Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-10-04
ALCOHOL.
pr. Gregory Further Pursues His Discus
 sion of it's Evils.
MORALES. Arizona, Sep. 27. 1890.

fatal if alcohol Is not used. In case of gen eral debility and in eases of convalescence
 from continued fevers nllk Is found to be
 far preferable to any alcoholic prepar-
 ation. We as honest practitioners have to acknowledge that many cases of drunk enness are often caused by following our prescriptions Whica contain alcohol
 and preparations Of Cpiunn The poor
 women, who have been the greatest sui
 ferers through the evils Of alcohol be
 lieve the statements of science, chemistry
 and medicine, and banded themselves to-
 gether to fight this arch deceiver, and
 prayed nightly to th2 great Father of
 all that they might be enabled to wrest the scepter from his hands and overthrow
 his dominion over manSnd
 We thank God the people are determin- ed to. banish alcohol.
 Over the rolling p.airies, and up the sunny hillsides chmba,i the golden grain. smiling In the light Ui-Say and waving Ill the rollicklng wind: L. corn whispering of merry -makings alR, of food for the many millions of hungry men and cattle; the wheat dreaming of bread iii alum dance for all tne rye bdssting of its wealth of strength for sweet babies and mothers; The sugar cane smlleu as 1t thought ot the sweets to be talle,x from is stem for the old and the young. The potato called from his underground bed that he, too. had food for all Alcohol in the midst of all these looks abroad, and whispers to himself: Oh would tha, l could turn the store of health into a source of disease. misery and death Ana see how he can do it. The lovely grsin 1 have herein described as so beautiful by nature, Is soaked in water unti 1t sprouts; this turns the starch into sugar When 1t has sprouted sufficiently 1t Is dried so rapidly as to kill the germ. It is then ground and warm water and a bitter herb are 1 added. It Is then boiled; yeast Is added, l and the whole mass Is allowed to rot | Ihls Is the same process of decomposition known as fermentation. Sugar is changed i to alcohol and carbonic acid gas Is formed, and rising to the top makes froth, so | that when the cork is taken out of the | bottle it appears to boil over The hops are added to keep it from spelling, and the bitter Is a stimulant to the appetite. During tie process of fermentation the beer Is put into barrels or bottles. Stout ale and porter are similar to beer, except that they contain a larger percentage of alcohol.
 The great evils of these drinks are of ten increased by adplteratiOn. Chemis- try finds in beer some of the deadhest poisons: arsenic, stFychnine, ignatia amara, tobacco, nux vomica, opium and especially coculus indicus. This last named drug claims more attention on ac- count Of its general use. It can produce death but when given ill small quantities produces bad effects. such as bad taste in the mouth and throat, burning in the throat and stomach, weakness and partial paralys1s of the lower eXtremitieS. nausea and frequent vomiting, stupor and often convulslons. We always know tEe effects of habltual beer drinking on the consum- CT by hls obesity, his iiRshel face, embar- rassed breathing, puffy hands and yellow conJunctiva. He Is usually short lived
 and the end Is reached by hepatic and
 cardiac disorders. The use Of most li-
 quors sets up fatty degeneration of vari-
 ous tissues, notably oi iha liver and heart. Through the acGJTF>nn>s lcohol the
 nerves which sg.Jsc1z. tl.cSSf the cop diaries are paralyzed and they become
 distended with blood The immense
 quantities of beer required by the beer
 drlnker fills the system with fluid, and
 the veins are full to repletion. These
 two facts, the extension of the capillaries
 and the watery state of the blood. unite
 to make the face fuil and red, color
 in this instance not of health. The same
 conditions are the cause of the swelled
 front.
 A mans liver ordinarily weighs about
 four pounds, but the liver of a beer drink
 CT has been known to possess the incred-
 lble weight of fifty pounds
 Physioians, both iii Europe and Amer
 ica, unite ill the declaration that beer,
 even Ill ever so small quantities. taken steadily, Is injurious 10 hsalth. We al ways dread to perform surgical opera tons on beer drinker, for we know we cannot calculate on his ability to stand the shock. If he were an abstainer we could eshmate very closely his chances for recovery; but If he Is even a very mod
 crate dnnker hls system may not be able ) to en duTe slight injury in addition to that which 1t has suffered from beer. f The unqualified testimony Is that beer lnlures the digestion, produces dyspepsia. rheumatism and gogt 4 celebrated English doctor says he has often cured
 rheumatism and gout by simply inducing his patients to wholly abstain from drink , ing, and of 1.540 cases of gout only one was an ahstainar, and his ancestors were
 beer and wine drinkers.
 BEER IS NOT FOOD.
 Four hogsheads of beer are not equal in nourishment to one loaf of bread Tine drinker of beer is not soothed, butparal- | ized he Is not fed but poisoned; he is t. not cured lf his maladies, hut is made diseased Ill every part, and wears his , heart on his sleeve, bare to a death wound I even from a rusty nail or the claw of g cat His blood cannot be relieved and = his system is in truth in bad condition. [ Are not VIZ the people! Is not the gov U ernment formed of the people? Who : then, are these beer drinkers who rob the 2 people of their rights? Listen to what ! We have been taught by medicine chem
 istry and science:
 2 , Chemistry tells us that this agua vitae !! Is not the water of lie; it IS agua mortis 5 the water of death. It is obtained by : fermentation followed by distillation t We all know that fermentation Is a rot IL ting process, and distillation, which i called a refining process, does not change I' the properties, but increases the strengtl '- and injuriOusness of the alcohol, I' From the fermented products of rye U corn and potatoes, whiskey IS distilled u from molasses rum; from wines brandie l. are made.
 T. Chemistry shows us that these are al
 largely adulterated with poisons, and al o so proves that liquors having the sam 1T havGrs can ba mads wholly from drugs S and are so made, yended, and cause man, | deaths.
 y But from out the dim, dark pictur Il comes the tread of phantom feet Eve | and anon faint warning crX.is heard up e on the air like foreteller of doom, ant
 in the stilly night ghostly form stand
 beside us and snites Us with cold whit
 hand.
 The morning comes, and fast locked i C, icy letters our hands are stilled and ou a, voices silent forevermore.
 IS An, 'hs the king of terrors; and we, lik Iy helpless slaves, crouch under his trium in phal car as it moves silently onward. is A sad ending indeed for s,leh as we d But look! Far off in the east arises le star It glows and brightens with LII at earthly radiance as 1t comes softly neal " CT. A still, small voice breaks upon tn le listening silence: Tt is l"
 le A form of wondrous beauty come es from out the radiant glow and, stocr T. ing over the fettered, inanimate cla * and opening the prison doors, bids tn d. lifeless prisoner arise.
 Clad in armor of wondrous brigh ,; ness, the newly freed mind wings il do l way unscathed past fire and flood an es thunderbolt-past worlds and stars ol far beyond time into iufinitv itself