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is taken as a substitute. That is not what I advocate. The 

 evil results of the use of distilled liquors I know as well as 

 any other man. I do not suppose that I need to insist upon 

 that in order to justify the remarks I have made in reference 

 to the use of the unadulterated product of the grape in the 

 shaj)e of pure wine. 



I am a temperance man ; I believe in it and practice it. It 

 is a question to which we have got to look. If we grow the 

 grape we have got to come to the wine question. 



Mr. Bull says : "You have had testimony to that effect from 

 gentlemen who must be accepted as authority in this matter. 

 In the work I have quoted, Denman's work on " The Vine and 

 its Uses," there are abundant quotations from eminent trav- 

 elers, physicians, and others, in wine-growing countries, all 

 going to prove that where the vine is found in most abund- 

 ance, there is no Intemperance ; that the people are healthy, 

 temperate, thrifty, and cheerful. A clergyman of this State, 

 who passed two years in France for his health, going all over 

 it, for the most part on foot, told me that in all the wine dis- 

 tricts he found temperance, but the moment he got in those 

 -districts where the grape could not be grown, where they drank 

 beer, and brandy distilled from the potato and from beet-waste, 

 there he found intemperance immediately. And that is the 

 universal testimony. Now, all the world will have stimulants 

 for necessity; for debility arising from sickness, or age, or 

 that form of disease — if it is a disease — dyspepsia, where you 

 cannot digest your food. Physicians prescribe stimulants, and 

 until an abundant supply of wine is made, these noxious drinks 

 will be used. It seems to me that it is not only better for us 

 to use wine, but better for the cause of temperance. I believe 

 that, and I have acted upon it. My cellar is full of wine. I 

 will not sell it against the law. If the law never permits me 

 to sell it, it will stay there until ray friends help me to drink 

 it. I might have received as much money, perhaps more, for 

 my fruit upon the spot, but I thought I would Avork out the 



