppo
ston can Be- sseriSed ony to an amost universal in
creduty to the possibility Of its enactment and TO
equally general discrimination to treat 1t with
tempt and scorn in return for the similar sentiments
towards the people Of this State which 1t deliberately
embodies and displays.
That Il IL the greatest and most wantonly fauatica
aggression upon personal rights attempted In the
civilized world is evident to every rejecting mind, and
is not formally denied by Its most strenuous advo
Gates. That II would be productive Of the good which
they profess 10 believe but themselves fox mo-
ment imagines while the evils resulting from the deter
mined resistance and spontaneous contempt which even
far inferior acts Of yrannca oppression never fail to
excite in the human breast would be as inevitable as
they would be demoraling and depovabe A tho first
link forged for the chain OF American bondage,
which It would authorize the future to complete, we
doubt not that the public mind Of freemen will rampe
it under foot with indignant PRIDE and leave Its fanat
cal advocates TO attempt Their objects by less revolving