Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-26
STIMULANTS.
,,uc for Them an Almost Uni
The Cra'iHy ersal Appetite.


,sira or craving for stimulants IN
luz ost General sense Of the word-for
the mem mac acting upon the nerves whether as
drugs "I' ~ sedative agents-is an almost,
ezcl' . absolutely, universal human APP
if not so general, SO early developed
P Es.t re might almost call it an instinct
A nJor ordinary circumstances the most
unu'- 10 and by far the most widely
s TFfused of all stlmulan tbo SS Stats Of
I GllluS'd the Euphrates to the STal.s Oh
from t tbe vine has been from the earliest s:
Dover ,nV only to corn in popular est,
ages SeG ,nn next to bread, the most PrIZed
ton; WIZ iOr,saI article of human food. The
and un l;on between Ceres and Bacchus
connectlG; in almost every language as IN
is touho! ~ lie Of every nation, from the
the socl"i is s,sy Monarchy, the stable
T y:annTotic despotism OF Egypt 10 tne
hleT 1sn French Republic and German
moa?rn Corn itself has furnished sum sum-
Empire ND in popularity to wine alone /;
ulanls sGtO, which delighted the tlercer,
the spun 80 81" Of Northern Europe Swede,
sterner !ao' and Dane, St. Olaf and Har-
NorWgglaIn vi, az as their descendants OF
t tlu and the ale OF our S own saxon SAXON
80 Scandinavian ancestry, WHICH helliler
ana !t o'c "iJer nor Spanish wine has super
sp I5 o C1" ourselves. The vine, again,
Seue% a. 70 have been native to America,
%e I.5o civilized or semi-civilized races OF
MN NJ. r Donthern and central part OF the
T,.,torn Continent had other more popu-
.aDj more peculiar stinulants, also for
t 6 mo part alcoholic. The palm, again,
hos 10. furnished to African and Aslatlc
. t55 spirit not less potent or less
noyious NOT less popular and probably
not less primitive, than whisky or beer.
Put where alcohol has been unknown,
a, am, races to whose habits and temper
",nenf # was alien, or in climates where
50 nowerful an excitant produced effects
too palpablv alarming to be tolerated by
rnjers or iaw-givers royal or priestly,
other and milder stimulants and sedatives
are found in equally universal use. Till
thp white man introduced among them
his own destructive beverages, till the
"Gre-water" spread Generalization and
disease. tobacco was the favorite indul-
cence OF the red Indian of North Amer
lea. and very probably OF that mighty
race which preceded them and seems TO
have disappeared before they came upon
the scene-the Mound-builders, whose
gigantic works bear testimony to the eX-
istence of an agriculture scarcely less adj
vanced or less prolific, a despotism prob
ably no less absolute than that of Egypt.
Coffee has for ages been almost equally
dear to the Arab; tea has been to China
all that wine is and was to Europe, prob
ably from still earlier period, and has
taken hold on the Northern, as coffee and
tobacco on the Southern, branches of the
Tartar race. Opium, or drugs resembling
opium in character, have been found as
well suited to the temper, as delightful to
the taste, Of the quieter and more passive
Oriental races as wine to the Aryan and
Semitic nations. The Malays, the Nik-
ngs Of the East Indies, found in bhang q
drug the most exciting and maddening in
its effects OF any known to civilized OF
mciyilized man; a substitute for opium
Or hasheesh bearing much the same re
lation to those sedatives as brandy o.
whisky to the light wines of Southern
Europe.-Natjondl ReUjeW. II