The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-07-13
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SCIENCE VS.. SALOON.

The Atlanta Constitution Greats Con-
gresham Richmond Pearson Hobson
with having made recently the strongest
appeal for total abstinence and prohibi-
ton ever heard in Atlanta, and says "his
lecture was based upon scientific facts
and figures which are incontrovertible
Mr.. Hobson some years age recognized
tkat the regulation of the liquor traffic
was rapidly becoming one ofsthe liveliest
and most important issues of the day.
He understood, moreover, that as pub
lie man he would be called upon to take
his stand upon this matter. He gave
himself, therefore, to a thorough. scien-
tltic and exhaustive investigation of the
whole subject, levying upon all his splen-
did intellectual resources in an eXamina-
ton, upon strictly scientific basis, of
the effects of alcohol upon the human
system and of the influence of the liquor
traffic upon civilization. He covered in
his investigation not only his own coun-
try, but the continent of Europe as well,
and he emerged from his study an I'M
qualified total abstainer and an ardent
and active supporter of prohibition.
To hear Mr.. Hobson speak-and we
have heard his mastery presentation of
this cause-is to be convinced. He pre-
supposes that nations strength de-
ponds upon the average excellence and
efficiency of its individuals. From this
starting point he demonstrates by scien-
titic facts, the result of thorough expert
mentation, that the excellence and
efficiency Of the individual is seriously
crippled and often totally destroyed by
the constant use of alcohol, and he moves
on, by irresistible logical processes, to
the inevitable conclusion that the indi-
vidual should absolutely abstain from the
use of alcoholic stimulants, and that
society should Danish and bar the open
saloon from it's midst. To follow him as
he shows the fearful effect of this pow
erful poison as it attacks and vitiates all
the living tissues of the organism, as he
reveals its results in body, mind and
character, as he shows the fatal heritage
it leaves to posterity and the destructive
forces it sets loose in society, to follow
him thus is to be convinced of the truth
and to be won to his cause.
We have no doubt of the ultimate
triumph of prohibition. Science, sociol-
ogy, philanthropy, education and religion
are already combined against the traffic
III VI lllh. Ndpluly Tie RANKS OIL temper
ance are recruited. We believe the day
is not far distant when men will see that
not one single legitimate argument can
be produced in favor of the open saloon.
1t has lived in the past by the utterance
of apologies, and an institution that can
present no valid reason for it's existence,
and can show no worthy product of its
life, is not fit to-survive. An intelligent
public must refuse to license its destruc-
tive activities. The late United States
Senator Carmack of Tennessee said in
an address, not very long before his
murder, that men to whom he was then
speaking would live to see the day when
the sale of liquor could not be legalized
in any country where men went to church
or children to school. A bold prophecy
this. We hope to see its speedy fulfill
ment.-The Aroosteok Times.