The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
MODERATE DRINKING.

in Favor of Total Abstinence.
You are quite willing to admit that
intemperance is a great evil, that
drunkenness is q great disgrace and
that multiplied and intolerable burdens
are put upon society through the medi-
UNI of the liquor traffic, but you say:
"All this comes from excess; if people
would only restrain themselves, there
would be no great harm done. Why
may not drink moderately"
l. Because moderate drinking is
preiudicial to health.
The old time idea was that alcoholic
liquors We're necessary as well to pre-
vent disease as to cure it. But that was
before the period of investigation. Now
better opinions prevail. There is no
Appreciable food value in drink. 1t does
not increase, but rather diminishes, the
natural temperature of the body. 1t
hinders rather than helps digestion. 1t
is the fruitful parent of very many of
of the diseases which afflict humanity,
and has the effect of predisposing
toward them.
The following are sample testimonies
of some of the most celebrated medical
men of Great Britain:
1t is perfectly certain there are rnultitudes at
this moment who are injuring their constitu-
t Ons and shortening their lives Ey taking al
cOhol daily in an amount which they consider
strictlJ moderate.-Dr. Ridge. RS, B d. B. Sc,
London
l should like to say that very large num-
Der OF people in society are dying, day by day,
poisoned by alcohol, but not suppoped to be
poisoned by it, tits one of the commonest
things in English society that people are in
jured by drink, without being drunkards.
There is great deal of injury done to health
by the habitual use of wines and alcohol in
various shapes. even in so-called moderate
quantities.-Sir VtJLiam Gull, N. d., FRS.
In the average man" the habitual use of
alcoholic liquors in moderate or even small
quantities is not merely unnecessary for the
maintenance of bodily and mental vigor
but is unfavorable to the permanent enjoy
ment Of health.-Dr. ". b. Carpenter FRS,
FS.S.
AS far as my experience goes alcohol is in
no sense necessary to health. will say more.
Alcohol is in no sense necessary to work. Not
only is alcohol not necessary to health, but no
man or woman can ever realize that full sense
of the joy Of health until they live without
ALCOHOLISM Andret0 CLARKE.
2. Because there is danger that you
will soon drink immoderateS.
There never was drunkard in the
world but began as you say in modera-
ton. Each one repeated over and over
the very words which you have uttered:
"Why may not drink moderately"
and vet each one found himself at last
bound as q slave and driven to utter de
struction. Are you stronger than all
these?
Alcohol tends toward producing
physical craving in the body for itself
In this it is different from all foods.
The effect produced by certain guam
tity to-day can only be produced by
greater quantity tomorrow. The dose
must be enlarged and so on and on until
tie awful craving maddens and brutal
ICES Is it well for you to tamper with
so strange and fatal poisonP Is it not
the wiser course to give it wide berth?
Drink weakenS the will-power, tends to
destroy self-respect, weaves a strong
subtle chain of appetite about you, and
brings with it a thousand associations
which tend neither to purify nor strength
en-. 1t is far Drawer as well as safer to
make no alliance with the deceitful
thing. ..E.
8. Because your example is bad
1t is quite possible that you may be
able to take just your few glasses per
day and never exceed that measure.
But where are you leading those who
look up to Won and follow your example,
and alas follow it in everything but its
moderat' on? It is untrue for you to say
that you have no influence. You have,
you can not help having an influence.
Each cay some one is learning lesson
from you, taking a step forward in the
path you are treading. VIII they stop
where you stop?
A father and his little son were trav-
cling in the Alps. Anxious to gain the
best point Of view, the strong man was
riding from crag to crag, forgetful of
the tender strength of the boy, whose
voice at length came from the distance:
''Look out, papa, I'm following You"
Then he bethought himself that he
should measure his pathway by the
standard of his child capacity.
Would that every day there might
sound in your ears the words, which
even though not uttered, are yet true:
Look out father, mother, teacher,
preacher, man or business, man OF Office,
elder in society, we are following YOU"
and be careful to take no steps in the |
pathway which proves so fatal To so
many of the growing children of every
generation. They simply see you enter |
the tavern, stand at the bar, take the |
glass at the social beard, and they say:
'Jf he drinks why can not I?'
How many a mothers Heart near
breaks with awful anxiety as she OBJ |
serves how her boy ehafes under her re-
straint and pleading as he answers
every plea with: But mother, Mr.. B.
drinks, and he is perfect gentleman.
How many wife's hopes grow dim
and faint as all her expostulations with
the husband she loves are met with the
ready reply: Eyes, dear. but there is
Mr. A. who takes his wine, and is re-
spected and prosperous, surely can /