Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-05-13
SATURDAY PRESS.

MAY 10, 1852

ltNb IOuk ilhl tll' ARlAf A'NiAA AAAthA NAAtA'
10 no greater cause Of evil, moral and ply
steal, in this country. than the use OF alco-
holic beverages / do not mean by this
that extreme indulgence which produces
drunkenness The habitual use OF fer.
utItcd liquors to an extent far short of
what is necessary TO produce that condi
ton. and such rs is quito common in all
ranks OF society. Injuries the body and di-
minishes the mental power to an extent
which think few people are aware Of
have no hesitation in attributiug very
large proportion OF the most painful and
dangerous maladips which come under my
notice, as well as those which every medi
cal man has TO treat, 90 the ordinary and
daily use OF fcrmented drinks, '1iU 'H The
quantity 'siicl q. .aHr. 'taH'Hg ferwsd mat
,ratc."
DR.. n. ). Davis. President OF the Chica
20 Medical College says THE usc of al
coholc drinks dimnishcs mans capacity
10 endure both mental and physical labor,
increases his disposition TO disease and
shortens the average duration of life.
Let . see IL facts sustain these theories
OF the doctors: In 1892, cholera visited
nearly every land. In Albany, n Y. there
were $50 fatal cases Of these only flee rsrc
'2,di abstdmers In Montreal, out Of 1900
attacked, not drinking man recovered.
and out Of thousand deaths there We're
only two total abstainers. OF the 10000
victims in Paris, every one used intoxica
ting liquors. Out of 20i cases in the Park
Hospital, New York, DIR. Sewall tells us
there were only six temperate persons, and
and they all recovered In Russia, during
that awful year, Monsieur Huber tells us
that persons given TO drinking were
swept away by cholera like flies
So IL nlyays ie in pypf.y placy1Ie N ppgti
lence. Moderate drinking prepares the
way, and Death marches through the sa
looms and through palatial homes with
their sideboards and wine cellars, shifting
into their graves the drunkards and gen
teel tipplers by the score and the thou
sand
". DOES THE USE or WINE AND BEER
PREVENT DRUNKENNESS
England is case in point. L lay es-
pccial stress upon England, because some
of the Honolulu ardent advocates of mod
crate drinking as cure for drunkenness
are from England II i can show them
that wine and beer not only fails as
temperance measure in England, but has,
on the other hand, increased drunkenness
there, till now she is one of the most in
temperate nations on the face of the earth
such facts ought to have especial weight
with them.
Forty years ago she passed her Ale
and Beer Act" based ON this very idea,
that il would lessen the use of strong
liquors, and consequently of drunkenness.
What has been the result? | have in my
library little book. written by DR.. Geo.
NJ. Beard, of New York, one of the most
celebrated of the younger physicians in
the United States. Ii is entitled Stimu-
lants and Narcotics" The author is not a
Prohibitionist, but on the other hand,
favors the moderate use of the milder
liquors, so that his evidence has additional
weight. Speaking of the English drinking
customs he says:
Among the peasantry, who constitute
the great majority of the population beer
and cheap wines are not only used, but
terribly abusedl They drink their beer
not only by the glass but by the pint and
the quart: not only at meals but at all
hours of the day: not only at home, but
in the, gin-shops;, and lunch bars that
abound on every hand At the theaters,
in the intervals between the acts, beer is
brought around, sold and drunk with a
freedom that astonishes an American; not
only by adults, but by children, even in
fants! Very often | have seen mothers
pour abominably bad beer down the
throats of babies in mmsw Further on
he says that while temperance is gaining
ground among the upper classes, Among
the poor and ignorant different story
must be told They are more Incorporate
than formerly. They are growing worse
and worse. There probably never was a
time when the English peasantry were so
Incorporate rs now"
Strangel They drink beer and wine,
and yet sodden drunkenness is on the in
crease. Official states sustain the doctor,
aud show that during the past 40 years
while England has been under the rgo'n',
ing, restraining influence of her Wine and
Beer Act the consumption of strong
liquors has increased IT'S per cent
1 quote again from DIR. Beard: In
countries where race and climate and Gus
tom all urge to intemperance, mild drinks
DO not copRterdct that tendency. These mild
liquors will not satisfy. People search for
stronger liquors, and will get them and
abuse them. STikingly this is illustrated
in California, in France, and in some oil
the Rhine provinces. In Great Britain
beer is very cheap; bit inteaperdace IS fright
Cd"
The Archbishop of Canterbury says
Tho Ale and Beer Act has signally failed
Throughout he entiro country Il has tended 4
multiply aud intensity The crcessire drinking o
0TuSa splfHs.
Cross the channel into France, the home
OF the vineyard. In Paris there is more
wine consumed than in any other city IL
the world; and yet in 1868 she consumed
seven gallons OF distilled liquors for eacl
man, woman and child. France drinks
more distilled liquors per head than any
other nation on earth. And France is moi
temperate nation. Cooper, the Amer
can novelist, after six months residenc,
in Paris, wrote home: Il have been NOR,
struck by drunkenness in Paris than il
London"
n. Jules Simon, says; Women riya
the men in drunkenness. AT Lille, a
Rouen, there are some mothers so satruat
I'd with it that their infants refuse to tax,
the breast OF sober woman"
Hon. james Nj. Usher, Commissioner o
Massachusetts, to the Worlds Exposition
writing homo from Paris in 1867, said
The drinking habit runs through ever,
phase OF society. have seen more PEG
ple drunk here than i ever saw in Boston
IN the same length OF time"
have time To cite only one more case
California, the France OF America. Com
missioner David Wells, after giving th,