Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-12-08
Temperance Items.

in Europe, both in the city and coun-
try. Therefore he had a far better
opportunity to judge than mere trav-
elers like DIR. Bellows and Theodore
Parker. He says: awe have heard
Americans assert that there was no
drunkenness in any country where
the wine takes the place of strong Ii
quors. Now we have sifted this mat
ter thoroughly, both in Italy and Swift
zerland and are bound to deny the
truth of this statement. Why is it,
then that so little drunkenness is seen
by strangers Because Italian labor
ers rarely begin their potations until
their days work is done. They ca
rouse from about nightfall until mid
night-when. money spent, or credit
exhausted, they. reel home, and the
cries and groanS OF wives and child
ren soon tell of the fury and brutality
which mark the drunkard the world
over. Thinking it probable that bran
dy did most of the mischief, [ inquir-
ed as to this point. In every case
my questions caused surprise, and the
answers were all the same; "No !! no /!
1t is the wine-always the wine"
Robert roombs, American consul
at Rheims, in his work entitled "The
Champagne Country" says: "The
common people, brutalized by ignor-
ance, are rude 10 manners, and given
to sensual indulgence. They are deep
drinkers and gross feeders. | have
never beheld a coarser scene of de-
bauch than was openly exhibited at
Rheims night after night, during the
carnival, at the theater, in the cafes
and in the streets, where both sexes,
whether disguised or not, put no re-
straint upon their tongues, gestures,
conduct. A rabid thirst for cham
pagne, hot punch, and other strong
: drinks, prevailed, and every one seem
, ed eager to reach intoxication as the
summum bonum. Success crowned
their efforts and universal drunken
ness was the result"
2 Rev. E. S. Lacy of San Francisco,
e recently spent several months in
2 Switzerland and he writes, Il have
, just spent six months in country
5 place of Switzerland, where the peo-
> pie do nothing but work in the vine,
yards; where the vine is cheap and
|. pure, and far more the beverage of
a the laboring classes than water, where
none think of making a dinner with
out bottle of wine; where all the
: scenery is of the most elevating, en-
y nobling character. Here more intox
ication was observed than in any 9th
J. er pIaCe II was ever my IoJ TO live III
e On holidays and festal occasions yol
might suppose all the male population
n was drunk, so great are the number
e in this deranged and beastly condi
J. ton.
1t A state convention of the friend
! of temperance at San Francisco, Octo
y Der l6, II, and 18th, 1866. adopted
" the following resolution:
Resolved, That we consider tn
project Of banishing intemperanc
y from California by introducing th
;h general use of wine as a beverage, t.
> be delusion and snare. Even if
~ were possible to exclude ardent spil
IL its and substitute the fermented iuic
IL of the grapes, there is no reason t.
u look for any other results than follow
y ing in the ages Of antiquity, whe
'h wine was the only Intoxicating bever
t. age, and when the drunkenness o.
III wine drinking nations provoked th
al wrath ofGod and the denunciation
Is of Holy Writ
n Horace Greedy wrote from Pari:
;r that wine will intoxicate-does intoz
,o icate-that there are confirmed drunk
ai ards in Paris, and throughout Franc
or is notorious and undeniable. You ca
ID hardly open French newspaper tina
20 does not contain some account of
". robbery perpetrated upon some pei
ut son stupefed by overdrinking; pC
70 lice case growing out of quarrt
re over the wine cup; or culprit, whe
#. asked to say why the sentence of la
al should not be pronounced upon hin
ne replying, Il was drunk when this hal
tb pened, and know nothing of the ma
a ter
Nv Joseph Weed of San Francisc'
wrote to the National Temperate
in Advocate, "There is probably not
se village in the stale, where wine ha
in been made to any extent, that has nj
We witnessed the gradual fall of indivi'
ne ais and families to intemperance an
er, beggary, among those engaged in th
or occupation. Not few church mer
ou bers as well as others, are said
en- have fallen, from this cause, and ha,
d been ruined body and soul in cons
ty quence."
M - The editor of the Pacific, anotht
- :, California newspaper, writes, (aftt
"a "a having travelled extensively throug
Gu the wine making DISTRICTS, "Alread
nt "a wine has become as cheap as mil
pe AMI is as freely drunk, till many, ono
a sober men, are growing habitually il
~ toxicated. In one wine growing neig
30 borhood, we are told that young cir
~ ~ seventeen years of age, reeled throue
~ the streets under the intoxication Q
'0' pure California wine.
ur
=; According to Commissioner Well
raport to CopUroSs tho littlo Sfo ta r