The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-19
Al COHOL AND TOBACCO IN
THEIR PHYSICAL EFFECTS
Correspondent Makes Plea in Opposition
to the Position Taken by
Mr. Armstrong.

! should control. not pander to. his pa
tent"
Shadows Magazine" The interest
ing account of Sandow recently pub
lished in your daily edition will, pos
sibIy, not be already forgotten. Mr..
Sandow demonstrates the truth of the
Saying Prevention is better than cure"
He takes his stand outside hospitals
and sanitariurns, fitted though they are
with the latest twentieth century dis
coyeries, and says perfect health and
normal development are prizes within
| the reach of nearly all. For him val
uing and seeking that ne plus ultra of
blessings, perfect health, this advice is
given: THE ruinous witchery of in
toxicants should not exist for him; to
his taste alcohol should betray itself as
life-blighting poison; the fumes of
narcotics should be not only unattract-
i've, but repulsive." This. sir, was
written for men and not for the i'm
questionable natures of women that are
more sensitive to the baneful effects of
narcotics. The incisive terseness of
/ the words quoted embody the teaching
! Of eminent physiological and medical
investigators of our day, as well as the
pronounced views Of celebrated clinical
/ observers of the past. DR.. Jordan
understands these matters, notwith-
standing Mr.. Armstrong; sneering al
/ lusion to "tadpole's legs" and "cherub's
wings
If, Mr.. Editor, there be anything OF
earnestness and purpose in my words,
let me to them urge the attention of
such as those truly described by Mr..
Armstrong as forming a delightful and
appreciative audience, for what gath
erfng of educated young men would be
otherwise? Not, sir, to the students
of Punahou alone would urge consid-
GRAFTON OF these words, but wherever
your journal finds place.
If young men would conquer at their
studies; excel in athletic sports and
enter upon the every day work of life
with all points in their favor, let them
start out on the crowded pathway of
existence unhandicapped by the use of
either tobacco or alcohol. Would they |
retain as sound a physique as the limi- |
tations of inherited deficiencies impose !
upon them, let them avoid tobacco and !
alcohol. Would they impart to their |
children a sounder constitution than |
perhaps they have had bequeathed to |
themselves, again 1 say let them avoid |
tobacco and alcohol. Would young !
men retain the freshness and bloom of /
early days into prolonged life and the |
more readily preserve the "mens aequa
in arduis," let them among other duties
absolutely abjure the use of the drugs
named, never forgetting that "every
duty we omit obscures some truth we
should have known" And lastly, let
them believe that for them, just com
mencing life untainted by emasculating,
costly and too often ruinous habits, the
question of the use of alcohol and to-
bacco has, emphatically, right and
wrong, and to say that it has not, is
travesty of truth transgressing even the
flexible ethics of ordinary neWspaper
literature. Any man or woman who
voluntarily does aught to impair health
commits wrong. A vigorous brain
and nervous system are the main
springs of healthful and happy life.
Tobacco we are told on authority, cas- ,
a medicine, is narcotic, emetic, cathar-
tic Is it at all likely that anyone
can daily use this medicine" that. to
those unaccustomed to it, produces
vomiting, pallor, headache, faintness,
ard other nervous disorders without
causing notifications of constitutional
conditions, adverse to the well being of
the user? We know that diseased con-
ditions are brought about by its use
and although there are no means of ac-
curateIy measuring physical degra-
uatloh or nervous tissue, or Of a less
aned resisting power to general disease,
still, we are taught, and may well un- |
ierstand that, the daily use of such
lrugs as tobacco and alcohol must ]
bring about both the one and the other.
essening efficiency and detracting
rom that freedom of will power that
s one OF the enjoyments and blessings 4
IF good health. -
Practically those who cannot pet
through their daily work without call
ng out their reserves with alcohol or q
are on the road to phys-
illogical bankruptcy. insol-
Tency leads to ever less and less work
worse and still worse performed, as the
'eserves are, one after another. called
tut and used up" alexander Haig. M.
\. M. ID. Oxon. F. R. C. P).
On the other hand. "solvencv o+
mind and body lifts both to ever higher
nd higher levels of power, beauty and (
knowledge Of truth; forming at once \
ne highest attainable development of Z
ne mems sana in corpore sano, and
eadlng ever upwards into the higher %
unl1t slopes of that mountain which
as no summit, or whose summit is in
eaven only"
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, let me in Il
he name OF common sense. protest
galnst Mr.. Armstrong; assertion that -
as the best men by its wide use have
AIKEN 1t (the use of tobacco) out OF
ne domain of morals, the women will
lslst on enjoying the weed becausa
aey are entitled to the same pursuit in
I happiness which men follow" How 81
r. now does Mr.. Armstrong know D,
nose referred to by him are the "best
len and supposing they are the best
e knows OF, can they be no better?
ave they arrived at the acme of good ST.
ess, evolution itself falling dead in T,
lelr presence, and the very gods on -
On olympus becoming Jealous of their
. =. PROJECTIONS? Nay, Mr.. Editor.
- Lhus IS II with men. The great test
acher of all time said there were !,