The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-05
The Great American Tea-tOtaller.

He Ur6At amorIchu Ieh-LOJnllers
From the N. Y. World.
We had feared that the death of slavery
would be the death of H. G.. Quoth Shy
lock-
"You do take my life
Whe II You do take the means whereby live"
And H. G. having lived politically by the life
of slavery, why should he not die with the
death of it? Marry, because he will not.
'We do most ardently hope and trust"
cries ii. q. in the Tribune, 'now that slavery
is dead, to see the teaplant naturalized and
largely grown on the more southern slopes of
the Alleghenies," Henceforth, then, we are
to admire Il. g. in new character, as the
nozzle of the domestic teapot of the future.
To Greece he cannot give his shining blade
for Greece has melted, like her own name, in
the glance of the great powers But to tea he
results of good to the spinsters and other tea
drinkers generally, H. G. OF course neither
looks nor cares to look. Let them cease
to be cbeered by the cheap Chinese
herb, and inebriate themselves on the gin
within the juniper or the whisky in
the corn. The political economy Of
H. G. is prophetic. Had Europe" he
one hundred millions Of dollars in natural
izing the silk culture on the shores of the
Mediterranean fifteen to twenty centuries ago.
she would thereby have increased her wealth
by not less than one thousand Millions" 1t
is true that an investment of a hundred dol
lars to day, with prospect OF getting thou
sand dollars for 1t some two thousand years
hence, may not be thought by the average
American man of business very brilliant
operation. But the average American man
of business is fool to II. g., even il the con-
verse be equally true. And so small wits
need not expend themselves on futile
efforts 70 prevent II. q. from pressing Con-
gress to impose prohibitory duty on all
foreign teas, and to grant hundred millions
Of dollars in gold-bearing bonds to the great
American tea company yet to be. But why
oonfne thyself, most excellent philanthro-
pist, to tea?
Ivory is an article of great interest and
value in modern commerce. 1t is now pro-
duced in these United States. Our American
| fellow citizens of African descent, it Is true,
do grow a certain supply of the article but
rarely in masses considerable enough tC
answer the demands Of the trade. Why
should we not raise our own elephants in ouI
| own jupgles We have lots OF jungles nov
| in Florida, and, if Reconstruction" goes OF
| long enough, we shall have them in abundance
all through the South. By all means, let Us
have native ivory, even il We have to wait
| few hundred years or 80 for IL, going without
meanwhile. Also, native mahogany. Is 4
not a scandal to think that a trooly loil mar
should ever be forced to extend his legs unde
a board which was felled in the forests OF Hon
duras by foreign axe, manufactured, pro
badly, in the hated town which Roebucl
represented, and the price OF which has gon'
to swell the profits of the bloated capitalists 0
Britain Be not content, ii. G., with this
that trivial impossibility, nor limit thin
awful energies TO the mere raising of tenn
pest in our teapots. The nation halls thee a
the tea totaller of protection, and expects from
thee nothing less than the conversion OF tn
blessed sun in heaven into cucumber patch