New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-20

nciout 10 tu,, reeds of cour departments. h''Iu"-
/ ing tho island Of Corsica. 1t rs now lhsul'cie"'
for the bare city of Marsei!lcs. Moreover III NV
city schools there are more Than 800 nan"
and .pil,pil. Children whose condition, Ike '''''
Of Tho inmates Of the asylum. l. due 10 alc"H''-
/ i.n--in ihcir casc by herediiy from "r'"Ni"S
por.,ts outside Of the schools there ar ~
/ least as many more whom 1t Is imposS'o'e ''on
f. att.m,, 20 tcacL. This SPEAKER concluded
with the improssiv" words:
.I.nlcss We apply a remedy 70 III" evil ~
c"holism viii make 90: u. - re '"rf '.''
! people OF crctins.
y, doubt tn question - complicated al, over
France with tie growth ~ absnthe and pitters
drinking bofo,. meals Hero the evils of alcohol
arc increased by ,hc hurffui qualities of the
herbs -absnth, ,wormwood). hyssop. fenneI.
,n,s. I.liaro 0hincse anisr seed. angelica
Wild o.. - jnrain and TN, various minis WHICH
are infused IN III" dstiation Dr Magnan'
at ST. Annc's Hospital for the Insane, WIN
/ Others Of the Paris faculty. has investigated
This subject by practical experiments with dogs
The essence Of absinthc thc most poisonous Oh
all these substances,. hyssop and ienneI NhPh
injected In light quantity produced dircct 'Pi
Ien,i. attack The others simply stupeu'd
This is further illustrated by the notorious ana
/ public increase 81 epilepsy and cpileptlform
! attacks in Paris and by the necessity to when
the city has now come of building speclai
ASYLUM FOR alcoholics This is TO be at VIE
! Eyrard and Is To furnish accommodations Tor
nearly 100 patients. who VIII thus De hnany
separated from those who are deranSed men
tally from other causes
Pcrhans the worst effect Of this alcoholism.
which IS often no. chronic drunkenness - Iouhu
by doctors I'm the children of IL victims. Ih'se
arc sometimes intelligent. but they are regularly
/ unbalanced and impulsivc. and often enough
tubcrculous. epileptc or inbeclc, ana without
| rhysical resistance DR. l.ancereaux sums up
the importance OF 'HlH punt WIN ''9'''' w.
Alcoholism in a way creates special race
as well from the point OF view or the intellect
nal faculties as from that of physical character
is,tcs This race may continue for a time win
all its physical inhrmties and vicious tcnden-
cics but. luckily. 1t Is wanting }" ,h1 TN, s'r.nB''
to porpetuate itself Expos 81 10 al S"i - III
accidents ana diseases. given over 10 HIip"-
toncc and stcrty. II soon disappears IL - IN
| this way for the most part that alcoholism
dies out Of a family INTO when II mas PN''c-
tratcd fDr Solomon attributes 20 n the dop1pu-
laiion 81 France such are the uso'u'els
which the abuse Of alcohol land. perhapS, INA.
Of nhsinihc more especially pr"NokeS III 'i'
/ individual and the race This question "i al
cohoc horedlty is of the highest lmportanc''
II demands all the attention "t lrslsitl"'" "n''
bV ueglec;ing ". would incur the SraNcS' r.
DR. Bard. Of tho Lyons Faculty 81 Medicine
proposed thu series ~ measures Whl'h' !" VA
Judgment of his coUcagues. f"rhaln.h' anu
Government might us~fully cnforc'. Ihry are
reduced To- three points.
4 stat. monopoly 81 the manufacture ~ al
cohol with a view 10 It's due rcctificaton ana
thu hindrancc ~ the Gale %; impur" liquors
\ heavy taxation of all liquor shops ana
/ CONSEQUENT reduction OF their number
Tho confinement ana medical treatment "'
alcoholics IA special establishments.
