Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-11-12
nRsNkiNG AND BATTING.

richly sober peopie eau oe no iiatcs,
~ ace or war, ter nation COM
b,td in part OF drunkards. Strange
il may seem, this clilm Is put
nth in an SERIOUSNESS. individual
,perience and observation point d.
lctly in tire opposite direction. In
cry department ot life sobilety has
very material advantage, even
r hen coupled with medrocity. In
usiness aud ia the professions the
Erecks OF lite are strewn thick about
r he rocks OF lnlemperance. No one
INKS Of saying 10 the beginner IN
le race OF lie: y Dung man, II
ou want to succeed, take 10 drink. :
one onnuld seriously give such adj.
ice. he would be suspected OF luna
n. No argument Is needed oh tins
IA Doint.
b lhe Frenchman certainly presents
strong case 1t Is uAuelllaUle lnat
superficial survey OF history Wlill
etereuce to the inquiry III hand sas
aims the proposition that drunken
ess has been the companion, II not
= he heipincet, OF progress and CIVIL
y eaton, It's Claimed; but a thorough
i Investigation makes very different
{ showing.
q In ne struggle for existence and
} supremacy be,w cen nations, the sur
\ kivul OF The strongest, whether TIE
4 ittest or not, has been the inevitable
Z result. Mere cuiture has been OF no
( ElyaII. tagged barbarlanlsln has
3 Misplaced comparatively eI1cmlnate
lNllZatlOn III llliuiileIaUle cases, ana
4 net civilization has steadily pro
& dressed. We do net, therefore, say
that Oarbanam is a higher tolin OF
clyllzatlun. 1t Is equally true that
generally, If not always, the vlctorl-
cus UarUalians have been druikards,
the amount of intoxicating liqaors ul
Some sort used by them being united
bnly 10y necessity. 1he Nofselnen
who overrtn Europe, aud whose de-
scendentS now lead the word, We're
Famous old drunkards. he Anglo.
SaAons, wherever found, are lnucu
more addicted 20 strong drink than
the Latin races but IL is equally
true ,hat III proportion as the Anglo
| Saxon race progresses III CIVILIZATION,
DRUNKENNESS, IKE wife beating ana
Mother relics Of savagsm, disappears.
Y And more than tins, progress has
been III proportion to Its disappear
ance. We brag OF our race, but
really We cannot 80 back but Il little
ways without beng sllenced IN oar
Boosting. 1t is only few hundred
years since England Was an inslg-
niticent plncipality. 1t was not
until alter the English had ceased to
be a nation OF drunkarus that they
acquired rank, not to say pre-enl-
nence, among the nations.
Bad as strong drink is for people,
weak food is worse, in the long run.
NO nation which has a dietary sys-
TEN mt only for the sick room can
expect to cope with a wcll-ted nation.
klce, maccaronl, potatoes AID the
like are all very well in their place,
but they cannot supply to the blood
the ylgor which comes OF generous
diet, with beef as the staff Of Ite.
Much Is said against 0Nereating, and
1t does often work harm, but IN the
long ran vastly more injury has come
of undertaking than of giuttony.
Even III this land Of plenty there are
many trail women and dyspeptlc men
who woaId be strong and healthy if
only from childhood up they had
been accustomed to depend largely
upon beef for nourlshment. A Wig
oroas body is required to do the
work OF life, and do it we'll. genera
ton after generation; and a gener-
Gus diet, coupled with temperance III
all things, Is the condition OF good
phyellae. We are forced by facts
to the conclusion that Il nation given
10 dissipation must gradually reform
or gradually relapse into barbarism !;
and, also, that Il nation given to
semlstarvation must gradually re-
form or gradually sink into a deadly
etlennacy.