New-York tribune., 1878-12-20

the remedy to be practical aggressive Christianity
Finally in the political aspect of the question: Mr.
Cook uttered his emphatic belief in the justice OF
allowing women to vote on all laws relating to
Temperance.
THE PRELUDE On INTEMPERANCE.
Mr.. Cook entered the hal last evening ac-
commanded bv a number OF clerEymen and other-,
among whom was noticed President seeye. of Amherst
College. Mr.. Cook pgefaced lecture" Il There
Personal Ga IN CouscienceV-wth the foi-
lowing comments on in,cmpcrancr aud It's rcmcdics
sixty years ago. Ly nan Beechcr attended an
ordination at which $40 worth Of liquors
were drunk by Ncw-England ministers To-day
Mr. H.ye--Nhom may God bIess-expcls nloX-
icaling from the Presidential mdnsoa JAP
plausc.l
There Is a story IN circulation N EewYork CITY
concerning younger Tying 10 the effect That his haht
Of abing all the members OF his church w0rk ~ occa
sionaly dstas efu TO lndv dudls among them. Not
long ago uch gentleman called Il on MI Tying III El'
study told this valiant servant Of reform that
lie wished to pay bis church dues aud to
have good pew, but that he did nor care 10 be put
down on any cummtee and that he was especially aver-e
to having his wife and daughters scut Into thc sums To
visit the poor ana deg AIDED. NeS, said NJ Tying,
see what You want. but you haze come 10 the wrong
place just around the corner is what you are looking
for There is the Church Of the Heavenly Rest
Laugbterl As TIE slow, faIefu experiment Of denOc-
racy unros in the world it brCOn.os more and more
evident that the friends Of free inst tutions cannot
stply heroine mrmbrls Of the Church OF the Heavenly
R.Sl on of irmpcI1ucr. Itls curcfIu SIEh
the times that ueafy all large temperance ,uoI's in
America OF tate voluntarily lui u tnNe.I mo
full sympathy with aggressive Christianity Mr Roy
nolds, M. Murphy. and especially the womans noE,-
mrt re in sub stanjal aCcOId with the heart o. the
sa far as drunkenness is we to he reformed,
anu the treatment OF il belongs 20 the church.
. SO ar drunkenness Is disease II Is l" he cuou'
and the treatment o. 1t belongs 10 phys claus. ,,
g. Bat the theory that all mos Of habtuai drunk
euurfs a disease M" supported by The best physo'
ogcai ut ril es. however louiy i may have been III
dol sed by tue ITUpri tors uf nenTiat' as! lums
OLD iHFOuEs OF DRUNKENNESS.
The theory that Drunkenness Oiencr disease than
q wee going out OF fashion among cN crts. Dr. Buck
MIL recently foremost visitor OF lunatcs in Great
Britain and fellow Of the Royal College OF Physicians.
has lately made a vehement attack on that theory.
Eight ten years nebrlato asylums In the United
States were held mp models 10 Great Britain. Mr..
Diliympe, OF Parliament TOOK American testimony,
when was supposed TO prove that 81 per cent OF the
teuts treated IN our nebrate asylums were cured Dr.
BuckDlu came 70 this country ~ 1870, when The
wav~ OF popular excitement concerning mcbr1ate
asylums had subsidized 10 large extent, and his
bok Is intended TO di>crcdt the theory habtual
drunkenness is usually disease. The attack is from
the highest authority This volume. from a great
specialist disease, Is "igOrous pro- amauon
the theory thdi h"biua di dihAehhas III most case j.
a vice 10 b. reformed by moral nra, rrs rather than
CnT~anity the best remedy Or haDiual drnnkenness
The b pgn. nton Incbrale Asylum, 1t one mr quite
on trial for year told to IT, face Oy the N,wYorG
LEGISLATURE tDut unless it managed iiS Iniis better
would Cudcd at ihe end Oi thai pciUd % prOba
non Pcnnsy vania found her nrbliaie asyiom at
Media SO bad managed that she a1Dl sn' a " Al
IN Inebriae asylum A. wnicl prominent Pb( ,lcian
from TIE CITY Hosgtal, accgtdns to Dr Bncsnlha IT,,
choice spirits III Their own rooms Tue asl lum was
stood signals rola the windows. At Bn0hamton liquor
could he obtained by hal-houfs walk In almost any
am not assaiing without qualification inebrate
asylums believe there Il percentage oi cases that
should he treated IN such establishments, Dut J.
smaller rccn axe than tue aefin.eo,s ana aIaIcc "i
United States ami Great Britain, have often proclaimed
1t to be-. real cay o. insane drunkenness OF d'ps
can usually rad. PefiOiiciy Is often oae 81 them;
drunk mess donbt htly called disease rather
Ssvr, eases out OF ten Of habual drunkenness how
ever experts tell us ate vice and not disease.
If ali vehement craving druk il disease 'ncu keg
madnen nciore hey have tasted IT, The power Of
pcdge that III most cases drunAenness Is wee
Very snTiv is ne deep tone Of recent science CON
ccrniug what Is called Moderate drinking Dr. BucknH
"Of late yeas the upper class OF English has become
sober aud ITS growing opinion stamps drunkcnness
more aud more a. disgrace II would be nailOua'
nay, worldwide blessing II alcohol were really We
tive which It often represented 10 be- that
m,n whO indulge Ia u might die OF quickly. The
French have somewhat Improve upon pure spirit IN
CAUSES epilepsy and the Americans. with their vie
pounds Of iske taken into Empty stoinachs are
| lar ahead of Ourselves. An American drunkard who
sucks 70 his work much better prospect OF uisI
Ing 1t within reasonably short time than the Englisn
man"
INTOXICAIION As A DISEASE.
4 So far as drunkenness vice leads TO drunken
ness as dseaSe Church, under the modern training
Of Theological sudens Is llGely 10 know beeI than
before empaasIZs the truths OF science for the
warning OF the III ddle-aged and the young
Forbes WiDsow, the celebrated English physician fer
the insane once tod committee Uf Parliament that be
could dip ont brain Of auy habitua drunkard
nuld full OF alcohol that when put in spoon. ana
lamp placed beneath IL, the hquld would burn with
flame. y Ihaps the two most Important pbysca
circumstances taI be pointed out IN relation to al
cohcI are, tnat 1t hardsls all tho cOllOd glue
like substances IN tne body. ana that II has q
affinity for BRAN. Alcohol hardeDs tue white
of on egg. Tue brain, and much OF the matter IN
the system, Is sibuminOns III chemical compost
else hadens cOOid substances does In the brain
Tue blue ia winch Forbes WnsOw kihded SHOWS the
.cOhOl the DIaln and sGOuld De kept burn
ing as d pillar OF fire before tempted men, There Is q
famOts saying OF HyTti tquOeI lately in The Scie1fe
erteduJ that could eIl IN the dark whether lie
dissrc rug drunk rds brain the br1n of temperate
man, the would I've hard under the scapel
He used 10 explain TO uis ups that the only 10 OBJ
good brains for dissection to harden them
alcohol, gt bBlBs that had been huoened before
death. llgu=hterl
B. so ar ~ drunkenness depends open temptation
10 d and politics
OF his work the CbuTe NAY well pat forth It's best
glcs and invoke the aid of wOman's VOle.
Ia Newly Cay there are 5000 licensed and uDl
censed pacen fOr sale OF liquor. Put all those shops
in line, each twenty feet 'front.' and make
| allowance Tor strettS OF standard size. and your
grUgsuups make solid line tbiriy-tve miles
long. Church property in tue United States, all
massed together worth only three hundred aud