The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-07

fact that If they had the icourage &c
abstain they would exert an untold in
! fuence on those with whom they are
brought into contact" DR. Smith
quotes Sir Henry Thompson, the great
surgeon. as saying: IF any man sup
poses that daily drink, even In small
quantities, is conducive TO health. he
is deluded.' Also. Sir William Gull
1T is one of the commonest things in
society that people are injured by
drink without being drunkards." He
also repeats words of the late Queens
(Victoria) physician, Sir Andrew
Clark: Health is always in some way
or other injured by it, benefited never
/ am considerably within the mark
when I say, that in going the round
of my hospital wards, seven out of ev-
cry ten there owe their i'll health te
drink"
Now, Mr.. Editor, tresspassing yet
longer on your courtesy, but sustained
ed in doing so by the knowledge that il
is in the great cause of truth / am
asking your assistance, would beg
in reference to your evening contem-
porary's remarks regarding the use OF
alcoholic beverages in France, TO be
allowed to give translation of an ar
ticle headed The Scourge of France,
appearing in LIE Petit Journal of Paris;
crank, but one presented by French
journal with the largest circulate OF
any paper in the world over one mil
lion. The words quoted will show
how far the drinking of light wines
has ultimately proved a safeguard
against national intemperance Read
and ponder the words:
TT has been said with truth, that
of all the dangers menacing our agri
cultural population at the present day
the gravest and most difficult to fight
against Is alcoholism. No one can
have been a resident of a country dis
trict without being struck with the de-
velopment Of this scourge during the
last thirty years; the deplorable eff
fects of which are everywhere visible
The habit of saving, that was so long
the strength and glory of our tillers OF
the soil, is gradually disappearing The
money box of the liquor sellers swal-
lows up, sou by sou, the wages that
formerly were hidden away in some
/ corner of the clothespress, to be
brought out when enough was accu-
mulated to buy little piece of ground
The peace and harmony of families is
seriously impaired. In the villages the
women are reduced, like the wives OF
workmen in the towns to haunt the
! doors of the drink shop in order to
rescue the bread of their children from
the alcoholic gulf. In most of our ham
let's the drunkard. who was formerly
the exception, has multiplied by CON
tagion. When a young man
begins drinking. only to do like the
rest. habit soon makes it a necessity
The agricultural laborer Is
only willing to work for the sake OF
procuring new carousalS. Deprived of
/ liquor he is stupid and brutal; when
drunk he is transformed into a savage
beast"
IT is not true, Mr. Editor that light
wines and beer are a guarantee 70,
j sobriety, or that they tend towards
/ temperance. Alcohol has the same
I chemical properties in wine, beer q,
spirits. and it has the same phvsio.
logical effects wherever found and
FUSED What light beer Will lead to and
accomplish, your late vivid portraya
. IN the Advertiser of scenes in the
/ neighborhood of the Honolulu Iror
Works. fully sets forth.
The prick of conscience and ~,
spur of highly wrought sympathy bav,
succeeded in arousing wonderfu
. restIessneSs in our generation.
ana the advance of positive lxnowIedp-
mas called in question many old Gus
, toms and old authorities Modar,
hleolcal science declares alcohol. wher
eNeI lpuhd' TO be proroplasmic poi
son the use of which degrades tn
, ,ist9t,Iy OF nervous tissue. 1t is i'm
possible TO have stimulation withou
SUBSEQUENT depression, and rnadica
teachlng tells but the truth when !
says uol stimulus ibi affIuxus"
Let me sir. before close. refer :
the expressed wish of the rax,ara,,
editor of the Anglican Church Chroni
EIe VINO in the March number said
for ourselves, we wish most earnest
- lhat reiofners in the alcoholic cues
.ioH would distinguish between tn
terms temperance and total absti
hence"
In answer to the reverend gentlema
who, as he tells US. greatly entoys 9Th
temperate use of bevera ges containin
alcohol, let me presently quote WORD
OF one OF the greatest living, surgeon
one called upon by royalty in its hot
OF need, teacher of men in gree
!. medical schools, and whose eight
years of life have carried him throue
the days when the profession to whic
he belongs looked upon the use of a
] coholic beverages in a very dtffereI
> light TO that of today The great al
= successful surgeon says: 1T is RAJ
, now to find any one well acuuaiIltt
| with human physiology. and capab
p of observing and approaching the .
binary wants and usages of life arou
r him, who does not believe that. wi
4 few exceptions, men and women a
n healthier and stronger, physically il
q tellectualiy and morally. withuut su,
i drinks Ii e. alcoholic beveragoS} thu
/, with them. The important tT1-th H.
I still to be preached. rapeated a,
f freshly illustrated. when possible,
: every quarter OF society, because
q very natural bias 10 self-induIgence
o always present 10 obscure mems vie,
Q of those things which crafty it
4 Fifty years experience, OF total a
h stinsnce by innumerable people. bo
IS in the great country OF which we q
# now an integrant and In Great Brita'
q has shown the thoughtful, scienti
II medical man the worse than useles
n ness Of beverages, abstention frt
g which enables Insurance companies
l. award bonuses over twenty per &c
i highe- to those of their patrons W
ID practice total abstinence" than to
Id :itricted~ drinkers a habit so ccnduci
q 10 heightened life, must, Of necessi
Ln he productive OF good health. ard
a. The reverend editor eli the Angelic
J. Church Chronicle earnestly wishes 'l
s. formers IN the alcohol question wo,
r tiisrIr suish between the terms temp
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