Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-05

ed? On the contrary they have increas-
ed. The collections for internal reve-
nue. for 1872 on distilled liquors were
about So, 900 900, in 1873, about $9,O00,-
OO6 more. Beer 100000 in 1872, in
1878, $500, 900 more. Why did not
the former decrease? Figures do not
show it.
9th. Do wine and beer diminish in
temperance as their advocates claim, or
do they promote drunkenness and
crime How is it in countries where
they are most commonly used?
Mr.. Peter T. Homer, of Boston, MEM
Der of State Statistical Society Of Eng
land. saws: sThe introduction of beer
from Strasburg on the Rhine, Dantzie
and Bavaria, and its increased use in
France, have multiplied greatly the |
number of drunkard's in France"
J. Fennimore Cooper says: 81 came
to Europe under the impression that
there was more drunke1pess amongst US |
(Americans) than in any other country.
A residence in Paris changed my views
entirely"
Horace Greeley wrote from Paris
3That wine will intoxicate, does intoxi- |
cate, and that there are confirmed
drunkards in Paris and throughout
France is notorious and undeniable."
DIR. Kirk, of Boston, says: 81 never
saw such systematic drunkenness as 1
saw in France during residence OF
sixteen months, l never saw so many
women drunk"
DIR. Warren, of Boston, seven years
resident of Germany, says: Drunken
ness is very common here"
The King of France, Louis Philippe,
declared to Mr.. Deleyan in 1888:
"The drunkenness of France is on
wine."
Lord Acton, Supreme Judge Of Rome,
says Mr.. Delevan assured me "that all,
or nearly all the crime in that city orig
mated in the use of wine In the reign
of Romulus it was decreed ''that no wo-
man should drink fermented wine un-I
der penalty of death, since he regarded
the drinking of wine the beginning of
adultery"
In Persia, missionaries like Rev. j. G..
Cochran and Larabee, write home ''that
in the wine making season the whole
village of male adults will be habitually
drunk for month or six weeks. In
one hundred and thirty houses some
one was drunk in all save twenty hOus-
es, all giving themselves up to low
songs and brutal quarrels, and this on
wine" or
Charles Dickens, says: sThe wine
shops are the colleges and chapels OF
the poor in France. 1t is in wine shop
the cabman is taught to think it heroic
to shoot the middle-class man who dis
putes his fare. The wine shop breed,
in physical atmosphere Of malaria,
and q moral pestilence of envy and
vengeance, the men of crime and revo-
luton"
Rev. E. S. Lacy, of San Francisco,
six months in wine growing section
saws: aHere more intoxication was
Iobyious than i'm any other place it was
ever my lot to live in." .
paper says: "Wine making in Ell Dor
ado has paved the way for poverty and
drunkenness only" go
The editor Of the Pacific says: "Wine
has become as cheap as milk, and is as
freely drank till many, once sober men,
are growing habitually intoxicated.
One leading man enumerated to us five
of his acquaintances who, once noble
men, are now drunkards through wine.' y
In 1869 a report from all the COVER
nors and chaplains of prisons and all
the chief constables and superintsndents
.. of police throughout Great Britain were
interrogated as to the effects of beer
drinking upon the people, and all in the
report presented to Queen Victoria, re-
fer to iI as one cause, and most OF them
the greatest cause of intemperance in
England. Can 1922 Of her hest men be
entirely mistaken about this matter
Beer shops are almost universally whis-
+ ky shops. .
The Chief of Police of Boston re-
ports, in 1870, ont of 1854 saloons, only
seventeen sell lager beer only.
Judge Pitman, Of Superior Court OF
, Massachusetts,, reports, after eight
months of free beer, as compared with
1871, when it was restricted, an increase
OF sixty-eight per cent. of crime, and
over one hundred and twenty per cent
Increase OF drunkenness, and that IN
the short space Of eight months.
: The District Attorney of Essex says
81 am inclined to think that beer no,
only creates an appetite for something
stronger, but that its immediate effec
upon crime is more dangerous to the
community than the stronger liquors, II
this way: the excessive use Of the
z stronger drinks is liable to make mel
drunk and helpless, unable to do mucl
harm, while beer excites men to acts o.
violence, desperation, and crime"
DIR. John Todd, of Pittsfield, Massa'
chusetts, says: "Beer demoralizes aw
fully. 1t makes the men (of his town
besotted.
DR.. Day, who has probably the larges
experience of any man in the world
cases of drunkenness, states that larg
MAORI ity of the four thousand cases o
inebriety I have treated commenced
their course by the use of wine ant
. beer"
Oliver Dyer, of New York, writes il
I, 1870. 81 am satisfied that German
: with his brain soaked to stolidity il
? lager beer, is as bad brute as an Irish
man with his brain set on fire witt
whisky. speak from personal knowl
edge obtained from visiting hundred
of families of both classes"
Mr.. Stocking, native of Persia, whit
: served in our late war, describes tn
2 scene as shameful "when a score o.
more of our brave boys would b
: marched after pay day between TIVE
s files at guard mounting, many Of whom
we've intoxicated even to stupid uncon
!, scious OH lager beer; even Germans
for whom it is said to be harmless"
Fl Rev. Mr.. Thayer gives statistics il
!. Massachusetts, for the years 1867 ant
u 1871. In the former, under prohibi
ton, 1853 arrests; in 1871, under fre'
beer, IL ,105-more than double the for
Il mer. When restrictions were removed
= 81, ,2S614 more barrels of beer were mad
y in nine months than in the previou
y nine-aR increase of 80 per cent. s-
In Cleveland, not many weeks since
u a woman who supported husband al
" most constantly drunk on lager beer
who was in a lager beer saloon whel
. she begged him to come to his home
being told in his drunken frenzy tina
= he would kill her if she did not leav
. him, in fear and despair committe
VI suicide. Did beer make the man less
s. fiend than whisky would have done?
Last summer, while we were spend
IS ing few days at Put-in-Bay, a frien
a of ours became Ill. "Ah, said the dec
5 tor, 1 suppose the same complaint
,, have been treating all summer anon
Luc iauicSy tuc icouiI Vi cASCoeNS ue
'e of wine." He seemed incredulous whe
n informed that she never used it. W
10 were told by visi.or that one lady q
!, wealth, having children and nurses
% was eften intoxicated before breakfas
y and unable to come to the table. On
Il government vessel lying in the harbor
young women, elegantly dressed fror
the hotels, drank repeatedly with tn
!, officers. A business man from our cit
u became so intoxicated on wine, that hi