Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-08-20
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Entailments of Alcohol.
THE National Temperance Advocate

1.-THE National Temperance Advocated
sEntaiIments of Alcohol, is the i
tie of a very able and exhaustive pa
per which was read by DR.. Ill. O.
Hitchcock, President OF the Michigan
State Board of Health, az his annual
address before that body at its last
annual meeting IL has since been
published by the STATE as an otficiai
doeumsnt. 1t fir a ks. .WhatiA
alcohol r. Itanswes unqual tiedly !:
S'A!e5ho IS not u food " This answer
j. apuotsAt!y sulain ihy clncins,ee
t., la9nv. 6AFa$ aIsGiiot is.su poison
I'D net, q .na. (. a-fn,catl up "a ~
hun =. tlsen, . aia1 amply iem3f-
straled. Enc reiataess ri al,zonal III
insanity, ciis4e, socl-i vice, paupef-
ism, idiocy, and 70 many fornas OF
disease, are considered, lad the ill.,
dictment against it is Of All overwhel-
ming character. There a,e many
valuable suggestions AS to ways in
which the Board of Health and the
Legislature of the State might contri-
butte to the Punishment of the alec
holic scourge. goods great remedy"
it is affirmed, 'for the worlds great
curse, is total and universal abstin-
ence from making, selling, and drink
ing Intoxicating liquors. ~
| We quote the following striking
arraignment
''My pen would certainly Fail TO
portray the suffering, want, crime,
misery, and degradation that alcohol
causes to the people of Michigan.
81 know that ! have made fearful
indictment against alcohol but, fully
sustained by the facts, as believe
it abundantly justifies me in bringing
it, with some Gifts proofs, before you,
and, through you, before the people
OF. this State Indeed, this Board
would be recreant TO Is sacred duties
if it did not faithfully publish these
facts TO the people and will largely
fail in the objects for which it was
created, if it docs net propose some
means by which, if followed, thcaC
great and terrible burdens and cnrses
upon peopIo may be escaped from
"Let rae briefly summarize the in
dictmcnt alcohol destroys vast
amount Of the monay Of tho people
squanders for the people OF the 5, ate
in one year, hundreds Ut years ol
valuable time it vitiates the blood
diseases and enteebIos all tho organs
Iof the bodies of those W DO use it de-
| thrones their reason debases many
to lower level than the brutes
from intelligent, reasoning beings il
makes men dwelling idiots makes
meo moro susceptible to, with less
power to resist, disease; begets in
men u disease that 6nervates and de4-
troye the will, 0vcrwheims tbs con
science, and pervorts the moral sense
entails upon their childion every form
Of physical mental, and moral de-
| geneTacy- -mskua them insane max os
them criminals makes them idiots
exhtusts he vitality, physical and
meotal, of Whole families, aud causes
them 10 become extinct causes more
sickness and deaths in adults and chill
dren than any other yes, than at
other prov IOIo causes II sickness
and death 1t fills our insane asy Iums,
our hospitals and our almshouses
li.ls The land with crime, our reform
schools, houses OF correction jails, and
Ssate prisons with criminals; brings
Il iaige pro portion of the taxes upon
The people aud gives in return not h.
ing bur tho qualification Of an animal
appetite that grows more sensual
every day"