T. should be remarked that many ~ IN" sun,
40, advocates ~ reform would rank wine ana
beer among hygicnic drinks and exempt them On,
ur,lv from the vigorous measures they wouIu
Impose Oh he sal" ~ splrituIus liquors. b"'
they would suppose 'wthout "nich 'nelr pps .,
would be incomprchcnsible, that the Government
would 500 to two things even IN IN" case of these
lighter beverages. First. their dcgre" OF ''hohc
.treugth should never sutpass gwen "',l' vi
,uod.r,fion This IL at present far rom being
the case with the ordinary red wines II com
nerce which are fortified almost into Strohs
l,ounrs second the weak proportion o! alc'h'l
allowed to them should he hygiehl,aIN NM
srientlncally pure as none other would be- sold
under "A state monopoly or rtcUh'd'i"h i"'S
also IL quite different from present p'"'N,''
,.h,cb adds Ia its ALREADY counterfeit wine the
poorest and most harmful alcohos Of commerce.
To show the real character ~ the alcohols no"
made I'm France II is sufficient IL set down from
the Government repor, FOR 1898 tn relauVe pr
nortions Of the materials from which they are
manufactured First 10y far Is the be't Iou.'
second native molasses talsp beet. thlrd larl-
naceous substances grains; fourth, foreign III
colonial nolasses (sugdr cane); and only MIN rep,
rcsentlng less than > per cent OF III" "hp'' a.,
the wines at famous wine YEAR, ''uei anu
merry pressed grapes. lees, ana irui'9 "' an
kinds which are used I'm the Manufacture Oh az
cohol Vet this latter class OF materials win az
due respect for the English ana American, "'Ilri
/ In linupr from rye. barley and corn. - the ohly
one likely 10 give an alcohol when u h"' u',c..s
/ ,niurious even in light quantities. To human
nerve tissue. or course. these statistics Ie''' 10
t,,hI nroner AT 100 degrees. But this Is the
/ alcoholic basis OF all the spirituous liquors 81
commerce II may be imagined what Is ,nI
hygienic quality Of the ffeh'h p'"'"''' anu
lioueurs commonly sold.
rho history Of the French taxation OF liquors
and wines indicates how lately ms cNl 81 OVER
much and impure alcohol has been foisted on the
civilized world In the DAYS ~ ChirIcin'sne
there was simply a duty collected Tor transport
| ing wine into the towns l'N l"bo inc rrchC'
, kinps had discovered that they mieht holP OUT
1T chron,c impecuniosity hy regular TAX on
wine. 1t was only after 1900 that distiNed al,
cnholic liquors came in. In other words the nara
drinkers Of those days had To MI thems''N'S
with n liquor which. at strongest, 'ou'u nsNe,
! have had onc-third Of the alcohohc strength 81
Tho commonest spirits now sold at every WINE
sbon 4 reform urgently needed Tor IN" VOL are
~ The Breton and Flemish fishers of Goa on ice
land and Newfoundland now proposes mat the
Iouors served to their throats ui steer shaii
never exceed 43 degrees. The strongest spanish
,,,,,s do NOT reach 90 and this extreme was stu
/ loss IN the Middle Ages. This fact Is oiten os'
nj ~ by those who strIvr 10 palllnte thc pres
on,dav lIse of alcohol from III" example oi the
as, Neither the liquor nor the drunkenness
was the same while alcoholism-the real present
scourge-waS unknown
In 1850 Colbert drew up for Louis XIV the code
or taxes on liquors and wines which remained III
fore, until the Rev olution a hundred years later
n was at the beginning OF the same reign VIA,
brandy (eat-de vc) was for the first tinc h"iorcu
,,t,t a nublIc mention Spirits of wine was as
sessed al three times the rate Of brandy. which
may give an estimate Of the alcoholic strength ni
H. dis,iIIed lauor OF the period. The French
revolution I'm It's worship II the Rights ~ Man
totally suppressed all state interference with the
Individual citizen liquor But inns dio not
'ri, c;thor for the public morality or the ma
! lions finances with the return of the mon
arrhy in 1916 tho present code was adopted TN"
Ncpublic Of 1913 again cndeavored o. make dflrk'
49, Srac Inn of last Tho taxes Of the old regime
werc restored These have continued under the
present Republic. though the tendency 10
liberty that Is almost license constantly "e''"''s
! itself .,, .e,,,,. ,.,.
II is partly t. crcumv"nt this apparently ineN-
liable leaning of universal suffrage that the MS
n tho ono hand and alcoholic or distilled liquors
on tho Other. II remains To he seen whether
nhvscians scientific students oi social conditions
~ ai.,nroatnL stnlnsmnn viii be able even