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Tl: The fight for true temperance : practical thoughts from a practical man / by Cav. Andrea Sbarboro IM: [San Francisco : s.n., 19087] CO: 67 p.:ill.; 16 cm CALL: HV5296.S27 1908 MAIN Microfilmed by University of California Library Photographic Service, Berkeley, CA FILMED AND PROCESSED BY LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 94720 DATE: 2/00 REDUCTION RATIO: 10 ae @ Ce ® 2 S50 ov, WV, «Qo? 5 \¢ a9, yd Vor. \V 4 & % VY Vv, mmm—— ——— —— . 1.6 —— 25 I 18 14 125 6 NBS 1010a ANSI/ISO #2 EQUIVALENT = wl Oo < - > a Oo Q lo] «© o = Qo I oa < oc Oo Oo —- ()] x a W x xX Ly] > = a sublet gl 11 oft GIFT OF » i RE: oY | Hi ’ I I] | Mi ’ & sep 5 19124] ype THE FIGHT FOR TRUE TEMPERANCE By —-—mm-—--—--— CAV. ANDREA SBARBORO WIBRAR, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Dedicated to the GRAPE GROWERS OF CALIFORNIA INDEX THE FIGHT FOR TRUE TEMPERANCE Page May Leadto Civil War............................ Ld 2 3 Proof That Prohibition Does Not Prohibit................. 4 Regulate the Sale of Liquors...... ..................... 7 In Wine Drinking Countries Intoxication Almost Unknown. 10 The United States is Now a Wine-Producing Country. . .... 12 World's Wine Crop lor 1907. ..................... 5.00. 17 The American Wine Drinker Our Customer...!...... ..... 21 The Home the Proper Place to Teach Temperance... ..... 22 Reform Drunkards. ......................0 0000 an 23 Serve Ration of Wine to the Army and Navy............. 24 What the True Temperance Men of the Country Have to Say. 24 Hon, William Rx Wheeler............................ 11 Thomas JeHerson ........................ 0.00000 12 Br. C. H. Parkhurst, .........................0.00 26-27 Dr. Lyman Abbott. ...............oco.oi cn 29 Hon. Judge W. W. 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Sl ag 59 Campaign of Education Sure to be Successful............. 61 Howto Use Wine. ............ ..... nial iain 65 » 'e ." Pigs. 20%. 9 » THE FIGHT FOR TRUE TEMPERANCE PRACTICAL THOUGHTS FROM A PRACTICAL MAN By Cav. Andrea Sbarboro May Lead to Civil War The temperance question has become of such great importance that it needs public discussion both in the press and from the pulpit so as to be brought to the serious consideration of all classes of our people, for, as Arthur Brisbane has recently said, “this is an issue almost as im- portant as the slavery question of fifty years ago,” and I believe that unless some remedy is found speedily, it may lead to another civil war. In the United States, prohibitory and restrictive legislation has divided States into warring political factions and brought about endless litigation; crusades in nearly every city, large and small, have stirred up a tremendous amount of rancor and ill-feeling; and even in the home, members of families have clashed and become estranged because of their widely different views on “temperance” and “total abstinence.” 361981 There is one tedeénting feature, however, in this contest and that is that the good people on each side are, fighting for the \ same cause—the reduction and eventually the removal of the evil of drunkenness from’ our country. The only difference between the contending parties is the means by which this great desideratum is to be attained. One side insists that the mouth of every man, woman and child must be closed to the use of all kinds of beverages containing any alcohol; the other side, on the contrary, believes that the system of man and woman requires some kind of healthy stimulant, and that where prohibition laws exist, there is “secret guzzling, hypocrisy and perjury.” Proof That Prohibition Does Not Prohibit For over fifty-seven years the Blue Laws of Maine have been in force in that State and prohibition agitation has continued up to the present time. What is the result? There are more drunkards in the State of Maine today in proportion to its population than in any other State of the Union.* Holman Day, in an interesting article in Appleton’s for August, describes this re- markable condition of affairs. He says: “In the jail of Androscoggin County, where there has been most consistent and rigorous enforcement, there are more prisoners than ever before in the jail’s history. Arrests for intoxica- tion the past year in Maine cities have averaged 2574 to the thousand of population. The average in New England is 187; to the thousand. In Portland arrests were over 55 to the thou- sand, and in Bangor 100 to the thousand. There are scores of ‘phony expresses’ doing business in private packages. One agent, on trial, said that he averaged one hundred and fifty deliveries *See report of drunkenness in Maine in the New York Sun of June 7, 1908. daily in Portland. During the dry time in Lewiston the city liquor agency, conducted under the State law to supply liquor for medicinal and mechanical purposes, averaged a business of more than one thousand dollars a week, and the population of the city is less than thirty thousand. “Other municipal agencies did a correspondingly large business. The agency system is Maine’s prohibitory safety valve. Enforcement coupled with a closed municipal agency would breed revolt. The State liquor agent sold $110,000 worth of liquors last year. These agencies carry full lines of all kinds of liquors, even bottled cocktails, the exact medicinal use of which is not stated. The last legislature threatened to investigate the whole agency system, but the serious illness of the State agent interfered with the plans for hearings.” The State of Vermont was so anxious to eradicate the evil of drunkenness that in one city alcoholic liquors were first permitted to be sold only by drug stores under doctors’ prescriptions. Finding that this was not effective, the municipality passed a law prohibiting all spirituous liquors being sold by the drug stores, even by order of a doctor’s prescription. Again what was the result? After a few months the Board of Health reported that insanity was increasing to a large extent in that city. A committee was appointed to investigate the cause, and suspecting that the druggists were still importing alcoholic beverages surreptitiously, examined their books to satisfy themselves of this fact. To their amazement, they found that the druggists had not been importing any more alcoholic beverages but they had been importing cocaine and opium drugs by the ton. This proves that the human system requires some kind of a stimulant and if this want is not supplied man will invariably resort to opium, cocaine, or some other narcotic as they do in China, Turkey, Persia, and other prohibition communities. In addition if people are pro- 3 EE _—_—_ tl. a A —— hibited from taking a stimulant one way they will take it in another, as is proven further by an article published in the San Francisco Bulletin of January 17, 1908, which reads as follows: “Three Sailors Killed by Alcohol Spree~Two more Seamen on St. Louis Totally Blind and Five are Physical Wrecks” hh “Vallejo, January 17, 1908. John Haff, of the cruiser St. Louis, died here yesterday from the effects of wood alcohol, surreptitiously taken to satisfy an irrepressible craving for drink. He is the third victim in a week to succumb to the poisonous debauch; two sailors are totally blind from the same cause, and five others are such complete wrecks that they will never again be fit for active service. “Harry Wilson and James T. Hayes are the other two bluejackets who are dead from the fiery drink. They expired the day following their spree, but Haff lingered until yesterday, when he passed away in great agony. The men who are blind will probably never recover their sight, and the remaining quintet will be decrepit invalids all their lives. “The men procured the wood alcohol from a quantity of linoleum cement, which they stole from a gang of ship joiners, whe were at work aboard the ship during the past week. They softened the cement by pouring water on it, with the result that the alcohol floated to the top. They managed to get about 2}% gallons of the vicious concoction, which the ten of them drank. “When discovered they were too intoxicated to tell what they had done, but their plant was found and the secret of their drunk aboard ship revealed. They were hurried to the hospital and stomach pumps applied. Heroic remedies, however, did not avail for the poison was too virulent and proved fatal in three cases. “The authorities at the Navy Yard are endeavoring to suppress the facts as far as possible, for there is a strict rule formulated by the Department against the introduction of wood alcohol in any 6 form aboard ship. Two years ago there was a somewhat similar scandal caused by the craving of sailors for strong drink, and since then the use of wood alcohol has been forbidden. The present affair, however, is far the most serious of the kind on record.” From this, it will be seen that if you close every saloon in the United States, you will find that alcoholic drinks would be used surreptitiously, even when not really craved for, and drunk- enness would crop up notwithstanding all your efforts to prohibit it. Regulate the Sale of Liquors It is evident from what we have seen above that it is useless to prohibit the use of stimulants, because there are some persons who absolutely require them as a tonic for their health and these, as well as those who drink in moderation, should not be deprived of their liberty to obtain what they require for their health or comfort. We must not forget that millions of acres of land producing grapes, hops and cereals thrive by the products which they supply to the winery, breweries and distilleries, and we must not forget the important fact that the revenue from these establishments helps in a large measure to pay the running expenses of our Government and is an important factor in contributing taxes toward paying the expenses of State, city and municipal administrations; and where this assist- ance in certain towns has been removed, school teachers have had to be, in some cases, curtailed in number and in others their salaries materially reduced. I desire it to be distinctly understood that whilst I earnestly recommend the use of the healthy beverage of American wine on every American table, I do not condemn the use of any other 7 Vv . . + TYPICAL CALIFORNIA VINEYARD AT ASTI, SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, WHICH PRODUCES THE GRAPE FROM WHICH IS MADE AS DELICIOUS WINES AS THOSE GROWN IN FRANCE, ITALY OR ON THE RHINE. When the American people will become educated to the use of the health-invigorating wine at their table, the .