The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-24

lQly, while Lno iIltoto 1OA NIuilho1i'
ness far exceed those for all other
crimes combined. From Maine. this
attempt to prohibit the use of all
spirit food, has spread to the west,
the south and the pacific states, and
the preservation, or the decadence OF
American health and morals. is every
where proportioned to the temperate.
or to the e1tremc habits Of the peo-
pie. This fact is expressed in the
tale-telling atlage, that: 1.-THE sober
est of our communities show the
most
GUILTY RECORDS IN ALL THE SOCIAL
EVILS
That the yankee totalists can re-
gain the old Puritan health and char
acter. is well told in Richardson's
book, :'Beyond the mississippi He
says: ::Yankees who have resided
in Victoria, V. l., a. short time. and
adopted English habits, have quite
lost the cadaverous, eager American
physiognomy, and exhibit the full
tiorid figure and face, which is the
English type the world over. They
look like Britons. Is it the result of
half and half climate association or
accident? The answer is in the fact
that Englisl,men who have settled a
few miles away in Washington Ter,
and appropriated the food and drink
of their yankee neighbors, soon be-
come dispeptic and demoralised by
the change of diet. The rapid decay
of the American constitution, began
with the expulsion of spirit from
their diet, and their vitality and NOR
ais ebb and flow with the tides of
their abstinence. In every part Of
America, those families Nho use
spirit food us our parents nsed it, are
like them, healthy. moral and pro-
life, whether they are British, Ger
man OF American; while their total
ist neighbors are dispeptic, immor-
al and barren. But it is gratifying to
know, that those higher. and lower
conditions can speedily be changed
by those neighhors.
SIMPLY EXCHANGING THEIR HABITS
OF DIET.
Prevention is better than cure, and
the spirit diet is better employed to
preserre health, than to restore it
after abstinence has destroyed it.
The medical statistics of the British
soldiers in Bengall and Bombay, show
that only per cent. Of the temperate
soldiers are in hospitals. while 81 per
cent. of the abstainers, and 80 per
cent. of the drunkards were constant
ly in the doctors care. The abstain
ers and drunkards, were mostly the
Father Mathew Irish, who had tasted
spirit but seldom at wedding or 4
wake, and were, like the primitive
races, starving for it. All these have
no other guage than the capacity OF
their stomach, and must therefore
either be abstinent or drunken.
THE STARVED BRAIN, IN THE HALF
STARVED BoDY,''
being partially fed Ivy the spirit ra-
tions, demands to be filed; and those
potato-fed Irish--like our totalists
and Indians-sre too weak of brain
and nerve, to stop short of excess.
Chicago Weekly Ne,cs. says: IF
there is any liquor i'll frontier post,
even if it be buried in the earth, IN
Indian will instantly, with a percep-
tion far above the ordinary sence,
smell it out and possess himself of it,
at whatever COST All christian
missions report this same mania for
spirit food, in every people. where
ever ignorance, poverty, or prejudice
with.holds it. And the public statis-
tics of Maine, show that the attempt
TO withhold this food from formerly
temperate and moral people, is rapid
ly degrading them to the appetites,
habits and instincts of the primitive
races. I submit these facts rs evil
dence that ''prohibition Is Il failure. "
that ''abstinence is not temperance,
but promoter to drunkenness.
And, 'sthat all attempts to change
Gods method of human alimentation
are invariably disastrous.
Yours, d.