The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-11

-;cb,,ess all ;ts sensiblity. That tobacco, es-
nec;alIv in the form Of snuff, is personal en-
eny Of the memory, which has destroyed Ut
tie by little, and sometimes very promptly,
cannot be doubted Many persons Win nv ~ ce1e
brated chemist, for exampls-have run the
same dangers and escaped them in the same
fashion. by renonncing tobacco. which, we 90
not hesitate to say, harms the greater part OF
those who employ it,
Asa medicine, in some forms OF dis
ease. alcohol is invaluable. 1t has been
established by recent experiments that
when administered in small quantities it
enters into the system as nutriment; as
a concentrated form of food. In ty-
phoidal and other forms of disease, pro-
duced by depressed or debilitated con-
dition of the system, it acts as food and
stimulant.
In the form of cider, beer and pure
wines, it is perhaps not neces-
sarily deleterious. In Europe there
are large populations where
beer and wine are as common as water,
and yet there is but little intemperance
and the people are healthy and vigorous
But when alcohol takes the form Of
whisky or brandy, and is used in large
quantities as beverage, it becomes
great evil to society, and is utterly rum
Gus to those who use it. Poverty finds
in it refuge from its sorrows; debili
tated constitutions turn to it for artifi
cial health, and crime seeks in its milo
excitement oblivion from conscience. Il
makes the poor poorer; the improviden
more improvldent; the desperate NOR
desperate and society has, in all sucl
cases, to foot the bill.
We quote from the report of ID. Cur
tbs, the constable Of Vineland, in New
Jersey, temperance town, to show hov
greatly the absence Of intoxication will
decrease the expenses of government
"rhouyh we have a population of 1000
people, TOR the period of six months no settle
or citizen of Vine land has received relief a
nv hands as Overseer of the poor. Within
seventy d Us there has been only one case
among what we call the floating population
at the ex pense of g.
| 'DuflnG the cNtlTc year llltIc LIS oAiy OC|
. one Indictment, and that trifiing case of bat
terry among our colored population.
$50 few are the fires in Vineland that "
have no need of fine department. There ha
only been one house burned in year, an
two slight fires which were soon put out.
I'VE practically hare no debt, and our t 81
are only one per cent on the valuation.
"The police expenses of Vineland amount
s75a year, the sum paid to me, and our pot
exDeISeS are a mere trlfjc.
81 ascribe this remarkable state Of things, /
nearly approaching the Golden Age, to tue II
dustry OF our people and the absence OF Kin
Alcohol.
Z "Iet me give you in contrast to this the sta
OF things in the town from which came
\ New England The population CT the tow
: was 800, little less than Vlneand. 1t mail
tanned forty liquor shops. These kept busy
police judge, city marshal, assistant marsha
l tour night watchmen, and six policeme
l Fires were almost continual. That small pla
] maintained paid fire department OF four con
l panies of forty men each, at an expense
$4,000 per annum. belonged to this d
!. partment for six years, and the fires averag'
about one every two weeks, and mostly ince
t diary. The support of the poor cost " 800 p
annum The debt of the township was $l2l
r OOG The condition OF things in this Ne
England town is as favorable in that count
o as many other places where liquor is sold"