\merican vineyards will produce as much wine as both Italy and France, then drunkenness will prevail no longer in our country. Ee EE ly A beverage in moderation. I do, however, condemn the unreasonable, tyrannical system of pro- hibition. It is an arm used by fanatics without sound reason or common sense. Prohibition has been shown not to remove drunkenness in the least in the cities where it has existed for over fifty years and where every effort has been made to enforce it. On the contrary, it creates dis- sensions between neighbors, and would destroy millions of dollars’ worth of products of our farmers, ruin an enormous number of honest families, throw many people out of employment, thus augmenting our already large army of unemployed, and deprive every American citizen of that which he most prizes—the sacred right of personal liberty. And as Cardinal Gibbons has so aptly said, prohibition leads to disrespect for the law because its inevitable result is violation of the law, as is shown in every city and State where prohibition has been tried. The great majority of the people of every State in the Union believe in #rue temperance, and the great majority of the people of every State do not believe in prohibition. The will of the majority of the people, notwithstanding spasmodic upheavals, will ultimately prevail. In no civilized country in the world does prohibition exist and it certainly ill becomes the governmental authorities to deprive the bright, intelligent, enterprising, free American citizens of liberties which exist among the people living under the most despotic monarchies of Europe. All drinking places, however, should be strictly regulated by law. They should be conducted as clean, moral places, as they are in the European countries, where gentlemen and ladies with their children go freely to obtain a few dainty cakes, a glass of claret, sherry, port or other bev- erages, as they would go to a restaurant. © | IIE EIR Scio In the evening families go to the café where, between selected pieces of delightful music from the latest operas, they take their black coffee, glass of wine, beer, or other beverage, and enjoy the evening in delightful conversation with their families and friends. In Wine Drinking Countries Intoxication Almost Unknown Not in France, not in Spain, or Portugal, or Italy, or Switzerland, or South Germany are gathered the awful statistics of the prohibition lecturer ; but from those countries where a variety of strong distilled spirits are used as beverages. The advocates of abstinence having claimed to make a case against distilled spirits demand judgment also against wine, and they jump to a con- clusion that wine, which contains only about 11 per cent of alcohol, should also be condemned. But this absurd claim is disproved by the fact that alcoholism makes less ravages in countries such as France, Spain and Italy, which produce a great deal of wine, than in countries like ours, where strong alcoholic drinks are furnished cheaply to the poorer classes. To prohibit wine because it contains a small dose of alcohol, would lead us in the name of pitiless logic to also prohibit tea because it contains a certain amount of poison, theine; to prohibit coffee, which contains caffeine; to prohibit even meat itself, which undeniably contains organic poisons. Here I am pleased to show what an eminent American, recently promoted to the important office of Assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, on his return from Italy on official business wrote me: — 10 EY iia iin — WILLIAM P, DILLINGHAM, U S.S , CHAIRMAN HENRY CABOT LODGE, U 8.8, ASBURY C. LATIMER, U.S8.5., BENJAMIN F. HOWELL, M.C., WILLIAM S. BENNET, M.C., JOHN L. BURNETT, M.C CHARLES P. NEILL, 5 5 . JEREMIAH W. JENKS, WILLIAM R. WHEELER. The Immigration Tommission SECRETARIES, M. E. CRANE, Washington, a. a. W. W. HUSBAND, C. S. ATKINSON. Alpine, Cal., May 12, 1908. Mr. A. Sbarboro, Italian-American Bank, San Francisco. My dear Mr. Sbarboro: . . . I am particularly grateful to you for having enclosed your very able article on the subject of “True Temperance,” upon which I had already read many favorable comments and which I shall take the first opportunity to read. I well recall your request that while in Italy I make particular effort to spy out drunken men. I am glad to state that, much to my surprise, during the entire month which I spent there I did not see one drunken man, notwithstanding the fact that wine is the national beverage and universally consumed. This confirmed the opinion pre- viously conceived that Italy is, in truth, a temperance country. I myself am a strong believer in, and practitioner of, temperance, but not prohibition. The great trouble with many well meaning people in our country is that they do not discriminate between the two. I assure you, my dear Mr. Sbarboro, that you shall at all times have my co-operation in your good work of preaching “the gospel of the grape.” Very sincerely yours, WM. R. WHEELER. Those who are familiar with conditions in France will tell you that intoxication was practi- cally unknown until the dreaded phylloxera devastated the vineyards of that country. Every man. — 11 woman and child from the weaning day had used wine at the table. But as soon as most of the vineyards of France were wiped out of existence, some of the people began to use cognac, absinthe, | liqueurs and other intoxicating beverages. Then the evil of drunkenness began to crop out. However, the energetic people of France soon found resistant vines which were not affected by the phylloxera and in a few years they replanted all their vineyards and today are producing more wine than ever and drunkenness is decidedly on the wane. This experience of the French people ought to serve as an excellent object lesson to the Amer- ican people. Let them adopt the use of wine at their meals. Let them recall the words spoken a hundred years ago by one of the greatest men of our country, President Thomas Jefferson, who had been Minister to France and knew the salutary effect of wine, when he said: “I rejoice as a moralist at the prospect of a reduction of duties on wine by our National Legis- lature. It is an error to view a tax on that article as merely a tax on the rich. It is prohibition of its use on the middle classes, and a condemnation to them of the poison of spirits. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where dearness of wine sub- stitutes ardent spirits as its common beverage.” The United States is Now a Wine-Producing Country At the time of Jefferson few grapes were grown in the United States, and as most of the wine had to be imported from abroad, the price was too high to be within the reach of the average family and consequently the people resorted to the use of other alcoholic stimulants that the system THE 12 i — UL BN a H IN THE LATE FIFTIES CRUSHED THE GRAPES OF BOTH G HAULED IN A WAGON FROM ONE COUNTY TO ANOTHER. THE PIONEER PRESS OF NAPA COUNTY, WHIC AND SONOMA COUNTIES, BEIN EE A akc CAA TTT A seems to require. But in 1854 the grandfather of the Hon. Nicholas Longworth, son-in-law of President Roosevelt, made the first sparkling wine from grapes in Ohio and in the early days of California the Padres from Spain soon discovered that California was the land of the vine. They imported cuttings from Spain and all their missions were surrounded with grapes, which came to be known as the Mission grapes. They made the wine which they required for their church cere- monies and which they enjoyed at their table. Soon after the cession of California to the United States some of the new settlers, seeing the fertility of the Mission grape, and being acquainted more or less with viticulture, conceived the idea of abandoning gold hunting and engaging in the business of wine making. However, as the Mission grape did not make very fine wines, in 1861 the Legislature of Cali- fornia, which knew the great importance of the wine industry, sent a Committee to Europe to secure the finest varieties of grape vines which existed in the old world. These were planted in the rich soil of California and, aided by the same climate and sun of France, South Germany, Spain and Italy, they produced in abundance the identical grape of the mother country. The wines of California have been for some time distributed throughout the United States and Europe and it has been shown that when the demand will justify, the State of California and several other States of the Union, among others New York, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, and Michigan where grapes are grown, can produce just as much wine, of as good quality and as cheap as that now produced by the European countries. THE MODERN WINE PRESS WHICH CAN TAKE CARE OF THE GRAPES THAT PRODUCE 50,000 GALLONS OF WINE PER DAY. NOTICE THE CHANGE FROM THE CRUDE PRESS OF 1858. 15 a ———. ov To prove my assertion, I would call the attention of the reader to the following incident related to me by the Hon. D. E. McKinlay, who represents California in Congress: During the time of the “Boxer Rebellion,” when the Allied Forces had established themselves in Peking, Mr. Squires, who was Secretary of the American Legation, gave a dinner at which a number of the foreign officers were present and amongst these, was Count Waldersee, leader of the German con- tingent, and nominal Commander of the Allied Forces. Owing to the trouble and chaos existing in the country, Mr. Squires’s stock of wines had run low and the European brands were exhausted, but he happened to have a few cases on hand of California clarets and white wines. He supplied these to the guests and the dinner seemed to pass off pleasantly. Shortly after, Count Waldersee visited him again and remained to dinner. By that time, Mr. Squires had replenished his stock of European wines, which were served to the Count. He drank a little of the European brand, and then, turning to Mr. Squires, said: “Mr. Squires, I wish you would give me some of that fine wine you served me on my last visit to you,” and Mr. Squires said he was compelled to put aside the European brands and send to his cellar for the California wines.