Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-01-28

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cine, hard cider, and brandy
and that those who use it from
almost childhood up in the form
of beer, ale. porter, or in the win.
GUS fermentation Of the juice OF
the grape, otherwise known as
wine, are exempt from the dele
FERROUS effects because of the mod
crate quantity of intoxicant in
these beverages; and that conse-
quently autOcrat alcohol does not
subdue, bind, and bring into bon
dage his votaries in the grape
growing districts to the same star
thing extent as with the imbibers
Of ardent spirits.
In other words, that the vice
lnebriety is not monster of such
frightful mien in wine-producing
countries as among our whisky
drinking people at home.
That this is not absolutely true
is shown by the great anti-alco-
hollc wave that at present is
sweeping over all of Germany,
including the wine-producing
parts, also Switzerland, France,
and Italy, counties celebrated for
the abundance and excellent dual
ity Of their light wines, and a.
mong a people thought to be
temperate. That in this great
teetotal movement in these wine
producing countries physicians
are among the most active and
effective participants, also midi
Gates how great must be the need
for such radical change.
Observing the destruction that
drink has produced in the indi-
vidual, the home, the community,
it seems of late to- have become
a question among many continent
tai physicians whether alcohol in
any form should be used, even as
a stimulant in sickness, or as for
merly, when it was thought to be
a tonic, for amelioration of the
ills and feebleness Of old age.
Alcohol is becoming universally
regarded as a poison so deleter-
ious, even in small quantities,
that if used at all it should be
only in the arts.
Professor Kraepelin of Munich,
by series Of delicate expert
ments on himself and on his col
leagues, and by the aid of GER
tain newly invented Instruments
of precision, has shown that man
cannot use the smallest quantity
of alcohol, even the quantity con-
tanned in the fraction of a glass
of beer, without diminishing men
tai and physical force, and dis
turbing the chemical processes of
the body essential to life and per-
feet health.
AS a result of his prolonged
Investigations into the effects of
very small quantities of alcohol
ON the nervous system and the |
mind, he has become an opponent |
Of Its use in any way. Professor |
kraepelin also says the word
diatetic," used in connection |
with alcohol, is misnomer. 1t |
has no diatetic value whatever.
So rapidly has the conviction
spread, as to the evil effect of
even small quantities of alcohol,
that in some hospitals, especially |
in Germany, neither patients nor
attendants as in the past are sup
piled with it, and many of these
men, active in the crusade again
It alcohol, have come to this con-
1iction because of what they have
seen of it's effect among the wine
producing people of continental
Europe.
A very significant indication of
he antagonism of the people Of
,he wine-growing and other parts
If Europe to the use of wine and
,ther intoxicating liquors was
shown at the Anti-Alcoholic Con-
,ress held in Stockholm, Sweden,
,wo years ago. In a room devo-
ed to an exhibition of the. vast
literature of anti-alcoholism
where, not counting books, tracts !
reprints, etc., over IL
distinct periodicals poin-
ing out the danger of drink and |
dvocating abstinence were
hown. Only about two bundled S
f these were printed in English;
he others We're chiefly in the
of continental Europe,
nd most of them emanated from ,
he wine-producing countries. $
This tells the story. The great 9
r agitation against drink amor I
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