New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-03

lie record Of repeated failures relieved by instances Of
temporary Drunkenness has existed from the
time OF Noah, and will entirely cease any more
than centoasness or glcstony any other prevailing
vice.
The appetite for stimsa6ts "A natural appetite I'm
'~"'e" ny 'S creator for purpose and
any system OF reform that ignores this element in the
animal ecouomy must fail, because opposes nature
My theory makes compromise with nature. II allows
the appetite natural qualification. and directs It in
channel calculated to do the least harm In the place
OF distilled liquors which at present manufactured
rank posons, allow the vender OF these beverages
70 sell malt liquors, domestic Wines and cider Make
this law impose penalties for It's violation.
Under such system viii be rare, and that terri
BILE malady. derium tremens, unknown. The Commit
tee the Culture and Products of the Vine, in their
report to the United States Commission the Universal
Exposition Of Paris 1867 make the following statement:
To the general consumption OF this drink (red winel
intelligent Frenchmen are apt 10 attribute the fine
health of their peasantry. as well a. their habitua
gayety and habitua temperance An American gentle
man for many residing in France, and for time
professor in one of the universities afrms that the
greatest longevity is among those people who take red
wine three times day and abstain from both tea and
three times they are ordered wine
as an habal beverage. and OF the commonest daily
events among Americans residing ia Paris 10 the cure OF
obstinate dyspepsia by the simple remedy,
even in the unhealthful air Of that city
The vine growing regions of Europe proverbially
temperate Bayard Taylor pronounces the Greeks
diet. The Germans large of malt liquors,
and they healthy and temperate The rural dis
trics Of New England and the Middle States large
manufacturers and consumers Of CIDER and yet their
record is unimpeachabe.
strictly prohibtory law has rarely IL been en-
forced, because the common OF mankind does
sustain it. qualified license law would be respected
When you have made the necessary discriminating egs
ation, supplement the work with moral sanctions. FL
evae the moraftone OF the community; educated
up TO the highest standard OF excellence through the
agency OF schools churches newspapers, and kindred
nstrumentaities make the masses good aud wise and
you make them pro tanto temperate. When the out
spoken voice OF elevated public sentiment pro-
nounces excess crime, outlaws drunkari 1t
does thief. drunkenness will be theft.
To that class OF morasts who claim that total absti
a religious duty would reply that the patri
archs priests and prophets Of Jewish sacred history
consumers of and, under a later aud better
dispensaton the Savior OF mankind and his disciples
a beverage. To say that a custom common in
now. is assuming that the human constitution has
dergone essential change that the rules that
govern human conduct not the same. To presume
that Christ possessing divine oreknowedge could not
effect of His example upon after times is TO
question His divinity TO ignore tue Bible altogether is
no less presumptuous. Intemperance will exist along
with vees till the OF time, and the successful
reOrmer will aim not much to make the world per-
feet 10 make II better. s. NJ. INGALLS,.
Springfield, ". l., May q. 1874