Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-08-27
ro-orr,.pOna.uce OF III. Gold ulii Daily News
Dnussxls, August z, 1873

BRUssxIs, August y, 1910.
There Is o belief In our own country
that there is scarcely any drunkenness
in Europe. and that this plague Is pscu-
liar to America. have frequently read
as much In American papers, and In
letters Of tourists. and I have heard
Americans on this side assert that they
have never seen . drunken man In
Europe. I a only say that those
Americans who have not seen q great
deal Of inebristy here have been almost
miraculously preserved from q sad and
disgusting. but very common. spectacle.
There may not DO AZ many persons
found dead drunk, as the saying is,
here as in America; but q much larger
proportion OF the people are always in
a state Of standardization, or. II may
be said. never quito sober. But II Is
hard TO understand how any n can
have lived In Europe for eve q short
time and not have seen men dead drunk.
have seen them In Paris
TOO DRUNK TO KKEP THEIR yEEr.
And while In Frankfort Main,
last week. / saw. in the space OF Eve
minutes, two men carried to the lookup
so hslplsssly intoxicated that they could
not lift q hand. The manifestation OF
drunkenness In the European and the
American Is very different. and the In.
frequency OF crimes arising from intori-
cation here Ia. ! think, one reason why
II Is 30 generally believed that there Is
less Of the vice on this than on the other
side Of the Atlantic. So thoroughly
have ages Of oppression and rigid sub
lection to authority trained the European
nature, that, oven in moments OF exhila-
ration. and even Of maddest excitement.
he never forgsts the terror OF law. This,
I think, il not inconsistent with the fact
that q large proportion Of our criminal
population IL OF foreign birth.
TIE UDDES TRANSITION
To q new country. and an entirely new
life, the elevation to citizenship and
peership 30 utterly confounds his i'm.
ported ideas Of political aud social rela-
lions that he runs amuck and the recoil
Of ages OF despotism falls. M II were.
upon the libemtor. Il has been fro.
~quently said In favor OF European insti-
buttons and habits that they have no
bars, that they have not the vile practice
OF walking up like Americans and sval.
lowing O drink at abar, but have instead
gardens aud saloons. where they 20 with
their families aud sit down and drink at
leisure. tits difficult to zee wherein the
superior virtue Of the European custom.
now largely introduced In America, con.
sists. II q man must drink. II would
seem that the sooner he swallows IL
down and goes about his business the
better. believe II there could be com-
piled
ACCURATE srArrsrIcs,
Not OF the men punished for crimes OF
drunkenness. butthrough some impossi-
bic intoxicomstsr that would precisely
guage the amount OF inebriation. be its
manifestation in individuals extreme or
mild II would DO found that there Ia n
much higher average according to tho
population In Europe than In America.
The usual manifestation Of in~toxication
In European countries Is loud. excited
talking and g~esticulation. and casual OBJ
servers, ignorant OF the language. arc
disposed to attribute this to national
habit, vivacity and good humor. But
those acquainted with the demon dis.
Germ other signs, such signs M would
cause q lawyer or n physician to lose
some practice In America, or make what
are called "marrying men less eligi.
BILE In the eyes Of prudent parents.
Wine bibing aud beer billing il n univer-
sal habit In France, Germany. Switzcr.
land and Belgium. Men. women and
children all drink. and some Of them
DRINK NEARLY III TnE TINE.
I do not think that the great tun at
Heidelberg would last some families q
great while. In France wine is the
beverage Of the rich and the poor. and
I do not think that II Is an exaggeraiion
to say that the French drink moro vino
than water. Americans. no matter what
may have been their p~rejudices ani
pledges. ~ o usual thing take TO wine
and beer drinking as Dor as they have
been q month in Europe. II Is said
that the water OF many European cities.
and especially Of Paris, is not good, and
our countrymen and countrywomen give
this a. an excuse for their fall from
abstinence. But ! do not think there IL
anything the matter with tho water
except lack OF ice. The waterin Paris
Ia perfectly clear. sweet and not very
warm even in the hottest weather.
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