* *It is related that Judge Truax, of the New York Supreme Court, was once invited to taste some rare old wine sup- posed to be smuggled in from a foreign cellar by his friend, Senator Thomas F. Grady, the well-known Tammany leader. The Judge smacked his lips and pronounced it the finest vintage that he had ever tasted since the winter he learned to enjoy the rare wines that can be secured along the Riviera. He begged Senator Grady to secure some for him at any expense. “What I did,” Grady is reported as saying, “was simply to go to a New York wine merchant and buy from him a case of this California wine. When the Judge opened it and beheld the bright labels, indicating a California vintage, he thought a mistake had been made, but he was honest enough to admit, after he had carefully sampled the wine, that he had been deceived, and that his prejudice against California wine was without foundation.” 16 a .e", d ey a SE i py Sbimimambath fis World's Wine Crop for 1907 An English statistician, Mr. George Thorne, has given the following figures of the world’s wine crop, showing that about 4,000,000,000 gallons of wine were produced last year, the value of which is about EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. Gallons. Gallons. Brance ....... cccinishiiia 1,744,255,527 Greeee. 0... ai 26 950,000 Haly Niooeere-aiiievanniiin, 1,495,125,400 Switzerlond .................. 19,800,000 SPAIN... nisi, 462,000,000 SVE esa 12,100,000 Algeria ....... 0c 0aiisnns 189,227,016 Brazil ........... 0... 0.000, 7,040,000 Portngal ..........nemennvsiai 99,000,000 Tanis ..... iia 6,600,000 Austria ..... ie aes 77,000,000 Australia ..... cian, 5,940,000 Hungary ...........oc000ins: 68,200,000 COTSIER sient aati ns 5,545,672 United States .........coi0rv- 60,000,000 Cape of Good Hope........... 4,290,000 Roumania ... . iui ivan 57,200,000 Azores, Canary Islands and Ma- : Russio, .....chieaionessinsaisn 57,000,000 dea... i aa 3,300,000 Bulgaria ...:...c...h00a. cen 46,200,000 Luxembourg ......c......... 2,310,000 Chili. ........c. iL uisiseseass 46,200,000 Pet... is 2,090,000 Germany .....i ovens. 41,800,000 Uruguay ..............cconns 1,980,000 Turkey and Oyprus........... 33,000,000 Bolivia ...................n. 550,000 Argentine Republic .......... 28,600,000 Mexico ......... .s0.iiiieine, 352,000 By these figures we see that France and Italy with a population of about eighty million people produce over three billion gallons of wine per annum which has an approximate value of six - hundred million dollars. Now, as a matter of fact, the State of California, which is one-third larger than the Kingdom of Ttalv, where the true wine grape grows to perfection, and a few other states of the Union could produce just as many grapes as the two principal grape-producing countries of the world and, as the grapevine thrives along the mountains and the hillsides where few other products can be —— 17 Py SCHOOL CHILDREN BORN AT THE VINEYARD OF THE ITALIAN-SWISS COLONY AT ASTI, SONOMA COUNTY, CAL. These children drink wine diluted with water at their meals, and none of them will ever know what intoxication is. st Ei. i i ithe tail — A profitably grown, we have within our reach the power of developing a new agricultural industry which will furnish annually $600,000,000, almost enough money to pay the ordinary expenses of running the Government of the United States, and bringing millions of acres of idle waste land into production which will give remunerative employment to several million of happy vineyardists, turn our mountains, now not even fit for sheep ranges, into luxuriant vineyards, erect numerous wineries and thus create new towns and cities throughout the states of the Union. I am sure if this opportunity was offered in any European country, the government would spend millions of dollars to protect and develop the viticultural industry, while here, unfortun- ately, where the American people do not vet understand the value of the grape, some fanatics are doing all they can to destroy the immense wealth that is before us. By doing so, instead of removing the evil of drunkenness, as they claim they are trying to do, they will be actually killing the means by which that evil can be removed from this country. How the Wine Drinking Countries Protect This Great Industry This season Italy is producing such large quantities of wine that the market is glutted and the vineyardists are threatened with ruin. In order to avoid this disaster, the prudent Italian government has under consideration the following remedies: First—That the soldiers and sailors of the army and navy be given this year an increased ration of wine at their meals. Second—That the wineries be permitted to distill all grapes without paying any license or revenue to the government. Sl AR i ——— a Third—As the railway companies are controlled by the government, that the freight both on grapes and moving wines be materially reduced. Fourth—That a bonus be offered by the government for all wine which is exported. What a blessing it would be to our grape growers, especially this year, when there is a glut in the market, if our own government would follow the laudable example of the Italian government and relieve the situation by protecting the unfortunate grape grower! It is earnestly to be hoped that if the tariff is remodelled, great care will be taken in Washington not to reduce the duty on foreign wines. This year wine in Europe is selling at such low prices that American labor cannot compete with foreign wines. It must be remembered in addition that freight on wine from Europe to New York by sea is less than 2c per gallon, while the freight from California to New York by rail is 7V%c per gallon. This shows the necessity for protection. The substitution of wine for tea and coffee would really be patriotic, because it would throw the revenue expended on these products into the hands of the American grape grower in- stead of to foreign tea and coffee growers. We are now the eighth wine-producing nation of the world. We can in a few years be the first and largest on earth if we only encourage the American people to use this healthy beverage at their meals. The American Wine Drinker Our Customer BL a : ! To market the immense product which we can produce from the grape we are not required to go abroad. Our own people, which will soon grow to be one hundred million souls, as soon as THE E. C. PRIBER MODEL VINEYARD, NEAR ST. HELENA, NAPA COUNTY, CAL. 21 a EL HY CO they will become educated to the use of wine at their meals, will consume every gallon of the healthy product made in this country. Then will drunkenness, one of the greatest evils with which our country is afflicted, be removed from our midst, and our people, especially our work- ing classes, will then be as happy and sober as they are in all the large grape-growing coun- tries of the world where every man, woman and child drinks wine at their meals. The Home the Pioper Place to Teach Temperance You sometimes hear the remark made that people become drunk from the use of wine. Naturally. There are in rare cases sots who drink enough wine to make them drunk just as there are gluttons who eat so much meat and pie that they become sick. It is not the use of wine which is at the bottom of the evil of drunkenness, but the misuse of it. I do not think the liquor problem will be settled by prohibition legislation, by exhorta- tion of the minister who preaches total abstinence, by the substitution of temperance saloons, nor by scientific temperance instruction in the public schools. I contend that the home is the natural and rightful competitor of the drinking place. Therefore, I believe in begin- ning at the beginning, teaching children at home from the time they are weaned, the use of wine, as they do in the wine-growing countries of Europe. Let them drink it only with their meals at table and then not pure, but diluted. If used in this manner it cannot harm them and they will grow up contented with mild beverages. If all good people would advocate this prac- tical remedy, I feel certain that drunkenness would soon disappear, all ill-feeling, dissension and 22 lM A... i ata iinet strife would speedily be removed, and peace and good will would again prevail among all the people of our country. Reform Drunkards One of the first means of wiping out the drunkenness which exists is to reform the drunk- ards themselves. All well conducted places where drinks may be had should by no means be condemned because there are some disreputable saloons. I know there are people connected with this business who are just as orderly and upright as in any other walk of life. The evil of drunkenness, therefore, can be removed by punishing the drunkard himself and the people who run disreputable saloons, without disturbing the drinking places that are conducted by respectable people in a respectable manner. Every person arrested on the streets in a drunken condition should be put in jail and instead of sending them “down below” for twenty-four hours, which is a farce, they should be, for the first time, sent to jail for thirty days. In order that the industrious mechanic and business man need not, by the sweat of their brow, pay for the maintenance of the drunken sots in jail, the prisoners should be made to work for their board, in cleaning the streets or repairing country roads, and the needy families of those who are married should be paid something for their support. With their breakfast, I would suggest that they be given the usual cup of coffee; but at their lunch and dinner, they should be given a glass of good sound wine. After being fed on this diet for thirty days, when they leave the jail, more than half of the prisoners will continue the custom acquired of drinking only light table wine. But, if there should be some that still insist on becoming again intoxicated, the second time they should be