The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-27
WHAT is ALCOHOL?
Qutsions and Answers.

OILS alcohol a food?
A-No. Because 1t contains no
nitrogen, being composed of carbon
1.-TWO parts) hydogen (six parts), and
oxygen Zone part), or as chemist
would write 1t, "C2, H6O."
Q.-Is alcohol bone former?
A-No. 1t cannot build up the
bones hair or teeth because 1t con-
tains no salts or mineral matters, nor
does 1t help to keep the blood healthy
Q-Is alcohol water food?
A-No. Instead of contributing to
the water supply needed for the body
II robs the body of water. Its fondness
for water is so great that 1t absorbs
moisture, increases thirst, and creates
a craving for itself.
OILS alcohol heat giver?
A.-No Alcohol Is a heat lowerer,
and makes the body really colder. Ex-
periments have shown that 1t de-
creases the temperature of the body
from one-half to two degrees, and con-
sequently we are less able to stand the
cold " we take alcohol
Q-Can you give any authority for
the statement that alcohol is not a
food?
A.-Professor Miller says "Alcohol
Is in no sense of the term food"
II is not heat giver, nor flesh
former, not a bone former, not
water food. II is always poison,
and acts on the body as a poison.
Off strong drink is analyzed, of
what are the separate parts composed?
Aft we take ale, for instance,
and divide 1t into 100 parts, we get
half part OF flesh-formlng material,
one-ffth part bone-forming, half part
heat-giving, SO parts of water, seven
parts poison, and six parts of refuse.
Q.-But suppose we take brandy.
what does the analysis show us?
A.-Brand is, II possible, worse. We
got parts flesh-forming material O
parts OF bone-forming, parts heat
giving, So parts of water, and 4S parts
of poison.
Q.-About how much food does a
healthy man require per day?
Att is generally recognized that
an adult man requires about 1-2
ounces OF flesh-forming food. and
IL 1-2 ounces of heat-giving food. and
one ounce mineral matter and salts.
Q.-How much would a person have
to drink to get this amont of nourish-
ment from ale?
A.-Only 40 quarts; or in other
words, ten gallons, and by the time
to drink TO get this amount of nourish
feel uncomfortable.-The Union Sig
nal of July 20. 1907.
Every year in the United States,
$4,000 men, who might have been
good citizens, fill drunkard's graves
Since 1864 four times as many have
fallen into the pitfalls of the rum
demon as perlshed by Federal and
Confederate bullets during the Civil
War.
And yet national politics have been
singularly free from concern as TO
this issue. The battle with the saloon
has been left to private organization,
and neither of the great parties has
assumed prohibition as a part of Its
creed
III IL were shown that the ends of
government we're not Righteousness
but the materials well-being of the
nation, we still have sufficient reason
for hostility TO the saloon. 1t has
been carefully demonstrated that the
homes OF the poor are monuments of
the license system; that the dramshop
tenants the jails and other great pub
lie institutions which are so necessary
to the public safety. and yet so ex-
pensive in their maintenance, No one
now doubts that the saloon is the
great despoiler of national prosperity
and the dispenser of most of it's woes
and ills
But beyond this argument Is one
still more important. The saloon is
responsible for immortality. We can
not holS that the property and the
material wealth Of America can ex-