9152. WINES, Sobriety and.—
I am
persuaded that were the duty on cheap wines
put on the same ratio with the dear, it would
wonderfully enlarge the field of those who use
wine, to the expulsion of whisky. The introduction
of a very cheap wine into my neighborhood,
within two years past, has quadrupled
in that time the number of those who keep
wine, and will ere long increase them tenfold.
This would be a great gain to the treasury, and
to the sobriety of our country.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. v, 86.
Ford ed., ix, 69.
(W.
June. 1807)
