Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-08
FURTHER REFLECTIONS UPON THE
OTHER SIDE.
Editors Press & Dakotatan:

With your permission Fireball will to day OF
esume the march of his meditations upon p
The other side of the question, and trusts to nj
DO so without hurting the feelings, or AMI
madverting upon the motives of any person. =
This question does not specially belong to R
Yankton whether upon the one side or the E
other;i It belongs to the world and we only :
purpose to argue our sides of it. and as the
Irishman says "Do that same" in a manly
and qeatemanly way. We have nothing TO J
do vi h the other side that was worn out
many core of years ago and its advocates
have not a single nesu idea to present upon ii. ;
All they can do now is to fling mud sat the
new structure we are raising in behalf of the s
long silent and patiently abused man OF
business.
If we go back to the ages beyond the an
tiquity OF authentic history, we will find
that wine was an essential condition and
element ola feast, and coming down through
the centuries, we still find it the undisnut
ed monarch of the public and private table
In France, Spain and Italy wine is used as
water, and these three nations are among
the abstemious ones of the world. In either
drunkenness is rarely if ever known. Ger
many and England are two of the beer
drinking countries of the world in both
beer is the natural and approved beverage and
in Germany drunkness is a rare, indeed an
almost unknown exhibition.-In our own
country we have a pronounced opinion on
the subject from no less man than Alb
raham Lincoln. A red ribbon" once
called upon him at the white house and
protested against the appointment OF Gen.
Grant to the supreme command of the ar
mics of the United States, on the ground
that Grant was drunk at Shiloh.
IF that be the case" replied Abraham,
81 would like to know the brand of his
whisky, that l may send a barrel to each Of
the generals of the armv"
The "red ribbon" ven his way, mute and
If meditsting deeply.
0 In spite of the "winey orgies" of centuries
n past, this good old world has steadily pro
e crossed, until she presents the 10Th as most
marvellous of the centuries. In invention,
in art and mechanism 10 science, philoso
"a ply and manufactures in the vessels which
skim the seas, and the cannons which
10 mount the forts of the world; in law, liter
AZURE and military science; ay, in the very
civilization of her warfare in her innumer
able Industries; in her treaties, and exac
justice towards the rights of neighbors
in her schools, public institution!
and magnificent charities, the nations Of thu
in 10Th century afford ample proof that run
is not a ruling power! And yet the "ree
N. ribbon" dares to stigmatize it as "the centu
Il ry of drunkenness" The time will com
as when the men of this century will b
h. termed, 'aThe Immortals," They has
h. chained the lightning through Franklin
lis and tanned the Atlantic through Cyru
he Field. Morse annihilated space with a COZ
per wire and Bell whispers in your ca
through miles of telephone. Your pulpit
vac are filled with the greatest of ministers, an
..t your forums graced by the grandest orators
>, The press is a marvel Of power and perfee
). ton and more millions of broad acres hay
>. knuckled to the plough, in America alone
than all broad Europe possesses. 100000
of PROSTATE bondmen have been made
stand erect the wrongs of the past hay
ON been almost righted and yet, a male
female sred ribbon will dare to say "Ame
ON lea is a nation of drunkards ]" On the COZ
ri. trary she has proved herself a nation
heroes and gods!
mo If some Abraham Lincoln, in Africa, we
TO- told by a "red ribbon" that America was
nation of drunkards," it is possible Il
.nu African potentate might exclaim: 9Th
LIZ send me a few million cargoes of the ru
and beer drunk by that wonderful people
Since giving this question proper and de
consideration, the writer is startled at t
vast vista Of unanswerable arguments viii
'go march before his mental eye In solid colun
all tending TO stamp the so-called temp
ance movement as q frightful moral plag
IA seeming paradox, and a movement,
continued, of deep and deadly danger, N
!. ally and financially to the people
any community that, In a moment of
thusiasm, may encourage it, 1t is a dan:
so deadly that the writer hereof solemn
no warns the movers in it, to pause and TIN
before they bring destruction to their gre
N;.s ing, beautiful and prosperous city. Why,
4 90 dear reader, what would result from
,ooL ceasing of all the saloons Of Yankton, (de
Wi, ing for a moment with the impossible
;,t,e First, your hotels, which already have
ntod little patronage, would be closed, beca
/, it avoided by the generous and hospita
pied traVeier-seo'e a'er s'ofe WOMB o'ose
Ed. want ofcustom, and finally all Of its pril
II no pal industries would cease en''reiy ior W
fire. of outside patronage. Why look at a c
,t.ed with which many Yankton men are famil
alter, Merchants used to visit from ali parts
atom the country the city of Boston the spiri