Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-23
DIES MONIES. Ia. March II. 1904

DIES MOlNES. H.. rs 4Se@s
Editor Journal: When President FL
lot was recently in Atlanta. entertained
by graduates of Harvard university, his
public utterances were published by the
press and eagerly read by the people OF
Atlanta.
In the last copy of the Outlook I had
read with great interest the conclusions
of this distinguished man on the aues-
ton of temperance and I could not but
regret, with conditions in Atlanta and
Georgia as they are, his views on this
Question were not given.
Dr. Eliot, like scores of other great
, men, after studying this question has
seen fit, not only to modify, but abso-
lutely change his views on this great
question.
Cambridge, the home of Harvard uni
versity, is a city of ninety thousand
people. Largely through the efforts of
President Eliot this splendid city has
abolished the licensed sale of intoxicating
liquors.
In a recent address before a no-license
meeting, DR.. Eliot said:
mo license in Cambridge has been a
success, and it is possible to exclude the
saloon absolutely from city of nine
ty thousand inhabitants and have no al
coholic SUBSTITUTES THEREFOR"
This great educator does not stop with
his open advocacy of no-license, but in
the same address sums up his conclusions
as follows:
1.-THE recent progress of science has sat
isfied me that the moderate use of alco-
hol is Objectionable: that the habitual
use of alcohol is lowering to the intel
lectual and nervous power"
In the article in the Outlook to which
I refer. some remarkable facts are Civ
en-, upon which, presumably, DR.. Eliot
bases his conclusions.
For instance:
Alcohol and Poverty
such moderate and calm observers as
John Burns and Charles Booth attrib-
ute half of the poverty of English peo-
pie to the use of alcohol.
Alcohol and Life
English experience as to alcohol and
life assurance after an analysis Of forty
years showed that the percentage or
actual to expected death in the abstainer
class is 71-52 and in the general "a.
Alcohol and Health
Fifteen thousand English physicians
recently Joined in an appeal to the gov
eminent to teach the physiological eff
fects of alcohol"
Alcohol and Efficiency
saThe giving of grog has been abandon
ed in the English navy. Vice Admiral
Reresford. of the English navy, has said:
II do not believe that alcohol in any form
has ever done or will do any one any
good. I am now sixty years old, and
since / have entirely given up wine,
spirits. and beer, find 1 can do as much
work. or more. physically and mentally
+ban 7 could do when l was thirty.
Moltke. himself an abstaineri said:
"Reer is a far more dangerous enemy to
Germany than all the armies of France
The president of the United States, the
Hon. William H Taft, when secretary
of war. said: with hardly an excep-
tion. the men who are incapacitated first
during the preliminary activities OF any
campaign are the drinkers. The same
is true in every effort of life which de-
mands the best energy of a man.
ITO the man who is actively engaged in
responsible work, who must have at his
command the best that is in him, at It's
best-to him 1 would. with all the empha-
sis that 1 possess, advise and urge, leave
drink alone-absolutely. He VINO drinks
is deliberately disqualifying himself for
advancement. Personally l reuse to take
such risk. 1 do not drink.
Sir Frederick Treves. surgeon in ordi-
nary to the king. in describing the relief
column that moved on to Ladysmith,
said: The first who dropped out were
the drinkers, and they dropped out as
clearly as if they had been labeled with
big letters on their backs
Alcohol and Crime
The bureau of labor statistics reports:
"Of the whole number Of convictions for