The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-04

ing, and third, because the antmAiiMng
tendency of the habit Is more uniform
" developed, thus authorizing the pre-
sumption that the vicious results are
more generally transmitted. - Pacific
Medical journal, indorscd by the Home
Life Ins. Co.
We are of opinion 1. That a very
large proportion Of human misery, In
cluding poverty, disease and crime is
induced by the use of alcoholic or fer.
mented liquors. as beverage. 2.
That the most perfect health Is COM
patible with total abstinence from all
such intoxicating beverages, whether
in the form Of ardent spirits or as
wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, etc. 8.
drinks may with perfect safety discon-
tinue them entirely, either at once, or
gradually after short time. 4. That
total and universal abstinence from
alcoholic beverages of all sorts would
greatly contribute to the health, the
prosperity and happiness Of the human
race.--2,0OO Physicians Of Grea1
Britain. li.f.t In!. Hd.of
We unite in the declaration that we
believe alcohol should be classed with
other powerful drugs; that when pre-
scribed incidentally it should be with
conscientious caution and sense of
grave responsibility. We are of the
opinion that the use OF alcoholic liquor
as beverage is productive of a large
amount Of physical disease; that 1t en-
tails diseased appetites upon offspring,
and that 1t is the cause of large per-
centage of the crime of our cities and
country. We would welcome any ju-
dicious and effective legislation-State
and National-which should seek to
confine the traffic in alcohol to the le-
gitimate purposes of medical and other
sciences, art and mechanism. 200
fhystcians of NeW York and Brooklyn.
OF all the intoxicating drinks It
(beer1 is the most animalizing. 1t
dulls the intellect lal and moral, and
feeds the sensual and beastly nature.
Beyond all other drinks, it qualities for
deliberate and unprovoked crimes. In
this respect it is much worse than dis
titled liquors. A whisky-drinker will
murder only under the direct
excitement of liquors. beer-drinker
is capable Of doing 1t in cold blood.
Long observation has assured us that
a large proportion of murders, deliber-
ately planned and executed without
passion or malice, with no more mo-
tive than the acquisition of property
or money, often Of trifing value, are
by beer-drinkers. = Pa
cifc Medical Journal, Endorsed by Home
Life Ins. Co.
The use of beer is found to produce
a species of degeneration of al the
organs. intellectually,
stupor amounting almost to paralysis
arrests the reason, changing all the
higher faculties into mere animalism,
sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only
with paroxysms ofanger that are sense
less and brutal. In appearance the
beer-drinker may be the picture Of
health, but in reality he is most incap-
able of resisting disease. Compared
with inebriates who use different kinds
of alcohol, he is more incurable. and
more generally diseased. It is our OBJ
servation that beer-drinking in this
country produces the very lowest kind
of inebriety, closely allied to criminal
insanity. The most dangerous class
of ruffians in our large cities are beer.
drinkers. Recourse to beer as, a SUBJ
stitute for other forms of alcohol mere-
ly increases the danger and fatality
Scienttic american.