The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-12-20

tCrtteTl q paper oeNOSeo exeiuslFeiy
20 the interest Of insurance, both
IRE and life, an address delivered re-
Gently in Hartford, Conn, by Hon.
., Jacob l.. Greene, upon the subject
OF Temperance, ms bearing upon the
business Of life assurance, and /
respectfully ask a place for &c IN the
columns Of THE GAZErTE and L
beg TO call the careful attention of
every thinking man aud woman who
reads THE GAZETTE, TO the strong
facts stated, and the close nnanswer
able scientific reasoning of the
sDeakeFerf 81 a-i frrr HfIr. tra
Let me add that the speaker,
Col, Greene, In the peer Of any man
living, in his sphere--that of Life
Assurance. He 10 President of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company company whose assets
now reach over fifty millions of dol
lars, and whose payments on death
claims have already reached the
enormous sum of thirty nine mil
lions Of dollars. The careful, bust
ness observations Of such . man are
worth the crude opinions of th0us-
ands Of meni and viii with all
thoughtful persons. ..iv r5 br.a..sf 4
But here Is the address: ii.
.aB Mr. PRKsTDENT, LADIES AND GIN
TLEHEE :; / am glad to see amor
ganized attempt 70 appeal 70 and 10
educate the oonseiences Of men in
the matter of temperance, which is,
in its broad sense, the use of all
things 10 answer only a real need
and mot as an indulgence. Two
things, / take IL, are necessary to 8
truly temperate life !; N clear under
standing Of ones real physical, men
tai and moral needs and the point
nj which these needs are Just prop
erly met and satisfied by the use of
any gin of God and q resoluts sell
restraint i'm the use Of that gift within
that point Many men found their
view OF use upon the degree Of
pleasure derived from indulgence,
regardless OF necessity Others,
who at least desire TO appear tenn
per4te, measure their use more by |
the pOint beyond which undoubted |
and rapid injury results than by any |
rule Of necessity; their question is |
not why Is this thing good and bow
much is good, but, ia il pleasant and
how much can L stand 2 q In both
classes the essential motive ID the
same, self qualification; the differ
ence is IN degree. But careful study
Of ones needs, an intelligent and
Conscientious use of al gifts 90 an
swer them and prompt self re-
straint mt that point, j. the rule To-
which men need 20 be educated.
That is the only law of liberty
which Is not license. bi4..g .ra
Iwish 70 emphasize the necessity
of such education by reference to a
piece of evidence which has been
accumulating but slowly and has
not been sufficiently studied by any
one and OF which the general pub
lie knows very little mean the
effect Of the use of intoxicating
drinks upon health and lire rs in
dictated by the experience of life in
surance companies. IL has been my
duty 20 read the records of and TO {
make careful inquiry into the last I
illness and death of many Thousand !
persons of all classes in all parts of =
the country. Two great features G
are shown in those records; the I
value of mans Inheritance of !
vitality and the modifying force of )
habits Of living upon that vitality.
Every man i Born with an amount {
of vital force that ought, accidents :
apart and humanity speaking, 10 I
carry him . specific distance on the
scale Of years, and each mans in
heritance can, on the average, be
fairly determined. Among the per !
sons selected with care for physical '
soundness aud sobriety and who are, Z
as rule, respectable and useful $
nbers Of society, the death rate n
is more profoundly affected BY the v
use of intoxicating drinks than by a
any other one cause apart from o
heredity. There are not, among a
insured men, % great many deaths Il
in the gutter nor of delirium tret o
mems. There are n great many hob !,
nailed liverp, and other diseases a
whose history is not far TO seek S.
but in the majority Of cases the e
effect is mGinly apparent IN thePre- IA
disposition TO disease caused BY Z.
drin K and the sap OF the vital pow d
err impairing their ability C. main- d
tain bealthy action Under adverse $,
70 sustain q conflict a
with disease, or TO rally from shock. p
The degree TO which many dis Il
eases commonly referred 10 malaria, "
DverwOrk and other vague, general, W
,cape- goat cause, are actually n
in what would almost in cC
be called temperate use II
If drink by persons OF reputed temp re
rate habits, would be incredible 10 a
he mass Of people unaccdstomed 20 st
careful observation and compari- 10
on Of related cases.4 That habitual, q,
Ottish drunkenness should issue in to
Iisensp and death most pe0ple can re
but that moderate, or of
erly, decorous indulgence should m
sue in congested brains, insanity, IN
analysis, diseases Of kidneys, liver, he
lomach, in pneumonia, rheumatism, in
nd in grnera4I IN those diseases a
-hieh az bottom mean n poison i'm ri:
orted into the blood, most persons wi
o not know and are slow 70 believe; ~
ut thoreason in simple and worth tel
citing in this connection. Setting IL
side the Question or strictly me- GU
icinal effects, the true and only use a /
T Whatever In taken into the ays- en-
sai by way Of the stomach, whether fib
did or fuid in m food IL il simply On
esigned 90 restore the waste Of col
cd, muscle, bone aud nerve caused Sc