The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25
TEMPERANCE READING.
BUSINESS SIGNS.


tiora~Hov a Truthful Sign Would Read.
Vigorous opposition of the liquor
dealers to the Temperance movement
is natural, and to be expected, for we
war against their pecuniary interest;
and if you touch some men IN the
pocket you touch where they live.
Were these men to exhibit at their
places Of business a truthful signboard,
it would read: 'sDelirium tremens,
fever, disease, pauperism, crime, red
ness of eyes, wounds without cause,
rags, wretchedness, despair and death
for sale here d
That would be truthful sign, bit it
would igiure their business more than
all the Temperance organizations in
existence. The hquorseller will not
even set up in his bar-room specimen
of bis work; he puts up blinds at the
doors and screens at. the windows to.
hide his work from the passer-by; bus
the shoemaker and the tailor exhibit
their work in their windows, and show
what they have made out of the raw
Ematerial ta
The tailor, when he has finished
new coat, places it where it may be
seen by the greatest number of custo-
mers; when the shoemaker has finished
a first-ciass pair of boots he places
/ them in his window, because the exhi-
bitfon tends to increase his trade.
With the iquor-seller it is quite differ
ent. He is ashamed OF his finished
/ .xfrn1,lr tNifh b.,1, 49,. ,oI
always worth more than the finished
article. Were he to exhibit that he
would lose his trade No wonder he
is ashamed to exhibit his work.
In the worlds great exhibitions YOU
/ have seen finished articles of nearly
every manufacturer, from toothpick
to a locomotive, and the exhibitors were
anxious to explain the method of man
ufaeture, or the texture of the woven
| fabrics. Almost every conceivable specA
linen of man. ingenuity and skill was
there represented, from the raw mate
| rial to the finished article. But there
was one specimen of manufacture alb
| sent. remember, at the Mechanics
Fair in Boston, many years ago, being
| struck with this fact, and, on mention
| ing it to Deacon Moses Grant, he pro-
| posed to apply to the managers for per-
mission to exhibit q specimen of the
| hqaor-sellers work. He knew man
| who was once worth forty thousand
| dollars. who was then debased and
ruined through drink, who agreed for
dollar q day to stand in that fair with
label in front of him, which read as
follows: II was once worth forty thou
| sand dollars. | was once respected
and respectable. / once moved in
| good society. Such things as I
am now are made out of such men as
once was. Please give us premium
for one of the best specimens to be
found in the city, But they would
not admit him! The liquor-seller is
ashamed of tie results of his infamous
trade. A boy was passing by liquor
shop, and, seeing drunken man lying
in the, gutter in front of The saloon,
knocked at the door, and said: Mister,
your signs fell down." aud the angry
liquor-seller chased him half round the
square. i8 l
See the results of this traffic in its
true eolors, placed so full and fair be-
fore you that the very youngest can not
err in their decision. A liquor-seller
had tavern undergoing repairs. One
day a boy came running to his mother,
crying out: mother, mother!'' "What
is it, my boyP" ''Mr. Pools tavern is
finished, mother" ''How do you know,
my dearP' inquired the mother. 'sWhy,
Z saw man come out drunkp' Now,
that is the legitimate fruit of the dram
shop. Coughs Platform Echoes.
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THE VERDICT OF SCIENCE.
The Medical Experience of Century
lai efP Proves Alcohol Poison. 81
h Among the many interesting papers
of the forthcoming centennial volume,
f"One Hundred Years of Temperance, =
soon to be published by the National
Temperance Society, is one of great
value by DR.. N. S. Davis, of Chicago,
the father and founder of the American
Medical Association, eutitled "The
Centennial Verdict of Science, y from
which we quote the following:
So In tracing the progress of scientific
knowledge concerning the nature and
effects of alcoholic drinks, we find the
following propositions have been clear
ly and fully established, by strictly sci
entiiic investigation and experiment,
without the slightest regard to social
or moral considerations on the part of
the investigators:
II. That the active agent in all the
varieties of fermented and distilled
liquids in use is alcohol or ethylic ether,
the properties Of which are the same
in all. it differing only in quantity in
the different liquids. atA
90 That this alcohol belongs, chem
ically, to the same group of hydro-car-
bons as the different varieties of ether
and chloroform now generally called
anasthetics-in other words, it is ethy-
lie ether, composed of hydrogen, oxy-
gen and carbon-and can be produced
only by a process of fermentation in
substances containing saccharine mat
ter. 81
1a'3 The alcohol, wherever found,
whether in fermented or distilled
liquids, when taken into the human
stomach. is absorbed and enters the
blood unchanged, and circulates with
that fluid through. every organ and
structure. of the body, until the greater
part (if not alp of it is eliminated
through the skin, lungs and kidneys.
"a. That while in the blood the al
cohol produces all the effects of pure
anesthetic and sedatiTe, directly d.
minishing nerve sensibility, muscular
contraction and molecular movements
throughout the system.
lit is the dimunition of nerve sensi-
bility that renders the individual first
light, airy and hilarious, giving the
popular idea of excitement or stimula-
ton; second, dull, hesitating, or inco-
herent in thought and speech, and I'M
steady or staggering in gait, popularity
recognized as incipient intoxication,
and, third, entire unconsciousness and
muscular paralysis, constituting dead
drunkenness or complete anesthesis.
These successive stages are developed
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