Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-01-27
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L. Green. Presidents Of the cOnnecticut
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Mutual, in a Temperance Speech.
1t has been my duty to read the
records of and TO make careful in
Quiry into the last illness and death
of many thousand persons of all
classes, in all parts of the country.
Two great features are shown in
those records-the value of a mans
inheritance of vitality, and the
modifying force of habits of living
upon that vitality. EfyBE II
Every man Is born with an
amount of vital force that ought,
accidents apart and humanely
speaking, to carry him specific
distance on the scale of years, and
each mans inheritance can, on the
average, be fairly determined.
Among the persons selected with
care for physical soundness and
sobriety, and who are as a rule
respectable members of society, the
death rate is more profoundly affec-
ted by the use of intoxicating drinks
than by any other one cause apart
from heredity.
There are not, among insured
men, a great many deaths in the
gutter Nor of delerium tremens.
There are great many hob nailed
livers, and other diseases whose
history isnet far to beseen but in the
majority of cases the effect is main
ly apparent in the predispOsition to
disease caused by drink and the sap
of the vital powers, imparing their
ability to maintain healthy action
under adverse circumstances, to sus-
tain a conflict with disease, or to
rally from shock.
The degree to which many dis
eases commonly referred to malaria,
overwork and other vague, general
scapeg0at causes, are actually groun-
ded In what would almost invaria-
bly, be called temperate use OF
drink by persons of reputed tenn
perate habits, would be incredible
to the mass OF people unaccostomed
to a careful observation and cOmpar-
ison of related cases.
That habitual, scottish drunken
ness should issue in disease and
death most:people can understand,
but that moderate, orderly, decor
Gus indulgence should issue in con-
gested brains, insanity, suicide,
paralysis, diseases of kidneys, liver,
stomach, IN pneumonia, rheuma-
tism, and in general in those dis,
eases which at bottom mean pOis-
on imported into the blood, most
persons do not know and are slow
to believe.
THE North American Review for
February opens with symposium
in which six prominent theologians.
representing as many religious de-
nominations, give expression to
their views upon the question of the
"Revision of Creeds." Prof. Alex
ander Winchell. in an article enti-
tied 1.-THE Experiment of Univer-
sal Suffrage" Institutes profound
inquiry into the essential conditions
of stable popular government, which
he finds TO be substantially, virtue
and intelligence; but these condi-
tions, he maintains, are absolutely
unattainable under our existing
political system, where an elector-
ate either ignorant or vicious, or
both, by the mere force of superior
numbers, practically nullifies the
suffrages of the better and wiser
portion of the people, whose right
to control the government of the
commonwealth is grounded in the
very nature of things. Bishop
McQuaid writes of 1.-THE Decay OF
Professionalism" and in essaying to
prove his thesis, makes a very
adroit use of the admissions of prot
estant writers. "The Political Sit
uation" is the joint title of two
articles, the one by Horatio Sey-
mour, the other by Geo. S. Bout
well, who offer their respective
views upon the causes of the recent
overthrow of the Republican party,
An article by DIR. ID. A. Sargent, on
physical Education in Colleges"
treats subject of prime importance
to the welfare of the youths in our
higher educational institutions.
Finally, there are two articles on
1.-THE Standard Oil Company" Sen
ator Camden OF West Virginia de-
tending that corporation against its
assailants, and John G Welch set
ting forth the reasons for condem-
ming it as a dangerous monopoly.
Published at 80 Lafayette Place,
New York.
Frank LeslIe's Popular Monthly.