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Americans a.-^sort tliero ir^ no drunkeiuicss in anycDuntry wliero' 

 Avine takes the ])lace of stronger liquors. Now we have sifted 

 tliis matter thorouglily both in Italy and Switzerland, and are 

 bound to deny the truth of this statement." 



When E. C. Delavan was in Rome some years since, Cardinal 

 Acton, the supreme judge assured him that nearly all the crime 

 originated in the use of ivine.'^ 



Rev. E. S. Lacy, of San Francisco, recently spent several 

 months in Switzerland, and he writes, *'I have just spent six 

 months in a country place of Switzerland, where wine is cheap 

 and pure, and far more the beverage of the laboring classes 

 than watei- ; where none think of making a dinner without a bot- 

 tle of wine. Here more intoxication was obvious than any 

 tither place it was ever my lot to be in." 



Hon. Caleb Poote, of Salem, Mass., editor of the Gazette, 

 writing to his son, Rev. H. M. Foote, of Boston, said, "Persons 

 here, who have been for years familiar with Paris, tell me that 

 there is a vast amount of drunkenness here. ■^'" -" * Our 

 informants Avho are people of large travel, and neither fanatics 

 or ascetics, have seen enough to make them deny in toto the 

 theory that wine producing countries arc sober." 



The Paris correspondent of the Chicago Republican recently 

 wrote, "The curse of the Parisian workmen is wine. ''•' * "■' 

 The idea is prevalent that people dont get drunk in France, be- 

 cause it is a wine country ; and I acknowledge that I used to 

 think so at tirst, before I had really seen the life of the common 

 people, but it is all foolishness. They do get drunk here, drunk 

 on wine." 



Dr. E. N. Kirk, of Boston, who resided in France for a time, 

 says, "I never saw such systematic drunkenness as I saw in 

 France during a residence of sixteen months. I never saw so 

 many women drunk." 



Rev. Dr. Stone, late of Park St. Church, Boston, now of San 

 Francisco, writes, "I had entertained a sort of hope that the 

 manufacture of pure wines and their introduction into general 

 use, would crowd out the gross, strong liquors and diminish in- 



