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and in another year their yield will 

 largely swell the figures given above. 

 Preparations are being made also to 

 put a still larger area of land into 

 grapes by parties named above, and 

 by others who have not 3'et entered 



into the business. So that the remark 

 previously made, that Monroe county 

 must soon stand in the foremost rank 

 as a grape producing district, will be 

 fully sustained. 



Keuka. 



THE COMING MAN WILL DRINK WINE; or, COMMON SENSE vs. 

 PKOHIBITIVE LAWS— VII. 



Did I possess the science and the 

 genius of an Archimedes, a LaPlace, 

 or an August Delmar, the logic of my 

 figures vv^ould soon demonstrate the 

 truth of my position. In the absence 

 of such valuable qualities, I will simply 

 take the trouble to cross you over the 

 ocean — in imagination only, of course 

 — and at once point to France and 

 German}^ as examples worthy, in some 

 respects, of imitation. The wonderful 

 growth of her potato-sugar factories, 

 'unrestricted b}' government, which Ger- 

 many has witnessed within the last fif- 

 teen years, is proof evident that the 

 wine production of that country has 

 been in great demand, profitabl}' and 

 largely extended under the fostering 

 care of clear-sighted and prudent 

 rulers. France — poor, unhappy France I 

 — the beloved cradle of my youth, for 

 whom my warmest wish to Heaven is 

 sent — France has seen within the same 

 period, the number of her vineyards 

 increase from five to eight millions of 

 acres — over a sixteenth part of all the 

 land capable of cultivation — producing 

 for each head of her population about 

 forty gallons of wine per year, the gross 

 amount in cash being over $300,000,000 

 in gold. This industry gives employ- 

 ment to more than six million of men. 



women and children, nearly two million 

 merchants, agents, &c. Who will say 

 that these advantages do not vastly over 

 balance the noise made by a few inebri- 

 ates ; and, moralty speaking, has France, 

 through this increase in the consump- 

 tion of her wines, grown worse and 

 more disorderly than the United States ? 

 I call to witness every candid, disin- 

 terested, unprejudiced, liberal-minded 

 American, who may have visited that 

 Empire, to declare whether, whilst 

 there, he detected more turbulent and 

 rowdy drunkeness than in this country? 

 We all know — I mean those who can 

 know something — that France, as a 

 whole, whether beer, cider or wine be 

 the usual beverage, is a sober country, 

 whose government takes special care 

 to encourage a business so productive 

 of good results to the nation. In it no 

 Legislature, no Congress, affects or at- 

 tempts to legislate against the natural 

 right of man to eat or to drink, but the 

 civil authorities carefully regulate the 

 police, and, in earnest, do take care 

 that the quiet and order of the citizens 

 be not wantonl}- disturbed ; that their 

 food and drinks be not over adulterated. 

 In our ignorance of some good things, 

 were we a people prone to imitation, 

 such a course might probablj^ be fol- 



