The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-05-05
The Effects of Drunkenness upon
Children.

Differences of social rank and cOnd
tion exert powerful influence upon
these results: the children of the ricI
incorporate may be weak, nervous excl
table, and prone to morbid conditions OF
mind and body, yet they have advantages
which those in lower life have not. They
have plentiful and healthful food and IN
der ordinary circumstances they have ii
well regulated physical and mental edu.
cation. The practice of their parents
is not constantly enforced both by exam.
pie and sort of necessity; and the ten.
denotes which they have Inherited ar,
not generally fostered by an entirely de.
| prayed moral medium. Far different is
The lot of the incorporate poor; born il,
he midst of abject poverty, misery ana
privation is their lot from their infancy ;
IND their want of the common necassaries
| II life, with complete ignorance of its
omforts prompts them to the commissions
Of crimes and to the indulgence of their
b reditary tastes, to relieve their immedi
tie wants and sutferings. And thus their
lmpulslve nature, SO far from being
checked by any moral considerations
is placed IN a very hot
bed for its evil development
Yet, different as is their Station, in one
particular they are alikc-the offspring
2f the confirmed drunkard, rich or poor,
will inherit either the original vice or
some of its countless protean TRANSITIONAL
tlonS. The external aspect may in on,
case be less revolving and coarse than in
The other, but none, as rule, can escape
the inevitable law, written in the most
hideous recesses ofour nature,inaccordanc
with which the children do suffer for the
sins of the parent, and even at the third
and fourth generation, the faint is hardly
wiped away save by the extinction of the
llne or family. For the disease which
leads to these sad consequences there is
Dnt one cure-total and entire restraint :;
so as to prevent for long period any
possibility of indulgence in the depraved
tastes and habits; even this is too often
unsuccessful For time, under this en-
forced discipline, a cure seems to be af-
fected; but, when the subject of it is
liberated, he too often takes unto him
seven other devils, and the state of that
man is worse than at first. 1t would,
think, be waste of time merely to point
out the obvious practical conclusions from
the foregoing considerations and the
duties which a due recognition of their
truth entails both upon individuals and
upon society at large. t5
have entered thus at length into the
subject of intoxication as affecting after
generations, intending 1t as typical H.
lustration of the mode in which all vices
affect progressive human welfare; and
because believe that the use of intoxi-
eating drinks, in what is called modera-
ton, is fearfully growing evil in our
country. With regard to other vices |
must only briefly observe that whatever
has tendency TO lower the physical,
intellectual, or moral tone of the parent
has tendency seldom lost, to exert dis
astrous influence over the future well |
being of the child. Let the source off
be what it may, the offspring
will inherit body or mind bearing ira,
ces of imperfect fitness or balance which
sooner or later will assert its presence
and power.-A PhysiGians Problems.
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