Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-09

IL were to announce to you a:
my subject this evening, The I'm
healthfulness of Arsenic as daily
food, or The Folly of Setting Fire t.
Ones Clothing" and should proceed
TO set forth arguments to convince
YOU that daily use of arsenic is in.
furious to the health, that in fact ar.
senic is poison, or if should en-.
deavor to show you that setting ones
clothes afire was dangerous proceed
ing and liable to result in death, Civ
ing you facts and figures to prove
my arguments, you would say that
such a discourse would be an insult
to the intelligence of my audience
and that no sane persons need to be
convinced of facts which all admit.
And yet come before you to adj
vance arguments, supported by facts
and figures with which we are all
familiar, which indisputably prove
that intoxicating liquors are harmful
to the human system: that to set ones
stomach afire with alcohol is as dan
gerous as to touch match to ones
clothes.
The physiological effects of alcohol
are now well known; any school-boy
or girl who has studied hygiene in
the public school or Band of Hope
can tell You how it clogs the blood,
softens the brain, hardens the liver
and inhames the stomach. Alcohol is
a slow poison, arsenic quick one.
The pure flame of fire will destroy the
body in few moments, leaving the
soul unscarred; is it worse death
than to shoulder for years in a bes-
tial heat which slowly but surely con-
sumes soul, body and mind.
Which is the cleaner death, think
you? "Ah, but its different" YOU
say-'liquor drinking is not the same
as arsenic taking" That was the
school boys logic when his teacher
asked him why he smoked. "Oh / |
have to, I've got the tooth ache he
replied. If your sister has the tooth
ache will she have to smoke too?"
sob that's different, replied the young
philosopher. And so you say "oh that's |
different Yet you must admit that
there is no difference between the
foolish girl who eats arsenic to i'm
prove her complexion and her foolish |
brother who drinks wine or whiskey
with the boys to appear manly. We
must admit that the drink habit is an
evil opposed by all the forces for good.
God condemns it. "Their wine is the
poison of dragons and the venom of
asps, "Drink not wine nor any strong
drink "Woe unto them that rise M
early that they may follow after strong
drink, . says the voice of Jehovah
Nature opposes it and sets her seal of
condemnation upon it, she points her
protest in glowing colors on the drunk
ards face; she stamps it upon his form
In loathsome diseases; she extends
the curse of his weakness to his help
less children and filings him at last
In the gutter, a foul, dishonored wreck
Justice and mercy are opposed to it.
legislation works steadily on against
1t, as witness Pennsylvania of which
Frank Leslie's Weekly, says in re-
cent number: pennsylvania seems
to have cut loose, finally and entirely /
from the saloon. 1t had an excellent :
high license law, and now it has been :
resolved TO submit the Prohibition
amendment to popular vote at a special
election on June 18th next No doubt l
is entertained as to the adoption of .
the amendment by the people and |
thus the arrogant liquor interest which /
might have postponed final prohibition
BY frank acceptance of proper re- {
'trictive measures, will find itself /
branded with outlawry, as it deserves i
n the Keystone State of the Union. /
All honor to the Keystone State. s
Nay all the other States soon swing c
INTO line to a tune set in that key. a
Law turns the keen edge of her v
word against it; more and more o
tringent become the enaotments Il
gainst the deadly evil. Why? Every v