The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-03-14
THIRD EDITION
From the N. Y. Herald.
Food and Drink.

AOONH ~~sseS 49, ~sSF@e
The readers of the Herald will adj
nit that this journal has always
been foremost in exposing the nom
sense of self-styled temperance
men who have argued from the
false premise that man is a mere
lump of inane matter, which could
easily be granted or denied what
ever it asked for. The Herald has
demonstrated that something more |
than mere will force or pious senti-
ment is necessary to enable a drunk
ard to give up the alcohol habit; 1t
has claimed that the personal atten-
ton OF a single intelligent man is OF |
more practical use to reforming |
drunkard than all the prayers OF all |
the sentimentalists can be, and that |
the inebriate who wishes to change |
his ways is in immediate need of the |
services of an able physician and a
practical cook. These ideas are at
the bottom of at least nine cut OF
ten of all reforms that have been
successful in the drink king world, but
they do not initiate against the
facts hereinafter stated. Practical
treatment is necessary to the men
who already are being injured by
liquor, but as an ounce of proven
ton is worth pound of cure the
most important work that temper
ance advocates have on hand is the
encouragement of the drinking hab-
it among men who are not almost
hopelessly gone.
Alcohol is stimulant; the crav~
ing for it results either from a ply
steal system not properly nourished
or one that is overwurked. The ma
tions in which drunkenness is most
common are those whose inhabitants
have least TO eat; next 10 these come
those people who know least about
preparing food so that it shall be d.
gesLible. runkenness is most
common IN EnA land and Ireland,
where meat and other stimulating
food is seldom tasted; il is least pres
valent in those portions OF the Uni
ted States where food products OF
all kinds are 50 cheap that the poor
est man may have enough. The
true sp ciic for alcohol is plenty of
food, and as II Stands 10 reason that
the man who can afford to drink can
afford to eat the cure Is within the
reach OF every drinking man who
pays for his liquor.
he a Gumenl That soma men who
fare sutup uuusly are nevertheless
drunkards has No force, fOc men who
eau afford to eat are often rot uu, very
inVan nj Oh. Il l.. l. Il
but their habit Of CONTIGUOUS sIImuIa
ton decreases appetite 10 an alarming
degree. NeverLD eless lie iacL remains
that the mau who goes out Of his shop
or office in search OF fifteen cent glass
Of liquor TO make him ieel better would
be far III re sensible If he wrre to take
tifteen cent meal cheap res aurant
where uIt AT Is sud, and Tia the labo eI
WHO ponds aseAr fare Ton lass OF beer
would yet Tar more strength, comfort
aud cheer 10y buying five cents worth Ui
meat to be made INTO a stew at home.
The temptation OF alcohol is the speed
with whlc0 its effects can be secured,
but the drinking liza III is, above all
others, an Illus. ration of ii e truth uf
the sag ing That haste makes was t. No
man who las The pdteuc,' To eat enough
Of properly prepared food, no matter
how PLAIN or cheap II may be, will have
good exc Use to seek help irom rum.
Another tact, and one OF most serious
importance, is tia not one in every
twenty drinks swallowed by the people
Is good Of us KIND. Most Of the beer
made in the United SLales Is vile Stops,
and ninely-nlne one hundred LIS OF The
whiskeY Is Too BAD 10 be Lolera ed. 1Ien
who DO not cafe what they pay 10 what
ever they drink have great roubIe to
ind pure liquor that IS UId enough to be
r aspnably harmless. What, then, mus
be the stuff that poor men drink?
Again We assert that the mau who
can afford TO drink can afford to eat, and
that as much sllmuious as any mas can
be trust with Can be found in Hood.
Let the temperance people talk pfactl-
cal physical truths instead OF senti-
mental DlaLheIskIte, and within tile
lifetime If the coming generation they
may ste their work accomplished III UAr
United States.