The Republican., 1900-09-27
ALCOHOL AND FOOD.
That the Former Cannot Come Under
the Head of the Latter Is
Clearly Proven.


That alcohol in the system is utilized
or transformed in any way into food,
force or caloric, is fatty contradicted
and fully proven to be erroneous by the
experiments of leading scientists all
along down the decades for the last so
years.
No article which cannot be utilized
as, or converted into, force or tissue,
thereby helping to repair the wear and
tear of the body, and assisting in its
normal functional duties, can be
classed as food in any possible way.
Our chemico- psychologists, with their
eye of science, long since discovered
that the human organism requires for
its upbuilding and sustenance the fol-
lowing essential ailments, viz: Fatty
matters, sugar, albuminoid substances
and water, with various salts in solu-
ton. So we find the very first food pro-
vided by an all-wise Providence for the
young infant. the mothers milk, COM
posed of just these necessities, and not
one drop of alcohol is there to be found
in il, except when the stupid physician
orders the mother, or she volunteers to
take it into her stomach in some form,
when it soon finds its way into her lac
teal secretion, poisoning the young in
fant's pure little system, which not
infrequently creates a diseased appe-
tite for the poison, and in after years
ends in dissipation and drunkenness.
The albumen SO necessary to human
existence is found in the casein of the
milk, which furnishes the required nj
trogeneous element of food. So, as we
trace the products along down through
all the great line of animal and vegeta-
BILE ailments, we find that in them eK-
lists nitrogen. To produce or build up
tissue growths. nitrogen is one of the
essential requisites. That requirement
alone precludcs any claim to the food
properties of alcohol, as no one will
argue that it contains the slightest ele-
ment of that ingredient. Yet we now
and then hear of some one who has run
off on tangent with the delusion that
alcohol is a food and medicine. What
a strange agency. Would any advocate
offices for it at the same time, or that t
ii would act as a food to-day and IS a
medicine tomorrow? Has nature pro-
vided a separating machine in our
bodies to divide the pretended in
gradients of alcohol SO that when food
is required it can be disconnected from
the medicinal part, and vice versa
Preposterous! Food indicates those
nutriments that, when taken into the
stomach, will nourish the body. sustain
its force. repair its waste and generate
heat for its existence.
DR.. Lees. who spent a lifetime in sci
entitic Investigations, says of alcohol:
1T is foreign to the human body and
its normal wants, one that never gives
power like food, nor aids circulation
like water nor produces heat like oil,
nor purities like fresh air, nor helps
elimination like exercise"
The Moral ide-Suspending the con-
sideration of food properties, we find
long line of moral and physical evils
following alcoholic indulgences, which
go down the ages together, leaving dis
aster and wrecks in their pathway.
Those practices impair the intellect,
deface beauty, create disease, destroy
health, Danish wealth, invite poverty,
drive away reason and foster madness,
taint the breath and pollute the tongue,
make strong men weak and wise men
fools, convert homes of affluence into
those of misery. wretchedness and
want, change industry into ind dolence,
convert a paradise into a hell, strip
men of respectability and clothe them
with dishonor, rob churches and fill
prisons, transform some of the best of
men into the vilest brutes, change law
abiding men into reckless vagabonds,
transform men of prayer into vile bias
phemers, change peaceable men into
pugilistic loafers, shorten lives and send
disgra ceful deaths, convert purity into
ruthless profiigacy, rob men of their
time. money and lands, make orphans
and widows, disturb peace and increase
crimes, enhance taxation, send corrup-
tion and vice into governmental halls
and stamp our country,s name with
dishonor.-D. II. Mann, NJ. D., in In
ternational Good Templar.