The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-31

desicecy of the senses are all so far OBJ
posed by alcohol, that the maximum
efforts of each are incompatible with
the inSestion of any moderate quantity
| of fermented liquid. A single glass
will often suffice to take the edge off
both mind and body, and to reduce
their capacity to something below
their perfection of work.-Dr. W.
Brint0B.
We are of opinion 1. That a very
large proportion of human misery, in
GLIDING poverty, disease and crime is
| induced by the use of alcoholic or fer
mented liquors as a 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. 3.
That persons accustomed to such
drinks may with perfect safety discon-
tinue them entirely, either at once, or
gradually after short time. a. That
total and universal abstinence from
alcoholic beverages of all sorts would
greatly contribute to the health, the
prosperity and happiness of the human
ACE, 900 Physicians Of Great
Britain.
We believe that the hereditary evils
OF beer-drinking exceed those proceed
ing from ardent spirits. First, because
the habit is constant and without par
oXysmal Interruptions which admit of
some recuperation; second, because
beer-drinking is practiced by both
sexes more generally than spirit drink
ing, and third, because the animalzing
tendency of the habit is more uniform
ly developed, thus authorizing the pre-
sumption that the vicious results are
more generally transmitted. Pacific
Medical Journal, Endorsed By the Home.
Life ms. Co.
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 a sense of
grave responsibility. We are of the
opinion that the use of alcoholic liquor
as a beverage is productive of q large
amount of physical disease; that it en-
tails diseased appetites upon offspring,
and that it is the cause of large per-
centage of the crime of our cities and
country. We would welcome any iu-
dicious and effective legislation-Stat
and which should seek to
confine the traffic in alcohol to the le-
gitimate purposes of medical and other
sciences, art and mechanism. POO
physicians Of NetO York and Bro0blyn.
Of all the intoxicating drinks it
beer is the most animalizing. 1t
dulls the intellectual 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
commit murder only under the direct
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 trifiing value, are
perpetrated by beer-drinkers. - Pa
cifc Medical Journal, Endorsed By Home
Life ms. Co.
The use of beer is found to produce
species of degeneration of all the
organs. Intellectually, a
stupor amounting almost to paralysis
arrests the reason, changing all the
higher faculties into mere animalism,
sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only
with paroXysms of anger 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. 1t 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 rut1ians 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
Scientific american.