10 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



]\Jea-will drink wine of some kind, reason as 

 we may. Accept the fact, and strive to teach 

 them to drink only that which is pure, and thus 

 prepare them for the next higher step in moral 

 progress, the drinking of no wine at all, if that 

 be necessary, which some will doubt. Wine 

 is not the only blessing that is abused ; but it 

 can hardly be said that pure wine makes 

 drunkards. The wine countries of Europe 

 prove quite the contrary. We have no hesi- 

 tation in recording our conviction, that grape 

 culture may be made the handmaiden of the 

 temperance cause. 



