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AV'hile progress is our boast and watchword, we should keep 

 such step to that tune as not to be progressing backward. 



We are well aware that it has been very common within the 

 past few years, for some in high position to recommend the use 

 of wine, with the hope that it would become a substitute for 

 stronger drinks, and thus to make it a promoter of temperance. 

 Such are disposed to assert with great positiveness, that wine 

 is in very common use in some of the European countries, Avhile 

 drunkenness is hardly known there. We have seen this stated 

 so frequently that if the mere statement was sufficient to make 

 it so, it should be true, but the evidence of the fallacy of such 

 statements is so abundant that it is very plain to us that neither 

 Avine luaking or drinking deserves to be encouraged by the 

 offer of premiums from any of the Ag. Societies of this State. 



We have before us a letter from Dr. Holland (Timothy Tit- 

 comb) a gentleman of extensive travel and observation, now in 

 Europe, who writes upon this question, very frankly acknowl- 

 edging himself undeceived upon this matter, by his observa- 

 tions of wine making and drinking which he has there witnessed. 



He writes "We have all been told in America, and I fully be- 

 lieved it, that if the people could be supplied with a cheaj) 

 wine they would not get drunk— that the natural desire for some 

 sort of stimulant Avould be gratified in a Avay that W'ould not 

 only be harmless to mortals, but conducive to health. 1 am 

 thoroughly undeceived. The people drink their cheap wine 

 here to drunkenness. A boozier set than hang around the mul- 

 titudinous cafes here, it would be hard to find in any American 

 city. '^' * * * If you can imagine a cauliflower of the 

 color of ordinary red cabbage, you can achieve a very adequate 

 conception of faces that are very common in all this Avino 

 growing region. So this question is settled in my mind. Cliea]) 

 wine is not the cure of intemprance. * * * J, 



with many others have looked to find it in a cheap and comptir- 

 atively harmless wine ; but for cme, I can look in this direction 

 hopefully no longer." Prof. Butler, who lived several years in 

 Europe, both in city and country, says : ''We have heard 



