The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-15

sent, the very first year and has been grow
ing materially less ever since, and no one
has been the poorer thereby but the saloon-
keepers brewers and distillers.-
Farmer.
HI EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
Alcohol being the product of the decom-
position Of grape-juice, corn, malt, apples
or other starshy substances, is therefore the
enemy Of life, the very ashes of death, writes
w. j.. Demorest President OF the National
Anti. Nuisance League.
Scientists agree in placing alcohol among
the most %irritant, virulent and deadly
poisons to animal life. A small quantity
taken pure will parallze the nerve %centers,
and kill instantly.
The ordinary effect OF alcohol Is to irritate
aid parch the mucus membranes Of the In
testineS and paralyse the nerves. When
taken Tito the system, either in the form OF
whisky, handy, beer, bordisls, or In light
wines etc, its poisonous effects, while so
exhilarating as TO be very fascinating, are
deleterious TO all the nerve tissues aud tibers
of the body, that a general arrangement Of
all the vital organs inevitably follows.
The effects OF alcohol contained in
these beverages finds its way to the lungs
and arteries which are connected with heart
and they become more or less congested aud
p%eralysed by the poison, and incapable OF
AAkhNN HNAA AhAlk AhSA AAAhoA ANhNeANaee
and this burning or corroding effect com.
mences with the smallest quantity OF alcohol
taken In the system. Therefore there Is no
such thing as moderation in the use OF
alcoholic beverages; the poison in them is
always active in is deadly mission, and goes
ON all through the body.
II result on the heart and brain Is es'
pecially noticeable; as these organs are very
sensitive and are so ~rstardedin their opera
tons that disease and death would rapidly
ensue were there not in nature a generous
amount of active recuperation struggling TO
counterfeit and eliminate the poison.
Alcohol, being a foreign, poisonous ele-
ment, even when greatly diluted. as in beer,
which contains from five to eight per cent.
of it does not assimilate like food, but taxes
nature with extra exertion to expel the in.
truder, which is partly elected through the
lungs or breath and mostly through the
pores OF the skin and through the kidneys,
which are more or less infiamed, and there
fore INSTRUCTED by congestion. Enough OF
the poison will linger in the system 70 ag
gravate any disease to which the drinker Is
liable, and hasten a fatal termination.
This specific action of alcohol, while pro.
ducing a general disturbance aud injury to
all the vital organs, is especially true of the
brain, which is composed of numerous mi
mute cells Of a gray, fatty substance, sur
rounded by a hmpid fluid. Alcohol has a
strong amnity for water; and when taken
in the stomach, being very volatile, a por.
ton of IL goes Immediately towards the
brain, and disturbs the finely arranged
nerve-ibers so as TO impair their ability 70
nourish this fatty substance, and in this way
II renders the brain incapable of continuous
logical thought or action, and the man is
said 10 be more or less drunk" which Is
another way Of saying that the man's
brain is poisoned, or parched with inflamma.
ton and congestion.
This effect can be tested by putting q
drop of alcohol on the tongue; the smarting,
singing sensation proves that It is parched
by the alcohors eagerness to absorb or get
at the water in the tongue, and this irritat-
ing effect is the same on all the organs of
the body, besides producing a craving
thirst.
A continuous use of alcoholic beverages
produces results that are irremediable.
After numerous attacks on the brain and
other sensitive organs, a chronic change
takes place in the victim of alcohol, which
manifests itself in all the mans actions and
character.
He generally becomes moross and stupid,
with a tendency 20 paroxysms OF violence,
and sometimes idiotic hilarity. His will
power is sluggish or nearly gone, and he is
left 10 be controlled almost entirely by his
animal passions, which are closely allied TO
criminal insanity. Besides an ever-increas-
ing longing Is engendered for more OF the
fiery liquid to crafty the cravings Of an in.
satiable appetite, aud other symptoms fol
low, such as a disease l fatty degeneration, a
bloated bo1y, a sluggish action of the liver
and kidneys, accompanied by a red or in
famed skin, and sometimes by offensive
eruptions which can be plainly traced to al.
cobolic poisoning,
Many of these indications n symptoms
of a poisoned, diseased body would horrify
drinkers were they sufficiently aroused, or
than an-taNael - Wrtlff,- - I.ls...H Al.
facts as they develop themselves in their ex-
perience, or could they realize that they
transmit to their posterity a hereditary faint
that is too horrible to contemplate. But the
truth comes to their impairedbrains through
so many insidious problems of prejudice,
habit and appetite, aad they are SO enticed
by the pleasurable exciting sensations that
they find difficulty in tracing the poisonous
effects directly TO the amount OF alcohol
they consume, n so are constantly cheat
ing and iattering themselves into a convic-
ton that they can use these poisonous bev-
erages with IMMUNITY. Hence the
poor victims of alcoholic poisoning,
prompted by an imperious thirst go on mt
on, until finally chronic delirium or demen-
tia takes possession of the brain, or death
itself, through some ordinary or extraordin-
AIRY disease brought on or actively developed
by alcoholic poisoning, closes the scene. This
Is especially true when they are attacked by
cholera or other infectious diseases. The
certain victims are always those whose sys-
TENS are ~impregnated with alcohol.
Even when taken as a medicine, alcoholic
beverages frequently produce results far
worse than the disease. Extensive hospital
practice, both in this country and Europe,
has proved the great benefits of an entire
exclusion OF this poison as a remedy, othel
agents being used, which are quite as ell
Gent, but not followed by the paralyzing OF
SIMPLIFYING effects OF .alcohors corrosive poi
son.
Alcohol, in its action on animal matter, i
somewhat analogous to arsenic, morphine
or strychnine; il tends to suspend decay II
dead matter, and In live bodies it parAlyze
or infames with congestion, in this wa,
showing tina IL is the active enemy of al
life, or death in disguise.
We put snakes and other animals, an
sometimes dead men. into alcohol, TO pre-
vent animalcule or microbes in the deai
bodies from generating or living on tn
starchy substances contained In them; so a
actual life in the bodies is suspended. Blu
certain disintegration and death in Its mos
active form is produced by the corrosion Q
alcohol in living bodies, AMI in this way
proves itself 10 be an acrid, deadly poison
human life.
More than 1000 years ago the results {
alcohol on the body were compared to I'll
bite of a serpent and the singing Of &
adder; and alcohol has not changed !
nature since. At the present time alcohol
beverages are certainly the most i~njuriou
deceptive and dangerous elements OF deaf
and destruction that exist, and the annals
criminal courts prove that it is IN aggrl
waited public nuisance generally.
Vet fbaQa bauara oaa ara Al faaeinafin