Failure of the Light-Wine Cure by National Temperance Advocate

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 22, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 20.

Failure of the Light-Wine Cure.

By National Temperance Advocate

A FEW years ago the Chicago Tribune was very zealously advocating the general use of light wines and beer as a remedy for intemperance. Total abstainers objected then, as now, to the use of these lighter beverages as tending to develop an appetite for the stronger alcoholics. Switzerland is a wine-producing country with the very best opportunity to test the efficacy of light wines as a safeguard against intemperance. But now comes the Chicago Tribune with a wail that Switzerland has become the most drunken country in Europe! Just what might have been expected. The much-vaunted "light-wine cure" is also a "failure."

—National Temperance Advocate.