The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-05-17
BIZ REV A. SUTHERLAND.
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1. he Is not 5cnefttsd financially. No one
can suppose, for moment, even that indul-
gence in strong drink helps mans finances
This seems to me to be so self-evident that it
needs no argument Every year hundreds of
men are reduced to poverty by drunkenness
but who ever heard OF such habit helping
SITS victim to FORTUNE,
2. He IL net 6snedttsd physically. lit has al
ways been strong point with our opponents
that by the moderate use of alcoholic liquors
d man Is made stronger and better fitted to
endure fatigue, and that the habit cohdices
to health and long life. In order to see how
little force there is in this argument it will be
necessary to ascertain, |. Of what these
pernicious beverages are composed and, O.
What Is their effect upon the human system.
AS to the first, most Of them are COMPOSED,
chiefly, of two substances, soatcr and alcohol
Now from which Of these is the benefit de-
riveda Is it from the water2 Truly, water
is a most useful and important element in the
economy of nature. 1t dissolves the food in
the stomach, holds it in solution, and carries
it to the various parts of the system to repair
the waste of tissue that is continually going
on. But let it be carefully noted, that just as
soon as water Is mixed with alcohol, It's soIusnt
potoer Is "e"sf9"zea' ana ene process Vi urges
e'on' III TWO "ays--py impairing inc ac.'on VI
the gastric juice, and by ipjuring the coats of
the stomach. Now, that which limpedes the
progress Oh digestion must take from, ins.eao
Oh AIDING 20, the vital power oil the system.
nave saia that most alcohoic liquors are
composed OF two substances water ana aico-
hoi' But what Is alcohoiY It is a substance
never compounded in Natures laboratory
put is produced oy progress Oh iefmehla.'oh'
that Is, Oh decay. suppose we put inc ques-
ZION 10 ah ihseiiisent cnen'ss, nae 10 aioo-
hoi9-ls IL an article OF iood ne VIII TO-
ply Certainiy not us not 1904, ana you
can not convert " INTO 1000. lake any
quantity you Please INTO tne sYs.eih' ana II
goes through no process Oh digestlon IL re-
pairs no waste nor can you Dy any possible
lhe.nod convert ~ in.o nour'shnene W.
Iurtner ASK nat tnen' IS alcohoi Ana
no wiz promptly answer :" II is powefiui
narcotic poison just as really poison as
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poison Is us nature, ana you cannot make
ANYTHING else OF II. now what is the enect
OF TINS alcohol When taken into the human
SYSTEM Let me answer in the words OF DIR.
Alden, OF massachusetts,
ION every organ they touch' ardent spirits
operate as poison Nowhere IN the human
body are they allowed iodgment, until the
vi a frat cd a haU
can not % removed ihey are hurried on
from one organ 70 apothef, ,fmarking their
course with irrreguiafity Oh action ana dis-
turbance OIL junction. untii az last they are
taken up by the emunctofieS, the sceayehgers
of the system, and unceremoniousiy excluded.
When, through decay OF organic yigor, this
process ceases, the work OF destruction is
drawing to close, and the last glimmerings
OF lie are soon extinguished. 10 man IN
health there is no such thing u.s. temperate
use of spirits In any quaint y they are an
enemy TO the human constitution. Their IN
fluence upon the physical organs is unfavora-
BILE to health. Ihey produce weakness, not
strength sickness not health death, not
life i
ana disease OF the digestive organs, the prin-
cipal effect is upon the great nervous cenfers,
especially the brain. At first the result is