The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-11-12
Tks 0azette.
Native Wines.


In another column will be found
full account of the recent Cou.
vuhtion Of New York Grape Grow.
ers at Canandaigua. Our CORES.
pondent evidently regards the do.
Velopment OF the grape interest
and the success Of native wine ma
kcrs with 10y. and huils il as the
opening Of a bettcr day. Is he
right2 Will the production Of
pure native Wines in largo quaint
tiss prove a blessing or curse 10
the community? This opens the
whole question Of total abstinence,
aud tho query which the moralist
aud magazinist, Mr. Jas. Parton,
lately put in the Atlantic, will the
coming man drink wineY We
hold this truth as established by
all history that man has always
made and always enjoyed bevorag.
es prepared from the juice Of the
grape. Noah had not been year
out OF his ark before be planted a
vineyard. No amount Of medical
testimony Or of moTalizing has
availed OF can avail to qucnch this
general taste. Practically, the
question is narrowed down to this
dilemma since men have throats
and will pour exhilarating drinks
down them, is it better that they
should guzzlc decoctions Of poison
Gus and narcotic drugs, or quaff
pure juice Of native grapes, grown
on our native hills, pressed by our
own machines, and stored in dom.
ostic wine cellars2
AS o matter Of fact and general
experience, those who arc not on
principle water drinkers would
prefer pure wine il they could get
1t. Since they cannot get it they
become accustomed to log. wood
tea and clderberry juice, then to
beHEine, turpentiue, and all the
loathsome swills oi Water street.
In couatrics where the vine -four.
isbos tAeee obominablo compounds
ave cot made, aud 10 the wine pro.
tpOing kingdoms Of Europe drunk.
enntas and the vices and crimes
that is breeds Gro almost unkn3wn
The Brcoohmun who takes sec.
QhdrSottlc Of red vino sings as he
goes to bis family or tho theatre.
The imbIaied mechanic OF GIas
gov or Liverpool goes homo Satur.
day night crazy with poisoned gin,
and q scene Of violence and horror
'is the result. A line drawn in ah |
ascending curve from tho eastern
point of France to Berlin, and
thence to Scvastopol on tho Black
Sea. divides that par. of Europe
where drunkenness is a vast social |
evil from regions where occasional |
exhllaration from wine is hprmIcss
aud undebasing. That line marks
the northern limit the vino. On
this continent our ancestors bro't
English habits and IDEAS TO u
country essentially different in eli.
mate and vegetable Ito. We have
produced an army ofrum distillers
cIder.topers, and arc in a Say to
ADOPT corn whisky as national
beverage, when nature, by climatic
laws which We are just now learn.
fng, intended US Tor nation OF
vine drinkers.
Tho prosperity Of tho vino seems
TO depend on soil as much as on
weather.--Tbe more tho erapo is
tried the wider ID the area over
which IL can be successfully pro.
daced. Even Canada is competing
with Western Now York with liz
wines. AS we produce sufficient
quantities Of good vino it will ban.
ish tho ranker and the viIcr mix.
tures from bars and restaurants.
ln nine persons out of ten pure
wine does NOT arouse the fierce M.
petite that makes all stimulating
drink dangerous. The production
OF an abundance Of good vino, 80
that fivo cents will give tho work.
ingman goblet full at dinner,
viii DO more to arrest tho gross
evils OF drunkenness than oil the
temperance lecturers, frcm Cough
down. Hence We regard the
grape enthusiasm 10 WCatein n New
York, and the brilliant advances
thOy havo made since they learned
that wine grape cnn be produced
on their soil, as auspiciOns ard the
beginning OF o better state of
things. Y. JVorId