St. Paul daily globe., 1890-02-03

bright prospects and happy homes by
starting out to take social glass, or
how many instances eau you recall of
men who have built regulations and
achieved prominence and then
BLASTED THEIR HOPES
and aspirations by induIging in too
many Sc called wine Suppers. This ex-
perience is unfortunately oyerwhelm-
ing, that the use of alcohol sells the
reasoning powers, makes weak men the
easy prey of the wicked and strong, and
leads men who should know better into
every grade of misery and vice. Alco-
hol enfeebles the reason. 1t exalts and
excites those animal, organic, emotional
centers of mind, which in the dual
nature of man SO often cross and oppose
that pure and abstract reasoning
nature which lifts man above the lower
animals, and, rightly exercised, ''little
lower tn an the angels" Exciting these
animal centers, it lets loose all the pas
slons and gives them more or less un-
licensed domination over the whole
man. 1t eXclteS anger, and when it
does not
LEAD TO THIS EXTREME
it keeps the mind fretful, irritable, dis
satisfied, captlous. The flushed face of
the red-hot, angry man-hoW like it is to
the flushed face of the man IN the first
stage of intoxication. The face white
with rage. and the tremulous agitated
muscles OF the body-how like both are
to the pale face and helpless muscles of
the man deep in intoXication. These
states are not simply similar, they are
identical, and the one Will feed the
other. The man who can enjoy no taste,
no sight, no sound, no light, no shade of
sense until he is primed to the percep-
tien by alcohol, loses half the joyous
ness in the refinement of life. But the
man who takes into his senses the out
ward nature, with his mind clear, has
double life. Every perception is more
finely caught and fixed, every Sensibil-
ity is more finely and tenderly cher
ished. As men under the chilling winds
shrink and chill more easily when ac-
customed to alcohol for support, SO men
under the chilling winds of adversity
shrink and sink more easily under the
tempting aid of the same agent. 1t is
the sober in both caSeS-the all-abstain-
ing sober-WhO go through both trials
more easily and Surmount them least
impaired. The evidence OF alcohol and
its
INFLUENCE on THE BRAIN
is then most clear. From the beginning
to the end of its influence it subdues
reason aud sets free passion. Permit
alcohol may cause: Disease of the
liver. delirium tremens, insanity, epi-
lepSy, paralysis. heart disease, appo-
pleXy, various forms of dyspepsia, con-
sumption, kidney diseases, premature
Old age and death. cannot draw to q
close without referring to alcohol as
medicine. That it does play very i'm
portant part in the treatment of diseases
cannot be denied. So does belladonna,
strychnia. arsenic, opium. aconite. etc.,
yet they are all deadly poisons; and it
would be no more hazardous for you TO
take into your own hands the admins
tration of strychnia and arsenic than it
is alcohol; that is, il you take it IN the
beginning in comparatively the same
doses. L have made some very plain
statements, but they are all facts, and
are facts that will stand the test, be-
cause ali are based upon scientific
basis.
A very eloquent and able address was
also delivered by j. j. MOnahan, setting
forth the merits and advantages to be
gained by becoming members of the So
ciety. DR.. H. j. O'Brien spoke few
words of encouragement, and Rev.
Father Harrison dwelt for a short time
upon total abstinence as mark of wis
dom. s. +. Hannehan gave selection
frem Julius Cesar" which, notwith-
standing an unnecessary preface, was
very good. Music of a high order was
furnished by Messrs. Noonan, Morrow.
Q. Murphy and Hannehan.
a dozen persons took the pledge atthe
close Of the proceedings.