The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-11-16
NO. 81.
W. O I. U.


drink, began as early as 1870 per-
sonal inquiry in connection with
several medical men and experts, ex
pecting 10 quickly disprove the same,
According to their deductions the
latest estimate Of deaths Of adults
yearly, caused through intempeFance
is. In Great Britain, 10000; in
France, $4,000; in the United States,
10000, or nearly half q million each
year in three countries aggregating
population Of 122, 100000.
The following resolution was
passed at the National w. G. I. u.
Convention by "a vote Of 259 to 10,
The resolution was intended as re-
buke to Mrs, J. Ellen Foster, who,
for the sake of popularity aud a few
hundred dollers, is making speeches
for a whisky party. The text Of the
resolution and its almost unanimous
endorsement speaks well for the 10y
atty Of these Christian ladies to tho
temper anee cause aud the party which
champions IT, The resolution reads:
"ResoIUed, That it is the sense Of the
National Woman's Christian Temper
anoe Union thai no member shall
speak from a public platform to an
tagonize our policy toward the party
to which our influence is pledged, and
that any member thus antagonHing
our policy is hereby declared disloyal
| to onF oTpaniZation
The close relationship of insanity,
epilepsy and inebriety is strongly
shown by the remarkable manner
in which, through heredity, one form
Of disease may pass into another, as
where drunkenness IN ono generation
is followed by epilepsy or insanity 10
the succeeding generations, Itisthis
inevitable nerve or brain deterioration
on the part of those Of previous
generation who INDUCED IN alcoholic
beverages, and became parents, which
undoubtfully would, il careful inyesti-
CATION should be made, account for
the presence therein Of many at the
present time of those by whom our
insane asylums and hospitals are over
crowded. The drink-eVil involves not
only those immediately connected
with the drinker here, and now but
leaves a fearful legacy Of suffering
and lncompoteney to further geuer-
ations,-NorthwesterH Lancet.
Colonel Ford, in lecture recently
in San Francisco, said; 'tThe stimu-
lating effect of liquor Is produced by
the deadening Of the nerves that con-
troll the hearts action. The conse-
quence is that tho circulation runs
riot. But the resulting Civilizations
of the faculties is followed by cor
responding depression, and meanwhile
all the organs of the body suffer by
tho irregularity." In illustration Of
this the lecturer showed coloFed dia-
grams Of the vital organs Of temper
ate subjects, moderate drinkers and
confirmed inebTIates. No amount of
rhetoric or oratory, he said, could be
more impressive than these cold, un-
biased, but unerrlng records Of scien-
tltic observation and experiment. The
gradual ruin Of the healthy stomach
was progressively depicted from uni
form healthy pink color till the last
diagram, where infsmed veins, blush
discoloratiols, and great oancerous
growths told of the victim carried off
by delirium tremens, Blood corpus
Giles, nerve tissues, and muscle fbres,
the liver and kidneys, heart and brain,
were all shown to be bauefully affected
in one way or another, The speak
er's last words expressed a hope that
before long all good people would rally
round the banner Of scientific temper
ahce,
| would not say hard words against
poverty ; whenever it comes it is bit
ter 10 all but you will mark, as you
will notice carefully, that while a few
are poor because Of unavoidable cir
Cumstances, very large mass Of the
poverty Of London is the sheer and
clear result of pTofuseness, want of
forethought, idleness, and worst Of all,
drunkenness, All, that drunkenness
that is the master of evil If drink
r could be got Fid Of we might be sure
Of couqueFing the devil himself The
drunkenness created by the internal
liquor dens which plague.spot the
whole Of this huge city is appalling,
No, | did not speak in haste, OF lot
slip a hasty word many Of the drink
houses arc nothing less than internal /;
in some respects they are worse, for
hell has its use as a divine protest
against sin; but as for the gin palace,
there is nothing to be said 10 its favor,
The vices of the age causes three
,, fourths Of the poverty II Yep could
! look AZ the houses tonight, the
wFelched homes where women VIII
tFemble at the sound Of their hus-
bands foot, as be comes home; where
little children win crouch down with
fear upon their little hed Of straw boz
cause the human brute who calls him-
self "a man" sill come FeeIing home
from tho palace where be has been
E lndnlging bis appeliie II You could
] look al such d sight, ana remember it
D win be seen ten thousand times over
+ tonight, think you Wculd say, ''aod
s help ps By all meaps 70 Save some.p
Since The great OK 70 lay at the foot
i of this deadly npas tree il the 6aa
pei OF Christ may Gad help M ID
3 hold the ax there, ana to work
/ constantly with 1t till sho huge ifunk
Of the poison Tree begins . rock ID
J; and no, and Ye get y dGWH and Lon-
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