The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-28

cause alcohol is an agent which Affects
the brain, and diminishes its power,
and it is only very clever fellows who
can afford TO have their brain power
diminished. (Laughtar.) | never
found that L had too much brain for
anything | had to do. | often, every
day in truth, feel the reverse, and SO |
do not like the enemy to come aud as
4 sociate with me. And the foolish men
like him. | will tell you story about
| that There was II man once in the
wilds of America who sat down by a
stream, and he amused himself by
! feeding fish with crumbs of bread.
BY and bye he stepped it IN his whisky
flask, and he observed that when the
/ fish ate the crumbs of bread so stepped
in whisky they turned on their backs
and died-all except one species of fish,
4 which seemed to be no worse for the
alcoholic crumbs. By and by an In
l dian came up, and he asked the Indian
| W hat sort of fish that was-pointing
10 tile that woo quito lively after
the alcoholic dose. He said, "Oh!
that is called the 'hard head 1t is a
kind of fish which has 10 brains at
ALL" That is the other class who are
fond of alcohol. (Cheors and laugh
teri Then, Mr.. Chairman, for ages
alcohol has had great friend amongst
the poets. The most beautiful songs
we have are drinking songs. think
the reason of that is because they find
that "sour' rhymes with "bowl" so
beautifully, and they can't help bring
ing it in. (Laughter.) And then
there is another class, perhaps one of
the most powerful set of friends alco-
hol has, and that is the statesmen.
They are very dangerous characters
are the statesmen. You know statesmen
have to raise the taxation of the coun-
,ry. A statesman in thisscountry who
is in poWer has to raise eighty-live
millions gear for educating the peo-
pie for killing other people, and for
carrying OH all the resoui ces of civili-
cation. CHEERS and laughter.) 1t is
very difficult to get that money; IL Is
do they do it? They call in alcohol to
their aid, aud they get alcohol to
\ knock the people down wholesale, and
/ when they are down they pick their
pockets and put it into the treasury.
Statesmen get the money out of the
pockets of the poor slaves who drink in
the way | have described; and our OBJ
ject is 10 cmancipaie the slaves. Get
The slaves of drink To emancipate
themselves from drink; and when the
slaves have done that, they will look
after the statesman, you may be pretty
sure. But now | come to another set
of friends, and those are the doctors.
They have been strong friends of this
enemy of the human race. 1t is very
odd thing-I cannot explain til am
" yn IN ah tn haf
cal science has not made more advance
than it has done, and that We are no
further forward than we are in the
matter at this stage of the worlds his
tory, because you would think that the |
science OF health must have been a
matter interesting to the whole of the |
human race ever since the first man APP
peared On ttie face OF this world. Eve
rybody has stomach, and most peO-
pie have brains TO Il greater or less ex-
tent, and it must have been an object
with everybody 10 keep his bodily
health and his mental powers ia the
highest Stale of preservation. Ii must
have been an object with everybody 10
know what was likely t. injuIe him
and what was likely to benefit him, and
know that doctors have studies tor all
these ages. and am not sure that the
ablest doctor would not have been the
first 10 confess That his profession is
still very much Mt sea in most matters
even still. One of the greatest OF them
said not long since that the science of
medicine was CHASED OH conjecture
and improved by murder" Uaugh-
ter.) No laymau would have dared
10 say SO; hut still, facts, think, bear
him out. Uaughler) What extraor.
binary doctrines they propounded for
ages, and were quite angry ii anybody
disputed them. There are plenty of
people not very old who can remem-
Der how doctors used to say at one
line that bleeding was sovereign
are for slmost all evils. Then there
s vaccination. daro ea,' vaccination
nay be all right. The doctors stick up
or it just as boldly rs they did for
bleeding, and there is possibility that
I may be just as wrong. (Cheers.)
Do not let anybody say that ! said so.
,Laughter.) Mr.. Burns says that they
opposed it IN the first instance Just as
as they crack ii up now, so
hat they were right once that is GER
ain. (Laughter.) When doctors
we're thus at sea in so many matters
people began to doubt whether they
we're the infallible creatures that they
iet themselves up TO be. L am sorry TO
Jay that the clergy helped them for a
good while. There are plenty of cler-
~ here to defend themselves, SO may
peak boldly. There is passage in
Timothy where something is said about }
Timothy having a little wine only
ittle-ior his slomach's sake, and j
Rhen any friend the old Dean of Car
isle came first into this country where ,
live Le said he was astouished to find
yhaI gasi number of the clergy in
cumberland suffered from the limo.
by complaint. (Laugher.) Timothy
vas a great character with the clergy
or long time. and he was employed
0 resist the temperance reformation. 4
heard OF an freshman who signed the 1
ledge, but his clergyman did not
luch approve Of this abstinence sys- =
sm, and SO he quoted the case of Tim
thy who was told TO take little wine
Dc his slomacli's sake. "Sure, yonr I
syerence," said the man, "tbat was all
gut enough, but my name was not
imothy. and have nothing the mat Y
n with my stomach" NsEghter,)
his absurd notion about alcohol
people and doing them !.
naH haOau M ha axnl0daH !