The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-04-09


The infected air is the poison, the fever
! the disease. SO man drinks alcoholic
beverages, and his stomach and liver and
kidneys and brain become diseased Poi
, son or not, there is true disease, which
can be cured by taking the patient away
from the causes-out of the poison y ~
would say in case of fever. Keep liquor
from the man and the system will gradu-
ally work off the disease, and with his
restoration to health the patient loses his
appetite and craving for alcohol, and a
4 glass of spirits has 70 more attraction for
him than for newborn child. What is
the agent that has produced such disease?
Is it poison? Undoubtedly yes. 1t pos
secses IAN inherent deletorious property
which, when. introduced into the system,
destroys life. and has its place with
arsenic, opium, belladonna aud the like.
Alcohol has its use, to be sure. For a
we'll man any is too much. Like all Other
poisons alcohol is valuable as medicine
and it has uses as a cond iment. In small
quantities, taken with the food, it stimu-
lates. the feeble or the aged rightly use
1t for that purpose, and when so used
there is result from the food unattain-
able without 1t. But it needs very little
for this result. For an old man glass of
port at dinner, perhaps, is enough. But
when more than is needed is taken, then
alcohol Is an irritaIt ard begins to pro-
! duce disease, whose evidence is seen In
quickened pulse flushed faae, and trem-
bling limbs. 1t has no place whatever as
beverage, and should never be taken on
an empty stomach. You ask whether if
man is tired, physically or mentally, he
is sick enough to use alcohol as a medi-
cine. It is hard to make general answer.
But if had driven my horse until he
was tired should be 10th to whip him,
| add one cannot be too sure when he finds
alcoholic liquors to restore his spirits or
his strength that he is, not whipping a
tired horse. bave one word to say in
regard to the argument that alcohol pre-
vents the waste of the tissues The waste
OF the tissues is an oxidation, burning
up, in other words part of the vital pro-
cess. Il isa similar oxidation that takes
place in tho furnace of locomotive. The
coal wastes as it burns. Send stream OF
carbonic acid upon it and prevent this
waste, you diminish the oxidation, tie
evolution of caloric, the production of
steam, and the speed of the locomotive
Continue VIE process and the locomotive
stops. So diminish the waste, the oxida-
tion in the human machine-it IS an at
tack upon life. Stop the oxidation-the
man dies. 1t is hardly g thing to be said
in praise of alec hol then that it retardS
the waste of the tissues. Strike m, n
with lightning, scare him terribly, give
him dose of arsenic, or knock him on
the head, and you prevent waste. But
to have the balance Of repair and waste
even, not to have waste prevented, is the
condition of health. AS for dram drink-
ing. nobody defends that. Nothing, not
even water, should enter the stomach of
a healthy man between breakfast and din
ner. One OF the worst forms of dram
drinking is practised by good temperance
people, who take 'bitters' under some
long name as a medicine, and the use of
these 'bitters,' which you see filling the
shelves of the drug stores, is a great curse
of our present society. I have lately
hea I'd Of two tiergymen In the same vil-
lage who were recently compelled to give
up their charges, having become poor
drunken fellows by NO other means AS
fot the comparative longevity of drink
ers and non drinkers, the English life in
surance actuaries, whose business it was
not to be mistaken in such calculation,
have found that among 1000 drinkers and
1000 non-drinkers, takensat random at
twenty years of age. the drinkers lived
upon an average thirty five years and six
months and the non-drinkers sixty four
years and two months"
Hon. HARRISON LUDINGToN was elect
ed Mayor of Milwaukee Yesterday ON The