arrested and sentenced to sixty days; and every time thereafter, their sen- tence should be increased by thirty additional days. I verily believe that by this remedy in a few months every town and city would be cleared of its drunkards, and thus the desire of the honest prohibition people would be attained. Serve Ration of Wine to the Army and Navy The next step will be for our Government to give a ration of wine at table to all its soldiers and sailors in the Army and Navy. This system is strictly adhered to by the wine-producing countries of Europe. There, drunkenness among the soldiers and sailors is almost unknown. If this innovation had been adopted in the United States long ago, it would not have been neces- sary for the commanding officer of the great fleet, which recently visited the harbors of the Pacific Coast, to warn the hospitable public against tempting the jackies with too much liquor. They would have been proof against intoxication and the Navy would have been spared the fear of having its good name sullied by the over-indulgence of its sailors. Our college boys, also, should be educated to use this healthy beverage at meals, and that will prevent them from playing pranks outside of their school as they recently did at the I.eland Stanford Jr. University, where a large number of students were suspended. What the True Temperance Men of the Country Have to Say Let us see what some of the most eminent men of our country, who abhor drunkenness and are devoting their lives to the true temperance cause, have to say. When I was in New York 24 BLS AB CE Rh hy i SE NPN RA ht I visited Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, the well-known reformer, President of the Association for the Prevention of Crime, and Pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church of New York, and said that I was anxious to talk to him about the great question of the day—"“Temperance or Pro- hibition.” I informed him that I had just come from Washington, D. C., where I had addressed the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, which was considering the passage of the Littlefield Bill pro- hibiting the shipment of wine and liquors from a Free State into a Prohibition State. Dr. Parkhurst asked me if I had a copy of my address. I had one at my hotel and told him I would be pleased to send it to him. I suggested that the doctor read the address and pick it to pieces as he pleased, but I requested permission to read in Washington, D. C., a few days later, whatever he wrote, either in favor of, or against, my argument, before the Committee of the Dis- trict of Columbia which was about to pass a bill declaring the National capital a “dry” city. In the course of our interesting conversation, I asked Dr. Parkhurst if he had ever been in Europe. He answered that he had been there twenty-five times. “Well, Doctor,” I said, “you saw the people in the southern part of Europe drink wine freely at their table—men, women and children. Did you see many drunkards?” Dr. Parkhurst seemed a bit excited and replied earnestly: “Mr. Sbarboro, I see more drunkards pass my door every day here in New York, five or six, than I have seen in the wine- drinking countries of Europe during my twenty-five visits abroad.” On the next page will be found a fac-simile of the letter I received from Dr. Parkhurst a few days after I visited him: 133 Enst 354 Street. March 13, 1908. My Dear Sir: Although I believe in temper- ance, I try to be temperate in my belief and to be sufficiently radical not to de- feat the ends of my conservatism. I am warmly in sympathy with you in the at- titude which you take in regard to wine as a substitute for whiskey. Judging from what I see in this country, and from what I know of the conditions of things in Europe - which I have visited twenty- five times - 1 am decidedly of the opin- jon that the more wine there is produced in this country and the more freely it is: transported from State to State, the less Wy pd whiskey will be used, and the smaller: the amount of drunkenness. If the proposed bill is passed I earnestly trust that exception will be made of beverages containing less than a certain fixed maximum of alcohol. Wishing you the largest success in your propagation of the views which you so interestingly and persuasively expressed to me a& couple of days since, I am Yours very sincerely, 2 AL GL Anil Cav. Andrea Sbarboro, Waldorf Astoria, New York City. VISITORS SITTING ON THE COVER OF THE LARGEST SINE TONE IN THE WORLD—HOLDING 500,000 INE. ASTI, CALIFORNIA, x In 1898 a hundred couples danced inside of this mammoth wine tank to the tune of a brass band GALLONS OF The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in an article published in the Outlook for October 22, 1904, said: “There is a considerable wine industry in California. It would, perhaps be greater than it is if Americans were still not ensnared by the delusion that foreign products are presumptively better than home products. We went into one of the wineries, and even if I could remember the figures, I should be afraid to report how many were the wine-casks among which our conductor led us. Some of them were so big that the cask furnished a quite adequate space for dancing; I believe, though of that I am not quite sure, a quadrille had been danced upon one.* From the best information I could obtain by inquiries in different quarters, I could not learn that the wine trade of California had done anything to promote intemperance; in fact, most of my informants were of the opinion that its effect had been in the other direction; certainly the signs of drinking and drunkenness in San Francisco were less than they were in New York, as they are less in New York than they are in London. A little of the wine made in California comes Fast and is sold as California wine; some of it goes across the sea and is sold abroad as American wines. I do not know why it is, but in American hotels and restaurants, American wines are made little of and often it is impossible to get those of the best brand ; but when two or three years ago I was in southern England, I found in almost every English hotel American wines advertised as a specialty; evidently they were popular and in demand. * * * Personally, I have entire respect for the total abstainer who really does abstain, and also respect for the one who believes that it is legitimate to use wine in moderation upon the dinner table; but I find it very difficult to maintain respect for the total abstainer who banishes wine from the dinner table and then drinks it out of a bottle from the closet between meals and calls it medicine. About such a one there appears to me a rather serious deficiency, which it is charitable to hope is intellectual rather than moral. Such imbibers are often entirely honest, but they are easily deluded.” Opinion of an Eminent United States Judge The Hon. W. W. Morrow, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, is also of the opinion that the use of wine at table should be encouraged. This is what he recently wrote me on the subject: *See opposite page. ‘sanos Ania Lxop 'PelTqIyoad ueyq Jayqea Pe8eang ous 9q PInoys 3T Jey 3 UoTUTde oyg Jo 8JI0 Joaoy« . 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NE WHITE AND RED LIGHT TABLE WINES TO THOSE PRODUCED IN VINEYARDS IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS FOR THE MAKING OF THE FI ™~ Bh au rt RT hn = » Pe ag pr NG TNR at k ‘ —es . = Tn Rees ve NE i Jap a A a VIEW OF THE HILLSIDE VINEYARD OF THE JESUIT FATHERS, NEAR LOS GATOS, SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CAL, SHOWING THE SACRED HEART NOVITIATE BUILDING, WHERE YOUNG MEN ARE PREPARED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD. C—O MSS In a recent address, Arthur Brisbane, the eminent writer, whose articles are read by mil- lions of people throughout the United States every day, says that he is positive that prohibition is not feasible. In the Nashville, Tenn., American, he is quoted as having said: “You cannot ask the man leading his normal life, taking his normal dinner, and his glass of beer or pint of claret, to change his life on account of the unfortunate man who cannot do that without becoming a maniac and going to excess. In Paris, where I lived, every servant you engaged had so much money and one liter of red wine, and had it as a matter of course, and a2 drunken servant in Paris would be just as much of a curiosity as a five-legged calf in Wis- consin. I was at school in Paris for four years and I was one day in Topeka, Kansas, under prohibition, and I saw more drunks in Topeka in one day than I saw in Paris. It happened to he a good day for drunkards; they were celebrating ; some young men were home from college.” Opinion of Cardinal Gibbons According to the New York Sun, Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, who is opposed to pro- hibition, said: “Local option should under no circumstances apply to this city ; liquor would be sold here quite as abundantly under prohibition laws as under well regulated license. The consequence will be that liquor will be dispensed contrary to law instead of being sold in accordance with law. Then, too, the city will be deprived of a large revenue which is so much needed for the government of this community. “When a law is flagrantly violated, it brings legislation into contempt. It creates a spirit of deception and hypocrisy and compels men to do insidiously and by stealth what they would otherwise do openly and above board. “You cannot legislate men into the performance of good and righteous deeds. If we are to improve the morality of our city and make our citizens more temperate let the virtue of temper- ance be proclaimed in the churches; above all let it be enforced in the family, that parents, both by word and example, may inculcate their children with temporal and spiritual blessings which spring from a life of temperance and sobriety.” To come nearer home, Dr. Regensburger, President of the Board of Health of California, voiced similar sentiments when he wrote me as follows: 33 isd BO... MARTIN REGENSBURGER, M.D., PRESIDENT SAN FRANCISCO In my experience, in If the people of this nountry Hoping that you will further pursue In your paper entitled "Wine or 4 [ > Cyensburyin It would be interesting to compare the Truly yours, Qalifornia State Board of Bealth Gan Francisco, Cad, Nov. 22, 1905. 