The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-02-23
TIE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK
TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS
STRENGTH EVERY DAY.
A Element.

Consumption is not the only death.
dealing element in the land. We
have among us the liquor traffic. We
have no doubt that fully as many peo-
pie go down to the grave annually be-
cause of its existence in these United
States. What is Government doing
to remove this agency so productive
of fatal results? Professor Wilcox in
his report shows how much loss Is
sustained in the State, not only by
the death of those who are removed
through tuberculosis, but the loss
that is experienced during the months
prior to their decease, when the NAL
ady makes labor partially or entirely
impossible. In a word, Professor
Wilcox emphasizes the fact that for
months and sometimes years the vic
tins Of tuberculosis are consumers
and non-producers. This is precisely
n of the arguments Of the Temper
ance Reformer. against the drink
traffic. He claims that the effect OF
intoxicating liquors is such as to prac-
tically incapacitate their victim from
taking his full share of public duty,
and this frequently for a much longer
period than that covered by the indis-
position of the consumption patient.
Probably nearer 100000 than 1907
900 persons die annually, directly or
Indirectly from the effects Of our Ii
cense system. This means, of course,
that their wage earning capacity IS
ended. 1t was in many cases con-
cluded, to all intents and purposes,
years before physical dissolution act
ually removed them from the stage of
time. What a mathematical exhibit
could be produced at this point by
such an expert as Professor Wilc"-
we're his trained intellect to calcula-.
along this line!
Nor is this all. While so many die
we may safely I've that the majority
do not cease to live. The fact is that
hundreds Of thousands Of inebriates
do not die annually, but live on and
on, sometimes for years and years.
During this time what do they do for
a living? They have to be supported.
Who supports them? A very large
proportion of them, we can not fail to
agree, is not self-supporting, not to
speak Of the support that is due to
wives and children and other depend
ents. AS a matter Of fact, the victim
Of the intoxicating cup, as a rule,
lives to be supported by SOM n
else's honest and Industrious labor;
lives to "loaf' and not to work.
Every man who hampers his faculties
by the use Of stimulants is gradually
reducing his earning capacity n IN
he same ratio making himself a bur-
len upon sone n else; usually, in
The first instance, his family.
So fully persuaded has the Nation-
al Temperance Society been concern
ing this throughout it's history, that
It has, year after year, ~endeavored to
secure the passage Of a bill in Con-
gress providing for the appointment
Of. a commission of inquiry into the
causes and removal of such condi-
.ions.-The National Advocate.
Beer and Whisky Cause Delirium.
DR.. Alex. Lambert, in Bellevue
Hospital Medical and Surgical Re
port. says:
"The majority Of alcoholics are
whisky drinkers, either this alone or
with beer. The women, especially
the young prostitutes, are the wine
drinkers.
Il have. endeavored to learn if the
cheap WHISTLES, the compounded
WHISTLES, caused more tremor than
the higher grades of the same fluid,
thinking, at first, that the cheap whis-
kies contained more fusel oil. But In
this I was mistaken, as the analyses
made by various observers seemed to
show that the compounded WHISTLES
contained none, or less, than the gen.
nine malt-distilled WHISTLES. The tre-
mors from the cheaper whiskies are
greater and last longer simply be-
cause for the same amount of money
more whisky can be obtained, ant
hence the poisoning is greater from
the amount of ethyl-alcohol con-
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