New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-01
ALCOHOL NOT MEANT FOR A BEVERAGE

ALCOHOL NOT MEANT FOR A BEVERAGE'
o,,vrs,p.pp's Devil NOT CREATURE or GOD
rs ONLY PROPER USE THAT FOR MEDICINAL
PURPOSES
IN IN, Edftor Of The Tribune.
SIP The Temperance discussion seems to be
"a old n the world or rather From the time
when men learned to arrest the powers OF fermentation
at the alcoholic stage they seemed 10 na'o 'o'cu ~
hol and suffered themselves to be led away ny H. o
is not the only Of good repute VINO was oFeroo"o
by the tempter. Men are seldom very wcKeu "''"o".
the help OF alcohol, and IL Is common enough " ioa
how they haze nerved themselves up to evil deed Dy
brandy Full well we understand Shakespeare "neh no
SAYS of this invisible spirit Of wne-"We call thee
devil" We have records of little private Temperance
societies as when the Nazares took avow. or their
parents for them and represented as peihg "h'o
and pure ruddy and heahfu. The prophet Dahie' anu
hi companions tested the virtues OF abstinence, ana
surely the results 5atisfactory-hcaitn am "iSuo
and long life There have been warnings like this
" Look not thou upon the wine when IL Is reu' Al 'ho
Last IL biteth like serpent and stingeth like an adder
Man have tested and proved this. And so on through
all aoes shakespeares devil mas wrought mischief ana
having laid his hand upon our country. III q cuhuD
where men are specially and most easily ahecfo "
stimuants has to pass that very large proper
ton OF our crime, pauperism and misery Colno' on
alcohol.
And yet men, leaders come ont as it3 ad'oca'oS'
sbakespeare's devil a creature OF God! That 49,
product of one chemical arrested before IL mas
passed on to-decompo'iticn. And such men as Bishop
purcell and DR. Crosby decry total abstinence, ana a-
yocate moderation with wine and other things as pou
boon 10 men, Men want for arguments 10 JUSTLY
that about which they have up their MINUS
Now setting aside moral considerations we have some
facts tho result OF scientific research. whcn n"y w
briefly stated Alcohol poison sufficient dose OF
Into xisafa
poison In the very derivation OF the word Acoholmay DO
useful IA n medicine like opium arsenic, or bella
donna For impaired digestion, minute quantity may
set The fires going. IN some way, anu nc,p t rn,
Rut all beyond that point does harn Tue ihonenI yoi
have flushed face, disturbed BRAIN qblekeneu puse'
that the TOO much has gone INTO inc ~ ~ m
and every power Is reused TO grt ria Oh H. ~ - ~
strength it is the desperation OF the ireu uoIse, wv
is dashed into run t. escaps the nhal uanser @
excitement is followed by corresponding uoProsSop'
which demands the same treatment again. Ing oon-
tnued use Of tins rritan induces disease anu tls
is amenahle 10 treatment; hence the estaDshnenI
Of asyInms where men be ont OF the way OF teDpta
ton TN the parOxysm Of disease De Pasl for. more
powerfpl than hunger thirst this terrible craving hes
beyond the power OF the will But these asyium l are
not going to meet tho case II we smo,u i've o
without remedy, all the asyluns ~ the country could
not receive the patients nor help tcn otatscs aso
been no peated Til they have lost their power. we are
orowing. not Under pauio and depresson and over,
radjnr but under the burdens OF tens OF thousands OF
useiess and wicked men, made 80 by acoOi-hot ohy
hTrcn bnt dead loss OF so much useful material LOOK
at that little Vnea9d, in New-Jetsey ihoy nave no
erin no
yers little SICKNESS from death Ii Is lesson III political
economy. ,,. .o, an ,o,o
These facts forcing themselves upon an soper
minds Alcohoic drinks were never made for Deyer-
age Used as medicine. they should only be continued
bT prescription and not resOrted to at WILL The frauds
tions are fearful! and hurfu but the poison
i, the alcohol The Of men are safe only when they
let alone. The popular quack medicines, otuTs, Hc
IRE made of bad whisky, and cases are numberless
where men, and even good men and women nave fallen
victims 10 the alcoholic disease who began Win some
form OF dyertised bitters taken for health AS to the
talk about native wines, good man IN California VINO
raised grapes for wine found he was DONG mis-
chief nd stopped And other men, who made no pre-
tensions TO goodness also stopped nom sheer aarn
when they saw their and daughters. their rleues
and neig6bors falling around them, ruined by native
| wine aud the brandy which followed Your GORE,
spOndent in danger OF being called ME- Scattering
| so many are the points tc be touched d. ~
her-IOrk, March 26, 1874