460 Montgomery Street, C I T Y this question ani that I may be ahle to assist you in an humble way, statistics of drunkards in wine and heer Arinking countries with those of England ani America, be a rare disease, as has been proven in wine Arinking countries. I remain, Tea , That is the Question?", you expressed sentiments which I were educated from habyhood up to drink wine, alcoholism would families where the wine flows freely, drunkards are the exaéption, whereas many of the offspring of teetotalers and wine abhorrers who have not tasted alcoholics until they almost have grown to SAN FRANCISCO Mr. A, Sbarboro, My dear Mr Sbarboro have been advosating for years. It is the forbidden fruit that tempts. be men become Arunkards. WALLACE A. BRIGGS, M.D., Vice-PRESIDENT SAN FRANCISCO SACRAMENTO ©. STANSBURY, M.D. M.D. SACRAMENTO F. K. AINSWORTH, M.D. LOS ANGELES N. K. FOSTER, M.D., StCRETARY SACRAMENTO 0] W. LE MOYNE WILLS, M.D. L 8 8 = ow 5 = € wu & 3 o » g w ® z E & < 3 AC. HART, Opinion of The Navy While Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans was convalescing at Paso Robles, I asked him if he would kindly give me his opinion on the important question of the canteen, and a few days later I received the following letter: Paso Rovins, Cav, May 2, 1008. MR. A. SBARBORO: : Dear Sir:—Admiral Evans desires me to say in reply to your letter of April 30th that your address on temperance was most interesting. The Admiral has always been a strong advocate for the canteen for both the Army and Navy and feels certain that there would be less drunkenness in both services if the men were allowed their ration as of old. v wn ours truly, y (Signed) C. R. TRAIN. After: such valuable testimony, no one can doubt that there is a way by which drunkenness can be removed—a way that should satisfy the honest Prohibitionist and the liberal temperance man alike and that way is to use light wine at table. The Province of The Minister of The Gospel It is a well-known fact that the wave of prohibition which is now going over the country, is due principally to the ministers of the gospel. Many of them unquestionably are honest in their convictions, mean well and endeavor to benefit their fellow men. These gentlemen are generally moderate in advocating temperance, as I have shown you from the writings of the most eminent, honest; téfperance gentlemen of our nation, and they all approve of the use of light table wine at meals. - There are other ministers and well-paid prohibition speakers employed by wealthy hypocrites desirous of furthering their schemes for personal gain, who disregard the true remedy for the removal of the evil of drunkenness and use the cloak of prohibition, some for political and h others for religious purposes. They all know, or should know, if they read the Gospel, that in not a single line of either the new or old Testament is there a word said against the moderate use of wine. On the contrary, there are many passages in both the new and old Testament, where wine is highly recommen-ed, and our Saviour, Himself, has shown the necessity of the use of wine at meals. | | At the wedding at Cana (according to St. John, second chapter), the wine having been ex- | hausted, the mother of Jesus said unto him: “They have no wine.” Noticing six waterpots of stone near by, containing two or three firkins apiece, Jesus said unto the servants: “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them to the brim. Then He ordered them to serve the Governor of the feast. When that dignitary tasted the water that had been turned into wine by our Saviour, he called the bridegroom and said unto him: “Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wines: and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.” In other passages we find that He calls wine the symbol of His blood. Again we read, in the Bible, also, that the people are commanded to bring wine to the Lord Himself as a drink offering THE WEDDING AT CANA, WHERE OUR SAVIOUR TURNED WATER INTO WINE, THAT ALL PRESENT MIGHT DRINK 7 : 3 KRUG WINERY, NEAR ST. HELENA, BUILT IN 1868. and that they are told to drink it in the presence of the Lord who speaks of wine in the highest term as “That which cheereth God and Man.” After calling attention to this religious side of the subject, I have often been asked, “Was not the wine mentioned in the bible simply the unfermented juice of the grape?” My answer is that Noah has given us the proof that it was the fermented juice of the grape, just as we make wine today. The first mention of wine in the bible occurs in connection with Noah and it is possible that the great Patriarch, not knowing the effect of the delicious beverage, partook too freely and as a result he became intoxicated. The bible contains many warnings against overindulgence, but praises the good effects of the proper use of wine. The great moral document from the prohibition standpoint, is the Ten Com- mandments ; and yet there is not a single commandment in this moral code, a single law or edict against drinking—there is no “Thou shalt not drink.” Evidently the Deity was not a prohibi- tionist. St. Paul on the contrary directly commands one of his colleagues, Timothy, “To use wine with meals.” Leaving aside the religious part of the argument we find that the greatest men of all ages have always used wine at their tables. This delicious beverage has been praised by poets, Horace having called it a “luscious drink fit for the Gods.” Now let us turn to the definition of “I#ine.” In Webster’s Dictionary we find, “Corn and wine in scripture are put for all kinds of necessaries for subsistence,” and “Bread and wine in the Lord's supper are symbols of the body and blood of Christ.” i nr i Te ete ———— AT — PO A nl TRAP WILLIAM WEHNER'S FLOURISHING VINEYARD AT EVERGREEN, IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CAL. In the American Encyclopedia we find “wine is mentioned as a familar thing in the earliest books of the old Testament. It was generally used by the Greeks and Romans and wine is praised by Homer, Horace and Pliny.” Hence the prohibition of this healthy and absolutely necessary beverage in this, the Twentieth Century, would be a crime, indeed, which the people would not countenance. Personal liberty has been the desire of men of all civilized nations and especially is dear to the American citizen. The time of the Inquisition and Puritanical tyranny has passed. All civilized people will insist upon worshiping their God in accordance with their own conscience and they will certainly insist on having the personal liberty to eat and drink what they consider most congenial to their pleasure and health. The Action of Congress On the 6th of March, 1908, I visited Washington, D. C., where I was sent by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers and Producers’ Association of California and the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers’ Association to oppose the Littlefield bill, which pro- hibited the shipment of wines and:liquors from a Free State into a Prohibition State. I appeared before the honorable Judiciary Committee of the Senate, where a majority had already agreed to report the bill favorably. I explained to those gentlemen that such action would not bene- fit the country, but on the contrary it would result in the creation of a new industry—- that of smuggling. I called the attention of the Committee to the larger number of intoxication cases existing in the strongest prohibition states such as Maine, Vermont, etc. 41 VINEYARD OF THE NAPA & SONOMA WINE CO., NEAR LIVERMORE, IN ALAMEDA COUNTY, CAL. i I laid particular stress on the incident which recently occurred at the Navy Yard of Mare Island of California, where ten sailors on January 17, 1908, seeing a tub of linoleum paint, had such an irrepressible craving for drink that they extracted from it 27% gallons of alcohol which they drank. Three of them died, two were stricken blind and the other five were made wrecks for life. I said to the Judiciary Committee, “Gentlemen, if those poor sailors had been furnished a ration of wine at their last meal, they would not have had the craving for any stimulant and would be today sound, healthy men ready to serve their country.” That, furthermore, the passage of the proposed bill would engender ill-feeling between the different States and result in strife and dissension, which might eventually become serious. After hearing and considering these true facts, the hono -able Committee changed its mind and the bill was not recommended for passage. A few days later, I was requested by the Hon. W. S. Smith, Chairman of the Congressional Committee of the District of Columbia, before which there was a bill proposing to prohibit the sale and use of wine and liquor in the city of Washington, to appear before that Committee and speak on the subject. In my address, 1 showed the honorable Committee that it would be very wrong indeed to pass such a bill; and after reasoning with them for over two hours, 1 concluded by saying: “Why, gentlemen, you can not prohibit the sale of wine in this city! Washington is the capital of our country, to which come from all parts of the world Ambassadors, Ministers, Diplomats and distinguished people, who have been accustomed to the use of wines at their meals, just as you, gentlemen, are accustomed to the use of tea and coffee. Do you mean to say that when these gentlemen go to their hotels in Washington and ask for their usual bottle of wine, that they are to be told by the waiter: ‘Sir, the law does not permit the use of wine in this country?” Why, these gentlemen would be shocked and the first thought which would naturally come to their minds would be—TIs this the land of the free? Gentlemen, this would place our country in a ridiculous position before the people of the civilized world. Suppose, on the other hand, that our own Ambassador with his family went to Paris, Berlin, or Rome, and that, on arriving at the hotel, his wife asked for a pot of tea and the waiter would tell her: ‘Madam, the law does not permit the use of tea in this country.” Would she not be shocked?” Then, turning to a large number of prohibition ladies who were in attendance at the meeting, I said: “Methinks, ladies, I read your thoughts—that tea is not an intoxicating drink? Very true; but, ladies, let me tell you that to those gentlemen who have been accustomed to the use of wine at their meals from infancy, wine is not more intoxicating to them than tea is to you. In fact, if you good ladies, who, I know are devoting a great deal of your valuable time and energy to eradi- cate the evil of drunkenness from our country, would only imitate the mothers who live in the wine-producing countries of the world, and give your children in early years a little wine and water at their meals, they would grow up with the habit of using wine only at table and I assure you that none of those boys or girls would ever become drunkards. 