Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-18
THE GREAT DESTROYER,
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.
The Use OF Alcoholic Liquors Produces
Moral Insanity - Old Age Suffering
FOR the Sins of YOutl-The Awful Re
sPOnsibilIty of Drinking Parenta.

Tho Use OF Alcoholic Liquors Produce,
Moral Insanity - Old Age Suffering
For the Sins of Youth-The Awful Re
sponsibility of Drinking Parents.
AS shadow follows substance SO surely
does harm follow the use of strong drink.
says DR.. T. d. Crothers emphatically.
The central point | wish to emphasize il
that moral insanity follows all use of alco.
hol, and is present in all inebriates to
greater or less degree"
As surely as hot iron will burn the
flesh, so surely will alcoholics injure 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 In.
sane Hospital, wrote me remarkable let
ter He states: 1T is quite frequent oc.
currence to have patients brought to us,
between the ages of fifty and seventy, who
IN early life were given to the use of alco
temperate lives ten, twenty or thirty years
prior to the appearance of their malady
showing conclusively, to my mind, that tn,
alcohol taken thus early left a damaged
brain doubly susceptible to mental de
rangement."
excellent constitution, but who in early
manhood took to the cup. Later he radi
cally reformed, and there never was
more abstemious man for the next thirty
years., yet as age came on he began t.
turn In mind back to what he had beer
in the days of his indulgence. He reac
CURED the same looks on his face, the
same motions and actions of body, the
same wonderings and hallucinations OF
mind as when he used to drink His
daughter said it was pitiable to see him
it was such painful reminder of hi, for
mer condition she so much witnessed wher
she was little girl.
done through the drinker upon his off
spring. They suffer to degree beyond
his own. Think of whole large family
so-called sons and daughters, every ont
made a fool or near it by parental drink
ing. Go up and down the town and OBJ
serve the idiots, the under-wits, the
stunted heads and bodies, the nervous an6
and minds and asks what has done it? AnG
in almost all cases liquor through theil
parents is the proper answer. A schoo
teacher investigated the case of one of hi.
scholars that had the appearance of beins
drunk. The fact was developed that moi
the pupil, but his father did the drinking
l personally knew man past middle life
who from young man had the unsteady
step, the broken and hesitating speech
and other nervous irregularities character
istic of the appearance of old topers.
charged him with drinking. He denied
l then spoke to some of his friends, and
was told to my surprise that he never
drank, but that these drunken symptoms
were begotten in him by his drunken par
entage, running back several generations.
No, it is not safe to drink, either direct
ly or indirectly; the mischief will leak
out. Consequences must follow, though
they may not be expressed till in the third
or fourth generation. Can one take fire
into his bosom and not be burned? Nc
more can one indulge in strong drink and
time an inevitable retribution. Drink and
be damned. Such is the close logic, or lei
alone and be safe, you and your posterity
e. Chenery, NJ. D., in the National Ad
vocate.