Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-17
OUR LOCAL OPTION COLUMN
Results of Researches On
Alcohol"
From the Witness

brandy, ought to % studied by every
person capable 81 'sading the English
language; and i ssgsfa % trspslated
into all the living languages of the
earth and circulated as the schoolmas-
ter abroad" 1t settles, by actual ex-
periments, continued for three success
sive years, by an absolutely scientific
man, the effects of alcohol on the hui
man system.
1t shows why and how in the last
ten years, in these United States, al
cohol has destroyed 300,50 lives; has
sent 100000 children to poor houses
has committed, at least, 100000 into
prisons and work houses has made,
at least, 1000 insane has determined
1000 suicides; has made 100000 wild
ows and 100000 orphans ;show two
out of every three of the unhappy
persons who Eli eour asylums for the
insane were brought tntre, either d.
rectly or indirectly, by the destroyer !;
how nine-tenths of the paralyzed who
sit or lie day after day, already in
the shroud of living death, toneess
speechless, helpless, existing only b,
mere vegetative power, were brought
to that wofnl condition; why we be
hold passing in sad panoramic dis
play the broken heartedaess of thi
nation, made up Of tortured women,
wives, mothers, husbands and fathers,
mourning a loss that even the grave
will not relieve-loss to truth, honor,
self-respect, affection, duty, honesty,
every virtue on which parents find
new life in their ofspring;" how it is
that the Differentiated maladies that
fill our hospitals with the sick, are but
the various forms Of disease, "origin.
ating in one agency to which these
afflicted ones have been directly or
indirectly subjected )" that all these
varying DISCUSSES are the works of one
common enemy of mankind-"a pow
era bona fde devil, alcohol why
this enemy exists that he exists be-
cause he is an inbred enemy that he
is transmitted like feature and taste
and, disease. from the parent to the
child, and because of false beliefs
concerning alcohol. which regulate the
conduct and fora the habits of man
kind to their ruin, Dir. Richardson
assails these false beliefs by actual ex-
periments, and demolshes them
He becomes scientifically aggressive
and demon trates that alcohol "begins
by destroying, ends by destruction,
and implants organic changes which
progress independently of its pres
ence even in those who are not born. II
No candid thinking man can read
this tract without being moved by this
truth. If he can read it unmoved, lie
must be so enslaved that "his letters
have become an inseparable part Of
his existence.
When one has perused this tract he
will desire. to further study DR.. Rich
ardson's "Ten Lectures on Alcohol,
If he be the head of family he vii
teach the lessons Of these books to hi
children and his children's children
and will exert aA his influence to max
them text books in all our common
schools.
These scientific works are armor anc
weapons for the prohibition warrior
He must put them on and WELD them
The contest has already become close
a hand hand struggle. 1t has reach
ed crisis where it becomes the pri
mary duty of all its advocates to teacl
and proclaim we'll demonstrated sci
entifc facts-facts which will serve a
the basis of reformation in individual
and in legislatures. Let the lamen
tation, my people are destroyed 70
lack Of knowledge, cease amongst us
when the means of supplying this lac
of knowledge are at our very door
A truce to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Civ
us facts and arguments based upol
facts, and these facts and argument
will 'enlighten the minds of the PEG
pie so as to unite their energies in
patient, steady, continuous, and, ulti
mately successful endeavor for tn
Punishment of this destructive powe
from our land, or its enchainment 70
a thousand years. In thus directing
public attention to these works of Dr.
Richardson, I believe that | am rem
dering the public better service thai
could by many appearances on tn
public platform. Truly yours,