The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-22
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The alcohol habit and the suustrolSe 60
hand in had.
Mayor Hemphill, OF Atlanta, Ga, has
vetoed all the beer licenses In that city.
The Indiana Grand Lodge OF tie Knights
OF Pythias has declared liquor dealers ineli.
glble to membership.
The Irish Temperance League has issued
pledge card i'll Arabic, which it is believed
is the first temperance pledge card sent out
in that language
Walter Besant formerly approved of hav.
ing liquor sold at the Peoples Palace East
London; now he says it has been proved that
no one there wants it.
That the United States is besr-drinkins
nation is evidenced by the fact that for the
year ending April 30, 1891, they consumed
80, 000, 900 barrels Of the amber fluid.
Professor Oser writes to the Now York
Medical Journal that in nll the large hos
pitals of Germany cases of diseases of the
heart coming directly from excessive use of
beer are common.
Mrs. Chaplin, oil South Carolina, writes
that she has had n very prosperous cam.
paign in Georgia and Alabama. At La
Grange she pleiged l35 ladies to total abst;-
nence and to use their influence to prevent
social drinking. At Macon College She
added thirty-five to the "Ys' and organized
union of sixty in the suburbs. During the
three weeks trip she took over 800 pledges.
PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW OF INTS IPERANCE.
1t is claimed by high authority. saws the
writer of an annual report of a home for
inebriates, that physiology has in no way
settled the. qrestion between abstinence
versus moderation, in regard to the use of
alcohol. But it is a mistake TO suppose that
nothing is settled on physiological ground
about the use of intoxicating liquors. Within
10 lo= faNKN ltnnv atrac
and experiments have been made, with all
the contrivances Of modern science more in-
tricate, perhaps and more important cer-
tainly, in their bearings upon this inquiry
than the world has seel before, and the re
suits, which are already iucontestable, are
not inconsiderable, and believe it must be
admitted that they give to the temperance
argument strength, on physiological
ground, which it has never been able to use
before.
have found it to be true, from my own
observation, that the imbibing OF even small
quantities of alcoho', or what is deemed a
small quantity by the user, will degenerate
the nerve and muscular tissues by hardening
them, and interfere with the functions de-
veloping disease, or rendering accidental or
zymotic dieaseas less likely to be cured. o.
course, with such interference with nervc
structure the mental manifestations must be
changed. The effect of this agent is always
TO strike at the higher faculties of the mind.
1t batters the keen edge of high sensibility,
and the man is shorn of those high qualities
which make him sensible TO the duties lac
owes to his family, his country and his God.
Science has also revealed to us another
fact bearing upon this subject If science is
still in doubt in the matter of total absti
nence, it is clear and positive in its atfirma-
| lion that, beyond certain degree--a degree
as yet unknown, and yet a degree which
science has of late years been steadily show
| ing to be less and less-what we call alco
| holic stimuauts do not stimulate at all, but
they paralyze the structure in which they
work. The liquor which has intoxicated tho
man has simply paralyzed him, and every
step of intoxication is not merely a step
towards, but stage of increasing nervous
| paralysis, a stage Of what psychologists call
| LIBERALIZATION Of the nervous system. In
other words, alcohol is an ane sthetic, and
its constant use, in its secondary action, pro
| duces the condition have before described
! paralysis in its various stages.
| l only mention these facts to show that VIZ
have to deal with subtle disease, deep down
! in the human structure anil with condi
toa which, in spite of law, will continue T.
reproduce and perpetate itself.