The Caucasian., 1911-05-25
AGAINST i1foUoR
Qu6tali6Rs from Great Men and
sapes Of tho Pas*.

n1ockef, strong drink is raging, and
whosoeyer is deceived thereby is not
wise! The drunkard and the glutton
shall come to poverty. Prov. 1924.
What the country needs is men
like Governor Hughes, who is not
afraid to talk daring facts, even if
gun is leveled at him. Hughes is not
a political trailer; he is not the echo
of machine bosses. Hughes wants
to drive the bartender into a better
way of making living than
through the sales of graveyard
rum.
It is recorded of the men who
served in Napoleon's campaign in
Russia under great exposure to cold
that death was hastened by the use
of rum. Numerous arctic explorers
testified that strong able-bodied
men in the habit of using alcoholic
drinks are utterly untitled to resist
the cold.
The flushing Of the face common
to hard drinkers does not indicate
that they have surplus of animal
heat. The true cause of the flush is
a paralysis of one set of nerves gov
erning the natural action of the
hair-like vessels that course just
below the skin. The heart, you all
know just where it is, it is the most
wonderful little pump in the world.
There is no steam engine half so
clever at its work or so strong
There it is in every one Of us, heat
ing, beating all day and all night
year after year, never stopping like
watch ticking only Il, never needs
| to be wound up. God winds it up for
all.
The late DR.. Parker tells us OF the
amount of strain put upon the heart
by alcohol. He says in one set OF
experiments that the extra work OF
the heart induced by alcohol was
equivalent to, the lifting of Ia tons
lone foot daily in excess of the regu-
lar work,
Another medical giant says thai
he has known a single glass of Ii
quor to cause 5000 extra heart
beats, equivalent to the necessary
lifting of nine tons the distance Of
one foot estimated in another way
This amount of oyer-taX of the
Iheart is equal to that which takes
place during one day in a person
having fever that raises the pulse
l6 to beats above the rate of health
1 Recently | had dinner with a few
Friends, among them was Supreme
Court judge. He remarked, there is
scarcely a crime that ever came be-
Ifore me that was not directly or in
directly caused by rum"
Jefferson says: The habit of using
ardent spirits by men in office has
oecasioned more injury to the pub
llie and more trouble to me than any
lother causes. Were / to commence
ION administration again, the first
question | would ask respecting {
candidate for Office would bedoes
he use ardent spirits?
st. Augustine says: Drunkenness
lis aattering devil. a sweet poison
a pleasant sin.
Shakespeare says: What's
drunken man like? Like a drowned
man, fool, and a madmanl 0nt
draugft above heat makes him
fool, the second mads him, and 9
third browns him.
| Socrates says: There is no differ
ence between knowledge and tenn
perance, for he who knows what il
good and embraces it, who knows
what is bad and avoids it, is learned
and temperate.
Franklin says: Temperance puts
wood on the fire, meal in the barrel
flour in the tub, money in the purse
Icredit in the country. eontentmeni
in the house. clothes on the back
and vigor in the body.
| A Spartan being asked why hi
people drank 50 little, replied tina
Ehe might consult concerning others
and not others concerning us.
Frequent the gin mills, then tht
| doctor, then comes the undertaken
Sir Walter Raleigh says: Exeep
thou desire to hasten thine end
i take this for a general rule, tina
| thou never add any artificial heat t.
thy body by wine or spice.
William Penn says: The sn1aIlel
| the drink, the clearer the head, ant
the cooler the blood which are greai
benefits in temper and business.
| The Bible says: Woe unto then
them that rise up early in tn
morning that they may follow
strong drink.
i Plato says: 4 drunkard is unprof-
litable for any kind of good service
Talmage says: AS long as yol