The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-06-27
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ALCOHOL AS FOOD suPPLIER
Science Has Proved That Finest
/ Grades Of Whisky are Almost az
Poisonous as Inferior Ones.

Poisonous as Inferior Ones.
THE second father Of the human
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 q
ernon 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-
t%erization 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
a year and a half and embracing sci
entific opinion the world over.
THE production of alcohol" he
said, lis most significant and is not
suggestive of wholesomeness: It is
not a strength giver and an energy
builder, but is in itself the result of de-
composition. Although it exists nat
urally 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-
dition?
"As a food supplier alcohol is a
failure. You would have to buy SLAB
worth of beer to get the equal in food
value of 5 cents worth of flour. Sci
ence has proved hat the best of whis-
k1es are almost as poisonous as the
inferior grades in the same quaint
ties.
1T has been proved by Professor
Kraepelin of Munich that even one
glass of beer diminishes the physical
and mental energies.
THE most noted change in the at
titude toward alcohol has occurred
among the men Of medical science,
who are relinquishing its use and in
many cases refusing to attend a pa
tent until all effects of liquor have
disappeared.
The medicinal use of alcohol in ty-
phoid, erysipelas. lung affections and
blood poisons is being abandoned.
through the steady and unerring guide
of scientific research. which is show
ing its fallacy. A successful tuber-
culosis specialist in Omaha. who re
CARDS beer as more injurious than
whisky, has absolutely refused to
treat a patient until he discards in
t%oxicants of every kind. Alcohol's on
ly place in the medical world is as a
solvent and preservative.
1T has been thought that if whisky
were discarded distilleries 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 %antidote for
snake poison and that many men
thoroughly inebr;ated with whisky
have been killed by the bite of a
snake. So. after all its Wanted eff
cheney in that line, 1t is really no a
success.
1T has taken many years to learn
the relation between the serpent and
alcohol, although one was instrument
tai in the fall of Adam, our first pa
rent. and the other of Noah, our sec
ond.
alcohol first and most ~fiercely at
tacks the white corpuscles Of the
blood. which are aptly termed the sol.
.diers of the blood These are our
safeguards against disease germs, but
alcohol weakens and destroys them.
alcohol attacks mans moral and
intellectual stature. because it's first
attack is made against his inhibition
the finer and more delicate organism
of his brain. These are the last de
veloped and measure the intellectual
capacity Of the man.
Whisky deadens these and stupf
fies the cultivated man, while it bids
the ave man awake. The higher is
suppressed and the lower is released
Do we not see this when we read il
our papers of the astonishing excuses
INDUCED in by some of our cultivated
citizens when under the influence O.
liquor?
"Alcohol means more to heredit,
than to any other thing concerning
life. It poisons the parent cell. Prog
eny is lacking in vitality and menta
stature. 1t dwarfs the life-giving pow
ers of the mother. The number O
mothers able to raise their young Il
decreasing.
"The once wide practice in &c,
many Of prescribing beer for youn
mothers is fast being abandoned. Il
New England in the early times brew
cries were exempt from taxation |
they produced a large number of ba,
.rels of beer. Now the industry is tn
most heavily taxed.
"And so the water wagon rattle
on. Some Of its passengers may b
fanatics or extremists. Some of tn
things they have said may have bee
exaggerated. Some of their ideas sc
forth even may not be .tenable.
small amount of truth, enthusiasm
prejudice and hope sometimes max
an undesirable combination. But til
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