The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-07-31
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Drink.
The conductors of the atlantic
Monthly invite particular attention to
the article by Mr.. James Parton, in the
August number, entitled, "Will the
Coming Man Drink Wine 2" There
was no necessity for the invitation.
There is no danger that contribution
from Mr.. Parton with such title will
escape notice or fail to be thoroughly
read.
1t is one of the best of Mr.. Parton's
recent essays, giving the reasons for
and against wine drinking, with such
impartiality, force and epigrammatic
Iliveliness, that no one who begins to
read will stop until the end is reached.
Waving consideration of the admitted
evils of excessive drinking, he discusses
the more open question as to whether
wines and liquors in themselves, and
taken in moderation, are not pernicious.
He believes the evils of excess are so
fearful that it would afford general re-
lief to know that alcoholic liquors in
themselves are evil and to be always
avoided. In the first place he argues
that they ard not nourishment. They
do not aid digestion; they do not pro-
duce heat; they do not give strength.
WHAT ALCOHOL DOES.
What alcohol does accomplish, he
says, is this;
''It enables US to violate the laws of
nature without immediate suffering and
speedy destruction. This appears to
be its chief Office, in conjunction with its
ally, tobacco. Those tailors would have
soon died or escaped but for the gin,
and those horsemen would have given
up and perished but for the whisky.
Nature commanded the soldiers to rest
but they were enabled for the moment
to disobey her Doubtless Nature was
even with them afterwards, but for the
time they could defy their mother great
and wise, Alcohol supported them in
doing wrong. Alcohol and tobacco
support half the modern world in doing
wrong. That is their part-their role,
as the French investigators term tin
the present life of the human race.
CDR. Great Practice would naturally
90 to bed at 10 O'Clock, when he comes
in from his evening visits. 1t is his
cigar that keeps him up till halfpast
II, writing those treatises which make
him famous and shorten bis life.
Lawyer Heavy Fee takes home his
paper, pores over them till past one,
and then depends upon whisky to quiet
his brain and put him to sleep. Young
Bohemian gets away from the Office of
the morning paper which enjoys the
benefit of his fine talents, at o'clock.
1t is two mugs of lager beer which en-
able him to endure the immediate con-
sequences of eating supper before GO
ing home. This is mad work, my
masters it is respectable suicide, moth
ing better.
"There is a paragraph now making
the grand tour of the newspapers, which
informs the public that there was a
dinner given the other evening in New
York consisting of twelve courses, and
kept the guests five hours at the table.
For FIVE hours, men and women sat
consuming food, occupying half an
hour at each Wand. What could sus-
tain human nature in such an amazing
efortl What could enable them to
look into one another's faces without
blushing scarlet at the iufamy of such
a waste of time, food and digestive
force? What concealed from them thu
iniquity and deep vulgarity of what
they were doingl The explanation of
this mystery is given in the paragraph
that records the crime: There was q
different kind of wine for each course"
THE WHOLE HEAD SICK.
Aud again, he says:
'The teetotallers have always under
rated the difficulty ofthe task they have
and misconceiyed its ma
ture. 1t is not the great toe that most
requires treatment when man has the
gout although it is the great toe that
makes him roar. When we look about |
US, aud consider the present physical
life of man, we are obliged to conclude (
that the whole head is sick, and the
whole heart is faint. Drinking is but |
4 symptom which reveals the malady.
Perhaps, if we were all to stop our
yuzzling suddenly, without discontinu-
ug our other bad habits, we should
rather lose by it than gain. Alcohol
supports US in doing wrong! 1t pre-
vents our immediate destruction. The
hing for us to do is, to strike at the
causes of drinking, to cease the bad
the bad eating, the reading,
he bad feeling and bad thinking, which,
n a sense, neccessitate bad drinking.
For some of the teetotal organizations
night be substituted Physical Welfare
Societies"
THE ''CoNIING MAN"
AS to "The Coming Man" he proph-
Isles:
"The Coming Man, as before re-
marked, will not drink wine when he
s well. It will be also an article of his
'eligion not to commit any of those sins