The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-15
NAV. to DImlnI.h Drunkenness.

The New York World, discussing thu
evils of drunkenness and the possible
ways 10 diminish them, says:
"BuG how and where can this over
whelming evil be arrested9 viii inebri'
ate asylums; will prize novels in which
every one who takes q glass Of sherry
goes TO eternal perdition; Fill sermons
against drunkenness, platform eloquence,
and production at q critical moment Of
the orators speech Of Tan awful exam.
ple,"-Will all these arrest the evil 7 Will
legislation do ii? We regret to say that
We have exceedingly small faith In such
specifics. What, then, can be the remedy,
II remedy there beY
Our belief Is that the remedy lies in
meeting the disease half way. We are no
friends 70 total abstinence, There may
be q few people in the world who, as
Johnson said OF himself, "can refrain but
can't be moderate" and they, Of course,
DO well to refrain. But as regards the
majority we are Of opinion that nothing
would tend 30 much TO enable them to
forsWear bar dram.drlnking as the adop.
ton OF the foreign habit OF taking drinks
wine, beer, or cider-with meals. This
fashion, we believe, has done more than
anything else TO put excessive drinking
out oil fashion in England. 1t may proba-
bly, be attributed In great measure to
the influence OF France. No drinking be-
tween meals Is a good path 10 no "drink.
ing between drinks" Drinking seems 10
have gone out Of fashion In England
when, The long war having come 10 an
end, the Engli8h began to 60 abroad In
great numbers, and the custom Of drink.
Ing wine at, rather than after, dinner
came into vogue.
Two bottles oil wine at dinner do less
harm than halt q pint Of spirits on an
empty stomach.
Men who don't drink wine at dinner and
are apt TO fell the want Of stimulus keep
visiting the bar or the bottle al frequent
intervals afterwards; whereas the man
who has dined and drank pint Of beer
or wine and sat long enough-snd this Is
a great point-to digest It comfortably,
needs no stimulus, and, what Is Of more
consequence, thirsts for no stimulus. I'd
Another weapon wherewith to fight
the enemy In great cities is the multipli.
cation of places OF innocent amusement.
We believe the great German music halls
10 be among the most formidable foes
that drunkenness has. Even II those who
frequent them do occasionally get booty
with redundancy Of lager, II is not q
sort Of intoxication 10 be put In category
with the drunkenness caused by that en-
trail.ester, the horrible deletefiOus stuff
sold In ordinary public houses as whisky.
80 far, then, from SHIFTING up music
halls on Sunday evening, we would glad.
" see well.conducted ones multiplied.
: Is it not notorious that those people
who have cheap, pleasant feattop at!
forded them ate lbeSleast addicted tQ]
strong drinksi
As 10 the Germans, by their fruits shall
yp know them.
The report Of the Kings County Inebri.
ate Asylum isbefore us.s OF IBl peeonsI
treated last yeRr only lour were GeImhns
whilst Ireland contributed seventy, the
United States forty.one, and England
twenty-five. Z II we can only decrease
spirit. drinking between meals q crest
work will bedone.i = 4 = lSly ~.