Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-19
temperance.
TEMPERANCE AND TNTEM-
PERANCR

mental and moral rayages of in
temperance, it would require a life
time to recount the pains and aches,
the malignant diseases caused by the |
demon incompetence. We have al
ready seen that all alcoholic liquors
impair, retard and complicate diges-
ton, always and everywhere, both in
the case of the sick and well, thus
preventing the normal and full nour-
ishment of the system. Some of the
robust may endure this for time,
but the sick may safely avoid all
combinations of it, in the matter of
digestion, as they need all of the
strength possible, that they may re-
slst the inroads of disease. 1t al
ways and everywhere wastes power
never generating any-prevents the
renovation of the blood, the whole
body, increases the labors of the.
heart, by which it must weaken that
organ, deranges the brain and nerves,
vitiates the blood and all the digest
i've juices none of which effects are
favorable even to the robust, while
none of the sick can tolerate any
antagonistic agencies.
The action of alcohol-as a drink,
medicine or as a baths always in
the line of paralysis. Let this thought
be emphasized; it always and every
where tends to benumb, derange and
eventually impair and destroy the
sensibilities. In illustration, observe
the .srum blossom" of the drunkard,
the red and enlarged nose. The blood
vessels are so paralyzed that they
cannot perform their ordinary labors,
from which fact, in consequence of
| their relaxed state, the blood is not
urged on, the vessels becoming en-
forced at particular places-in the
face. more especially-the accumula-
ton and engagement increasing the
size of the nose, red enough to serve
as warning-like q llghthouse-to
guard the young from being wrecked
on the hidden rocks of drunkenness
The intense red color of the drunk
ards brain is produced in precisely
the same way as the drunkard' IS nose,
namely, paralysis Of the nerves which
control the circulation OF this part OF
the body. When the drunkard's face
and nose are redeemed, or blushine
under the influence of alcohol, the
brain bushes. The same may be
said also of the lungs, the stomach
the liver, the kidneys, and Other
structures of the body. His whole
physical being bushes with shame
; for the outrage against nature. II
consequence of this intense conges
ton, and the fact that it receives one
fifth of all the blood in the body, tn
brain participates more than any 9th
er organ in the body, except the liv
er, in the injury wrought by the ''de
t mon drink AS before mentioned
it sometimes becomes hardened t
D such a degree even during life that
y can readily be distinguished from
: healthy brain by the sense of touc
Il alone.
For this reason, no functions Q
the system can be carried on in
normal condition, doing Its legitimat
labor or Office. The brain, therefore
thus robbed Of its normal energies
by partial paralysis, is unable ii
- diligently TO superintend the runnin
of this wonderful machine, "fearfull
and wonderfully made,' while til
= semi-paralyzed nerves, losing pa
+ of their vital force, fail to keep u
the telegraphic communication b,
= tween the brain and all parts of tt
body, which harmony demands.
!, The heart-occupying the positio
of the prime mortor-eneryated by
fearful increase of tolls by the use
~ alcoholic stimulants (goads) laborir
under serious disadvantages, mu
= fail to perform its part of the syste
y labor, just to that extent failing
convey nourishment to all parts
the body, as we'll as failing in gat
ry ering up the waste and poisinous pant
to conveying them to the lungs for re
ovation, publication. A failure he
If is but another name for uniyers
failure If the stomach is not nou
- ished and stimulated by pure bloc
1t it must to that extent be unable
so transform the food into blood
4~ to lmpoverish the whole systel
There must be general absence
vital force, the supplies being cut o
one partially, and the renovating and p
, wa, rifying forces suffering to the SAL
the extent. Alcohol is q "two-edg
5od sword" fearfulIy destroying the
zP. tai forces. 1t attacks both direct
and indirectly, first reducing the Pc
tSO er of all the organs of the body, tn
5 in indirectly aggravating the evils by
With ducing their nourishment, by impa
and ing digestion. This is an apt illust
ron, rom ton of the Bible assertion that
, ftse one member suffers, all will SUI
with TITLE Golden Rule.
The following outspoken reso
Il tons were adopted at the rec
-eral meeting Of the Addison County TIE
cats, perance Society: ''Res0lved, Eli
One that the past year only brings Fl,
Sc Sc and abundant evidence that the of
was was ers of law in our county are culpa
unfaithful to their solemn obligati'
ds. and oath of office in their neglect
cures open and repeated violations of
: re- prohibitory laws. Second, that
pronounced it a grave error to th
c in or say that such betrayal of trust
authorized by the public sentimen