The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-07
lALCUHU[lC
| BEVERAGES
Beer and Wine
Are Considered
Harmful.
VIEWS OF A
| TEMPERANCE MAN
he Takes issue With One of the
Anglican Clergy About the
Social Glass.

ing, Cheap Beer, said on June nth,
| William Ewart Gladstone was great
advocate for supplying light wine and
beer to the masses as a temperance
measure" The statement is correct,
and many years ago practical trial was
instituted by the Equalization OF what
are known in England as ''grocers' Ii
censes,." Instead, however, of wean-
ing men from their drinking habits, the
Issuance of these licenses has had a
most disastrous result. The increased
facility for obtaining alcoholic beyer-
ages, even light wines and beer, though
they be, has increased drunkenness,
| and unhappiiy, women have very
| largely by such So called temperance
| measures, become entangled in the
| seductive meshes of this most power
| full and health destroying drug, alco-
hol. Connecting upon the great
amount of misery and mischief caused
| by the increased facilities given for OBJ
tanning intoxicants, the Lancet thus
| speaks: I'VE are therefore of opinion
| that the time has come for careful
reconsideration of the whole question
respecting the issue or abolition of the
licenses. That the sale of
| liquor be registered in every instance
J
| weighing the value of this opinion. let
it be remembered that the Lancet is one
of the high-class medical journals of
the world.
Your contemporary also stated that
| In France wine drinking Is universal.
but the wine consumed is of a very
mild quality. The French are as
rule an extremely sober nation. The
peasants are especially sober" Truly.
Mr. Editor, whatever might have been
the case in days long passed, the pic
ture above drawn is a very incorrect
one, as representing the actual condi-
ton of affairs today. The present con-
sumption of spirits per head of popu-
lation per annum in France is now
greater than that OF either Germany
or England and much larger than that
of the United States. Over ands over
again we are told by those who like,
and think it well to use intoxicants,
that light wine and beer are beverages
conducive of temperance. The mex
orable logic of, facts proves the con-
trary. Noahs story being correct. the
result of his becoming a husbandman,
planting a vineyard and making wine
was not particularly edifying, but as
the events narrated occurred a good
bit of time ago, let me call attention
to what is going on in modern France,
that great country to whom the world
owes so much that is civilizing and
uplifting. In no captlous spirit do
write but because | would have young
men, aye, and young women, know the
[ inyariable tendency to innumerable
{ numbers of those drinking wine and
; b GER, not only to take ever increasing
, quantities. but, sooner or later to be
: come addicted to spirit drinking Why
{ | Mr.. Editor, why should young meT
! and women contract this habit of the
so-called moderate drinking of either
; beer or wine, when the great teachers
in the medical world are now constant
lily cautioning us of the dangers attend
ing their use. Not long since You
! were good enough to give place in you
= columns to two communications in OUt
of which the views of men famous II
the medical world We're SET rortn. al
favoring total abstinence. not beCaus
! of any moral question involved, bu
2 because the drug alcohol, whereve
found. has no place in the healthfu
economy of the well ordered life. II
! the other communication | gave tn
= views of great men in the ecclesiastica
= world, quoting words of his holiness
7 the Pope of Rome, of the presen
Z Archbishop of Canterbury, and o
! many dignitaries of the Roman, An
4 glican and other churches. All thes
Z men are found not only countenancin
7 total abstinence. but strongly advisin
Z and blessing its practice. You fin
! Americans. Germans, French, Englis
= and Italians. all agreeing, and what
z markedly striking. the arch-infidel {
Z the churches Robert Ingersoll, sidin
: with them in a community Of though
! and speech in a manner little less tina
miraculous. Again let me ask in pre-.
2 ence of such teaching, aye, such plead
z ing, why should young men and won
en- contract this habit of so-cale
4 moderate drinking? and why shout
- they be told on the part of any on
even a clergyman of the Anglica
church who himself enjoys the ten
perate use of beverages containing q
eohol" that 1t Is well to draw a d
- tinction between the terms tempe
4 ance" and total abstinence" But Il
II other day DR.. Sims Woodhead, profe
sor of pathology in the University
Cambridge. gave utterance to the
words: For the living of a rations
healthy, useful life, the consumptiC
of alcoholic beverages is absolutely u
necessary"
a Absolutely unnecessary he
Il the last words touching the usa
these things? Nay. Mr. Editor. 81
with your permission I viii quote fro
a British medical journal publish
this very month, words of J. J. Ride
M. D. & NJ D. Estate Medicine). B.
B. A, &. Sc. In a paper read befo
an association of medical men in NJ
last he says: These modern eXpe
ments completely sustain the wisdC
of total abstinence both for young a
old. and supply those who have hit
erto hesitated to commit themselves
support the temperance cause wi
abundant and incontroyertib1e reas
for doing so. An agent which Is al
to work such havoc in the citadel
the brain while it deludes the drfnl
-. with the idea that he is all the bet
for it. ard does this, withai so ms
- iousIy. is a most dangerous drug, a
the habit of taking it deserves
strongest Reproduction. l also read
an article on the Medical Aspect
Temperance" april Is. 1900, by H,
wood Smith. NJ A. NJ. D. O1on, tht
words: MANY medical men are pr;