The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-02

Or. s. S. Thorne.-" In regard to surgical Cd
erations every physician breads to have
any thing to do with beer drinkers 1t is dam
gerous for beer-drinker to even cut his
/ finger"
Dr. II. IT, Parmalee.-" Beer is worse thar
whisky, the hops contained in the beer produc-
ing congestion of the liver, dyspepsia and kin.
/ dred diseases. Habitual beer-drnkers seem to-
have no power to resist disease"
Dr. W. T. en0ur-"Beer-d drinkers are yerv~
! liable to die of pneumonia, and when con-
hrmed beer-drinker takes pneumonia he dies
Dr. ). ). Lungren-" Every part of the body
OF confirmed beer-drlnker becomes loaded
| down with morbid and poisonous matter and
every part will soon fall into ruin and decay"
Dr. j. 4. Woods" Lager beer, if used at all
should be used as medicine, as are ipecac
/ Quinine rhubarb and strychnine"
/ DR.. G. 4. Kirkley.--" There is no more fruitful
source of Bright's disease than beer-drinking.
The evil effects are not confined to the consum-.
! ers OF the beverage, but are transmitted to.
their offspring"
Dr. G. ". Chdpmdn.-" regard beer as harm
ful as ardent spirits, brandy and whisky, as 1t
produces fatty degeneration Of the heart, liver
and kidneys"
DR.. G. A. CoLldmore.-" Beer-drinking pro-
duces morbid effect upon the heart lungs,
brain, stomach, liver and kidneys The brain.
is kept in hyperemic condition which pre-
vents normal cerebration or the accurate use
Va ShS HlCntdl ldCultl6S.
One more fact, and a weighty one.
needs to be added to this array Of
scientific evidence against the use of
beer. The business of life insur-~
ance is one which excludes mere SEN
timent 1t is conducted upon rules
ascertained from experience. and as.
the profits of the company depend
upon the reasonable expectation of
life of the persons insured, we may
be certain that if they make any dis.
elimination against the applicants
upon the ground of their drinking
habits, that discrimination must be.
based upon ascertained facts. 1t is a.
fact that the best and safest life insur--
ance companies will not insure the
life of a confirmed beer-drinker. A
man not addicted to drinking, at the
age of forty, is considered good risk,
beer-drinker aged forty can get
no insurapce-because his life is held
by too precarious tenure. The risk
is too great. These companies are
even more careful against beer-drink--
ers than against whisky guzzlers, be-
cause beer sows the seed of disease,
and death in the system and renders.
the victim liable to death from an ILL
ness that would be but trifing in it's.
effects upon man of good constitution
Beer is form of rum which soddens,
the brain and vitiates the moral nat
ure. 1t predisposes to melancholy,
and II ic ha nj 1o 70 ba nOta6 in o11rN,
cities that large percentage of sui
cides are among persons who use beer
freely. 1t was long ago noted that.
this was the case in certain European
capitals. AS for its being food,
there is not as much nutriment in a
barrel of it as in one loaf of honest
bread. 1t is nauseous to the taste of
one unaccustomed to it, and nothing
but the alcohol in it could ever induce
any one to swill it down. Deprived of
its alcohol, it is vile, ill-smelling,
horrible tasting stuff, not more invit-
ing than draught from swill- barrel
The Legislature of Ohio recognized
that beer guzzling is just as much OF
an evil as the drinking of any other
form of rum when, few weeks ago,
it removed the distinction in the tax
ing law of the State and made the.
liquor tax the same for all varieties of
rum-spirituous, malt or vinous.
1t is time that the terrible error that
beer-drinking is comparatively harm
less by the side of the consumption of
spirits should be corrected. That lie
has been one of the most potent means
through which the rum power has ex-
tended its empire over the people of
this country. In its effects upon the
confirmed drunkard it is certainly as
bad as whisky, and to the majority it
is but the introduction to the use of
"hard" drinks. Beer should have no,
quarter from the friends of Temper
ance. No matter in what form rum
appears, it is drank because of the
alcohol in it, and for the sake of the,
exhilaration which that poison gives
the system in the first stages of drunk
enness. There is no safety for any one
who INDUCES in any form of rum
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