The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-17
RESULTS ARE INEVITABLE.
Indulgence In Alcoholic Drinks
Brings In Its Train n Multi
tude of Woes.

surely does harm follow the use of
strong drink, says DR.. I. d. Crothers,
emphatically. The central point
wish to emphasize is that moral in
sanity follows all use of alcohol, and
is present in all inebriates to greater
or less degree"
AS surely as a hot iron will burn
the flesh, so surely will alcoholics in
jure both body and mind of those who
drink it. The boast of the young man:
Drink does not hurt me-" is false
absolutely false. He does not know
himself. He is reckoning without his
host. So able man as DR.. Harlow,
superintendent of the Maine insane
hospital, wrote me remarkable let
ter. He states: ut is quite frequent
occurrence to have patients brought
to us, between the ages of so and 70,
who in early life were given to the
use of alcoholic drinks, but had re-
formed and lived temperate lives ten,
twenty or thirty years prior to the
appearance of their malady, showing
conclusively, to my mind, that the al
cohol taken thus early left damaged
brain doubly susceptible to mental de-
rangement."
| have in mind man who inherited
an excellent constitution, but who in
early manhood took to the cup. Later
he radically reformed and there never
was a more abstemious man for the
next 80 years, yet as age came on, he
began to turn in mind back to what he
had been in the days of his indulgence.
He reacquired the same looks on his
face, the same motions and actions of
body. the same wanderings and hal
lucinations of mind as when he used
to drink. His daughter said it was
pitiable to see him, it was such pain
full reminder of his former condition
she so much witnessed when she was
little girl.
But worse than all this is the dam
age done through the drinker upon his
offspring. They suffer to degree be-
yond his own. Think of whole large
family, so-called sons and daughters,
every one made a fool or near it by
parental drinking. Go up and down
the town and observe the idiots, the
under-wits, the stunted heads and
bodies, the nervous and hysterical and
otherwise injured bodies and minds
and ask what has, done it? And in al
most all cases liquor through their
parents is the proper answer. A
school teacher investigated the case
of one of his scholars that had the APP
pearance of being drunk. The fact
was developed that not the pupil, but
his father did the drinking. l person.
ally knew a man past middle life who
from a young man had the unsteady
step, the broken and hesitating speech
and other nervous Irregularities char
acteristic of the appearance of old
topers. 1 charged him with drinking.
He denied. l then spoke to some Of
his friends and was told to my sur
prise that he never drank, but that
these drunken symptoms were begot-
ten in him by his drunken parentage,
running back several generations.
No, it is not safe to drink, either di-
rectly or indirectly; the mischief done
Will leak out. consequences must IOl-
low, though they may not be ex-
pressed till in the third or fourth gen.
Grafton. Can one take fire into his
bosom and not be burned? No more
can one indulge in strong drink and
escape. There is somewhere or at some
time an inevitable retribution. Drink
and be damned. Such is the close logic,
or let alone and be safe, you and your
posterity.-Dr. e. Chenery, in National
Advocate.