Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-12-03
Beer Drinking.


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highly nutritious beverage. Be-
cause it increases body weight,
even physicians have been known
to recommend its use to the ema-
ciated and the sick.
The fact that beer produces body
weight is no evidence that it is a
food, for morphine, phosphorus
and other deadly poisons do the
anne These poisons interfere
with normal cell activity. This
results in a retention of waste ma
terial and fatty degeneration OF
the tissues. The increase in
weight is a pathological rather
than a physiological process.
While in appearance the beer
drinker may be the picture OF
health, in reality he is a degener-
ate, incapable Of recovering from
mild disorders. Should he meet
with a slight wound, he may die
of blood-poisoning. For these
reasons surgeons do not wish to
operate on such subjects. There
exists an abundance of flesh, but
it is of an inferior quality. The
kind of flesh produced by the use
of stout or beer is itself an evil
dence of degeneracy.
Baron Liebig, a thoroughly
scientific authority, says, speak
ing of the value of beer as a nu-
TRENT: "If a man drinks daily
from eight to ten quarts OF the
best Bavarian beer, in the course
of twelve months, he will have Ia
ken into his system the nutritive
constituents contained in a five
pound loaf of bread" The cost
OF eight to ten quarts of beer pei
day would amount to about SUI
per year. Is not two hundred
dollars too much for a laboring
man to pay for the amount OF nu-
triton contained in a five-pouno
loaf of bread, which may be pur'
chased at the moderate cost of II
or Is cents? Well may the proph
ct inquire of this generation
"Why do we spend money for tina
which is not bread and your labor
for that which satisteth not?'
Beer is not food; it is a poison
and is highly injurious to the
body.
Professor Won Bunge says: go
all alcoholic drinks beer is thu
most injurious" While it pro
duces a species of degeneration
of all the organs of the body, i
chiefly affects the heart, the live:
and the kidneys.
DR.. Bollinger, of the City o
Munich, is responsible for the
statement, that it is rare to find
normal heart and a normal kidney
in an adult resident of that city.
But the physical effect is not tn
worst feature of beer consumption
The most pernicious thing is it
demoralizing and brutalizing in
fuence on those who habituall,
use it. In speaking of the in
fluence of beer on the German
nation, Professor Edward Vo.
Hartman says: although of al
nations the German has the great
est capacity for culture, the gen
eral culture of its higher classe
is undergoing frightful retrogres
sion because of the beer consump
ton of it's students"
DR.. A. Forel, of the Universit
of Zurich, says: "To be convince
of it's moral effect one only nee
to study in Germany the bee
jokes, the beer conversation an
the beer literature. Among tn
academic youth of Germany tn
drinking of beer has truly kille
their ideals and ethics, and he
produced an indescribable WI
garity."
Vulgarity, impurity and i'm
morality are the Legitimate an
natural o~utgrowths of beer drinl
ing. In fact, l believe we sha
yet discover that immoral acts al
nearly always committed viii
the mind is under the influence
poison. Just to the extent tn
drinking becomes more univers
vulgarity, immortality and evel
form of impurity and vice will b
come more common.
The time has come when eve,
lover of humanity must arou
and by a united effort do all
can by voice, vote and pen to su
press the manufacture and sale
such beverages to an innocei
ignorant or deceived people.
Do not forget to see the unde
wear at B. N. Browns. Some b