Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-07

SSAh dhcC alAOW baS use
of stimulants. If q member can't forego
them he is expelled or allowed to with
draw.
5th-Do they farnisb warmth to the
body, &c? We have now the most posi-
tive proofs that alcohol is an agent
which impairs and even arrests the pro-
cess by which the body ID made warm
By natural supplies of heat. Alcohol
instead of keeping out the cold, allows
the cold to rob the body of heat. This
corrscts an error which had an easy
origin and q very plausible support. 1t
was quite easy for a man to say that
something which made him feel
warm for a few minutes warmed
him. and it was not so
easy or natural for nim to detect that
the after excess of cold was duo to that
which he felt to be q warming agency
DR.. Richardson.
"Ihsre is q angular unanlmlty on this
point; all observers condemn the use Of
spirits, and oven wine or bssr, as a pre-
ventative against cold."-Dr. Parkes.
Spurious liquors dispose the system
to fevers and lnRammations of the most
dangerous kind, aud half the diseases
which are said to be produced by the
warm weather are produced by the
spirits which are swallowed to lessen it's
effects upon the systsm."-Dr. Rush, OF
Phi1s.
Alcohol does not relieve the individ-
ual from cold by increasing his tempara-
ture; nor from heat by cooling him; nor
from weakness and exhaustion by
n%ourishing his tissues, nor yet from
affection by increasing nerve power; but
simply by diminishing the sensibility
OF his nerve structures, and thereby les
SEEMING his consciousness of impressions.
whether from cold, or heat, or WEAKNESS,
or pain."-Dr. ". 8, Daoiis in "Terdict of
Science"
1t has been practically demonstrated
over and over again by exploring expe-
ditions to the Arctic seas that
persons not accustomed to the
use OF ardent spirits can endure the OK
trems cold of those region. far better
than those who are addicted to their
use.
6th. Does the use of alcohol favor lon
gsyity PIT has been authoritatiyeIy
shown that while the average sxpscta-
ton OF public life to the temperate
mar at fifty may be rsckoned at twenty
years, that of the drnnkard at the same
age OF t~wsnty-one and thirty, the deaths
among %drunkards have been found to bs
mora than fifty times what occurs among
the general community at the,like ages"
Chambers Eacy.
Life insurance. companies are very
10th to insure the life Of a person who
drinks at ali and refuse those who are
given over to the habit.
Cold. R. Green. president of the Conn.
Mutual Life insurance company
gives the following testimony: THE
death rate IL more profoundly affected
by the use of intoxicating drinks than
from any other one cause, apart from
%heredity."
7th. Does alcohol promote health p
SIT interferes with the normal process Of
blood.areation which is the purpose Of
the respiratory mo7emsnt.,,-Dr Carmen
ter.
The action of alcohol on the blood
glnbolss is tue ssms as that of arsenic
and oxide Of carbon. II kills them and
the blood with dead matter.n-Dr.
Raoateau, Union Meaicale If France.
alcohol is specifically, aud to all in
tents and purposes q poison, II
SEXES with its dlsorganizing energy up
on the brain."-Prwe. Youmaas.
All persons who indulge mneh in any
form OF alcoholic drink are troubled
with Indigestion. In the curse of time
tnsy become confirmed dyspeptios. All
cohol causes diseases of the brain and
nervous system; diseases of the lungs,
heart, braih. blood, stomach, bowels,
ilyer, Kidneys, muscles and membranes
the body. Disease OF the brain caused
alcohol progresses, until it kills the
mind as well as the body. Many are
made worse by alcohol. In an asylum
u has bsen found that forty persons ont
every hundred persons who were ad-
mitted insane had become insane di-
reetly or indirectly from the effects of
strong drink. 1t il certain that no other
cause Of insanity il SO fresuent.p-l
Dr.. Richardson.
9Th. How is alcohol classcd by
scientists? -
Alcohol is universally ranked
among poisons by psychologists, chem
physicians, toxioologists"-Prof.
. humans.
Alcohol il q poison. In chemistry
physiology this is its proper place "
PREF Hitler.
FAlcohol is an irritant poison, pro-
iucinR . diseased condition of body and
nind'-Dr. Willard Parker.
AZ writer's on materia medica now
'ank alcohol among the mos. powerful
md fatal of narcotic vegetable p~ojsons..
DIR. a. G. Lees.
Wien persona have taken sufficient
'leohol to affect them, they are said to-
intoxicated, the literal meaning OF
Vhich is poisoned. The word is derived