44 “By permission of the Committee I will add a fact that, although of a personal nature, is of such vast importance that I am compelled to tell you. “Some years ago I visited, with my wife and child, the watering place of Santa Cruz, in California. We sat at a table in the Wilkins House where there were over one hundred lady and gentlemen visitors. Each family had its table. As soon as I called for my meal I ordered with it my usual bottle of wine. The waiter brought the bottle of wine and as soon as .it was uncorked, my wife put a little wine in a glass, then a little water and, turning to the baby chair, gave it to that babe to drink. Several ladies who had a table near us were shocked and I could hear them whisper among themselves, ‘Oh poor child. See those parents are giving that innocent babe wine to drink. Oh, cruel parents.’ “Now, ladies, let me tell you, that little babe has grown to manhood and holds the posi- tion of cashier in a bank. He and four others of my children, who are all now grown up, some having children of their own, used wine at their meals every day of their lives, except in cases of sickness, and I assure you, ladies, that none of them know what intoxication is, and if they live as long as Methuselah they never will. My little grandchild, three years old, is now using wine and water at table as did her mother and grandmother when children. “I appeal to the American mothers to follow this example. It is the true and the only way by which you are sure to be blessed with happy and sober children in your families.” Then addressing the Committee again, 1 said: “This bill reads that no ‘Intoxicating Liquor’ shall be sold, used, served, etc., in the city of Washington. Now let me propose, if you please, an s— 45 THE LARGEST WINE ESTABLISHMENT IN THE WORLD. CAPACITY TEN MILLION GALLONS. This winery is situated at Point Richmond on the Bay of San Francisco, having water and rail facilities for receiving the grape to be crushed into wine, from all parts of the State of California; and also railroad and water-shipping facilities for the handling and distribution of their wines by land and sea throughout the world. Rye amendment to that bill defining what ‘Intoxicating Liquor’ really is, by adding the following words to the bill : ‘Provided, however, that the natural fermented juice of the apple, the natural fermented juice of the grape and the natural fermented juice of other fruits not containing more than 13 per cent alcohol, are not to be considered under this Act intoxicating liquors and are therefore not subject to the pro- visions of this bill.” At the conclusion of my address, Mr. Sims, of Tennessee, who had proposed the bill, arose and said: “I want to say that we very much appreciate your coming here and making these remarks on this bill. I accept your opinions as being those of a serious, earnest man; I accept them as coming from a man with convictions.” * The result was that this bill was also killed by the committee. Interview with President Roosevelt After the meeting with the Committee, in company with Senator Flint, of California, I made it my duty to call on President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft, and Secretary of the Navy Met- calf. To these gentlemen I stated that I had come three thousand miles across the continent for the purpose of speaking with our Congressmen on the question of true temperance, and showing them how the evil of drunkenness might be removed from our midst. I called the attention of the President and also the Secretaries to the official report of Dr. O'Reilly, Surgeon General of *See Congressional Records H. R. 17530, House Committee on the District of Columbia, March 16th, 1908, CHILDREN OF THE VIN i corns? § Ct him : a EYARD DISTRICT OF ST. HELENA, NAPA COUNTY. THIS BEAUTIFUL SCHOOLHOUSE WAS PAID FOR BY THE GRAPE INDUSTRY OF THE DISTRICT. the United States Army, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, which showed that, since the abolishment of the canteen, thirty soldiers to the thousand had been treated at hospitals annually for alcoholism, while in the armies and navies of Europe, where every soldier and sailor is given 4 ration of wine at their meals, the rate of treatment for alcoholism is only one-eighth of one man per thousand, which is equivalent to 240 in America to 1 in the European countries. I therefore recommended to the President and to the different Secretaries the adoption of the system of wine- producing countries of the world—to furnish our soldiers and sailors with a ration of wine at their meals, assuring them that by so doing, the men will learn soberness in the army and navy and be good sober sons and fathers when they leave the service and return home to their families. Of course, I do not expect this change to take place at once. It is going to take time. But, as I remarked to President Roosevelt, “If I may have had the good fortune to sow the first seed in the halls of Congress and before our Government that will eventually remove the evil of drunken- ness from the United States, I will indeed feel well rewarded for my labor at Washington.” Farnest Appeal to the American Mothers I want to make a fervent appeal to the American mothers to follow the example of the mothers living in the wine-producing countries of the world, who give their children diluted wine at each meal. They will thus become accustomed to the use of this healthy beverage and these children will grow up to be sober and happy men and women. CTE Pe 1 LL I GREYSTONE WINERY, NEAR ST. HELENA, NAPA COUNTY, CAL., ONE OF THE BEST STORAGE CELLARS IN STATE FOR AGING WINE, WITH A CAPACITY OF A MILLION GALLONS. IT IS BUILT OF STONE AND PRESENTS A VERY PICTURESQUE APPEARANCE FROM THE COUNTY ROAD. OWNED BY THE CALIFORNIA WINE ASSOCIATION. THE To The President of The United States. I most earnestly appeal to you, Mr. President, before you leave the presidential chair, which vou have so honorably filled, to inaugurate and foster by all means in your power the general use of light table wines by the American people at their meals. Mr. President, if you take this matter up in your usual, earnest, vigorous manner, you will suc- ceed in accomplishing that which the prohibition people are in vain seeking to achieve—the removal of the evil of drunkenness from the midst of our countrymen—and thus wipe out the unreasonable strife that is now agitating our people, and make permanent peace between those who believe in total abstinence and those who believe in true temperance; and let me tell you, sir, that by so doing, generations to come will not only speak of you as having commenced the gigantic work of the building of the Panama Canal, for the making of peace between the great nations of Russia and Japan, and for the achievement of some of the most beneficial improvements of our country, during your brilliant administration, but you will be known in history for the great and noble work of having inaugurated the movement by which drunkenness will be forever removed from the United States. To The Secretary of War and Secretary of The Navy I appeal to you, gentlemen, to adopt the system in vogue in the wine-producing countries of Europe where a ration of wine is furnished at table to every man, both in the Army and in the Navy (the cost need not be any more than is now paid for tea and coffee). In these armies, drunken- ness is almost unknown, while according to the report of Dr. O'Reilly, Surgeon-Ceneral of the United States Army, since the abandonment of the canteen, it is shown that there are more drunkards than in any other Army in the world. Remove this stigma, gentlemen, from our Army and Navy. Furnish the men a ration of good light wine at their meals and our American Army and Navy fvill then be as sober as any in the world. To the Govemors, Mayors and Municipal Officials of Our Country In view of the fact that I strongly condemn intoxication and am desirous to do all in my power to remove this evil, I most earnestly appeal to all State, County and City Officials to encourage the moderate use of light table wine at meals instead of hampering the sale and distribution there- of, so that our American people may gradually become accustomed to the use of this light and healthy beverage and thus effectually remove the evil of drunkenness from our midst. To the Hotel and Restaurant Keepers of the United States To you gentlemen is due in a great measure the small quantity of wine which is used at the hotel and restaurant table, and yet you should be the medium through which the people of the country could be educated to the general use of wine at their meals and thus drive away drunken- ness. Remember that the sale of wines at reasonable figures is the only means to persuade the American people to the general use of this healthy beverage. You should not only furnish every person, who sits at your table the wine list as well as the menu, or better still have your menu contain the wine list, but the waiter should make it a point to ask every gentleman or lady, “What will you have, tea, coffee or wine?” In this way many would use wine who would otherwise not think of it. There are many hotels and restaurants which charge more for a bottle of wine than they do for the meals the customers eat. This is entirely wrong and discourages the