The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-03
Whisky Yersns Wine.

enough TO get acquainted, after he does
come,- it is thought he will not be an
imbiber Of the modern mixture known
as fusil oil, tannic acid, prussic acid,
winter green, &c., which is sold under
the name of whisky. The Rev. DIR.
Bellows, who has been looking into the
temperance question in Europe, has
about made up his mind that wine Is to
become the compromise drink between
total abstinence on the one hand and
irremediable drunkenness on the other,
at least for the present. He, therefore,
says:
81 wish we could manage to fight in
temperance in America with some 9TH
er weapons than direct prohibition. 1t
| is not the radical cure, and will neceS-
sariIy have dangerous reactions"
His observation Is that in the wine
growing regions there is less drunken
ness than in other parts of Europe. or
the wine districts of both France and
Germany he says:
at is much to be regretted that the
friends OF temperance have of late been
trying to unsettle the opinion that
drunkenness is rare in the Vine-0rOW-
ing countries. 1t is so patent in France
anu IGIIlduJy III IL 1GuIu6IHuu Ho r.
fers to here that intemperance in the
form of drunkenness is a most excep-
tiOnul vice, that only willful blindness
or craftsmanship could deny it. l do not
recOlleCt to have seen one tpsy man
since left Paris, and only one in Paris,
and have diligently sought the places
where, in our country, they would be
found"
While on this subject OF wine we may
TNf . A
Growers Association n few days ago at
Cincinnati. AT that meeting this qGes-
ton as to the missionary influence of
wine in checking The vice of drunken.
ness was referred To by the President
in his opening address, as follows:
"rho wine growers of our country have
an important work to perform. 1t not
only affects the m1rtals, but the politi-
cal economy OF our country. We are
called - nation of whisky drinkers.
France lisa nation of wine drinkers.
Oar country is daily and hourly filled
with drunken brRwls, ending with
uIOodshed and murder. France has
none of these. A man drunken on
whisky is wicked, ugly and brutal; he
wants to beat his wife or abuse his chill
dren, or disembowel his friend with "A
, knife. If man drinks teO much wine
he is happy, hilarious, good natured,
and wants to accommodate all his
) friends with n small loan of money.
: Whisky destroys the man, while pure,
generous wine does not"
1t is the mission of the vino grower
to discourage whisky drinking by the
encouragement Of wine drinking. And
TO do this successfully we must lower
the price Of our wine; that is, we must
grow more grapes and make more wine,
so that we can afford to give it to the
people at a lower price. We must make
it cheaper than whisky; and this we
, can well afford to do. Take, for in
stance, the Ives or Concord grapes;
their average yield when in full bear
ing is from five to eight hundred gall
Ions per acre-call-it five hundred-de-
duct one hundred for expenses OF Guilt
walton and making the wine, and you
have left four hundred gallons as the
annual net product of an acre of land.
Then put down the price to one dollAra
gallon, and yOu have $500 as the net
yearly product OF an acre of land.
) What crop can you raise that will bring
, one.half the money? And at TINS
price the people will drink wine. More
than four millions of the Ives seedlidg
crane have been planted during the
/ past five years. These will soon be in
foil bearing, yielding two million gal
Ions annually; and we are still plant
ing, so that the time is not far distant
: when we can give the people Il pure,
a generous wine at seventY'iVe cents 81
gallon, and our vineyards at The same
time yield us an annual income OF $3OO
per acre. Then let us pull together;
our interests are one, our motto is on
ward
Ifit becomes a settled question that
r we must make a choice between two
, evils, and drink either pure wine or bad
q whisky, the sooner we get a cheap
=: article of the former the better. And
q in regard 10 this latter point we make
! the following further extract from the
; address referred TO.
I "Compare the grape culture of to day
f with even ten years ago; and what do
we find? Then we had two varieties of
Crapes-the CataWba and Isabella; now
: we have more than one hundred. Then
our native wines were simply Catawba,
with here aud there a few gallons of the
: Isabella-bOth too acid for the Ameri-
! can taste, and consequently, never have
3 been nor never will be popular wines.
Now, III addition to these, we have tho
, Delaware, RentZ, Herdemont, Cunning.
, ham, Cassidy, Rulander, Taylor, North
, Carolina Seeding, Rogers No. l, Diam,
/ Iona, Martha and many others, for
white wines. and for red wines,
tho Ives, Virginia Seeding, Con-
cord, Clinton. Hartford Prolific,
Creveling, Cynthtalia, Rogers hybrids.
American wines were unknown except
in few districts and localities. Now
their reputation and use are not only
co extensive with our country, but
have reached Europe, and created such
Il sensation and surprise among its best
judges, AS to extOrt from them the @x-
preston to one of our commissioners
at the Paris Exposition, "lf you can
make such wines in America, you have
no need OF our wines" And our wines
are not only increasing in quality and
, excellence, but in such a reduction in
price as to place them within the rcach
of all, and thus popularizs them. a
gentleman recently returned from Eu-
rope has told mo that ho can now get
better and cheaper wines in Cincinnati
than he got in Paris. All this gives us
wine growers ground for encourage.
ment. We have made more true pro-
, gress i'll grape culture, discovering new
varieties and wine making, in the last
ten years than all Europe has made in
century, and l predict that ten years
more will fluid US shipping wines to Eu-
rope, and competing with them in the
mark cts of the world"
WaItnnIn Watches.
The Superior value of American