The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-17
w. CT. U.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. y. l.. HOBBS.


Medical society said, The health
4 the people demands the suppress
ion Of The saloon. And he was
right. II any disease, like small
pox or cnolers, caused one-haif a
many deaths in our country during
year as has intoxicating liquors
sold over licensed bars. the Uuited
States Congress would appropriate
A hundred thousand dollars 10 stamp
out the disease, and then appoint
special officers TO see that the health
orders were enforced. This would
oe right and the people would give
such a measure their hearty appro-
val.
The health OF the people is
precious heritage, and no legislative
Jcwer has any right TO legallze an:
'usiness that destroys or endangers
tie health If the people. We speak
lie more positive on this question
o cause IN, United States Snpr me
Jourt has 50 decided
You will permit me TO speak
,rie fly from my own experience,
specially if substantiate what |
say with high authority. Having
oeen busy physician for more than
twenty-five years and in that time
having never lost a week by ILL
health myself. and having my office
located with saloon on one side
and another saloon in front, and my
residence with q saloon keeper liv
ing each side as neighbors, you see
| have had fair opportunity for
practical observation and study Of
the effects Of alcoholic preparations
on health.
A drunken man is a sick man,
and it is cruel to send him to Jail,
where he is disgraced and often
cruelty treated, when he should be
sent to a hospital and there kindly
treated and restored to health. A
|drunksrd may be a sinner; we leave
that to a merciful God; but one
thing we do know, and that is he is
diseased man and made so ae-
sording to law.
A noted physician, a few years
ago, when he observed that most
men who died Of cholera we're drink
ing men, declared that every dram
-hop ought TO be labled. "Cholera
sold here" And / declare unto
you, every saloon in America and
the world ought to be labeled, Dis
ease sold here" We know that il
is a Sc we're charge to say that saloons
sell disease, but it has the merit of
being true. And we have the facts
to prove it, a few Of which we VII
give here.
DR.. Willard Parker, who for
many years stood at the head OF the
medical profession in New York
CITY. said: "One-third Of all the
deaths in New York City are caused
directly and indirectly by alcoholic
drinks" DIR. Hammond, of Wash
|ington, ID. c., who epjoyed such
success iu his specially Of treating
nervous diseases as TO nake $780,
600 q year, names twenty diseases
|of the nervous system caused by
alcohol. He said in aletter to Sen
ator Blair; IL am free to admit,
weighing all points for and against,
mankind would be better of men,
tally morally and physically if alco
hol were altogether abolished"
The Massachusetts Legislature
appointed a committee to investi-
gate the cause Of idiocy, and DR..
Howe. its chairman reported that
OF 800 idiots investigated be found
that 1l5 of them had drunken par
Ients, and he estimated that three
|fourths Of the idiots Of the state had
intemIerate parents.
Insanity is the worst form OF
mental disease. One of my stu
dents, who has been the physician
in charge of the largest hospital for
Insane in the state for fifteen years,
recently told me that 50 per cent.
|of all their patients came to the
hospital directly or indirectly by
1.-The influence Of alcohol. Were il
necessary these facts could be null
|tiplied thousand fold.
When the immortal Gladstone
declared that "Strong drink de-
stroys more of the human family
than war, restilence or famine, =
Ihe could have meant nothing short
|of the mighty destruction caused by
|alcohol through the disease which