The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-24
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SovE STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPsRANcE.
The Tendency Toward Temperance - A
R' markabie Editorial From the New
York sun-Restraint of Appetite Under
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The Tendency Toward Temperance - A
E' markable Editorial From the New
York sun-Restraint of Appetite Under
the Influence of Good Sense.
1t seems that large English wine i'm
porting company reports a notable DIM.
mutton in its sales of wine during the last
year. more particularly champagne and
claret. This reduction is attributed to va
rious causes. 1t is said to be due to "the
shortness of money, especially in the up
per middle classes" to the present fashion
OF drinking whisky and soda at dinners
rather than champagne, and to .he decline
OF claret in favor.
These causes may have cont buted to
the result, but the main and most potent
cause Is less drinking in the classes from
which especially comes the demand for ex
pensive wines. Dinners of the more eab.
crate sort. which used to last for several
hour-. with long list OF wines on the bill
of fare, have now been cut down to about
an hour only, and the quantity of wines
consumed is reduced greatly. This change
OF custom has taken place both in England
and this country. and its effects on the
wine trade must have been very consider,
able.
1t Is a temperance movement OF which
good sense rather than any moral convic.
tiOn is the impulse. 1T is a restraint of ap
petite under the influence OF enlighten
ment, and of a better understanding of the
evil effects of gorging. either with food OF
with drink. Dinner tables are no longer
overloaded with food and the guests are
treated a. reasonable beings who do not
want to be surfeited.
\ like disposition to keep within the re.
straints of Temperance extends to all self
respecting men throughout society, Clubs
can no longer rely on profits from their
bars and wine rooms to pay large part of
their expenses. An immOderate drinker
has become marked man in a club
Drunkenness is disreputabie.
Wall STREE has the name of being a spe'
cial seat OF demand for cocktails. Actu
ally it is very temperate quarter A bro
ker needs to keep his wits about him. He
cannot afford to fuddle his head with al
cohol. And so 1t is in business generally
The strain of modern competition compel'
sobrety in those who would stand up
against it. A reputation for sobriety L.
necessary capital Tor every man who has
his living to make in any industry. lntem-
perance is more than ever a bar to getting
and keeping employment, and there is less
tolerance for it.
1t is true that the report OF the Police
Department of New York for last year
shows that about thirty per cent. OF tho
arrests were for ntoXication; but the prob
able explanation is that the offence IL
more sharply dealt with than formerly; it
stands out more conspicuously. In New
York it is tare to encounter a drunken
person in the streets-a sight so frequent
in English cities Neither do we see here
the rags and tatters which bear witness to
the prevalence of sodden drunkenness in
those towns.
The present tendency is toward temper
ance; and the preachers who have brought
it to pass are not the professional temper.
ance reformers. but good sense and the
better and more extensive recognition by
the people OF the fact that men must keep
sober to preserve the decent reputation
which is necessary to their getting along
in iife-New York Sun.