The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE TRAFFIC I'm sr1MuLAsrs.

THE TRAFFIC IN sTIMULANTs.
1t is we'll developed fact that the traffic In
stimulants Is now In a q )urishing condition
and has been steadily increasing in volume
throughout the country since the general reyi-
val Of business, without much regard to local
laws intended to restrain 1t. In this connection
1t may be remarked that experience. running
through a long series of years. shows that the
quality of alcoholic stimulants consumed by the
people deteriorates and drunkenness increases
with the adoption Of prohibitory laws: while
the opposite effect Is produced under a liberal
and tolerant system of regulating the traffic.
The same causes which have stimulated other
branches of trade and industry chief among
which is the improved condition of the laboring
classes. have opera cd to the expansion of this,
which naturally shares the increased prosper
ity of all the other great commercial and manu.
featuring interests But the great ex-
pansion of this branch of industry dur
ing the last few years has not been due
wholly. or chiefly to the increased demand for
alcoholic stimulants, but has spru ng in a great
measure from the increased consumption of
absolute alcohol In tho use vi arts, and by other
branches of home industry which depend more
OF less upon this product Of the still for their
successful prosecution. But the more general
use OF alcohol as beverage In its mtlder forms
and combinations Is new feature of American
society derived from Its adoption and assimia-
ton of European customs Our people take
Kindly to the beverages of the fatherland and
mother country. especially to the use of ale and
lager beer. And this increased consum ption of
malt liquors has doubtless interfered to some
extent with the traffic In the more crude and
fiery grades of distilled spirits: but 1t does not
by any means Indicate q ratio of substitution of
the former for the latter. since the use of
fermented beverages has mostly grown up
among class who were formerly total abstain
ers. but who have lately discarded the notion
that everg form of alcoholic stimulant Ia preju-
dicial to health. The OK port trade of fine Bour-
bon whisky is steadily increasing, and In d.
reetion where they have to compete with the
best products OF the old world, while the decay
of the French vintage industry In consequence
of the vine plague, has OF late placed the wines
and hrandies OF Southern Europe at great
disadvantage in the American market, where
they have to compete with the similar untaxed
products of the Pacific coast. Already these
have largely superseded the former Ia most OF
the principal cities of the Atlantic States, and
the time Is probably near at hand when the i'm
proved methods of grape cultivation and wine
making now practieed In California will enable
that State to supply all the American markets.
to the complete exclusion OF foreign vinous
products.
vIvE LA CoMMUNEp'
While the French government Is fighting the
Jesuits the Commune shows signs Of life and
activity In the very heart of the French capital.
The eighteenth of March the date on which
nine years ago, the Commune inaugurated Its
sinister egime. was commemorated by mon
ster meeting held at the Sale des Ecoles, In the
The IN yuif
red banners Fl ,ated here and there. and near
the door was fixed a placard which ran thus:
Strike for the Universal Cor mune. Rehabili-
tated Is our cause. Avenged 1t will be, Glori-
fed 1t will remain. Ninth anniversary OF the
revolution OF March 10. 1871" Close by stood
another banner upon which famed the words
"Vivo la C,mmunel" After some preliminaries
had been gone through the Cheyenne Rouzade
great star among the Socialists, appeared at
the tribune and made the speech Of the even
ing. The Cheyenne" woman of middle age,
was clad In q black dress of the most severe
simplicity. but her hat was relieved with
tr!-color ribbon and a huge diamond sparkled
on her hand. She received an enthusiastic re-
ception. and then In cold. dry tones she SCI
about denouncing the governing classes"
Nature, said she. has made no one master |
among us. Deprive the general of his uniform. |
the Judge OF his robes, turn them all into bath
ing attire and then try to recognize them IL you
will. Brutal force and heft she said, have been
the point OF departure Of the first rich men and |
OF the first masters. At the c inclusion of the |
address the audience rose to their feet and made
the hall ring again with their cries of "Vive |
Pamnestie!" 'Vlve la Soci 4lism!" "Vive la |
Communew Trinkets In honor OF the occasion |
were then distributed. Some were adorned |
until In
symbols. but all bore the same inscription, |
1S7l-Commune de Paris-Nlnth Anniversary" |
instrumental and vocal music the songs all |
of the glorious Commune" |
occupied thu remainder of the evening. which |
hnallg wound 10 amid renewed cries of "Vive |
la Communei"
KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION.
A congress Of the American Froebel Union |
has recently been held In New York. which was
largely attended by ladies and gentlemen inter-
e,ted In the KLndergarten work which the Union |
was established to promote. Miss Eltz Abeth |
Peabody, the president of the society," read |
D aper ON storytelling In the Kindergar on - |
with illustrations drawn from her own expe-
Renee Ia the schools and stories told her by her
little pupils. Size began teaching In the Kinder
gar en-. she said. without fully understanding |
the Froeb system. and wrote a book on the |
subject. which is now the foundation for
many schools that are improperly called |
The results confidently looked |
for In the development of the children
did not come. SO she visited Europe to gain In
formation. and In the true Froebe schools she |
found the streng b and beauty OF the system.
Stories. she said. were the chids first introduce
ton into that grand world OF the ideal In char
acter and life: and the first and highest use of |
"a nh fp
and noble IDEAL Of what a man may be and do |
La the second lace they were illustrations to |
the children Of the laws governing life. for they
were the lessons Of experience. third use of |
stories was the sense they give child of a |
woi Id beyond his own. aud thus, next to COM
they serve to destroy that egotism |
when looks on self as the centre OF all |
things. cries. too DEVELOPED sympathies. |
or the ,magination of the heart. and