people from using wine at all. Your profits on the sales of wine must come from the large quantity that you could sell, if you would furnish good wine at reasonable prices. You might buy some good sound wine by the barrel, put it up yourselves, both in pint and quart bottles, well corked, and serve it either with your own label or without label, so as to make the cost minimum. For those customers who can afford to pay for fine wines, you should keep bottled wines of well known brands so that your customers may always be satisfied with their drink. Tn Europe the profits from the hotels are greatly derived from the sale of their wines and it is a well known fact that the mass of the people prefer to go to the hotel and restaurant which is famous for its wine than for its eatables. I appeal to you gentlemen to assist this true temperance movement for your own benefit and for the benefit of the American people. To The American Physicians In your power, gentlemen, is the means by which you can aid materially the removal of drunkenness. Note what the eminent Dr. Regensburger, the President of the Board of Health of the State of California, says: “If the people of this country were educated from babyhood up to drink wine, alcoholism would be a rare disease, as has been proven in the wine-drinking countries. It is the forbidden fruit that tempts. In my experience in families where the wine flows — 53 freely drunkards are the exception, whereas many of the offspring of teetotalers and wine ab horers, who have not tasted alcohol until they have almost grown to be men, become drunkards.” Advise all your patients, Doctors, to bring up their children with the use of wine from chila- hood. By doing this, you will make the American people sober and happy, and increase your practice by the larger number of births in families. To the Grocers of Our Country To you, gentlemen, is entrusted a most important duty, the distribution of wines to the family. It is through your assistance, principally, that the American people may become wine drinkers. You should make it your business to ask every customer, who comes to your store, if he desires any wine, and if he is not accustomed to the use of wine, you should employ considerable time in showing the great advantage it would be for him and his family to use the beneficial drink of wine at meals. You should sell to the poorer families ordinary, good sound wine in bulk by the demijohn, tell- ing them how to bottle and to properly keep it until used. Good wine can be served to these families so it will not cost them more than from 10c. to !5c. per bottle, thus making the beverage, when properly diluted, as cheap as tea or coffee. The wealthy families should be advised to purchase their wines bottled of well-known brands so that they niay get nothing but good, fine wines. Your profit on the sale of wines must be limited to a reasonable point. This would increase enormously your trade in the article and thus augment vour profits by the larger quantity of sales. 54 Grocers should be permitted and encouraged by every municipality of the land to sell wines in original packages, not to be consumed on the premises, without the payment of any license whatever. The municipality so doing would derive its benefit from the fact that drunkards would not appear on the streets of the towns and cities where wine is freely used by every family. To The Presidents of Colleges and Educational Institutions Gentlemen, on you devolves the important duty of educating our youths to sobriety. See to it that both the boys and girls receive at their boarding house a ration of light table wine at their meals. By so doing, you will certainly avoid the trouble which recently occurred at Stan- ford University, in California, where the boys, having been prohibited from using wine at their meals, went in the evening to the nearest town for liquor. As a result many drank to excess and this caused the removal of several of the students from college. In the colleges of the wine-producing countries of the world all the students are furnished with wine at their meals and such a thing as drunkenness among them is unknown. To The American Press To you, gentlemen, who mould public opinion, I most earnestly appeal that you use your powerful influence in behalf of this great cause of true temperance. All the honest temperance people of our country will be with you. You know, as well as I do, that in the wine-producing and wine-drinking countries of the world, drunkenness is only an infinitesimal part of what 55 VIEW F THE OF A CALIFORNIA VINEYARD AT ASTI, SONOMA COUNTY, IN THE FORIROUND 20 A PART O : ORIGINAL FOREST FROM WHICH IT WAS CREATED BY THE ITALTAN- COLONY SHOWING IN THE DISTANCE. exists in the United States, and, as the Encvclopedia Americana points out: “The manu- facture of wine and champagne is an infant industry in the United States, but we have in the Eastern States and in California all the opportunities and all the conditions for success. We have here the right climate, the proper soil,* the best varieties of grapes, suffi- cient capital, and the most intelligent labor and supervision in the world ; therefore, with all these facilities and with the growing demand and liking for wines, the wine-industry should have a great and prosperous future. In California and on the Pacific Coast practically only European or foreign varieties of grapes are grown; therefore our Eastern wines are of a dif- ferent type from California wines, which for the most part resemble and have the well-known characteristics of the European prototypes.” Consequently, since the State of California, as I have shown, and a few other states of the Union, can produce all the wine required to supply every man, woman and child in the United States, this practically new industry should be fostered and encouraged by the Press creating public opinion. This will gradually reduce and finally remove the evil of drunkenness from our country and in addition it will turn the hill lands, which now are only good for pasturage, into beautiful vineyards that will enrich our country by approxi- mately six hundred million dollars per annum, thus giving pleasant, healthy and profitable em- ployment to several millions of happy families. Gentlemen of the Press, take this important matter to your heart. It will expedite the solution of removing drunkenness from our country and the people will bless you for the happiness that you will have assisted them to acquire. *See view on page opposite. To The Judges of Our Country Kindly observe what the Hon. W. W. Morrow, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, of San Francisco, says in a recent letter to me, a fac-simile of which appears elsewhere ‘1 this book. “The use of light table wine at meals,” he writes, “has been found by long experience to promote health and sobriety and prevent ill health and drunkenness. I am, therefore, of the opinion that it should be encouraged rather than prohibited.” Judge Morrow’s words should be listened to with respect, for he is a man of large experience, strictly a temperance man, and is honored as much by the humble working man as by the most exalted in the land. He has served in the halls of Congress and is an intimate friend, and has the fullest confidence, of President Roosevelt, who has frequently called him in consultation. I, therefore, request the judiciary, when cases of alcoholism come under their jurisdiction, to bear Judge Morrow's words in mind. In order that the industrious mechanic and business man d not, by the sweat of their brows, pay for the maintenance of drunkards in jail, I would suggest nee that every person arrested on the streets in a drunken condition should be forced to work thirty days for the first offense for their board in cleaning the streets or repairing country roads. If they become intoxicated again, add thirty additional days every time they repeat the offense. During their confinement, give them a glass of good sound wine at their meals and when they leave the prison I think that more than half of the prisoners will continue the custom acquired of drinking wine. 1 verily believe that by this remedy in a few months every city and town would be cleared of its drunkards. 58 To The People of The United States To you both men and women, I most earnestly appeal that you change your mode of living and use light table wines at your meals. If you, reader, have not been in the wine-drinking countries of Europe, ask any of your friends who have visited abroad and they will tell you, like the eminent Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, that, “Judging from what I see in this country, and from what I know of the conditions of things in Europe—which I have visited twenty-five times—I am decid- edly of the opinion that the more wine there is produced in this country and the more freely it is transported from state to state, the smaller will be the amount of drunkenness.” By following the example of the people who live in the wine-producing countries of Europe, you will help to remove drunkenness forever—one of the great evils with which our country is affficted. To The Ministers of The Gospel To the ministers of the Gospel, you, who have in charge the souls and bodies of your flocks, I most earnestly appeal because you have been laboring hard in trying to remove the demon of drunkenness from the midst of our people. If you have not succeeded, it is because unfortunately you have not adopted the right means by which the evil may be eliminated. There are, however, many of our great church leaders who are working along the same lines I have indicated. For example, the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, in a letter to nie, says: “Although I believe in temper- ance, I try to be temperate in my beliet and to be sufficiently radical not to defeat the ends of 59 my conservatism, and I am warmly in sympathy with you in the attitude which you take in regard to wine.” And again, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of wide-world reputation, declares: “I have respect for the one who believes that it is legitimate to use wine in moderation on the dinner table.” Go through the Bible, both the old and the new Testament, and you will find not a word against the proper use of wine. On the contrary, you will find many passages where it is highly recommended by our Savior. Delve into history and you will see that the greatest men of all ages used wine at their meals. Washington Irving tells us that the father of our country, George Washington, was always sup- plied with wine in his cellar. Pope Leo, at ninety, wrote a poem in Latin on right living and advocated the drinking of mild wines as a matter of course. He drank them all his life and at ninety was a strong man. Bismarck and Gladstone were moderate drinkers who lived to a fine old age. Wine is also universally used by the wealthy and intelligent people at their homes even in non-wine producing countries and may be had in every first-class hotel in the world. Now that wine can be produced in unlimited quantities of superior quality and at a low price in our own country, hasten to educate your parishioners to use this healthy, invigorating beverage at their meals in moderation; then, indeed, will you succeed in eliminating drunkenness from the members of your church. A campaign covering fifty years demonstrates that prohibition has not been, is not and will never be effective. 