The Press., 1888-05-17

"Of course it is impossible to collect and meas ure every atom thus discharged, but the amount actually collected has so nearly equalled the amount drank as to justify the conclusion that no particle was appropriated to permanent use." This is not true. Sc1- ence defes him to recover more than 8 twen- tieth part of any reasonable amount of aIco- hol drank. Wehave very reliable experimental evidence that large part of the alcohol taken is rapidly converted into something else in the body. We have some evidence tending to show that alcohol can even be msn- ufactured within the living body, and thus be excreted by teetotaler, greatly to his morti- fcation. Alcohol is very widely diffused throughout nature. It is formed in many kinds of fermentation by various living or ganisms. It maya be formed in fruits by the action of the cells of which they are made up. It may be formed in the soil and diffused into the atmosphere It may fall back to earth in rain, and thus contaminate the water that we drink. We cannot wholly prevent the man. ufacture of alcohol, for nature will make some, whether we approve of it or not.
 The doctor of whom have been speaking hurls an insult at the medical profession, and demonstrates his own incompetence to treat the scientific side of the temperance question in this passage ''Since there are no certain tseS regarding the use of alcohol as 8 medi- cine, we will examine the most recent opinions of doctors The most trustworthy of them have given up it's usefulness, except in two in- stances" He then gives two humorous and sarcastic instances of 8 very trivial nature. He distinctly implies that any medical man that would urge the usefulness of alcohol must be placed in the lower rank of his profession. But the fact remains that the great medical teachers and practitioners all over the world constantly recommend and prescribe alcohol. A greater preacher than the writer of Scientific Ger taintes about Alcohol,' advised Timothy to t- tie wine for his stomachs sake and his often inrmi ties The modern medical adviser is certainly in good company when he prescribes wine for it's medicinal qualities.
 But there ore certainties about alcohol. We know that used should be it is blessing It is of the greatest service in science, in the arts and in med cine Employed as ought not to perverted from its legitimate uses, it is well spring of sorrow, suffering and death. The certaint1es about alcohol every where manifested-n this town, throughout the state, throughout our country, all over the world. 1ntem- perance is terrible certainty. It is frghtfu mon- ster, crafty fOx ready to entrap the unwary "emorseless as fate, mercless as the devil. There may be some here who do not beeve in the existence of personal devil However that may be am sure that we will all admit that the world has little for one so long as it has the rumseer. Intemperance is pestilence, always at work. It invades the family, and robs it of peace It destroys the home it defles the streets It fills the prisons it crowds asylums and hospitals, and makes pOpulous the cemetery Without it the world would approximate to another garden of Edenwth it it is scOurged with the fures Ot hell. No other tyrant yields such despOc power It robs the poor it defrauds the rich It feeds all the wicked passions It cOrrupts the young, it debasee the old. It clogs the wheels of good government. excites to riot and rebellion. It fills the earth with mourning, humiliation, and remOrse. All these evil result from the misuse of alcohol. Whether man shall use it well ill., wisely foOlishly, rests with himself Man. not alcohol IS responsible for the evils of intempegance Let it alone when you do not need it, and it will not harm you. This is certainty about alcohol"