Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-26

Mr. A. s. IIollingsworth Is the Santa Ana agent
the IIKRALp.
A SIaiign Local Crusade.
Yesterday we INDUCED in few re-
marks which showed both the strength
and weakness OF the Prohibition cause,
as bodied forth in the Ohio election.
There is one aspect of the Prohibition
crusade In which. until people is
thoroughly aroused makes the temper
ance fanatics indisputably the masters OF
their adversaries, and that is that they
have no disposition to compromise, and
are simply merciless and proscriptiye in
their demands. The easy, good natured
people to whom they are opposed really
Gil the simiitude Of the great, tremen.
dous Percheron horses, which are dis.
tressed by flies. They flip their tails for
momentary relief, and. for the time
being, disperse their enemies. The
total abstainer, however, has dis
tinct plan of battle. He 10 aggres-
sive and intolerant. The anti.sumptu-
ary law champion. on the other hand,
only desires TO be lot alone. With the
exception Of the occasional poor fellows
who, IL they were debarred from whisky
and other excitants, would take to
opium and morphine, the great army OF
the people who believe in allowing
man to do as he likes, Is composed of
robust and healthy beings. Ce-
sar, according to Shakespeare, ex-
pressed preference for fat men
for men "who sleep o nights, which is
an incident Of people and Of animals who
are reasonably supplied with adipose
tissue. Cesar, according to the bard
Of Avon. had an intense and prophetic
dislike Of the lean and hungry Cassius
kind of man. Almost without excep-
tion, the genuine prohibitionist is dys-
peptic, and he Is endued with the malign
energy of dyspepsia. He wants to regu.
late the going in and the coming forth Of
his fellows. He employs the watches of
the night, which better constituted peo-
pie devote to balmy sleep, in devising
specioss and intolerable forms of bedov.
ilment, to be employed to the torture of
those who, through fortunate processes
Of the evolution of chymc and chyle, are
able to get through life cheerfully, even
II the odious beer and porter, aud the
execrable whisky and rum and gum,
enter into their daily methods of life.
Just there is where the temperance
fanatic is unquestionably superior to the
good.natured advocate Of freedom OF life
and manners. He is aggressive from
the word go" Every proper
ly brought up human being re-
members when, in infancy, his
mother stood by his sick couch, and
tried to coax him to take dose of
SIENNA and mama by representing it to
be coffee; and how, when this expedient
failed, his infant nose was firmly graspod
between the maternal thumb and fore
finger, and the dreadful sanitary dose
was forced into his revolving stomach
through the ipfantile bronohials, aolens,
volens. This is the attitude of the
pseudo temperance fanatics. and there is
an undoubted force in the method.
The good humored, really potential
element of humanity, will only even up
the disparity under which they at pres
ent lie, by devising programme some
thing like this:
On the supposition that the cosmo.
politan kind OF man is to be de.
barred OF his whisky aud beer, should
the tsetotallers win, the average
teetotaller, in the event OF the success
Of the people whom they regard as un-
godly, ought to be compelled to drink
given amount of tho products of the
California wine presses and distilleries.
In Difference to the enervated stomachs
of this peculiar guild, it might be well
TO start them with Blaue Elben, Ber-
ger, or seme other light wine, gradually
increasing to the heavily bodied wines,
and eliminating with Roses and Bald.
wins brandies. The probability is that,
while the temperance crusade. so-called,
is one of undiluted evil TO mankind, the
process which we suggest would result
in the regeneration of many deplorably
5ebilitated stomachs, in whose recesses,
for years, tape worms have disported in
sort of dyspeptic futile dalliance-futile
only in the sense that the temperance
fanatic has not long ago been killed,
Waving this jocular treatment of a
very serious subject, the people of Cali
fornia, and of Southern California espe-
cially, are very gravely interested in the
phases of fanaticism which would, if
uccessful, annihilate the fairest and
most promising interests ever developed
in California-we allude to our vinicul.
tural and viticultural interests. We
have always regarded the production, in
large measure, of pure wines and pure
grape brandies, as the most thorough
movement in the interest of genuine
temperance. and of the public health.
which could be devised. Remembering
that, in the whole history of the world,
the biggest chested men and the finest
wombed women, have been chronicled
in countries in which the vine and the
malt and hop have been held in high
honor, we have fondly imagined Califor.
mia in the front rank OF the finest
evangels Of both vinous and malt pro-
duction, and as the mother of race so
robust that bcstial iutoxication would be
very rare thing here. Nearly all the
talk about drunkenness in this State
comes from people so enfeebled in
physique that a sour lemon rubbed over
their lips would make them drunk for
twenty-four hours at a time. There are
no such imbeeiles in the vine-growing
countries OF Europe. Los Angeles coun-
ty, both as protective OF her great lead
ing interests, and as conservative of the
health Of mankind, must see to it that
these fanatics shall stay in the obseurity
to which they were dismissed in the
election Of last year. That she will do
so we do not for moment doubt.
For time whereof the memory of the
newcomer to Los Angeles runneth not