TIL M0LUMBIAN FOUNTAIN

SXfURDAYMoRNING, JAN. II, 1876

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In the event of news arriving that large
quantity Of bread stuffs had been destroy
ed-athat d vessel laden with grain had gone
to the bottom--or that, in same one portion


Of the world there had been failure in the
wheat or other grain crops, what sensa-
ton is Immediately produced--how spec
div the cry of scarcity" is raised, and
how eiectually dealers and spectators avail
themselves of the circumstance to raise the
price Of bread-stuffs, and to fill their pockets
at the expense Of the consumer. The re-
cent failure of the potatoe crop had the
effect Of enhancing the price Of flour-of
adding two and three dollars to the cost per
barrel. How is this? What becomes OF
the enormous quantities of the article Of
bread-stuffs annually produced in this high
ly favored country3 Is there not more
than enough produced in England and
America to supply the necessities Of the
population of the two countries? Were it
not for the immense quantities Of grain,
wheat, rye, Sc, which are annually con-
sumed at still-houses in the manufacture of
poisonous beverages for the destruction Of
mankind, such thing as scarcity Of bread
stufs would seldom be known. Here is the
cause Of much, if not all Of the distress
occasioned by what is called failure Of
crops Man perverts the blessings Of Heav-
en-turns aside the bountilul provision in
tended to supply his wantsand necessities.
converts the productions Of nature-the
staff and stay of life-6read, by the infer
nal process of fdistillation, into liquid death
sacrifices at the altar of the demon, Lntem
perdnce, such vast quantities Of his natural
food, that the partial failure of the po,atoe
crop causes scarcity i'll America, and a
famine in England


The question to be answered, is, Would
the price Of -four at home have been ma
terially enhanced by the recent partial fail
ure Of the crop Of potatoes, had all the
grain produced during the year been con-
verted into four9 Would not the grain de-
stroyed by distillation have made up, an
hundred fold, the loss occasioned by the
potatoe blight' The fact is, the conver-
sion of articles Of food into the poison Of
Intoxicating drinks has not only taken away
from The staff of life, but it has been the
means of disqualifying men for the proper
labor which nature requires in order to the
production of the means by which animal
existence is supported.