New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-05
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The veget.tiDg vigor Of philosophy,
And leave n Inefa tus,.D

AND leaYe II meiG rusf.
In is q common remark in Germany that TO de-
pIive the people of their wine and beer by in
creased taxation upon those articles would cause
at Once revolution in other words, wine and
beer with music and the cOncomitant pleasures,
all furnished at cheap rate, are acknowledged 20
be important means in the bands of German ty-
rants for keeping their subjects oppressed Casks
of lager beer, butts of wine and fiddle bows, the
props of Cesposm AID the uphOlders OF dy nasties
This is not say much for the gallantry and hero
ism of the people nor in my opinion are they
thy of liberty who are willing TO take 10 exchange
for it the ravishments Of vine and revelry. LII 1t
is melancholy to see an individual drowning his
sorrows in wiIe what is i. to see cOwardly nations
dissolving their griefs and disappointments in the
Lethean forgetfulness of intoxicatOnl And this
il the cate not only in the Germapic States, but
throughout Western and Central Europe, England
in part excepted 1t is in view Of these facts that
consider the evils flowing from the use of intOx-
lea ing drinks in EurC pc infinitely greater than In
the United States The individual excuses may
not be go great and repulsive as in our own cOun-
try where there is more activity and more COM
plete exhaustion; but Heaven preserve us from
sinking into the Dead Sea of European intemPer
ance involving the loss of both morality and
liberty
The use Of intoxicating drinks is shOcklngly
prevalent in almost every part Of Europe. While
the EDglisbm8n has his porter, the Frenchman his
wine and the German his beer, the Serf must have
his vile slikOyitza and Walack aud Russ indulge
freely in raki The partial failure of the vine 10
France, Hungary, and Italy, has unfortunately
contributed to the introduction of stronger stlmu-
ants, although it is to be hoped that many OF the
vine-lands will be devoted hereafter to the raising
of grain. With the exception of the Turks lntem.
pefance is the besetting sin of the many -tongued
nations along the lower panube.
Let Europeans dispense with wire and other
Intoxicating drinks, as we are attempting to do in
certain parts of America, and their material as
WILL as social condition will be greatly improved
The capital invested and the labor expended in
their production would find other, and in the end
more profitable channels Millions of bushels OF
grain would he converted into bread for starving
myriads, instead of alcoholic fluids which increase
poverty, impair health and prove ruinous to indi-
yidual and national prosperity; while immense
regions now devoted to the culture of the vine
would be covered with fields of waving corn.
The Eastern war is said to be conflict between
humanity and civilization on one eide and bar
BARREN on the other. The present crusade of En-
gland and France against Russia may carry some
of the blessings of civilization into the East, but
evils innumersble, beside seas swept of their CON-
merce and cities sacked, are the footprints 10 Its
path. The people of the East and the West are
brought together on gigantic scale, but 1t is a
shame that the first and almost the only words
they exchange should be concerning the prices of
raki and virtue. Better leave the Turk to his
fate than substitute wine for the water commanded
by Allah: better leave him in his polygamy than
give him French prostitution.