The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-28

at the value Of $1,000, the price
at which good slave was sold. we
have another six and half billion
OF dollars per annnm. to be added
to the first SIX billion aud one-haf.
making $13,a6U0o0 foss per annum
of productive values. To this must
be added the expense of pauperisnl,
insanity and crime produced by the
liquor traffic. and these amount to
five dollars for every dollar Of reyc. :,
nue. paid in from the traffic. This
amounts to two billion more. making
total of fifteen billion dollars hnan-
cial yearly loss to this nation alone
by the LIQUOR traffic This enormous
sum Ia equal in value to all the manu-
featured products in the country In
one year, equal to the value of all
the railroads. including trolley lines,
in the country, equal TO all OF the
AGRICULTURAL products OF the country
In one year. And yet men Will talk
about revenue as a real factor in the
liquor traffic. when the traffic costs
the nation $3.50 per annum for every
man, woman and child in the eoun-
try.
Drink increases Criminals.
But that Is not the worst side OF
1t. Investigators found that drink
produces criminals A large percent
age of our people, while not being
made quite criminals, paupers or III :
natics or having q large per cent, of
| their economic efficiency lost, are sur
| fering at least proportional ana an
equivalent detcriorating effect upon
| their standing in citizenship. ana
from this point of view. since the
State exists for promoting and elc-
| %tx.o tfsa ct Ia d nf fsittzanGhlD.
! evil must be pronounced organic.
Race Degeneracy Threatened.
| But this destroyer Is not satisfied
with lowering the economic efficiency
! and the standard OF citizenshtp. II
! strikes ut the fife of the nation amt
| the integrity of the nation and the
race. When this poison enters th9
body in the amounts ordinarily used
there Is no tissue or organ that IA
| safe from Its attack. OF course. the
amount Of harm will be in proportion
to the quantity ingested and to the
| frequency with which the dose is re-
peated.
The scientists took plants and
found that very small percentages 3f
alcohol checked growth and even de-
stroyed life. They took cats and be-
gan to give them alcohol. and found.
after a time, that the alcoholic cats
| began to lose their general activity
and mental characteristics. They i,st
| all interest In play would mot ptsffs
and did not seem much interested IN
mice. The scientists took dogs. tw ,
brothers from one litter, and two
| sisters from another One OF the
| brothers named Bum" and one of
I the sisters named 'Tipsy" were
brought up on an alcoholic Fatlefi,
whereas they brought up Mig and
.'Topsy" as teetotalers. After a .hile
the time came when they were # an
age to be trained. The trainers
thought that retrieving was good
test and they found that Bum" and
"Tipsy" had Last so percent at their
retrieving ability. Then they noticed
that Bum and "Tipsy' began to
show signs of cringing. trembling and
! timidity. which could not be account
! ed for by any treatment they had ic-
ceived Whistles and belle made them
/ howl as though In panic Of fear, "a
dtcating somewhat the condition OF
! fear shown in man in dellrium ire
mems.
| The experimenter wanted to see IL
he could not get the dogs back To
| normal, and discontinued the alcohol
ration. Tipsy died within two months
In giving birth to a litter of puppies
no marked change as a result of with
| drawing the alcohol having taken
place in her condition. Buns con-
dition toned up somewhat, his re.
trievipg power gained somewhat, bu'
he became prematurely old as com
pared with Mig.
Scientific investigation have
shown that eft-repeated doses of al
eehei affect the brain cells. ifaPaiFisss
first of all the higher, most lately
acquired faculties of reason. Judg'
n1ent, and seif-control. The singular
4 thing is that this destroyer will marl
for destru elton the highest and nobles
| men In the community, those In Whom
the little brain ceSs are becoming tht
most active. and those men whom
nature has designed to be OF the high
est and noblest type. The young mar
with talent and genius and the greai
qualities of heart and mind, and witt
the brightest future. the man who Il
the soul of honor. will. under tbs
continuing destroying effect of this
poison, ere long become careless oil
the truth and unreliable. You vii
find in the end that the moral sense
has practically disappeared. You vii
find men who We're good and law.
abiding citizens reversing back to the
| days when men lived by strife. Nearly
all the murders can be traced directly
| to the power of this destroyer.
MY cOunuIn&n, 90 you not FeEDS'
nize the nature of this crii2 1t no,
only stands athwart the path of pro
gress but 1t prevents the accomplish
4 HaeHt of the benefieent purposes OF
/ the universe. The Almighty expects
men to rise, but drink hurts them
back and degenerates their noblesi
elements.
In this way the integrity and the
life of the nation may become In.
VOWED.
Alcohol and Heretlity.
Alcohol strikes at the integrity OF
the human race. The most tragic
and terrific effects arc those that are
found upon the progeny. Nature In
tends a proper mating to produce
higher offspring than parents. These
/ cold bleoded scientists went to tbs
human family They located ten large
families in which both parents We're
alcoholic, and ten living In the came
conditions who were tectotalers This
ten families of alcoholics had fifty
seven children. OF these fifty-sever
children ten were deformed, six were
! epileptic, six We're td,otic, and only
ten were normal. an even II per cent
/ or the ten large families of .teetotalers
there was 81 children. and OF these
all were normal except 11.5 per cent
and they were not seriously abnor.
| mat OF the children SSs5 per cent
! were normal in the one case, and only
II per can't. In the ether. Drink had
actually wiped out normality In Ill
per cent. OF the Offspring. Can vo,