Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-20
ALCOHOL.
ITS WISE USES AND ITS MANY
 DANGEROUS ABUSES.
The Degradation Arising from its Use--- Responsible for Many Cranes and Poverty---The Experience of
 a Physician.
NoaAI,rs A. n Sept. 13th. 189O.

MORALES, A. T. Sept. 18th, 1890.
 EDITOR ENTERRRIsE:-l promised you to continue my findings i'll regard to al cohol and it's effects on the human or gainsm. 1 now make the attempt, by stating that find that the use of alcohol removes gradually, the restraints which conscience. or a sense of honor and decen- cy, imposes. That man, under the influ ence of intoxicating drinks, does and says things at which, ill his sober moments, he bluShes. His reason IS perverted, and he IS incapable of forming correct judgments on mnor matters, and much more so on matters of importance. IhlS VltlatlOn Of Judgment is the cause of many of the ac- cidents for which alcohol IS accountable In time of danger the captain of the yes sel takes drink and his reason being thereby impaired. he no longer gives judicious orders, and wreck and death are the result
 The engineer who, when sober IS watch ful and careful, under the influence of slight amount of alcohol becomes care less. foolhartly. runs his train into danger and causes great loss of life. 1 have found also that alcohol loosens the pas sious. and under its influence the gentle man becomes 1iend, beating, cursing and perhaps killing wife or child, and awakening next day to a knowledge of a crime which will fill him with re1norse to the day of his death.
 The statement of a grand jury of q great city IS that nine -tenths of the crimes en tered were due to alcohol.
 l find that because of the ineXorable demand of the appetite Of the drunkard for alcohol, and the. immense gains .ac- cruing from gratifying their demand, mems moral sense and love of humanity are so perverted, that they are willing to l engage as a business in tine sale Of that which they know will take the bread from 1 the mouths of starving children, and de prive wives ofthe care and protection Of | their husbands, and destroy every noble ] impulse of the man. 1 find that they are even willing to sell liquors to women and children, and having made drunkards of them, they are not willing to bear the blame and expense of the results of their own labor They turn the poor poisoned inebriate out into the street to freeze, Ol starve, or die. While they live upon the proceeds of his toil, or from the pawning of the clothes of his children.
 l find that women who drink, or who use alcoholic liquors, ever so little. lose their charm of womanhood, that they are no longer modest, pure and delicate, but ! become profane. immodest lying in the streets without a blush. forgetting theii helpless babes at home, caring nothing for home.
 l find that children who use alcohol arC degraded as children can be, showing
 marks of hardness and degradation, tha 1t would seem impossible for a child t
 reach I find that where alcohol is pro
 hibited crimes are almost unknown.
 city of 10000 inhabitants with no grog
 shop has but one policeman, and Httl'
 use for him. Places of 5000 inhabitant
 without a hquor-shop have neither police
 criminals, nor paupers. In such com
 munities 1 find nothing lacking becaus'
 of the absence of alcohol. Health, morals
 prosperity, happiness legitimate business
 religion all flourish without the contrast
 ing elements of vice, crime, indigence, ill
 sanity. incendiarism fatal afirays, anC
 degraded manhood.
 I find that the use of fermented win
 at the Sacrament is often attended witt
 serious d0wnfalls of those who hav , striven to get free from the chain of tn
 monster appetite, and l believe that tn
 church which continues to use it, tamper
 with its moral sense, and with the tenn poral and eternal welfare of those weal ones who have committed themselves t. the care of the church for help in fear ful struggle for life, and also endanger
 the'safety of the young who take thei like of wine at the sacred table of tn Lord
 : am satisfied that it would be far bet
 ter for the people, and for the govern ment, if the sale and manufacture of alec hol far t!.ser s.are=TiTtifiis nTfppese. an lnecndnlcdi Purposes, were pfoh1blteC , and abolished, and believe that the gov ernment as suggested by the Suprem Court, has the power, under the constitu tion, not only to regulate, but to pro hibit the safe and manufacture ofall sue infamous, internal stuff, the curse C
 any man, or nation.
 l also wish to call your attention -t ] the fact that many of the so-called paten [ medicines, bitters and hop bitters are ot ten the most dangerous and deadlies forms of alcohol
 We also concur in the opinions express l ed by the best and highest in the medica P profession, that alcohol should be classe with the most dangerous. and deadlie>
 poisons, never to be used except whe prescribed by a wise and conscientiou physician, and even then very carefully | More soon. Faithfully Yours, f PAUL GREGORY, M. 1