Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-08-02

more confidence than ever IN their lanus,
their stocks and bonds, and their business
establishments. Cheap gold means good
prices and general prosperity AS Europ-
cans enter more frequently into our mar
ket, prices will become more stable and bet
ter We make a great many errors about
finance and markets, but we have not yet
reached that stage Of strabismus when we
refuse to sell to buyer with money in his
hands.
The faint hearted who fear the future of |
American property can learn from the opln-
ions OF foreigners, backed by solid money, |
that no future is as bright rs that of we'll
situated and well managed holdings in |
these States.
AN UNSUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE |
Miss Kate Field, "the apostle of the grape"
has severed her connection with the Cali
fornia State Board of "Viticutural Com
missioners," by whom she was employed as
a lecturer to descant upon the merits of
California wines. Miss Field is a brilliant
woman and an attractive talker, and under |
other circumstances it might have been in
her power to give considerable boom to
the interests which she so ably represented.
But the object OF her appearance on the
lecture platform was obvious from the start.
Although an attempt was made to conceal
her design by pretending that her work was
really in the interest of temperance reform,
it was seen to be mere mercenary advo-
cacy of California liquors which fall under
the ban OF temperance reformers 1t seems
to have occasioned no surprise, then, when
the talented lecturer was assaied with the
utmost bitterness. The prohibtionist IS
nothing if not radical He believes in
total abstinence from all kinds Of liquors
| and wines. He believes that California
wines, in whatever degree they are less bad
than spirituous liquors, are, nevertheless,
bad Prohibtionists, some of whom have
attacked Miss Willard for using homepath
| ic alcohol as medicine, were certain there.
fore, to denounce Miss Field for the advo
cacy Of the vinous products of the Califor-
mia grape. The breeze created by these at
lacks has led her to rescnd her contract
with the California Company.
And, after all, was Miss Field warranted
in urging the use of wines as drink pro-
motive OF temperate habits. Her theory of
reform Enthusiastically shows an unfamiliari-
| ty with the habits of the drinker.
The belief held by temperance reformers
that the only absolute safeguard against in
temperance is total abstinence is undoubt-
eddy correct. 1t is really nothing to say of
wines that they are far less intoxicating
than spirituous liquors when they are in
toxicating at all, and it is useless to deny
that all wines are intoxicating when taken
in sufficient quantities. The effect reached
by comparatively small amount of liquor
is attained by large quantity of wine, and
the person who would advise drinking
man to seek reformation through the use OF
milder drinks is ignorant of the appetite of
the habitual topper Charles Lamb has de-
picted in thrilling language the temptations
that beset the drunkard who would fan re.
form, in the case Of whom the mere stimu-
lation of a pipe would incte to the bowl,
and has forcibly urged upon an experience
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only safeguard is total abstinence The
history of temperance reformation indeed
is conclusive demonstration of the fact
that the only hope of the kind of men who
have given rise to temperance movements
is the complete abjuration of intoxicating
drinks of all kinds-and with reference to
Miss Field true temperance reformers could
have taken no other stand than that which
has led her to withdraw from an enterprise
that was not only dangerous, but which
turned out to be a failure
A dispatch from London to New York
Times says the crops this year in Europe are
conceded TO be short Russian off cial re-
ports say the wheat crop is the worst in
manys years, and storms have done great
damage in Hungary and Northern Rouma-
mia, not only destroying grain still stand
ing, but sweeping away so many granaries
that the bulk of the harvested grain was
also lost. In Galicia and Silesia the grain
crops have been officially declared to be a
total failure, and those of Bohemia and
Morayia very bad. In India the shortage is
said to be very great and in England and
France the prospects for fine crops has
been greatly impaired by wet, cold weather.
Prices have advanced on the basis of these
reports, but whether there will be general
and material rise remains to be SEEN I'm
fortunately, even if there should be heavy
increase in prices, farmers in this section
will fail to receive the full benefit of it, ow-
ing to the fact that protracted bad weather
has caused shortage in the Maryland crop,
but has injured much of the wheat that has
been harvested.
The seizure of the British schooner Black
Diamond in Alaskan waters by the United
States internal revenue cutter Rush, in pur.
suance of President Harrison's proclama-
ton OF March %, re opens the question of
the right of the United States to maintain
jurisdiction over Behring sea as "closed
sea" and Mr.. Harrison's administration is
undoubtedly on the eve of long and tedious
diplomatic negotiations with the English
government on the subject. Its discussion
will involve the reconsideration of the Cana
dian fisheries question, for the two matters
are very closely allied
The last proposition for rapid transit is
an electric car that will run two to four
hundred miles an hour, or more if necessary
and the tracks will stand the strain. The
Chicago Herald has an account of this in
vention, with cuts, &c, BY this motor peo-
pie in Chicago would be able to reach New
York in five hours. A person could leave
Cincinnati in the morning, transact bust
ness in New York, dine with friends, and
be back in good bed time Things are pro.