Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-05-19
ALCOHOL AND FOOD.
the Head of the Latter Is Clearly Proven.

That alcohol in the system sutilized or transformed in any way into fooG, force or caloric, is fatly contradicted and fully proven to be erroneous by the experiments of leading scientists all along GoNn the decades Tor Che last 50 years.
 No article which cannot be utilized as. or converted into. force OF tissue, thereby helping to rcpair.the Wearand tear of the body. aHG assisting in its normal functional duties. can be elassed as food in any possible way.
 Our chemico-physiologists with their eye of science. long since discovered that the human organism requires for its upbuilGing and sustenance <he fol- lowing essential ailments, viz: Fatty matters, sugar. aibuminoid substances and water. with various salts in solu- tion So we fine the very first food pro- vided by an all-wise Providence for he young infant, the mothers milk, com posed of just these necessities. and not one drop of alcoho is there to be found in it, except when the stupid physician orders the mother, or she volunteers Q take it into her stomach in some form, when it soon finds it's way into her lac teal secretion. poisoning the young in- fant's pure little system, which not infrequenty creates diseased appe- tite for the poison. and in after years ends in dissipation and drunkenness.
 The albumen so necessary 10 human existence is found in the casen of the T. .ol trogeneous element of food. So, as we trace the products along down through all the great line of animal and vegeta bic ailments, we find that in them eN- sts nitrogen. To produce or build up tissue growths. nitrogen is one of the essential requisites. That requirement alone precludes any claim to the food properties of alcohol. as no one vii! argue that it contains the slightest ele- ment of that ingredient. Yet we now and then hear of some enc who has run off on tangent with the delusion that alcohol is a food and medicine. What a strange agency. Would any advocate of that theory claim both these great offices for it at the same time. or that t would act as a foed today and as medicine tomorrow? Has nature pro- vided 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 it's force. repair it's waste and generate heat for it's existence.
 Dr. Lees. who spent lifetime in sci entitie investigations. says of alcohol: .'It is foreign 10 the human body and it's normal wants. one that never gives power like food, nor aids circulation like water. nor produces heat like oil, nor purifies like fresh air, nor helps elimination like exercise" The Moral Side-Susp pending the con- sideration of food properties. we find a long line of moral and physical evils following alcoholic induigences, which go down the ages together, leaving dis aster and wrecks in their pathway. Those practices impair the intellect, deface beauty. create disease. destroy ' drive away reason anG foster madness, taint the breath and po,lute the tongue, make strong men weak and wise men fools. convert homgS of affluence into those of misery. wretchetnesS and want. change ir9H>1rN into iHGolence convert a paradise into a hell. strip men of peeta6;iitN and eIothe them with Gishonor. rob churches and fiji prisons, transform some of.1he best of men into the yile>i hrUteS. change law ab;6in@ men into reckless Na&ahonGS. transform men Of prayer into vile blas- phemers. change Eeareabfe nen into plgilistic oafers. short ten iNes aHG send 6isgtaaafu, deaths convert purttY int ruthless praeie&ey. rob men of theil time, mor4y ast ia'5e's. make of ? zans &ad widows. disturb poAee=3HG iHg1e..se crimes. enhance taNaiies. sel1e earlHlP tf6n a7.d vice into gaytira rasft.:il l4aIt- ;ls5 stamp oua cat@eGy'9 name mitA sal5sf. D H. Attaa, N D.. in h t.'az4iouai Good 'reHP.a1.
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