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member rightly, all the surplus receipts going to public 

 purposes, and especially to local charities. The main point 

 was that the men appointed to dispense the drinks had no 

 motive to sell adulterated drinks, or any more liquor than 

 was consistent with the sobriety of the customer. 



I may add that, in my opinion, the worst enemies of real 

 temperance in America, as in other countries, have been 

 the thoughtless screamers against intemperance, who have 

 driven vast numbers of their fellow-citizens to drink in 

 secret or at bars. Of course I shall have the honor of 

 being railed at and denounced by every fanatic who reads 

 these lines, but from my heart I believe them true. 



I remember that some of these people bitterly attacked 

 Governor Stanford of California for the endowment of 

 Stanford University, in part, from the rent of his vine- 

 yards. People who had not a word to say against one 

 theological seminary for accepting the Daniel Drew en- 

 dowment, or against another for accepting the Jay Gould 

 endowment, were horrified that the Stanford University 

 should receive revenue from a vineyard. The vineyards 

 of California, if their product were legally protected from 

 adulteration, could be made one of the most potent influ- 

 ences against drunkenness that our country has seen. The 

 California wines are practically the only pure wines ac- 

 cessible to Americans. They are so plentiful that there is 

 no motive to adulterate them, and their use among those 

 of us who are so unwise as to drink anything except water 

 ought to be effectively advocated as supplanting the 

 drinking of beer poisoned with strychnine, whisky poi- 

 soned with fusel-oil, and "French claret" poisoned with 

 salicylic acid and aniline. 



The true way to supplant the " saloon " and the bar- 

 room, as regards working-men who obey their social in- 

 stincts by seeking something in the nature of a club, and 

 therefore resorting to places where stimulants are sold, 

 is to take the course so ably advocated by Bishop Potter : 

 namely, to furnish places of refreshment and amusement 

 which shall be free from all tendency to beastliness, and 



