Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-15
w. c.. T. u. Department
BY JULIA A. GARRISON

my constant companion for many
years. 1t is worth more to me than the
forty dollars l paid for 1t in Switzer-
land, because it always tells me the
truth, and 1 can rely upon it. When
it tells me 1t is ten o'clock, 1 know
it is not eleven or nine or five o'clock,
and that 1t is ten o'clock today, not
tomorrow or yesterday. But 1 don't
put it in alcohol and set it on fire TO
make it go faster. keep 1T protected
in it's hunting case.
"Our brains are set in hunting case.
Nobody but a spendthrift or fool
(Which is the same thing) can afford to
do anything that will injure his brain.
His brain is the man himself.
1.-THE railroads will not have man
who drinks. The electric car companies
will not employ men who drink. The
manufacturers will not have them. The
one thing man cannot afford 10 do is
to daily with any form of alcohol
"Metchnikoff, the greatest of living
psychologists, has shown that the
greatest protector from disease germs
is found in phagocytes-little white
corpuscles of the blood. Alcohol kills
these protectors, and leaves the sick
man defenseless against typhoid and
other dread scourges-bloodpo poisoning,
gangrene, etc. Come, let us paralyze
our phagoctyesl" would be an appro-
pirate substitute for "Come, let us
take a drink
1.-THE inebriate is simply the man who
loses his power of holding himself to-
gether. Drunkenness is the effort of
the man to recover his powers. To be
able to take a considerable amount OF
alcohol without becoming intoxicated
is an evidence of weakness instead of
strength. A man may resist being
felled to the ground certain num-
Der Of times, but If the blows continue
too long he no longer attempts to rise.
He is overcome-his power of resist
ance is gone.
mo matter how great the mans
brain forces, if he loses control of them
he is like an automobile running wild
without any driver.
II do not believe that in France the
light drinking is any less injurious
than the heavy drinking of other
lands. The heavy drinker goes down
earlier in the race-the light drinker
yields inevitably when the same
amount is taken. The injury is in pro-
portion to the amount taken.
1.-THE s-.loon is stepping-stone to
things infinitely worse. The saloon
and the red-light traffic are insepara-
BILE. The saloon is the center of COR
ruption and vice. In prohibition
states, the young people are growing
up without the depraving and destroy
ing influence of the saloon. Saloons
would not exist were it not for the
power of money behind them.
"The greatest factors in the advance
ment of civilization at the present
time are:
'.The movement for Sobriety, and
'',rhe movement for Peace"
This from Massachusetts: "No-
off n no h
than license cities, have not increased
Indebtedness like Iicense cities, spend
rs per cent more for streets, spend 40
per cent more for education, need not
spend as much for police and poor,
have increased taxable property Ct per
cent faster, have increased industrial
production so per cent faster, have in
creased in population 80 per cent faster
than license cities. Figures talk!
Today Kansas City. Kas., Is the
largest city in the world without a
saloon, a gambling den or disorderly
house., The business of the Home City
bank has increased As per cent as the
result of the wiping out of the saloons
and the business of the City Savings
bank has increased so per cent. Three
times as many workingmen bought
homes in the one year after rum was
outlawed as in any of the years during
saloon rule.
ANTI-sALOoN TOWN IN IRELAND
Bessbrook, town in the north OF
Ireland. the oldest town in Ireland
connected with the flax spinning and
weaving trade, having 1000 persons en-
ployed, has no public house (saloon),
no police force, no poorhouse, no pau
pers and no pawnshop.
The people live happy and contented.
Churches and schools flourish. Intelli-
gence and morality prevail to an I'M
usual degree. Protcstants and Catho-
lies live in peace and harmony There
Is never any of the i'll feeling that
sometimes crops out in places where
drink and the public house are present
to arouse mems prejudices and pas
sions.
The people of Bessbrook have con-
demned the sale of strong drink by a
vote of six to once. Z. A. U. Ad-
vocate
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