The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-09
UNCLE SAM AS A poIsoNER.
Wood Alcohol Only Hurries Things
Says DIR. Swallow.

~~sa 0Ns Swallow.
From the New York sun.
The Rev. DR.. Siras c. Swallow, the
Prohibitionist candidate for President.
has written these things to the Sun:
i have been much interested in your
expose Of the wood alcohol poisoning
episode. No doubt, as is partially prov
en-, hundreds and even thousands, and,
in the last ten years, perhaps hundreds
OF thousands, have been victims Of
TINS lnsidlous poison which the agents
OF our government, with the certif-
cates OF their authority as prisoners
general hanging in their places of bust
ness, have been dealing out to the
slaves OF appetite, hereditary or ac-
quired.
This is no new thing. The adul-
teration of liquors has been the great
source of profit for years without num-
Der. And while government has had
an army of inspectors logging the
grocer to find whether there are ground
peanut shells mixed with his pepper,
or white earth mixed with his sugar,
or poisonous acids forming the base
or his vinegarS; and while government
has badgered the farmer whose milk
cans are found in too close proximity
10 the harmless, not to say helpful
ana healthy, contents of the water
tank, that same government has been
IN profit sharing partnership with $780,
O0O liquor dealers in the sale of over s.. =
4O0000,000 worth of worthless (pardon
the paradox, liquids for beverage pur-
poses. We say worthless, because the
medical and pharmacist world is sub
stantially unit in declaring that all
coholic beverages, whether having wood
or grain alcohol for a base, are not
foods but poisons.
In the schools Of all the states of
the Union, except perhaps two, the
text books put into the hands of the
millions of our undergraduates teach
that even grain alcohol is not food, but
poison. Even pure beer is hurtful.
because it contains, as Bunge, that
eminent scientist of Leipzig, has shown
considerable quantities of hydrocarbons,
dextrin and sugar, surplus of which
Is found in most food supplies He
says further: Alcohol strengthens no
one; it simply benumbs the feeling of
fatigue.
Or. Winfield S. Hall, dean of the
University Medical School, Chicago,
uses the deadly parallel with telling
effect in comparing the facts about
alcohol and food.
The Truth About The Truth About
Alcohol. Food.
| !. A certain 1. A certain
quantity will pro- quantity will pro-
duce certain eff duce a certain eff
rect at first, but feet at first, and
II requires more the same quantity
ana more to pro- Will always pro-
duee the same eff duce the same eff
feet when the drug feet in the healthy
is used habitual- body.
ly. 2. The habitual
2. w n used use Of a food new
habitually 1t is er induces an un-
likely to induce comfortable desire
an uncomfortable for it in ever in
desire for more I'M creasing amounts.
ever increasing 8. After it's ha-
amounts. bitual use a sud-
3. After its ha- den total absti-
bitual use, a sud- Ice never
den total absti- causes any de-
nence is likely to rangement of the
cause serioust central nervous
arrangement O f system.
the central nerv- 4. All foods are
Gus system. oxidized slowly in
4. Alcohol is OK the body.
died rapidly in 6. All foods are
the body. products of con-
5. Alcohol mott structive activity
being useful, is of protoplasm in
not stored in the the presence Of
body. abundant OK y
6. Alcohol is gen.
product of decom- z. All foods are
position of food in formed by nature
the presence of for nourishment
scarcity of oxy- and are by nature
gen. wholesome and al
2. Alcohol is an ways beneficial to
excretion, and in the healthy body,
common with all although they
excretions, is pois- may injure the
onous. 1t may be body in certain
beneficial to GER phases of disease.
tain phases Of dis 8. No. medical
ease, but is never mel advis e
beneficial to the healthy person to
healthy body. avoid food.
8. All medical 9. People are
men advis e universally advis-
healthy persons to to take food into
avoid alcohol al the empty stom-
together. ach.
9. All -connois- 10. The young,
seurs advise peo- developing indi-
pie to avoid taxi vidual is always
ing alcohol into advised to partake
the empty stom- beautifully f
ach. food.
10. The young, II. The use of
developing indi- foods is followed
vidual is always by no reaction.
advised to abstain IL. The use of
from alcohol. food is followed
IL. The use of by an increase in
alcohol in COM the activity Of the
mon with narcot- muscle and brain
les in general, is cells.
followed by re-
action. III
70. The use Of e
alcohol is follow
ed by a decrease
in the activity Of
the muscle cells
and the brain
cells.
"Over 100000 Americans were poison
ed to death last year by drinks sold by
agents of the government, whose
schools teach that alcohol is a poison.
The governments share in the profits
was less than $200000,0O0. while the d.
rect and indirect cost to the people, in
GLIDING that for crime and pauperism,
appropriated $1,000, 900, 900.
''If these 100000 poisoned Americans
could be mustered, standing from curb
to curb in Broadway, shoulder to
shoulder and thirteen inches from
breast to back-military style-they
FINANCIAL.
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WARE &LELAND,
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