Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-03

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 TOBACCO AND THE gUPra OR rHI t.r RELATION OF TOBACCO TO THT
 TEMPERANCE REFORMATION.i n
 SPEECH OF THE HON. FRANCIS GILLETT AT THI
 MEETING or THE STATE TEMPERANCE UNION RECETRY HELD IN THIS CITY. 4 I io asao s1i ,fsGi lG E85soqsT gk ''''' I foAr:E President and Gaaaemei: Those eoi you wh0. are familiar with the speeches oi l Daniel Webster, will recollect the exordi-
 nm of that great speech of his in 1880 (which formed an era in the Senate, and
 thrilled the country, in reply to- Colonel EHayneg of South Carolina, defensive ol I Massachusetts, and New England. It runs fthus:ss sT'i z2i7a7sed 4Asasts 1934al al3
 Fas' When the mariner has been tossed for
 many days. in, thick weather. and: on an l ankn6wn, sea, he naturally avails himself ] of the first pause in the storm. the earliest Iglance of the sun, toItakeshis latitude, and
 aSeertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. ,-rI d
 So it appears to me, MT. President. that
 we mariners, who have long been trying to navigate the eold-water sea- and have
 been tossed and bufeted by many storms, ''in thick weather" would do well to inn
 prove the present calm, to take our lati. tude, and ascertain our exact situation: to learn where we are, and what sisr now the Foe adopted, to speed our future voyage, and carry us into portswith ourg glorious. cold.
 water streamer flying yietoriopsly and gaiiy
 at the masthead. t. aa, 1 It is now forty years since, boy fresh from school, with the ink hardiyddry of, the parchment, Il bore my first public tes- timony to the cause of temperance IIhave been loyal and true to it ever since: and although shall not be here to partici pate
 in the celebration of it's grand triumph, as
 had thought to be in nay boyish dreams, l hope to die as the brave General Rice, who fell, mortally wounded, in the red bat.
 tie of the slderness requested that he might: 'sLet nse de s0ihs nag 1dce, to tke foe,
 b0ys;"5 During all these eyentful years the
 cause has passed through many vicissi-
 tudes and fluctuations, but at nos other timelin its whole history has its condition
 been so critical as at the present; or de-
 manded wiser counsels. It behooYes to trim anew what Patrick Henry scalls "the lamp of experience, "i that it may shed brighter light upon our future path way. sgqg .a3 zr.Y weL 1a .An+s
 The resolution before us is one of con | graduation on the prosperity of the canse during the past year. Facts and statistics, am sorry to sey, call rather for lamenta-
 ton. In some few localities there have been cheering s'signs of progress and en- couragement;" but let us not be diverted by these scattering rays shimmering on the surface while the dark flood of intem- perance rolls below. Let us not delude ourselves into the belief that we sare stemming the torrent while drifting down stream. -. Permit ne to call your attention to some facts in the case.d According to- a 8 state. EOfi our worthy secretary, we now have : in Connecticut, one liquor shop to every for ty voters, and three to every christian church. lin this city. as stated in the
 Hartford Times, paper not apt to- exag- gerate the evils of intemperance, we have five hundred liquor shops, and $1, ,825, GOO were, last year, paid for intoxicating drinks. A cry, an appea1, came tome from the city, few days since, after this' wise "Our young men are going to destructio !, and We want your influence, counsel and prayers to help save tthen." Il .ssao 10 In New London, report says the, young
 men are falling into drinking habits as never before. So in New Haven, Bridget port, and the other cities and large places in the state The great deep of intemper- ance seems to have been broken up, the deluge is abroad in its fury, insomnch as
 we have just heard from the forcible and startling paper of Mir. Platt,, $23, ,O0O, ,0OO are annually paid In this state for rintoxi- eating drinks <.-19 1' x >L '-4-,11 rl 4..,,
 In New York Mir. Greeley states that ga much larger portion of adult males in the state drink now than did in e1840.44..'' yeAf- ter speaking the adverse demonstrations all over the country, he adds, a"'I cannot recall a single decisive cheering success, to offset these many re7erses." . On Christ. mas and New Years days the streets reeled
 with drunkenness as never before, accord.
 ing to it's newspaper reports. Ss'osD =
 Massachusetts is moving to build an asylum for her twenty five thousand drGn-
 kards. The city of Chicago, last yehr, dre-
 ceived into her treasury $11O. 900 for the
 sale of indulgences to to sell sante intoxicating
 MT. Parton, you recoilsct, t,ii in his spark.
 ling essay in :11the Atlantic Monthly, last
 year, headed thus; ""Wiil the coming man
 drink wine?" commences by saying. ''Aftel
 45 years jealous and lwell-meant effort the 'eetotale1s agree that the cause is z failure, and people are drinking more than
 ever" And lie quotes Dr. Thrall of New York city, a. thorough teetotaler, as. ex l claiming, "Where are We to-day! Deteat ed on all sides! The enemy victorious and ] rampant, everywhere! More Intoxicating
 liquors manufactured and drank than ever before" aL3 |
 It is estimated that one sixth of all .sthe
 male hboro of the United States is occu, pied with the production, preparation
 transportation and, sale of intoxicating Ii
 quors aud tobacco. The value of fthf grains annually destroyed by distillation t ] $75O, ,O00. 900; and the total annual cost ol
 the various liquors, including all their at' 1 tendant waste and innpoverishment, %
 scordingl tofHary high authority, in the whole country, is g, 250. .OOO, ,O0QTa sum more than sufficient to cancel the national fdebt. Tire public re7ennes from distilled Ilspirits alone, dhring gtheR last fiscal year l The same rate of !frriightful expenditure I for intoxicating drinks extends acrss othe
 6cean.1 Iulfagspeechj before the Trades ! Union Congress, last October, at Rifming-
 ham, "on the Reorganization of Labor, Mir Potter shows drunkenness to be the Egreat2 disorgsnizef Of the slaber of Graai Britain, at a yearly cost of &228,0 0DQ 900 equal to $1, l40, 900. .00O--''senough, he