The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-25

saw enough of poverty there, and
enough CT miserable dwellings, ; but
they knew that drunkenness was
the cause both of the poverty and
of the bad sanitary arrangements.
But in America we had a country
free from all that-a country dotted
with beautiful little towns, and the
best sanitary arrangements. Well,
was intemperanee cured by those
conditions? Why, those conditions
were found only where the temper
ance cause prevailed. They could
Eot tell him any cure ever put forth
that had effected this purpose, ex-
cepting personal abstirence and
prohibition. (Applause.) Some men
said, "Preach the Gospel-give the
people not only schools but church
es." Well, he did not know any
country IN the world where there
were more churches than in Amer.
lea, There were four times as ma
ny-nay, he should be nearer the
truth if he said ten times as many
i'm proportion 10 the population,
as were to be found in this country.
SO, therefore, IN speaking of the
United States, he was speaking of
a land where all those cures had
been tried and failed, with license.
The States comprehended popula-
tions of every variety, and the most
distinct kind. The east was differ
ent from the west, the north from
the south, and California from the
middle States, and in all these
States, except the South, there were
local communities differing in char
aeter, political, moral, religious,
and social. Here there was o COM
munity chiefly Irish, there a COM
munity chiefly Germans ; here Yam
KEGS, there Englishmen /; here man.
ufacturers of one KIM, there manu-
faciurers of another kind /; hero a
community fully educated, there a
community only partially educated,
because of immigration OF ignorant
people among them. They might
suggest what they thought q new
condition OF human nature, and he
would undertake to find an exam
pie of 1t IN America. Some phIlOs-
ophers attributed intemperance TO
climate conditions. Northern a
tons, they said, yer much addict
ed to inIemperanee, and Southern
nations not go much. Well, in A
merIca We had climates of all kinds.
In the extreme north, extreme cold;
IN the extreme south, extreme heat
Irrespective OF these conditions,
temperance reformers said, Tell US
the amount of drink consumed, and
we will tell you the amount of
drunkenness that follows, the prob
able amount of pauperIsm, lunaey,
and crime, and the consequent I'M
cunt of taxation"
From the Southern States to Lake
Superior, from the Eastern States
on the Atlantic border to California
he had never met a single IN
stance OF a community, a village, a
town, a city, a county, Or a State,
that was not cursed very much as
we were with intemperance, power
ty, luHacy, crime, and consequent
taxation, where the license system
prevailed. He had never met with
a population in the United States
where the religious, sober, moral
people Of tho district satisfied
with things as they were, ard where
agitation, nor or less strong, we're
rot existing against the licensing
system, and in favor of prohibition.
(Applause.) Surely the American
people, then, knew better than the
praters in our Parliament what the
result of the licensing system was,
and what was to be expected from
prohibition.
WINE AND LAGER BEER.
In California, everything existed
to prevent Intemperanee, if those
philosophers who argued for fine
climates and light wines were right.
There the wines YER unadulterat.
ed and cheap ; there they brewed
their own wines, and distilled their
own brandies. 1t was said a peo-
pie drink because they fels misera-
BILE. But California was a climate
where to breathe the very air was
to be happy. No one could feel mis-.
cradle there, but yet II was the ia
shion to christianity drinking a.
mong all classes was very extern
sIve ; and in the lower parts of the
country, where the wine was man
ufacturcd, many gentlemen had To-
sell off their property at a disadvan-
tage, and remove elsewhere, to es-
cape with their young families from
the baneful influence. DIR. Stone
had declared that wine drinking
was the great curse of CALIFORNIA;
Then it was said /: eff you abstain
from spirits and drink beer, much
harm won't be DONE" Now be had
been among many communities of
Germans-especIally ~ Ohio and
Illinois-and he saw what were the
results of drinking their lager beer.
In one beautiful little town he put
up with a German gentleman, who,
with his family, was tetotal. He
told me that in that very street,
whore the wealthiest families of the
place Gall Germans) lived, not less
than SIX heads of families were con-
irmed drunkards, and the wives
and children miserable IN conse-
quence. So it was no matter wheth-
er we went to the phlegmatic Ger
man, with all his philosophy teach
ing self,control, and who INDUCED
in lager beer, n TO the people of
California, who took their light
wines-precisely the same results
were seen. He came back from A.
merlca with an increased convic-
ton that license, everywhere, was
by necessity a failure. He did not
know, in the whole history Of the