Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-15
INroxIcANrs AGAIN.

ana we might nave gOOu SIDEWALKS
and we'll worked streets. Iwould not
waste printers ink in referring to this
ii II were not the pitiable, threadbare
plea of most of this class. Granted
that business would be more lively il
would be for the most part at the ex-
pense of the unfortunate and poorer
classes. There could be no taxation
more cxhorbitant. Then such activity
would not be healthy. 1t would be
rather like the sprightlincss which is
frequently observed in the sick just
before death. As to sidewalks and
streets, ten thousand times over would
rather see sane men stumbling over
rotten walks than intoxicated men
reeling upon pavements OF marble. l
think the people, too, would prefer
driving axle deep in mud to having
streets paved at the price Of their own
sons and daughters.
Another of these fellows not long
since had the audacity 10 say that
whiskey made men great! The fam.
Gus democratic orator of Indiana was
named as ar example, who, 1t was
stated, couldn't make a speech until
he had taken about pint. Ii l were
ever tempted TO use slang should say
"Great Guns!" The Indiana senator,
aver, would consider this a very
doubtful compliment. No wonder
the cartoonists represented him as
squelched in the senate by the slender
man from Kansas. Like calcium
fumes, whiskey generated oratory Tor
anything else) looms up all at once,
but usually hasn't any more substance.
If an eminent man uses intoxicants he
is eminent in spite of them and in
every case would have been greater
without them. Such pretexts for ar
gument are insults to common reason.
Merely to mention them is to refute
them and do so only by way of i'll
PRODUCTION.
tits a most common observation that
in;oxicanis make wrecks of men. There
is instance after instance in this town
of men who have burnt ont their ener-
gics by strong drink and who are now
supported by their wives. Then there
are some who have made their money
at the expense of such poor wretches
and who are now living without work.
Thus society is doubly burdcned.
Whatever saps manhood will not only
kill business, but poison the liIe-blood
of the commonwealth. For what |
am about to say Fcan cite not only the
highest medical, but universal scien-
tific authority. Alcohol contains no
nourishment. 1t is only a stimulant
and u deadly enemy at that. When
taken into the stomach the whole nerv-
Gus system is up in arms to expel the
intruder. 1t is a contest the severity
of which is evident from the exhaus-
ton which follows. 1t does not add
TO a mans strength, but is an unnatu-
raj Indictment which always leaves
him in weaker condition than be-
fore. II is like finding horse which
is down and too weak to get up. BY
sticking q fork into him he gets mp
under the severe incentive, but he
tails again, worse off than ever. lie
who takes alcohol as a beverage into
his system, or who sells 1t to others for
this purpose, commits crime against
nature the equal Of which can hardly
be named. The only resort left to be-
trayed nature is to wage a losing
struggle. Phosphorus has such all af-
finiLy for oxygen that when one of its
oxides is thrown upon water it COM
bines with Kissing sound. With 10
less greed does alcohol attack nervous
tissue. By and by the nerves cease to
be aroused. Then the amount of liq-
nor has to be increased or intensified.
A man soon ceases to have command
over himself, the nerve connections
become deadeEed and fail to carry his
messages and finally he loses all finer
feeling and sense of honor. An emf
nent London physician has pointed
out this as tine process whereby dram
drinkers and drunkards come to have
such little scruple against lying. 1t is
condition WI Jh they bring upon
themselves and for which they are re-
sponsible. Deranging and destroying
the nervous system as it does there is
little wonder that alcohol furnishes
more victims for aims houses and in
sane asylums, to say nothing of pris-
ons, than any other cause. The above
are facts which no one who has
any regard for his opinion will
venture to contradict. The man
who resorts to the alcohol habit
as a spur acknowledges that lie
is below par. He must have crutch
in order TO keep along with ordinary
men. For such weakness aud lack of
healthy energy. as he cOnfesses, the in
dividual himself is in most cases 10 be
blamed Strong drink is a pitiahly
poor remedy for such defects, whether
brought OIL by itself or by other
causes.
lam opposed to every foe of health