The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-01-16
DR.. Jewett and Temperance.
From the Lyons (Iowal Miror.]

prompts US 10 give paw :"
admirable sketch of his views whicn we
elm from the Guardian, published at
Ipdepeudepce.RI As matter OF course II
is Int a sketch. 1t will, however, serve
n recall to our readers many OF the argu-
ments and apt illustrations by which the
Doctor. in his discourses here, sustained
and enforced his views.
He has spent about six weeks in Iowa,
and the press, at the points visited by
him, have spoken of his public services,
and their influence on the popular mind,
in terms Of commentator A CORES
popdent of the Daver port Gasettc says of
DR.. j.:
"He is a genuine lecturer-a man Of
science, wit, .bonhommie, carnestness,
and inexhaustible good humor. Many
an old friend of total abstinence is com.
PEELED to say, after hearing him, that he
has known comparatively nothing of the
subject and hundred temperance lee.
lures, 50 called, Of the declamatory sort,
fall belov one Of his 10 value. He has
long taught the people kno,ciedge.'
[rrom the Independence (rowa) Guardian.l
DR.. JEwErr's LkCrUREs.-Of the
many treats that our people have had in
the way Of lectures, that given by DR..
Jcwett last week was among the richest.
For the Doctors lectures were certainly
rich-rich in illustration, in logic, in
, argument, in information calculated to
make men better acquainted with them
/ ha, ba Invr nft heir
own health, to point out to them how
great curse to their moral and physical
well being is the use Of alcoholic stimu-
lants He treated the subject altogether
as relating to man isolated from his fell
lows. No, in the injury done to society,
to those around him and connected with
him, but in that done to himself He
showed, in taking alcohol into their
s,omachs, were taking poison-a poison
as certain, and more rapie, in It's effects,
in its absolute state than arsenic. lie
rave the evidence Of eminent chemists
and Psychologists that such is the case,
and that the poison had Il closer affinity
for the brain than for any other organ of
the body, and was therefore classcd
among cerebral or brain poisons. lie
showed, too, the falIacy of the popular
opinion that alcoholic drinks were uu.r.
tious, and contendcd that nothing which,
like alcohol, was the product Of descend
ing changes, or Of decomposition, could
be nutritious He showed what stimu-
at:on really is--a raIlying of the vital
forces of the system to axpel the poison
Gus Intruder. This over-excrtion Of the
cxpulsive forces soon impairs the vitality
of the system, leaving it, even when the
muscles are strong, and the physique ap-
parcr,ly healshful lily prepared to meet
and battle with disease. Thus 1t is that |
surgeons dislike to perform operations
even upon the great bury beer-mcn OF
our own cJuu,ry, whose systems have not
the rccupera,iye energy and power re
nuisitc to heal wound when one is
made. Thus thousands Of large muscu,
lar men are carrie: of by slight attacks
of disease that even the recuperatlve Ell.
cr:ics Of children readily overcome. He
showed how impotent the strongest will
is to break away from the habit, and how
dangerous it is for :nen to indulge in in
,oxicating drinks, thinking to stop be-
fore they had gone too far. H. showed
that they were the last generally to see
how near the precl pice they had reached,
and when they did see, how futile were
the attempts TO call in the aid of the
will. BY that time, alcohol had aeranged
! the functions Of The stomach and pcrv-
Gus system, aud with these deranged,
men had no wills. They were poor, weak
tremblin. men, without their stimulants,
and could bring 30 wlll-power in play to
drag themselves from the danger which
they saw threatening them. Thus lie
had known Of but few instances Of
drunkards permanently reforming. He
had learned to have large faith only in
preventive measures. All these and 9th
er points, he illustrated and enforced,
with we'll known physiological and chem
ical truths. la fact, in three lectures he
, bad not exhausted even the physiolo.ic-
al view of the subject AID in on, opin.
. ion this Is the strongest possible argu-
mcnt that can be made, and one which
e has the greatest possible popular effect
t Convince men that alcohol, which alone
:, renders these drinks attractive, is simply
) a poison, and as a poison, acting Oh the
t brain. ultimate y destroying mental pow
e er-derancing the stomachs functions
), aud breaking down the force of the will
l. importing the recuperative energies OF
the system, which alone can be relied
upon to meet aud overcome disease
n when We can convince men that it i,
d s"ch poison that they are drinking, the,
y will be apt to realize the folly of pourn.
Is alcohol dawn their throats. We there
r fore think that DR.. Jewe,t, with hi
m thorough knowledge Of the physioloe
Ell and chemistry Of the subject, and hi
Sc lucid, calm, courteous, earnest, cords
TO and sincere manner of impartins hi
re facts, Is just the man to labor 10 the field
ne He is no buffoon, but to large scientif
er and intellectual requirements, adds con
10 siderable power of expression, as We
n with body as with words, and though l
lie talks in plain. unpretentious style, in
BY terests his audience greatly, and leaves
e. most excellent impression upon the min,
pit If not brilliant, he is certainly effec,iy
if
nka- The State Treasurer Of Penn. r