Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-10

for plaintiff in the case of Alice J. Under
hill VS.. O. 7. Underhill, and to close
the list Susan Woodbury. filed a
complaint against John s. Woodbury., in
which she claims that John used bad lam
guage, and has at divers times struck her
with his fist, and worse than all, did at one
time draw loaded revolver on her and
| threaten to shoot her. She also claims
that she is in fear of her life when in his
presence, ETC., etc.
The Beer ApoEogist Of Goodhue.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In your Saturday mornings issue, saw
communication from the great s'beer
apologist of Goodhue,' in which he offers
you for publication, certain extracts from
letter written by his brother, designed to
show that in wine and beer drinking coun
| tries drunkenness is comparatively IN
known. Now, MI. Editor, If there is any
| thing in 'blood relation" think we should
| receive with a great deal of allowance any
| thing which emanaies from that source on
| the temperance question. Permit few
quotations from the writings of other men
on that subject, who deem to be quite as
reliable.
E. c. Delevan. Esq, of Albany, writing
| from Rome few years ago, said: Gear
dinal Acton assures me that, nearly all the
crimes in Rome originated in the use of
| wine." The cardinal was the supreme
judge. He says further, 81 visited that dis
trict, and there I saw men, women and
children. sitting in rows swilling away at
wine, making up in quantity what was
lacking in strength; and such was the
| character of the inmates of these dens
that my guide urged my immediate depar-
ure as valued my life.'
j. Fennimore Cooper, the celebrat-
ed American author, wrote: II
came to Europe under the
| impression that there was more drunken
ness among US than in any other country,
England perhaps, excepted. A residence
of six months in Paris ichanged my views
entirely. have taken unbelievers with
me into the streets and have never failed
to convince them in the course of an hour.
On one occasion party of four went out
for this object. We passed thirteen
drunken men within walk of an hour,
many of them so far gone as to be unable
to walk. In passing between Paris and
London 1 have been more struck by
drunkenness in the streets of the former
than in those of the latter
Prof. W. F. Wessen testified before the
license committee of the legislature of
Massachusetts concerning drunkenness
IN Germany as follows:
In the universities of Berlin and Halle.
one-third OF the students are, once a week.
what you would call drunk. As regards
the peuple, 1 can only say, that during the
last five years drunken people have gone
past my house, suppose every evening
sometimes boistrously drunk, and even
reeling drunk
Il. 2. Carey, Esq, testified that at a
musical festival, where there were 400 mu-
sicians, "a large proportion of them were
drunk-a great many of them dead
drunk"
E. j. Mitchell, Esq, who resided ten
years in Paris, said, "The first morning
after reached Paris: after leaving nv
| hotel the firstithing that saw was drunk
en- woman" Rev. J. Q. Lochran, mission
airy to Persia, said; THAT during the
wine making season the whole
| village CT male adults will be habitually
| intoxicated for month or six weeks
Horace Greeley wrote from Paris ''That
wine tciu insoxicate-Goes intoxicate; that
there are confirmed drunkards in Paris and
throughout France, is notorious and unde-
niable. You can hardly open a French
newspaper that docs rot contain some &C
count of a robbery perpetrated upon some
person stupefed by over drinking"
A French magazine called the WorI,-G-
Day World, of France, says: Drunken
ness IS the beginning and end of life in the
great industrial cente-s. There are manu-
featuring towns lille, for instance whore
the women have followed the example of
the men, and have added drunkenness to
their other vices. It is estimated that at
Lille t,centyjfre OUT Of erery 100 men, and
t,reIre ont of every 100 ayomea, are con-
6rmed drurkards.''
Rev. E. c. Lacy. Of San Francisco, recent
~ spent several months in Switzerland,
and he writes;''E have just spent six
months in a country place of Switzerland.
where the people do nothing bat work in
| the vineyards; where wine is cheap and
pure, ai,j far more the beverage Of the la
boring classes than water; where none
think of making dinner without bottle
of wine; where all the scenery is of the
most elevating and ennobling character.
here more lntoxicGtion was obvious than
IN any other place it was ever my lot to
live IL. On holidays and festal occasions.
yon might suppose all the male population
drunk, so great are the numbers in this
deranged and beastly condition. Edward
G. Delevan, while in Paris for one winter.
took pains to gather up some statistics,
from reliable government scores. Some
of them are as follows:
The population of Paris in 1866 was
1,e25,000. The consumption of wine
redched 100000 gallons, being an aver
age Of forty-tsco gallons to each individual
from infancy up. In those over fifteen
years an average of sirty gallons. He says
the figures show that the drink bill of
France for one year was, "$1,516,546, OOO,"
and yet your correspondent would have us
believe that nobody gets drunk in the wine
growing and beer drinking districts. Now
another fact. Statistics show that France
bugs and uses sic gallons Of ardent spirits
annually to each individual, beside its
wines; while in this country it is only three
gallons. Aud yet your correspondent says,
that "a drunken person is rarely SEEM
What an antidote wine must be. The
scripture says that "wine ia mocker,''
but this man has travelled and finds that |
1t isn't. God says in his word: ''Look not |
upon the wine when it Is red,' but the new
"Wilson" version would read, etc, Look on |
the wine when it is red and when Il |
moveth itself aright-swallow it as an |
antidote to Drunkenness Is it any won
der that some men when elected to the
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