The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-12
News About Town
DR.. Dunlop at the Y.
M. G. A. Meeting
Yesterday.
intemPerance and Its Evils
Fully shown Up ny the Medical gen.
ueman-Bicycie Meet xesuIts In
Great surprise 60 some.

The nesting OF the Y. NJ. c. A. at tn,
Opera House yesterday afternoon was
very largely attended. among the aud
fence being quite number OF ladies. as
ladies are perhaps the ones who suffer
most from the baneiul use OF the deadly
poison, a special invitation had been er.
tended TO them. After a solo by Miss
Danielson and one by Mr. Harry King.
the president introduced Or. Dunlop.
The speaker said be was medicine prae.
unoner OF many years experience. gave
very vivid description OF what ruin the
use OF alcohol brought into many iami-
Les, hrst abiding TO the home Off drunk
ard andthen referred TO those who are
known as moderate drinkers, stating
that the example OF those moderate
drinkers was the downfall OF many Dung
men, Tor, as they saw people OF position,
and who were respected in society, fire.
quenting saloons, they followed in the
same footsteps and perhaps in time be
came drunkards; the doctor claiming
that although much depended upon tn
mental and bodily condition OF those
moderate drinkers, they in time found
that the craving for drink grew upon
them and IN consequence il was generally
only matter OF time before they de.
cended TO the ranks OF the drunkard and
he had therefore became a disbelieyer in
what was generally called temperance
as he WA cart ain that aIoono 81 -. - /
IN small quantities was injurious 20 the
system and stated that medical men gen
orally were beginning TO see this and many
physicians now refrained from ordering
spirits to their patients. in his own prac.
tice he never ordered It's use for, instead
OF being stimulsnt, it was nothing but
narcotic and its use often killed the
patient
The doctor explained that many cases
oil idiocy, iDbecility, etc, il traced back
would be found to be the result OF alcohol
and were cases where the sins OF the fathers
were visited on the children. The doctor
claimed that dipsomania was really a
disease and IN many cases the result OF .
hereditv and therefore the only way TO
uncrown King Alcohol was to dispense
With its use altogether and as examples ?
be called upon all persons who respected
themselves TO keep away from places u
where the liquid poison was dispensed
and above al things 10 abstain from its
use either in their homes or ELSEWHERE. h
Tor be said how could parents blame their j
when they themselves, az was
often the case, set them bad example u
DR. perhaps the childs taste for drink | Z
> as inherited from their parents.
The speaker knew that some ubv.j.
lans would not agree with him as 20 the =
LANCER OF administering alcohol medic. .,
nAily and would probably laugh az the p,
tatement that the taste for hquor could
e taken from person in a very short
lme, he, however, knew il could. He
you'd not touch further upon that point a
. ne might be accused OF advertising -
imself while bis only object in speaking <,
Tas TO show that the use OF alcohol In {
Ither health or disease was not only IN. a
ecessary, but was IN every case, abso-
iteiy Injurious, being az he repeated l
yer and over again, nothing but a mar.
otic