The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-07-26
iTORSE THAN WHISKY
TERRIBLE INDICTMENT AGAINST
BEER DRINKING.

Human system Quickly succumbs TO
the Assault. of Matt Liquor-Deadly
and InsidioUs Foe That Corrupta
aad DcCradcs.
The alarming growth Of the use OF
beer among our people and the spread
ing delusion among many who consider
themselves temperate and sober that
the encOura cement of beer drinking is
an effective way of promoting the
cause Of temperance and of aiding to
stamp out tie demon rum impelled the
Blade to send 4 representative to a
number Of leading physicians of To-
ledO to obtain their opinions as to the
real damage which INDUCING in malt
liquors does the victim of that form Of
incompetence.
Every one bears testimony that no
man can drink beer safely, that it is
an injury to any one who uses it in
any quantity and that its effects on the
general health of the country have
been even worse than that of whisky.
The Indictment they with one accord
present against beer drinking is sim
ply terrible
The dcvi!fish crushing a man in his
long. winding arms and sucking the
blood from Lis mangled body is not 50
frightful an assailant as this deadly
but insidiOus enemy, which fastens it
self upon its victims and daily becomes
more and more the wretched mans
master cl0gging his liver, rOtting his
kidneys, decaying his heart and ar
terie3, stupefying ana starving the
brain, choking his lungs and bronchia,
loading lis body with dropsical fluids
and unwholesome fats. fastening upon
him rheumatism, erysipelas and all
manner of painful and disgusting dis
eases and finally dragging him to his
grave ut time when other men are in
their prime of mental and bodily vigor.
Here are the statements of two physi-
clans
Dr.. ). ii. BurSen, practitioner thir-
ty-five years. twemty-eight in Toledo.
says:
Il think beer kills quicker than any
other liquor. My attention was first
called to its insidious effects when |
began examining for life insurance. |
passed as unusually good risks five
Germans-yOung business men-who
seemed in the best of health and to
have SUPERB constitutions. In few
years | was amazed to see the whole
five drop off, one after another, with
what ought to have been mild and
easily durable diseases. On cOmpar-
ing my experience with that of other
physicians l found that they were all
having similar luck with confirmed
beer drinkers, and my practice since
has heaped confirmation on conffrma-
ton.
The first Crgan to be attacked is the
kidneys, the liver soon symDathizes
and then comes, most frequently, drop
~ or Brights disease. both certain 10
end fatally. Among the dreadful re-
suits OF beer drinking are lockiaw and
erysipelaS. and the beer drinEer seems
incapable of recovering from mild dis
orders and injuries not usually re-
-ttl NltNl VI a SIbN CEiidCltI. L utu-
monia. pleurisy. feycrs, etc, seem to
have a first mortgage on him, which
they forCcloSe remorselessly at an ear
ly opportunity"
DIR. =. 5. Thorn, Il physician of eX-
perience IN Tie army and twenty years
practice in Toledo, said:
'Adulterants are not the most i'm
portant tlinrs in my estimation; it is
the beer Itself. 1t stupefes the intel
lect because it is Il narcotic and cumu-
lativc in its effects. For instance, mer-
curials are cumulative. \ dose of one
sixteenth or one thirty-second Of a
grain would have no appreciate eff
feet on the system, but a number of
these administrations cOnsecutively
would soon produce straightforward 9TH
cr destructive results. SO beer ac-
cumulatcs and gathers pernicious agen-
cies in the system until they become
very destructive.
every man who drinks beer in any
quantity soon begins to load himself
with soft, unhealthy fat This is bad,
because it is the result Of interference
with the natural elimination of dele
FERROUS substances. No man, no matter
what his constitution, can go on long
with his system full Of the morbid and
dead matter which the liver and kid
neTs are intended to work off"-From
a Speech In the United States Senate
by Hon. J. H. Gailing2r