The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
OH SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE


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q perfect h~uaNlodgo OH the laws OF
oar b,lus IT, one oi ths greatest es-
soaalais % Autnan me. yet. III tie
feeh 81 American lifc. today. it
heenIs 10 have the least Thought in
The minds of The great mass OF hu-
mainly excepting In those Of ply
s~lelana. WHO make ii a special study,
III their practice, or those. who, Wy
the loss OF that precious boon,
health, are Obliged to takc 1t into
consideration when sickness and
premature death stare them in the
face, they are compelled to take a
halt
Millions OF years of existence, are
yearly lost to the human family, for
the Want OF his necessary informa-
tion. brief and simple as it is, to
prolong human life. Know thy
self was written upon the oracles,
at Delphos, and it is most certainly
of Natures imperative demands.
Scientific temperance may refer
no alone to a perfect understand
ing of the nature and effects of al
cohol upon the human system, but
also all stimulants and narcotics
which have a tendency TO produce a
craving for intoXicants, and all in
temperance in our lives. If the in
functions in sacred writ, Let your
moderation be known to all men,"
more fully carried out in our lives,
there would not be such a call for
drugs, as reigns at the present time.
Diseases and drugs the general
order of things, and the prevention
of sickness the exception. If one
tenth of the time now bestowed up
on drugs and cure. were devoted to
the laws of health and life, and the
prevention of disease, the physical
health and stamina of this nation
might be improved fifty per cent.
DR.. j. II. kellogg, N of our best
physicians in one of our most popu-
lar sanitariums, in a late article on
Race D~egeneracy" in his magazine,
Good HEALTH" winds up in the fol-
lowing impressive language: The
race is sick. Race ~degeneracy is the
disease. Unnatural habits and APP
are the cause. Man has lost his
way, on the great highway of exist
ence, and is wandering in by and
forbidden ways He has forsaken
The old paths and is travelling down
the Jericho road. Thieves beset
him on every side. He is robbed
and beaten at every turn. Good Sa-
maritans are needed to bind up the
wounds, and to restore the paths
to dwell in" The only salvation for
the race, is to be found in a return
someness. 1t is not necessary to re-
turn to savagery. Savagery is not
mans natural state, but the savage.
is nearer to nature by far than is the
degenerate aristocrat who smokes
cigarettes and dimes on dead bodies.
The simple life" in its true and
broadcast meaning, is the only way
and the sure way, to escape from the
appalling catastrophe which today
threatens the rae in every civilized
country of the globe"
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AN age. when scientific temperance
instruction is given in our public
schools, and juvenile temperance So
~cieties, and our youth have a much
better opportunity to become versed
in the nature and effects of intoXi-
cants, than much older persons in
the days of our forefathers.
De Sales, Archbishop of Seville,
who died in 1885, at the age of 40,
being asked how he had preserved
his health, to hat great age, replied:
BY violating the laws of health when
young, by excess in food and wine,
l found myself old and. by obeying
LnOSe laws, now lldl L am Ola, III
find myself young"
An eminent writer gives it as his
opinion that "man is constantly war
ring against his own health, and
natures plainest paintings. He over
eats and undereats-overworks and
underworks-turns day into night
and night into day-brutalizes him
self with alcoholic liquors, and stul-
titles himself with tea, coffee, to-
bacco and opium-practices sensu-
ality which would disgrace a swine
and when the day of reckoning and
retribution comes, and a premature
grave opens upon him, he charges all
to Providence, as a bad constitution,
when, in fact, he has committed sui
eide, just as much as though he had
done it with a knife, rope or re-
volver."