The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-26
EFFECTS OF STRONG DRINK
Alcohol Consumed Stimulates and Ex.
cites Body and DeceiVes People
Who Drink II.

/. Every workingman is bound 10
consider what Is best as food for him
self and his family II he fails to do
this, he may spend his wages upon ar
ticles of little use In building up
strong, healthy bodies, and so prac-
ucally waste his hard.earned money,
says Temperance A great many
workingmen only earn bare living
wage; while many more only get suf-
/ iicient to live decently with no room
| for extra expenses of any kind and
/ only a small number obtain money al.
| lowing Of enjoyment OF luxuries. So
/ the strictest economy Is necessary In
spending wages
2. Now the average amount spent
upon intoxicating liquors by each man,
woman and child IN the United States
Is something over S23 per year. OF
course, this sum includes what drunk
ards spend, as well as what ls paid by
sober folks. Perhaps the amount spent
In this way by good many would be
less than fifty cents per week Stll
1t Is very important that what is
bought should be really helpful. II
the workIngman f. wasting his wages
on alcoholic drinks, when II ought to
be spent on food, or clothing, or other
useful objects, then both the man and
his family are not getting the full ad.
vantage from his earnings. and health
and comfort will suffer.
3. When a gallon Of beer is split up
into It's several parts. Sc parts are
found to be water parts alcohol and
Z parts solid matter The nutriment
depends upon the solids. but only six.
tenths Of these are food. the rest is
waste, To get half a pint OF nourish.
ment man must drink l0i gallons OF
beer. This is like eating a sack of
chaif to get a grain OF wheat. The
famous Doctor Liebig said n you drop
the point Of knife into -four. the
quantity you obtain represents as
much nourlshment as you get in a
quart of ale. In wines the proportions
are: Water rs. alcohol 49, solids 1
Spirits are simply alcohol Cj0). and
water (5Ol. This, then, is what sci
ence tells ms. II is evidence that every
chemist is bound TO give, and II shows
that intoxicating drinks can do moth.
ing to make flesh or bone. muscle or
nerve, for they do not contain the
necessary food They are useless.
therefore, to the wageearners
4. intoxicating drinks are really
made for the sake Of the alcoho! they
contain. This dangerous drug has
powerful effect upon the body. It
stimulates and eXcites IT, and so de.
ceives people that they fancy they are
better for its use, when IL is actually
destroying them No man I'm health
needs stimulation. A stimulant is like
a whip to a horse Alcohol may be
good medicine in the hands Of doc.
Tor, but II Is not food and II Is a dan.
gerous article In common use. often
leading TO disease, intemperance and
other evils. No worklng-man can af
ford to tamper with alcoholic drinks.
8. Experience proves what science
teaches. When doctors have tested
alcohol on equal sets Of men engaged
In hard work against time. amongst
sections hands on the railroad. in
forced marches and long campaigns
amongst soldiers. in the cxhausting la
Dor of ioundrics and ioiges. and In the |
hard training of athletes, abstinence /
from intoxicating drinks is always /
found the best II is the natural re. !
suit. These drinks cannot streng hen /
No matter how man feels under |
their influence, he is surely losing |
and not gaining energy What folly |
II Is then for our American people to
spend $2,1OG,i7GSjO yearly on alcohol.
Ic drinks.
6. They are larg ly drunk for pleas.
ure, but even II such pleasure were
right, the amount spent Is very eXCes.
iive, and is the cause Of much drunk.
'nness and wrong Even the makers
and sellers Of these drinks admit that
rany millions are wasted on intemrer-
ite drinking. AS matter of fact, the
money spent rer week by the average
is almost. II not quite.
Useless expenditure, and take from his
what is wanted for other
lurposes-to properly feed aud clothe
he family, to give it the comforts Of
lome, or to provide against the time
II sickness and Old age. II does not
hen pay the workngman to use in
drinks. Such practice ia
IN economic waste. and tells against
lis efficiency as worker, and against
he wellbeing of his family