. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. g him to get consulabroad, and by removing at home fchoc bich prevent wine being drunk by the greater parr of the po-pulation. A more liberal commercial policy would aidin effecting the first, by obtaining for Austrian producefewer restrictions in foreign states. And as to the second, were a heavier tax laid on theconsumption of brandy, the practice of spirit-drinkwhich prevails to a fearful extent in the country, wouldbe diminished, and wine taken instead. If dearer thanwine, who would drink it ? Here
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. g him to get consulabroad, and by removing at home fchoc bich prevent wine being drunk by the greater parr of the po-pulation. A more liberal commercial policy would aidin effecting the first, by obtaining for Austrian producefewer restrictions in foreign states. And as to the second, were a heavier tax laid on theconsumption of brandy, the practice of spirit-drinkwhich prevails to a fearful extent in the country, wouldbe diminished, and wine taken instead. If dearer thanwine, who would drink it ? Here, as everywhere;moralizing effect of the constant use of spirits is a]rent. Maize, from which the spirit is distilled, _quantity. The landed proprietors are unable to sell theirharvest; for at home each man has plenty, amiforeign market that is out of the question, from the diffi- * Let only capitalists come here and look about them, said a Hunga-rian gentleman to me who is himself interested in commercial specula:we will stick to them, for it is to our interest that they should WINE AND POLITICS. 183 culty of transport. Their only means, therefore, of ob-taining some remuneration for their ontlay is to tnrn theircorn into spirit, or to sell it to the distiller for this pur-pose. Where there is such abundance, the competitionis great, and, despite the excise, the price of whisky is verylow. Thus as, in our moral existence, we see how one ill-advised act leads to others, which involve in difficulty,begetting a progeny that from day to day become moretyrannously our masters. Our spiritual teachers tell usthis, but it seems to me that they do not so with sufficientforce, putting the fact before us as an inevitable law fromwhich there is no escape; showing how, as by the irre-sistible coils of a mighty snake, circumstance evolves fromcircumstance, and we are at last entwined; showing ustoo, how, like the Fate of old, the one original fault willhave its atonement. I cannot
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