Connecticut western news., 1878-09-12

feited and industry paralyzed on account of his destroying all that is sacred to man and dear to God. We confront this monster well aware of what we have to deal with ; aware mat we are grappling with the most gigantic, | the most lmplacable, the most fiendish foe ot mankind opprobrious epithets, however, arc of little use let us come to the facts. Men have very different styles of handling a sub Ject. For instance, Connecticut speaker has one style, and border orator has another, One says that the gentlemans statements are not ln accordance with the facts, or that they are in direct opposition to the facts when the other would say that the statements were false ard the speaker knew it. In handling this shapeless monster, I shall do it in my owl style, and speak only for myself. l shall ex. press my mind freely, but will compromise nc | one by my statements. No one but myself is Irresponsible for my course of action, and, if il does not suit, pray excuse it and lay it to my style.
 | This temperance movement is the great | struggle of the day, the hour and the times At the opening of this discussion therefore, il appears to me that a fair measurement of oui what We have to contend with. We must un derstand that we are not fighting against shadow, but that the struggle is one for life o death agaipst the incarnate spirit of evil. Tn, foe can never be conquered until he is annihi lated. Every man that enters upon this war fare needs to feel in every fibre of his being that it is persistent struggle; constant steady pull for victory. Let us understand a the outset, that the foe never surrenders unt compelled. ..
 From my standpoint, looking the monste full in the face, can see no compromise. W, will accept none we can grant none. Tn, foe is too gigantic, too unyielding. Arrogan without principle, he is full of all evil, and
 charge him with all crimes. First he robs th' poor man of his time, so that he can. not care for his family; he cannot give hi children an education, cannot give them flu ture. All this tends to an end, and that ene is ruin. Next the man becomes a hanger-o1 at some corner grocery he becomes negligen of business, lazy and shiftless. Then comel the question, how is he to get money withou
 work, or how is he to get rum without money
 The answer is seldom left to conjecture. Th, consequences of this great evil that comes upol us with such terrible malignity, are apparen in the numerous crimes that are committed and that are filling our jails, our state-prison and our grave-yards.
 ALCOHOL AS FOOD.
 Alcohol is not food. Prof Liebig, after careful examination, says that there is nor
 nutrlment ln the amount of flour that can b carried on the end of case-knife than ther Is ill nine quarts of the best Bavarian beer. man would thus have to drink nine barrels 0 beer day in order to obtain nourishment sui ticient to sustain life and there is as mucl nutrlment in a five pound loaf of bread as i twenty-three barrels of beer. But some clair
 that alcohol assists digestion that the stom ach needs a stlmulant after a meal. Directl
 the reverse of this is true. The process of di gestlon IS a picking to pieces it Is the tenden ! cy of alcohol to preserve. Snakes and diver other repulsive objects are preserved in alec hol. recent post-mortem examination upo
 the body of a man who was killed while drunl and nearly twenty-four hours after he had cal en hearty meal, revealed the fact that tn food in his stomach was still undigested. | celebrated physician some time ago, procure
 two dogs, as nearly alike as possible, for pun ) poses of experiment.. To each dog he gay four ounces of roast mutton, and to one
 them he gave ill addition an ounce and ha of alcohol. At the end of two hours both dog were killed, and it was found that in the ston
 ach of the one that had been given no alcoht , the process of digestion was completed ; whil in that of the other it had hardly begun. Al ! cohol Is good to preserve toads and reptile for the museum, but it is not fit to put int the stomach of any living being. It Is the ol
 ganlzed and competed enemy of mankind.
 sends out its fiery couriers, blowing, with thei
 burning chariot-wheels, great ruts in the patl
 way of human life. A malignant and persif
 tent foe, it should be treated such, and a such only.
 But some young man says it makes hir B strong, gives him strength at least to tide owe
 emergencies. So the whip and spur give mo , mentary strength, the strength of excitement to the horse. So, sometimes, does insanit give fictitious and short-lived strength to Ih human system. But can you afford to pay tn l prlceF It Is a fearful one. Dr. Lees of Lon
 don invented ''pulsometer," or an instru
 ment for measuring and recording the pulsa
 tlons of the heart. The difference between
 healthy and a diseased pulse could be easil
 seen i'll the different lines and curves recorde | by the instrument. surgeon in Londo
 hospital made of this meter to test the of
 feet of stimulants upon the human system
 He found that little alcohol gave the pulse lerky, abnormal motion. When he gave
 healthy man four ounces of whiskey, the puls
 ations recorded were those of a severe case (
 typhoid fever and pint of whskey dail
 sutficed to make this diseased condition per
 manent
 Why, then, do men imbibe this poison, ad init this enemy within the citadel of life? Ex cuses are plentiful, and even poor excuse i , better than none. One drinks because of tn 7 cold, another because of the heat, and all be ] cause they want to. Yet alcohol always come into the system as an enemy, and is thrown O. by the system as an enemy. Then comes eS haustion. The muscular flores have not bee strengthened, but worn out the man has nc
 been made better, but worse. The physics system is less able to endure cold and less fiji ] ted to face disease. In the extreme Mort
 they use whale-oil, and not alcohol, when the
 wish to raise the temperature of the body an - fit it to endure intense cold. During the win : ter campaigns of the Russian army, the sold
 iers are not allowed to use liquor. When abou
 oo OAeOA NAuuou5 uuVy3 Vli0 oiAOSAo HSSA w ur , certain the probable endurance of the men b smelling their breaths. If the scent of liz uor is detected the offender is sent back to hi 9 tent and punishment The skillful trainer fo 7 the prize-ring always denies his man the us
 of liquor. The men who are on their mettl
 in the struggle of ifo--the men who d great things, intellectually or physically-in variably steer clear of alcohol. Horace Gree ley used to work thirteen hours day, and fel } no need of stimulants. Richard Golden. a : indefatipable worker. said. "My resort ia f the teapot or the pump.' All who wish t command success avoid the use of intoxi I cants.
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