Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-08-19
WIne-Temperance.

EDITOR CHRONlCLk-As bnls qucaLlOu
. which is again called up by the lette
from J. H. Rhodes, Esq, in your issu
of the lst inst, has been frequently
advocated of late, and some speciou
reasons advanced in its support, and a
many. reading the letter of Mr.. R
might think it conclusive, it is desira
BE that people hear the other side.
E. C. DeleTan, ESQ, Of New York
who has been g standard bearer of tenn
perapce for q third of a century
since the reform began, and has twic'
visited France, and other wine coun-
tries. to observe the results of wine
drinking, in letter from Paris, dated
February, 1868, says:-"Every body
drinks here; and l have never found
the individual, male or female. who
drank wine, that did not defend III
use. When l was here thirty years
since, Louis Philippi told me that
wine was the curse Of France that he
wished every grape vine was destroyed
except for the production of food.
am here again after the lapse of so
many years, and in place of witnessing
any abatement of the evil, | think il
is on theincrease, especially in the use
of distilled spirits"
Not one in 100000 of travellers who
visit this country, takes the least pains
to make personal examination in re-
gard to the intemperauce Of wine pro.
ducing countries, and the poverty and
crime resulting therefrom." In other
letters Mr.. d. says: 81 stated to the
King, ito Louis Philippi, 1898, that
l had been outside the barriers, where
the common people resort to drink
wine because there it is free of duty.
'Oh,' said he, there you will see drunk
enness,' and truly had seen il then,
in all its horrors and debasing effects.
Ny guide thought one eighth Of the
adult male population of Paris were
drunkards." In describing visits to
wineshops he says: "At the lowest, 500
persons were already assembled, and
the people were hocking there in droves;
men, women and children, whole fam
lilies, young girls alone, boys alone, tax
ing their seats at tables q mother
with an infant on her arm came reeling
up one of the passages. 1t was an i'm
mense establishment, occupying three
sides of a square, three or four sto-
ries high. I sac Aundreds iR a
state Of iHtorieatiOH, to greater or less
degree. The attendant stated to me
that the day before. (Sunday,) at least
1000 visited the shops, and that the
average consumption of wine was 1000
bottles per day"
"This place was considered q rather
respectable wineshop. Ny guide then
took me to another shop not ten min
utes ride from the Emperor's Palace
The scene here beggars description.
"I there entered into the outer room
of the shop, which was packed full of
the most degraded human beings / ev
er beheld, drinking wine, and talking
in loud voices. did not dare to pro-
ceed further. 1t was much worse than
the wineshops | visited in Rome, in
1889, where | was sent by Cardinal Ac-
tor, to see the results of wine drinking
there. | was informed by the eabman,
that in the shop last visited, he had
seen from so 10 100 lying drunk at a time;
that they often drank 20 beastly drunkenness.
and remained until the fumes passed
off; for if found drunk in the streets
the police takes them in charge.
Americans and others, visiting the
walks of Paris and other
continental cities, seeing but few stag
gering men in the street, suppose that
wine count ntries are, in great measure,
free from the vice of intempersnce,b but
it is g great mistake"
Mr.. Jules Simon shows US that
in the manufacturing towns Of
France, that hitherto accepted model
Of temperate country, the working
classes who inhabit the sequestered
lodgings of the black slums, are as vi
olently addicted to liquor, as the most
degraded of the same class in England.
We can find no parallel in London to
the picture drawn by Mr.. Simon, of q
Rouen Wineshop.
The workmen are DO sooner let loose
from the factory, than they rnsh in a
mass to the cabaret. As body, these
workmen and their fSnilies are feeble
and slckly. They die at a terrihlerate.
The Count De Montalembert said in
mis- place in the French National As
'embly, 1850: Where there is a
there are the elements of
disease, and the frightful source of all |
hat is at enmity with the interests of
The workmen."
In those districts where most wine
S made, there is the greatest wretched-
aess, and the most frequent appeals are
made to Government for aid. So large
proportion of the soil is now culti-
ysted for wine, that the raising of
took and grain is diminished 10 an
alarming extent 1 look to the dimi
lution in the use Of wine in other
SIS q source of hope to France,
hat failing of market for her wines.
he fields of France may be cultivated
o greater advantage TO produce more
.bundant food and clothing for the
,sople. ."-Duks Of Orleans, 1888
drunkenness is the beginning and
md of life in the great French indus
rial eenters. There are manufactur-
ng towns, Lille, for instance, where
he women have followed the example
f the men, and added drunkenness TO
heir other vices. Il is estimated that
t Lille, twenty-five out of every one
hundred men, and u out of every one
women. are Confirmed drunk
rds. ."-TEe Work-a-dgy World Of France.
"All wine districts are poor, and the
french peasantry are always more
ealtby when there is a scarcity OF
Iine. ."-iSmOllet.
"I came to Europe under theimpress
IN that there was more drunkenness
mong US than any other country Eng
snd, perhaps, excepted. A residence
( six months in Paris, changed my
Jews entirely."-J. FeHnimore Cooper
"Wine is the souere of the greatest
wills among communities. 1t causes
isesses, quarrels, seditions, idleness,
nd family disorder. ."-FendOH.
''0f all things known to mortals,
rine is the most powerful and effectual
or exciting and inAaming the passions
{ mankind, being common fuel to
hem all. Bacon
Light wines, ,nothingso treacherous
hey infiane the brain like fire, while
,elting on the palate like ice. All in {
abitants of light wine countries are Z
e."-lSr Ed,0ard B. LyttoH.
The editor of The Pacific. having tray 6
led through the vine growing valleys
California, ,portrsys the effects Of wine s
rinking there. Already wine has be- 1
ome as cheap SIS milk, and is ss freely !
rank, till many, once sober men, arei
OW habituAlly intoxicated. In one t
inc growing neighborhood we are told t
lst young girls. seventeen yesrs of age !
.eled in the streets under the intoxica-