The New York herald., 1878-03-14
NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

THE ''HEREDITARY INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL
DISCUSSED BY DIR. WILLARD PARKER-A Ma
TIoNAL TEMPERANCE COMMISSION.
Tho National Temperance Society held conference
yesterday afternoon in tho Lecture room Association
Building, william E Dodge. president, IN the chair.
The room nearly filled by ladies of malronly ap-
pearance. The president stated the principal object
Of the meeting 10 be to listen 10 lecture from Wizard
Parker, NJ d., OF this city. on the subject of the
Hereditary Influence OF Alcohol" and express tho
qualification 81 the society upon the passage OF a
resolution by uaited States Senate for tho lorna
tion OF u national commission 10 examine INTO the
subject OF alcohol and It's ramincations
DR.. Parker said that man, like animals. had heredi
tary characteristics. But man was endowed with
reason guided by It SO long be left TO him
sell. The annual has its instincts, with small share
Of reason. While man WAS governed by reason the
animal was governed by instinct He argued that
like begets like that animal life the regard Tor fine
horses, valuable cattle aud other creatures Of the
dumb creation, 30 largely entertained by
prominent stock rAisers, who reared them
from generation to generation IRON pa
rent STOCK, was an illustration In point. He
hal forgotten how many years The Morgan stock oi
horses WAS iavorite among Dreeders; but IL Was "A
great niany-inufe tnan quarter OF u century. SO
recent origin. The same hereditary condition was
the liner class OF dcgs-ihc ST. Bernard, The
pointer, IOxhOunu, nastln ana DINER OrocuS
ln each the pedigree was carefully considered
TIE HUMAN RACE
IL was SO IN u measure with the human race. The
parents transmit their iealurra, characteristics,
Isinpcrameut aud habits 20 tuelr children lie
commended that where the parents we're oi the rigut
oondtion siuiiaT conalivn would Do transmitted 10
their o.spriug. When father At orty hvo becomes "A
druukaru throws himself out o the physiological uo
lne cal l,ue. Wherever the constitution OF
the parunts becomes deprecated impaired
suuon oi the offspring Will be impaired 10 greater
or lesser degree There are climate uut
~ nj mar -
and CERTAIN diseases euailAoe thererVm kcIy to be
transmitted were enumerated Dut oi All these there
we're notnng Tor their aeioter0us effects ike the DIS
eases produced by the use VI alcohol Besides thi5,
alcono producss drunEaras, and was an aphoris IN
oil the aucents that druu kards produced drunNarhs
Alcohol cahuot DC used by who Is Ia neplth u
phy siologicai condition without INJURIOUS ELECTS.
| Tie lecturer referred 10 Casss VI insanity diooy
excessive nervousness, scroIa, erysipoias, imbeCty
oil Ilntclect, unusual eccsntrc'ty Vi CHARACTER mental
purturbaton, restiesscs ana other meutai and ner-
ouvs disorders, as traceaOio 10 the ta'nt oi drunken
ness IN paents He averred that nty per cent oil dots
| are children oil iatsmperate parents He glanced
thrOugn family Of tour geLcrstions which finally be-
came extinct through iutempcrgncc, aud To another
Maggie Jukes) OF SIX gcnorato.s, In Hudson county
| wuers nine hunured OF lhen nsu been the inmates
OF penitentiarles stule prisons, aishouses lunalic
asyiuns, hOsptis, Or cotnnon beggars and outCasts
through In. druuk.u hu uuits o tuelr rnt
Doctor eiaUoraled scieu ncay upon tue effects OF al
cOno! upon The human anu declared that mar
| committing decd while uuder the maddsning iIna
ence OF liquor was deserving Of pity aud commisera
tou, ana should be he'd ~ no greater degree vi re
sponsU,hty tnan the who sold HIM tue ilquor ol
| tno state which iIcenscu that man 10 sell It
THE NATIONAL COMMISSION.
A. N. Powci, SECRETARY oI the society, who hat
| just Returned from Washington, spoke of u nopeiu
state o things Congress AMI offered the following
resolution, which was auopted:-
Resolved. That this Conference halls with muct salts
taclon ths passage bill On the Ilth the
The Unit ii states TO provide Tor national
sion OF nqury concsrnius tie acohoc qno traffic. ant
her iepecttuty And earnestly roQuests the House
L. promptly concur IL that
important measure.
Dr. stephen Smith, of this city, and DR.. Mason
| President VI the Kings County lnebr.ate Asylum
made BRET addreases The latter stated ne had Op
pVrtuuit!es oI witnessing thousands OF Instance
where tho hereditary Influences 0i alcohol were ap
parent He tnougut thai ~ regard ~ The marras'
Relation u man VINO WAS addicted To drink should b
AS much summed ~ ono who WAS afflicted with vel
Known contagious diScaseR
| The meeting shortly alter adjourned.