New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-05

machines. and in funny fix the candidate
seems to have found himself, as the screws OF
interrogation were duly applied, and the re-
cording pencil, in the hands of the recording
angel, vibrated before the eyes of the bothered
candidate.
The first question was solemn, and categorical
should have been its natural answer. 1t was
as follows: "Mr. Ludlow, does your firm
manufacture cider-millsf" Everybody knew
already that it did manufacture these misera-
bic machines; but it was necessary to make
a beginning. Mr.. Ludlow proceeded to answer,
but we are forced to say that his response was
not in the least categorical. He is represented
as "smiling SOFTLY" forgetting, perhaps that
Smiling" is not Prohibition-hke at all, but
on the contrary the resource of those who are
still in the gall of bitters, the bond of brandy
and-water, the woe of wine and the sin of
cider. Still the candidate smiled, and said: "Not
to any great extent this year." Doesn't make
cider-mills this year, to any great extent !
What kind of Prohibit on candidate is this 7
How little he has learned of the exquisite par
ticularity of his party Does he not know that,
according to its ethics, one cider-mil is as NOR
ally obnoxious as million Has be forgotten
the curt and concentrated slogan: "Touch not
bend that in his diminished cider-mills may
Turk an infinity of woe . That it is but step
from the one glass of cider made by his ac-
cursed press to the more potent beer the
still stronger wine, the very apple-jack, that
most muscular of stimulantsq But still he went
oD "smiling SOFTLY" "The cider MILL" he
said, expresses the juice of the apple so that
it can be used for apple-butter!" And that
was the way in which he proposed to but
ter the people of Ohio, was it7 How could
he know that those who purchased it for apple
butter might not in a moment of temptation
forget the sacred pledge and the taste for but
ter, and bolt the fluid simply as a beverage
How could he know that the wine made in
his mill would be used "for sacramehtal pur-
poses," as he limited that it would be7 How
could he keep watch over the numerous
demljohns scattered through the State, and
filled with the strong waters flowing from
the Ludlow wine -presses9 One point, indeed, he
seemed to make when he pleaded to the
listening reporter that from the cider and
wine produced through his fundamentally
great quantities of vinegar might be made.
And so vinegar might be made of the foreign
wines the sale of which in Ohio his party pro-
poses to prohibit. 1t would be sinful then, to
make vinegar out of Sicily, Madeira or other
imported wine; it must not be sold for any
such purpose; but it would be absolutely
moral to make it out of cider poured from the
presses manufactured and sold by the Prohi-
bitiOn candidate for Governor! Doctors may
prescribe wines expressed from the Ludlow
apparatus, but even a dying man must not be
resuscitated by vinous draught purchased
III corner grocery! Far be it from us to say
anything uncivil of Mr.. Ludlow and his cider
mills and his wine-presses but if we should
intimate in the genteelest way that his Prohib-
itory sentiments and his teetotal professions are
good deal of humbug, would our candor be a
hanging nlatterq
For it should be remembered that Mr.. Lud-
low himself, when asked eff he believed i'm
drinking cider" answered emphatically, "No.n
" / would not advise anybody he continued.
"to take it as beverage" And then he
proudly averred that "he had not drank
glass of cider for over five years. He
furnishes the facilities for making what
he will not drink himself, because he regards
1t as dangerous to drink it. Well, doesn't Mr..
Ludlow know that there are hundreds of GIN
millers acquiring fortunes out of their tippling
customers who are as good as he is in that
respect and who sell what they would not
themselves drink And does he not know
tnat there are many grog-deaers, men for
whom he thinks the Jail too good, who would
like nothing better than license to sell the
cider and the pure unadulterated wine to which
his ingenuity and enterprise assist the COM
munityf And does he think that his soft
smiles will mask his thorough inconsistency 2
Is the stuff trickling from his machines so bad
that nobody can drink it, except as a religious
duty Eat the sacramental tablerP
1t is minated that the Prohibition Conyen-
ton which nominated Mr.. Ludlow knew not of
the business of cider-pr making in which he
was engaged. 1t is further intimated that the
Democrats who egged on that Convention, and
arranged its ticket, did know all about the mat
ter The cider-presses, of course, did not
trouble them, and would not have troubled
them much if they had been whiskey-stills.
Their business was to defeat the Republican
ticket, and not to bring about a millennium of
sobriety in Ohio. But we are rather surprised
that they did not show q little more sagacty.
What they wanted in temperance candidate
was real simon-pure, thoroughgoing teeto-
talism. What they got was a manufacturer of
cider mills and wine-presses! Great ms the
fatal skill of the party of late years has been for
making elephantine bluHders, did it ever make
bigger onef