The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-01-24
WAR AGAINST WHISKY
How the Drink Evil Is Being
Fought In Australia.
ALCOHOL A DEADLY SCOURGE
The Habit Of Drinking Leads to Moral
and Physical Deseneracy-Rum En-
genders Paralysis and Insanity and
Is a Frequent Cause Of Consumption.

genders Paralysis and Insanity and
Is a Frequent Cause Of Consumption.
The organization Of Il branch of the
international Reform bureau at sgd
Of II. and Mrs. Wilbur +. Crafts to
that country was followed by the
adoption of IL programme covering the
reforms commended to the people Of
Australia at large.
I The following poster. after pains
taking consideration, was unanimously
recommended for adoption by city GOV
ernments in Australia and throughout
the world:
Alcoholism and Physical Degeneracy.
Extract from proceedings French
supervising council Of public aid. 1902.
report by Professor Debove. dean Of
the faculty of medicine. and others.)
Catholicism is the chronic poisoning
which results from the habitual use Of
alcohol. We when the latter would
not produce drunkenness.
1T is an error to say that alcohol is
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fatiguing labor. that it gives heart II
work or that it repairs strength. The
/ artificial eXcitation which it produces
gives place very quickly to V de
preston and feebleness. The habit Of
drinking spirits leads rapidly to al
coholism, but the so called healthful
drinks also contain alcohol. There is
# p.nrnIyv a Il iffnranrn of InSnS Tho man
who drinks every day AN immoderate
. quantity of wine. cider or beer as sure
" becomes aicOhOliZed as he who
drinks spirits.
1.-The habit of drinking entails dis
affection from the family, forgetfulness
Of all duties to society, distaste for
work. misery, theft and crime. 1t
leads at the least to the hospital, for
alcohol ~engcnders the most varied NAL
aides. paralysis. lunacy. disease of the
stomach and liver, dropsy. 1t is one
Of the most frequent causes Of tuDer-
culosis. Finally, it complexities and
a~ggravateS all acute maladies. Iy-
phoid fever, pneumonia. e~rysipelas,
which would be mild in the cas- of a
Sotyt ioil MUMMY N"ii oh AN a.
coholic drinker
''The hygienic faults of parents fall
upon their children. If the latter sur
vive the first months they are threat
ened with idiocy or epilepsy, or. still
worse, they are carried off a little later
by tuberculosis, meningitis or phthisis.
For the health of the individual, for
tho nyiStpnrn of tho ia n)i1V for tho fill
ture of the nation, alcohol is one of the
most terrible scourges."
What follows is from another French
poster, giving "Verdict Of Scholars"
IN. Berthelot. member of the .Acade-
mics of Science and Of Medicine: Al
cohol is not a food, even though it
may be fuel. Atwater himself did not
conclude from his experiment that al
cohol is a true food-that is, that it is
capable OF assimilation by the human
organism
"Dr. Charles Richet of the Academy
OF Medicine: If alcoholic drinks could
be entirely abolished possibly a small
portion of nourishment would be lost,
but one would have rendered an inn
mense service to humanity
MIR. Magnan Of the Academy OF
Medicine. chief physician of st. Anne
Insane asylum: In my opinion alcohol
would not be In n case a o to be
recommended. 1t pushes into our asy-
lums of the Seine almost one-half of
the inmates
"Dr. Gardner. chief physician Of the
Special Almshouse intirnary: The
food. alcohol, feeds crime and mad
ness. The former is indebted to this
substance for about 20 per ent of its
victims, the latter for 33 per cent"
From British city government post
ers. quoting parliamentary report on
physical deterioration prompted by
failure of a majority of candidates for
enlistment in British army to pass the
physical examinations:
"Alcohol is not a source of muscular
vigor or deXterity. but the reverse.
"Alcohol may produce temporary ex-
hi~laration. but depression soon fol-
lows.
1.-THE continued use of alcohol. wheth-
er in the form of beer. wine or spirits.
ever though not to the extent Of drunk
enness. often leads to chronic poison
ing.
"Of 61.215 people the average deaths
per year by insurance tables will be
1000.
"Of 61,215 liquor sellers the death
average is 1912.
"Of G1.215 Rechabites (abstainers'
the average is $50,
"Sir Frederick Treves. physician to
King Edward. declares that alcohol is
an insidious poison and should be sub
ject to the same strict limitation as
opium. morphia or strychnine and that
its supposed stimulating effects are
delusive."
Intemperance and insanity.
According tO a report submitted to