The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-13
TEMPERANCN.

Hon. Horace Greelev, OF New York, delivered
q lecture last evening on Temperance to large
audience, in Concert Hal. lie said:-
Halt century ago intemperance prevailed to
a greater extent in New England than now.
This can be accounted for Apple trees we're
then very numerous; nearly every farm con-
taiued hundred or more, aud they were abun.
dainty fruitful. The apples were 30 plentitul
that the people ground them into cider, and
everybody got TO drinking cider because it was
so cheap, so plenty, so common. In the three
last months OF the yeae barrel OF cider was
used regularly as q beverage IN good-sized
family. They didn't get drunk on the cider, but
they got very much muddled, were grum, cross,
and ill.natured, at times from the effects OF 1t.
The speaker said he had himself felt the ill
effects of cider in his ODyhood. II was Just
az ordinary then for the youths to drink as the
older ones. They would commence little by
httle, ana continue to increase, initiating their
parents in quantity. 1t was common TO see the
farmer, after his days work, SIT down and sip
his cider. at first one mug would ans wer, and
in few nights another woald b. added, and lin
time he found that cider would not touch the
right spot. Then New England rum, a very
cheap but far more Intoxicating beverage
would be Tesorted to. The farmer would be
satisfied WITH q JUG OF this for mouth; then
one week, and continue until he became use
less, burned out. HIS farm would 60 to ruin
and his family TO the poor.house. The tavern
keeper would reap the harvest and make the
farmers family wretChed. The universal use of
wine must produce the same effect as tue use of
cider. If the young men persist in drinking
wire.it will become as common rs the use OF
cider half n century ago and will lead them
into the same temptation Tor stronger drink.
He also spoke about the danger OF our young
men commencing with mixed or gnt drinks,
and how that maladY was spreading, aud the
eventual result OF the continued use of sucd
concocted beverages. He found, when. in Paris
in 1851, that the people were drinking more
liquor than ever before. He laid this princi-
pally to mixed drinks, or in other words Am nri-
can cocktails, sherry cobbiers, ein-slings, ETC.
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mates, amorg the civilized races, were addicted
to stronger drinks than those of warmer
countries. This he accounted for by the custom
of the people in taking hot drinks to keep the
cold out or TO create a warmth.
He said that 1t was idle for men to say they
do as well as they know how when they are
drinking. Such men, he considered, if they
knew more it would be better for them. So
many men say, Well, | take glass of liquor
for pleasure. l know when TO stop. / have
complete control over my tastes, and will never
be drunBard." Now, if the men have such
control, and know the danger, would it Lot be
better for them 10 stop at once, and throw aside
all danger and stop such assertions?
If every man who drinks would consider that
every time he does so he is taking in poison, it
might have its effect. No man can get lntoxi-
exhilarates and so does poison. Arsenic has the
same effect. In some parts OF the world women
use il in small quantities to beautify to invigo-
rate, aud stimulate. 1t does produce bloom, and
1t does stimulate. but, like liquor, its continued
use is bound to kill in time. So il you disoDey
the law of nature, by feeding the system on
poison, you may crafty your pastors for a
time, but you are bound to eventually suffer.
He did not consider that lutoxicalion was sc
great among our respectable families of the
present generation, or, at least. in so gross o
form, as heretofore. These people drink less
VINE than they formerly did, but they do worse
than that-tbey imbibe OF something more
stimulating and more dangerous in its results
They drink of absintbe and other noxious anG
fatal stimulants, that ta6e effect on the phvsica
frame with more fatality than wines. If people
will persist in getting drunk, let them use pure
New England rum or whisky and do themselves
as little injury as possible, and save themselve
from the fatal effects that the poisonous com
pounds are bound to produce.
The lecture was listened to with attention, an(
the speaker was frequently applauGed.