Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-23

form Of intemperance is a great
curse TO America and the rest of the
world II tends to destroy the work
the American schools strive TO build
up. The American schools have for
their object work which viii make
the American citizens of tomorrow
good citizens. Alcohol tends TO de-
stroy this work.
Alcohol effects its users physically.
mentally and morally. If we eat a
large amount of a good substantial
food one day the next day we will
not desire so much of the same food.
Not so with alcohol. the appetite for
il grows as We drink It.
i" Some people call alcohol a food,
but it is really nothing but a poison
Gus beverage. Others say alcohol
produces bodily heat, but we are de-
ceived The blood rushes 10 the face
and makes the skin flushed and hot,
but the temperature of the body Is
really cooler
Alcohol also destroys tissue and
interferes with the quick and reliable
action of the nerves. fibers and cells.
The fact that the habitual use of
alcohol causes so much insanity is an
indication of the disturbing effect it
has on the mental process of the
body. II makes one incapable OF
steady application and inaccurate.
Alcohol effects the rapidly and ac-
curacy Of thought. Alcohol enfeebles
the hearts action and also causes
fatty degeneration of the heart. AL
nit
intoxicated men.
AVERAGE 80 CENTS 4 DAY.
1t has been fairly well determined
that the average man who drinks
spends so cents a day for liquor
These figures are for this country l
think they are slightly smaller n
England and Germany for the en-
peror Of Germany opposes drinking
of liquor very much. This daily eX-
penses Of 80 cents a day takes from
a drinkers income $1S2.50 year.
man who is a steady drinker needs
more medical attention than man
who does not drink and usually has
more debts than a man who does not
drink Summing up all these things
against a drinkers family the drink
err costs his family a year about
$3.50. including his liquor bill, debts
and medical attention.
The facts that the largest rail-
roads and business houses in the
country viii not give employment
20 any steady drinker stops many
men from drinking.
When a man starts drinking he
thinks he will never drink large
quantities of alcohol. but the appe-
tite for alcohol grows as it is used
and he often turns out TO drink guam
titles of alcohol
The family of man who drinks is
usually in very destitute circum-
stances because the father spends so
much money for drinks.
II has been said that Chicago's
drink bill for one week is $1,000, 1000
making a years drink bill $4,000
600 Our own city's drink bill for
one year is from 100000 to $780,
600 dollars. In Rock Island there
are about 255 people to one saloon
Thus all this intemperance is to
make the man poor and unhealthy
citizen.
ance union has probably done more
good for the cause of temperance
than any other organization in the
world. Its mem bership is increasing
yearly. The ". {. T. /. is turning
many men from drunkards to good
Christian men.
My books of reference are:
Krohn's Graded Lessons in Hy-
giene, the Anti-Saioon Year Book,
1909
STARTS N 18TH CENTURY.
Elizabeth Olmsted's essay follows:
Temperance in this sense is the
total abstinence from the use of al
cohoic drinks as beverages.
This great movement was started
at the beginning of the 18th century
because Of the alarming height to
which the vice of drinking had
risen.
The first temperance society was
organized at Noreau, n. y, in April,
1903. 1t consisted of 43 members
and lasted for Il years without ap-
pearins TO accomplish much good.
Temperance when used in the
form of total abstinence is the best
for the physical and moral coGdi-
tons of d person.
When temperance is used in the
form OF moderation, il is very apt to
develop into excessive drinking and
when il does how can those people
using ii be placed in responsible of
fees and be relied upon as good,
pure, clean. honest, straigh forward
citizens?
HabituaI and excessive drinking
Of Intoxicating liquors often brings
on a great deal of trouble in the way
~ sickness
Insanity is frequently caused by
alcoholic drinking. From the annual
report of the New York state com
mission Of insanity during the year
Of I907 II Is shown that a third of
he patients from the rural districts
and more than third from the ur-
ban districts. were insane because
n the use Of alcohol Considering
he United States as a whole II Is
estimated thai from 25 to so per