The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-11
WINE And WATER.
The President is Chagrined and
Inundated by
THE CENsURE PASSED UPON HIM
BY the Presbyterian SynOd-Wanamaker
Thanks God that be is Not as Others
Are-Blaine's Capital Story.
Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch.

Especial to THE HERALD-EXaminer Dispatch. ]
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Presdent Harrison
and ce-President Morton are chagrined and
Inundated by the censure passed upon them by
the Presbyterian synod at New York, on the
former for drinking wine and the latter for sell
ing it, and Postmaster-General Wanamaker is
proportionally gratified at receiving the synods
praise for his temperance. President Harrison
has never been total abstainer. He is inclined
TO be asthematic and occasionally needs an
alcoholic stimulant. He always has been very
moderate in his indulgence, combining it as
nearly as possible to medicinal limits. AS soon
Us he became candidate for the presidency,
however he yielded 10 the popular tendency so
Tar as TO drink over an Indianapolis bar. When
he came 10 the White House he was disposed to
De as frugal ana temperate as possible, but he
found II utterly impossible to get along without
entertaining Congress, the army. navy, judiciary
ana diplomatic corps, and he was soon con-
Elnced that social dinner without wine would
be a ti2t failure.
AS for Vice-President Morton he brides MIN
self on having always lived and entertained
like gentleman. He dbl before he was Vice
President and he cannot afford to do less now.
Nhen ne gives a dinner ofnclally he gives 1t not
as i private individual but representative
OF our government ana as such he ought TO give
ms guests not the kind of dinner he would per
Sonally prefer, but the kind of entertainment
he has reason to believe they like best.
Postmaster-GeneralW anamaker has had to
ught naru with himself TO savoid adopting the
same view and acting accordingly. Personally.
he Is an earnest and conscientious teetotaller,
so earnest and conscientious and so stubborn
that he has excluded wine from all his enter
IalnInentS, considering the position he holds in
the church ana Sunday school record he has
made. He has regarded this course so fora i'm
perauve. but in talking with his friends
ne candidiy admits he is sorry for
ne has felt indeed that he was little out of
place himself at such a dinner and in such a
company. Not that he is at all weakening his
grip on temperance principles but that he is
convinced that in the circumstances in which
he finds himself a social dinner without wine is
not consistent with either the most liberal hos
pitality or polite manners. Although very
plous, the postmaster-general is not at all de
void OF humor. He finds lots of fun in telling
his friends how uncomfortable he felt at
dinner which he gave to the cabinet
and which was attended also by some
other leading public men, like Vice-Presi-
dent Morton, Speaker Reed and Tom Plat
Mr. Wanamaker does not hesitate to declare
that as social affair that dinner was a dismal
failure. AppolinariS the most inspiring
drink on the table from beginning to end II
was after that dinner that Secretary Blaine is
said to have told that story about the relative
prominence OF wine and water in the Scriptures
WINE, SAID the secretary. SIS frequently men
toned with favor IN the Scriptures. When our
Savior came upon the earth one of the first
things he did 10 prove his divinity was to turn
water into wine and when about to take his de-
parture one OF the last things he did 10 show
his love for his disciples was to give them wine
I'D lib, and TO enjoin them to drink often in re-
1nembrance Of him.
ION the other hand sail the secretary, "you
the Scriptures, and you will find only one man
who ever mentioned water. He only asked for
single drop OF water, and he was in hell
which in all probability was the place for him. -