60 Those ministers of the gospel in our midst who have been in the wine-drinking countries of Europe know that every word I say is absolutely true. Let them have the courage to disseminate these truths. Preach from the pulpit, speak to the families with whom you come in contact, con- vince them of the true remedy for the removal of drunkenness and then you will indeed become benefactors of your people, and drunkards will be seen as seldom in our United States as they are now seen in the great wine-producing countries of Europe. Campaign of Education Sure to be Successful I would call the reader’s attention to a splendid article in McClure’s Magazine for August, 1908, entitled “Prohibition and Social Psychology,” by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, of “Harvard University. I wish you would read it to your Prohibition friends and if there is one spark of reasoning power in them, they will be convinced by Prof. Munsterberg’s logical argu- ments that the blessing of temperance can only be obtained by our following the experiences of older nations. He suggests this plan of campaign: “A systematic education in self-control must set in; the drunkard must not be toler- ated under any circumstances. Above all, the social habits in the sphere of drinking must be entirely reshaped. They belong to a period where the Puritan spirit considered heer and wine as sinful and relegated them to regions hidden from decent eyes. * * * But if those relics of a narrow time disappear and customs grow which spread the spirit of geniality and friendly social intercourse over the foaming cup, the spell will be broken. Instead of being 61 tyrannized over by short-sighted fanatics on the one side and corrupt saloon-keepers on the other, the nation will proceed with the unanimous sympathy of the best citizens to firm temperance laws which the sound instinct of the masses will really respect.” Already a concerted action is beginning to be felt all over the country which will bring about the needed reforms suggested by Prof. Munsterberg. This is due to the fact that the American people are fair minded and open to conviction. It is true that it takes time to change the habits of a people and it is going to take time to educate the Anglo-Saxon race and teach them the benefits of the moderate use of wines at their meals. However, I am confident that we are right in our contention and will ultimately win out in our campaign of education. We must continue to preach the gospel of truth and sooner or later we will convince the people of the merits of our plan to wipe out the evil of drunkenness and Prohibition will then become a dead issue. In conclusion, I will repeat the sentiments which I expressed to the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, on taking leave of him in New York. I said, “Doctor, I am interested in the viticultural industry in California, but I assure you that it was not commercialism which caused me to leave my home and family at a few hours’ notice to go and address the two branches of Congress at Washington, three thousand miles away, on the two bills before the Committees, referring to the great question of the day— ‘Temperance or Prohibition.” As you see, Doctor, I have arrived at the age, when according to Dr. Osler, I should be either chloroformed or at least retired to rest. I did intend to retire. I have been in active life for nearly fifty years; have been very successful in my career and I am really entitled to rest quietly for the balance of my life. But, Doctor,” I said, “if I can assist — 62 in removing the evil of drunkenness from our country, I am willing to devote for that laudable pur- pose, every day of the balance of my life, and I will be amply rewarded if I shall merit the fol- lowing inscription on my tomb: Here lie the bones of ANDREA SBARBORO who first sowed the seeds in the Halls of Congress which caused the removal of drunkenness from the United States San Francisco, September, 1908. ANDREA SBARBORO VINEYARDS AND WINERY IN MADERA COUNTY, CA MOST DELICIOUS SWEET LIFORNIA, WHICH PRODUCE THE GRAPE FROM WHICH IS MADE THE WINES, SUCH AS PORT, SHERRY, MADERIA, AND ANGELICA, EQUAL TO THE BEST PRODUCED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. — pm ——————— How to Use Wine A book published for the purpose of educating the American people to the use of wine at their meals would hardly be complete without showing the reader how to use that delicious beverage to the best advantage. Kate Field, in a temperance article, once wrote: “If the American wife would cook a good meal for her husband and place a bottle of good wine on her table, he would not stop at the saloon on his way home to spoil his appetite, and after his dinner, having partaken of his wine, would have no desire to visit the saloon.” These words are as true as the holy Gospel itself. Light table wines, both red and white, are generally used at meals diluted with a little water. In fact, people not yet accustomed to the use of wine, and children should use nearly one-half water and one-half wine. While this makes a pleasant drink, it is absolutely non-intoxicating, materially helps digestion, and adds considerably to the enjoyment of one’s meal. To people with limited means, one kind of wine, either white or red, may be used through- out the entire meal with perfect propriety and satisfaction; but for the wealthy class, who desire to take every advantage of the use of this delicious beverage, it is customary to use white wine at the beginning of the meal with oysters and fish; red wine with roast, fowl and vegetable. Champagne is only used with dessert at the end of the meal by the real connoisseur ; temperance people only drink one, two or three dainty glasses of champagne in accordance with his or her actual pleasure and desire. White wine and champagne should be served cold, but red wine at table should never be served with ice. I have seen some persons, who had more money than brains, commence their meals with champagne and drink champagne throughout the entire meal. This is nauseating and a con- noisseur wine drinker, when he sees these people on the Pullman cars drink champagne through- out their meals, believes that it is done for a snobbish effect. It is certainly not conducive to the proper enjoyment and digestion of the meal. This reminds me that our good American people might show a little more patriotism than they generally do. Some time ago, the King of Italy ordered that at state dinners nothing but Italian wines (in- cluding, of course, champagne) should be served at table. Emperor William of Germany also prohibits the use of any but German wines at dinner on state occasions. It is humiliating, indeed, that at public banquets in the United States, so little American wines are used. There is no reason for this, as all connoisseurs admit that now America produces as good dry and sweet wines and champagne as that which is imported from Europe. Therefore, let us have a little national pride and see to it that the American people are as patriotic as the European people and show their loyalty by using their own wines, both at home and at public functions. Sherry and port are heavy wines and should only be drunk in small dainty glasses, with a little cake, between meals—not at the meals proper. It is customary for the hostess, in the wine-drinking countries of Europe, when ladies visit one another, to give a dainty glass of sherry or port to the guests with a little delicious pastry, which is a substitute for our “teas.” Ladies out 66 shopping, when feeling a little fatigued, go into a confectionery store, where they sit down at marble tables, perhaps with their children, and take a little pastry and a glass sherry or port, which invigorates them for their walk for business or pleasure. Physicians frequently prescribe a little port or sherry, beaten with an egg, to debilitated persons which gives them strength and relief. Some people, not accustomed to the proper use of wine, drink sherry, port and angelica during their meals. This is entirely improper, as the wine 1s too strong and does not properly assimilate with the food like the light claret or white wines. Red wine is frec r rery effectively for curing “i i s frequently used very effectively for curing colds. Till a pot with a large glass of water and a large glass of wine, warm to near boiling, then put in a little cinnamon, cloves and sugar, and drink as warm as possible, in bed. This will produce perspiration, put you quietly to sleep, and, when you awaken, your cold will have vanished. In warm weather, red wine is very essential in making ice lemonades. It helps to quench the thirst and when a little red wine is used with pure water the same effect is secured. When wines are used in this manner they are found to be true, temperate, delicious healthy beverages. Que RR =D U. C. BERKELEY LIBRARIES Co42145120 Printed by The Hicks-Judd Company San Francisco, Cal. END OF TITLE END OF TITLE