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GIHAL 49,
ALCOHOL AS FOOD SUPPLIER
Science Has Proved That Finest
Grades Of Whisky are Almost az
Poisonous as Inferior Ones.


race might have left a better record
had he been a passenger Of the water
wagon" said the Rev, Homer b. Hen
derson, pastor OF the Third United
Presbyterian church OF St. Louis In
sermon on Science and Alcohol"
The need Of the water wagon is as
old as time. Even the code OF Ham
Murabi, the proof Of so many ancient
records. gives evidence that In the
day Of It's writing the wagon was need
ed and its benefits were sought
THE water wagon, the steam roller
OF the reform age" was the charac-
terizatlon Of the temperance move
ment made by the Rev. Mr., Hender-
son, whose sermon was a sweeping
attack upon alcohol from the scien'
lists viewpoint. The conclusions and
facts concerning alcoholism were
gained by the minister during re-
searches and Investigations covering
year and half and embracing sci
entihc opinion the world over,
"The production Of alcohol" he
said, "is most significant and Is not
suggestive of wholesomeness, 1t Is
not strength giyer and an energy
builder, but Is in itself the result Of de-
composition, Although It exists nat
uraly In the fruits and grains and in
the human body, may we not even
presume, then, since It IS produced
by decomposition, that It exists In the
places found as the material result Of
decomposition and waste? How, then
can It aid health or restore that CON
ditlon?
"As a food supplier alcohol is n
failure You would have to buy Sl,45
worth Of beer to get the equal In food
value OF 5 cents worth OF flour, Sci
ence has proved that the best OF whis.
kies are almost as poisonous as the
Interior grades In the same quantI'
ties.
1T has been proved by Professor
Kraepelin OF Munich that even one
glass OF Pcer dimInishes the physical
and mental energies,
"The most noted change In the at
tltude toward alcohol has occurred
among the men of medical science
who are rellnquishing It's use and in
many cases refusing to attend a pa.
tIent until all effects OF liquor have
disappeared
"'rhe medicinal use OF alcohol In ty'
phold erysipelas, lung affections and
blood poisons Is being abandoned,
through the steady and unerring guide
OF scientific research, which Is show
Ing It's fallacy A successful tuber'
culosIs specialist In Omaha, who re-
CARDS beer az more injurious than
whisky, has absolutely refused to
treat n patient until he discards In.
toxIcants Of every kind Alcohol's on
ly place In the medical world Is as n
solvent and preservative,
"lt has been thought that II whisky
were discarded dlstilleries would be
necessary for the cure OF snake bite
An authority on serpent poisons says
that many men have been killed by
the use OF alcohol as an antldote for
snake poison and that many mon
thoroughly inebrIated with whisky
have been killed by tho bite OF n
snake, so, after all lts Wanted cill'
cheney In that line II Is really not n
success
at has taken many years to learn
the relation between the serpent and
alcohol, although one was nStrumcn.
to in the fall Of Adam our first pa
rent, and the other Of Noah, our see
ond
"Alcohol FIRST and most hercely at
tacls the white corpuselos OF the
blood, which are aptly termed tho sol.
diers Of the blood These are our
safeguards against disease germs, but
alcohol weakons and destroys them
alcohol attacks mans moral and
intellectual stature, because Its first
attack IL made against his inhibition,
the finer and moro delicate organism
OF his brain, These are the last de-
yoloped and measure the Intellectual
capacity Of the man,
whisky deadens these and stunls
Hos the cultivated man, while II bids
the cave man awake The higher IL
supprcsscd and the lower ls released.
Do we not see this when We read In
our pprera Of the astonishing eyccsses
Indulged In by some Of our cultivated
citizens when under the influence OF
liduorY
"Alcoho means more to herodity
thnn 10 any other thing concerning
life II posonp the parent cell Prog.
eny II lacking In vitality and mental
stature, II dwarfs the lIfegIyng pow.
ers or the mother The number OF
mothers able to raise tholr young is
decreasing,
"1he once wide practice IN Ger
many OF prescribing beer for young
methtrs Ia iaet being abandoned In
New England In the early tlmes brew
,rIea we're exempt from taxation II
they produced II large number of bar
rels or beer Now the industry In the
magt heavily taxed