Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-22


have, and You have, seen ''r'1h'fi1r 1'a
We're born with diseased s, niiofHn /
diseased livers. Children a ,p'''arh
otto because their fathers 1 w.. oon
Calling attention again ia , H'fe dnn
shriveling does not take plaa" '. a Il
blood, but in every Other own ohlyiA
Will enable me to explain ,bn w saA. |
the tippler. There is a T r,,a req .oq
is the proclaimer of health
do not speak. There is a rnddi' '' Til
is the certain evidence of d;
man takes a little alcohol ', va,
delicate nerves that give Sense 'hP i
Jlon' and life 10 the tiny. dcltca aIid
cles, are affected. Tho muS '!raN"
gives up the water in if 'e .'
hard and shriveled, and the v a,i, g =
relieved from the pressure Of fms D
muscles, enlarge. There is ,,' uonE
increase of temperature, bu, i i,
lowed by a certain cooling, ana : Is
measure. 1t is as if an cnri ~ IaI
pumping through elastic rnI ,'''
which were bound about w.
bands. which bands would moi, We
off if the temperature were r.i and
a certain point. say so degrees AZ
temperature reach so degrees a., Ley
little bands melt off, the rubbor '1Ia
the pipe are weakened and >,r.. "dII
steam bounds forward. and ,bo WI
relieved for Il moment OF IFS ln,a ~"
faster. But this increased ra r'i
stroNe is not a sign of health IN '' u,
CINE. it is a sign of disease j" u i,
chinrry. When the little muscni. WV
have become shrunk away f,s,n
blood pipes they enlarge, and rh "''
will be disturbed circulation ID
varicose veins, and perm,
painted nose. ''''t
"Science has many heads corco
the effects of alcohol OH the hnoo.
TEN. but all are on this ono strjnp ' Az
hardens all albuminous Tissue TIM .I
substance of muscle is largely aIb,I
Gus. and alcohol will certainly Sl,r;I
up. But let me be exact in ,hjs my
] did not say that a shrivclcd corS
would never in a measure rccovo.
may recover tone. but it will Ill
manently Scared.
CAS- long as the habit of dripki,
fects the intelligence and will II
vice: when it scizcs upon the MD
organism, it is a disease. So long a
a vice the correction of ii should h
to the family, the church. and Tho
When it becomes a disease ii sbm
left to the physicians. There arc
persons in whom the liquor has b
Il disease. They are, as was the
of whom Prof. Huxley tells, who NJ
| come so accustomed to strike an al,
at the word attention. that he
drop his burden and come to atp
under any circumstances as the
was heard. So with a man diScas
alcohol-at the word of 'atlentiOi
would drop his manhood and sd
the word. What can be done, if HI
was once a moderate drinkcr III
disease at last obeys the COM
of alcohol as if it We're his nj
The law is that drunkenness is
cusc for crime, and it is a good law
way to avoid the results of druMkl
is to avoid the drink. ! secured m
lessons in total abstinence in jul
chastiscment at the hand of my Il
for sucking, as a boy, the sugar
bottom of my grandfathcr'S
glass. l have grown up a total abd
and my present condition shows
have dwindlcd away from the eff
it. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
the education of child Shout
several generations before it wj
Now we are only two or three
lions removed from class Of som
respectable drunkards. We shot
member proudly that we are
Saxon. Our ancestors Were meas
pure compared with the Roman
they were drunkards. The pict
their mythical Valhalla, the hea
their imaginations, was that Q!
drinking liquor from the skulsd
pushed enemies. 1t is in us asa
be drunkards. We are immeaS
more prone to drink than are the
You say the Hindoos are spider;
but in a census of red noses by
larger part will be Germans, Engl
and Americans.
"Mr. Gladstone has said, as
truly, that, 'intempcrance has
more misery than war, pcsiiFnE
famine combined IT is in thissty
the supreme laws are enacted
forced"