St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-08-30
The Wine Question in Society.

HESS II lllt great NIlSt vi our StNlal sllltl
national life. 1t is not characteriStical-
ly American. for the same may he said
with greater emphasis of the social and
national life of Great Britain: but it is
one of those things about which there
is no doubt. Cholera and smallpox
bring smaller fatality, and almost in
iinitely smaller SORROW. There are
fathers and mothers, and sisters and
wives. and innocent and wondering
children. within every circle that en-
braces il hundred lives, who grirvc to-
day over some hopeless victim of the
destroyer. In the city and in the coum-
try North, East, South and West
there are men and women who cannot
bc trusted with wine in their hands
men and women who are conscious, too.
that they are going to destruction, and
who have ceased to fight an appetite
that has the power to transform every
soul and every home II occupies, INTO Il
hell. oh. the wild prayers for help
that go up from hundred thousand
dcSpairing slaves of strong drink to-day
oh. the shame. the disappointment. the
fear. the disgust, the awful pity, the
mad protests that rise from IL hundred
thousand homes. And still the smoke
of the everlasting torment riSt>. and
still We discuss the ''WInc question.
and the grape culture. and i've on a>
II "" had no share III the responsibility
Tor >" ihlcl sill ana shame ana suffer
ing.
Society bids us furnish wine at ouI
tcaStS, and we furnish il lust IL "cncI-
ouSlN aS if We. did not know that Il Ger
tain prrcentau.. of all the men who
drink il will die miserable druukard~.
and infiict lives of pititul suffering upon
thos, who are closely associated with
Them. There. ,r,. literally hundred. ot
thousaud, of pcoplr in pulitr Iit,. in
America who would not dare, tn rive. :,
dinner. or u party. without wine. NOT
with>tandinr TN. fact that in many in
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