The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-20
THE WHOLE WORLD IS
At WAR WITH ALCOHOL

of the territory of the United States
has specifically voted to prevent the
sale of alcohol as a beverage, Such
sections are called 'drys.'
There are over 100000 men and
women organized in societies and
working through churches for the spe-
cifc purpose of driving out the saloons
and stopping the use of alcohol as a
beverage. In addition to this there are
over 100000 voters who have express
ed the same conviction in some form
or other, although not in organized
parties From these facts alone it is
evident that the movement toward to-
tai abstinence is not the enthusiasm
of reformers or a matter of sentiment
among hysterical men and women, or
even a psychological craze, but deep
settled conviction of danger and a con-
seriousness of the possibility of remov-
ing and destroying il"
The same authority calls attention
to what he considers the real purpose
of alcohol He says:
"The great liquor interests with
their millions of money will turn to
the manufacture of this product with
greater profit and will find an increas-
ing demand for it, and this is a posi-
tive indication of it's future. Alcohol
as a fuel will take the place of coal;
as a power it will supplant gasoline,
and the great alcoholic problem will
merge into the utilization of this force
for the benefit of mankind and the
world A number of different manu-
factories in the West have begun to
change their products from refined
liquors to crude alcohol for the trade.
New inventions and new possible meth
DDS are growing in many directions.
THUS a tremendous revolution Of
industrial energies has already begun
and promises to constitute a new era
in the economies of the race. The eX-
tinction of the saloon will follow early,
the change in the breweries and dis
tilleries is bound to come, and the
frantic efforts of the trade to obstruct
progress will disappear Far-seeing
men recognize this already and refuse
to take an active part in the great
pro-alcoholic struggle. They realize
the oncoming of a new force in the
economics of the world Alcohol,
which has so long been regarded as a
beverage and the destructive effects of
which are now beginning to be realiz
ed, will be changed to a great power
to propel machinery, heat buildings
and in many other ways contribute tt
the advancement of the human race
AS evidence that the movement fol
the rational treatment of the inebTiatt
is widespread here is an extract from
the summary of the thirty-seventh an
nual report of the House of Correction
in Chicago:
During 1908 the House Physician
DR.. C. b. Sceleth, wrote that 1912
inmates were received; 576 cases OF
delirium tremens were treated in the
hospital, LOIS alcoholics or DRINKS
were treated in the call houses, 81
cases of drug habitues who had beer
"fiends" for years and were using
, from fifteen to sixty grains of NOR
phine a day were given treatment anC
relieved of the habit in two weeks
and 342 persons were received whC
had been using cocaine, smoking OPT
UNI, and using nostrums containing
false stimulants and sedatives, WHIT
only needed to be deprived of the drul
to recover.
After mentioning that Chicago ha
no hospital for such cases and tina
they are refused by the County Hos
, pital the physician urged that the cit.
I build a hospital on the grounds ant
= accept remuneration from those pa
. tients to help pay for the Chart,
cases."
The New York Medical Journal re
f Gently made this editorial comment OF
Z the subject:
t "Those who are connected with on
! penal institutions know the frequenc
e with which drug victims turn up. One
f they are sentenced, good attention i
: nearly assured. But on the way there
+ through the first night in the polio
n station, the appearance in court tn
r journey, short or long, nothing but a
n anticipation of hell is the experienc
e of the sufferer. Certainly the suffel
ings are brought on by the fault of tn
l. victim, but it must be a hard-hearte
), person who can look on while thes
n tortured bodies fight for life agains
e the bars of pitiless fate.
d "a special study of their need
: ought to be made, and provision i
r. our medical schools and the clinic,
f the end of fitting some of us to atten
l. to alcoholic cases and drug hab