The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-29
Joseph Coois-s lecture.

Joseph Cook stood on the platform OF the
and aclnow lodged the demonstration Of
1900 enthusiastic people who had come to
hear his new lecture on ''Alcohol and the
Human Brain: or, What Next in the Tenn
perauce Reform, . On the stage were
seated anumber Of prominent Philadelphia
clcrgymen and workers in the temperance
cause. DR.. i. w. Kirby presented the
lecturer. He referred to his famous record
i'll the worl, and said he needed no intro
duction to the civilized world.
The lecturer said civilian Pitt once
said in Parliament. i have no fear for
England. She will stand till Judgment
Edmund Burke said, What | fear is the
day of no Judgment. The Anglo-SaXon
race, in regard To the desolating woe of
mtempctancc, appears to be living i'll day
of no judgment. Our iorclathcrS whipped
adulterors through the streets, yet they
were drunkards; war and intcmpcrance
were their traits and there are traces of
their savage blood in this generation.
| The English. Germans aud Americans are
famous for their red roses. In spite of all
we have suffered from this great evil, we
have learned no wisdom. What if the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania should
pass law that every one who drinks
habitualy should lose his good Judgment,
be allowed to make no bargains or transact
on end What if it went further and said
that every habitual drinkcr should lose his
good health? You would stand aghast.
What if, finally, it should say that the
habitual drnker, having lost his health,
his disease should be carried down to the
third and fourth generations? You would
withdraw with disgust from any campaign
for the support of such laws.
''If you please, tic supreme powers have
| made all these laws, and, for 5000 years,
have executed them, and the supreme
powers have never once made an apology.
How is ii that the supreme powers do this?
] hold in my hand an egg. break it and
empty the white of it, or what is techni-
cally called the albumen, into this glass"
| The lecturer here illustrated by breaking
an egg into a glass. Then hcwent on: 'It
is thoroughly transparent. Now | pour
some alcohol upon it. At once You see
change. White strealls shoot through it.
The veins. nerves and organs Of the human
| body are filled with this albumcn, and this
c ibo WAY II il u l1,rcfnI "a hon q man harms
drinking. 1t sears the stomach, liver, and,
most of ALL sears the brain. Now the
albuminous matter, thicker and winter
We might now call it the drunkard kicks
his wife to death and is sent to Jail for
murder. don't mean to say that alcohol
affects the blood the same as it does this
egg. 1t is thrown out of the system, but
before il leaves it makes its scar. 1t raw
ages every organ. The black chariot wheels
of habit make ruts for themselves.
II honor the Woman's Christian Tenn
pcrancc Union for introducing temperance
education into the schools, and ! believe
that the yonng voters who will come out
of these institutions will be for temperance
protest against all quarrels between tenn
pcrance factions. Let it be n long pull,
strong pull and all pull together. Both of
the great political parties are afraid Of the
whiskcy syndicate. There are 100, 900 of
its victims in this Republic every year.
Slavery never destroyed SO many lives as
intemperance, and slavery was abolished.
The slaughter of the Chinese was due in
the main to the liquor traffic. 1t was at
the bottom of the Cincinnati riot. Only
yesterday an attempt was made to kill one
Of our Lancaster judges because he refused
to grant Il license. | believe that the
liquor men will grow bolder and more
audacious until they riot and shed blood.
which viii lead to their determination.
Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad