The chronicle=news., 1912-10-26
c. F. & |. co,
URGES State
WIDE PRO-
H|B|T|0N

rue COLORADO Fuel ana Iron COM
puny has come out openly In favor OF
the constitutional amendment pro-
viding for state wide prohibition
The action on the part OF the COM
pany is the source OF much surprise.
The October bulletin. the official
publication OF the Fuel company. is
sued by the sociological department
Is devoted entirely to arguments
advancing the cause Of prohibition.
This bulletin Is circulated among
all the employees OF the company and
the miners In nli districts where the
company owns and operates mines
Several thousand OF thes" bulletins
are In circulation In Las Animas
county. where the company Is
quietly carrying on the movement
to make the state dry.
Some OF the arguments and state
ments appearing In the October bull
letin are here rcprudoccd. quoting
from Il statement made by Prof. Irv-
Ing Fisher of Yale University at
Washington. ID. &.
! found the German Kaiser was
encouraging the anti-nlcohol movc-
ment In Germany. that he had spok
en- against alcohol. had given II up
absolutely In his household. had Sc
lcctcd the university to which to
send his sons. on the basis largely
OF the fact that that university had
less of the fashion OF beer drinking
than any other university In Ger
many.
! found also that statistics OF Ger
many. taken from the recent scienti-
iIc movement against alcohol
want to emphasize that word ''scicn-
tile" because II is not the kind OF
an alcohol movement that VIC are
accustomed to think OF In this coun-
try-showed that there had been II
striking diminution In the use OF al
coholic beverages including beer. In
Germany. Concomitsnt with this there
has been decline in the death rate.
The reason Sweden has shown
greater Improvement In mortality In
later ages In life. nx well an earlier
ages In life. is that they are fighting
alcoholic diseases as well as dcEcner-
ative diseases. .....-
up tho fight against alcohol. The in
snrancc companies which are going
into public health questions arc
teaching their isks In regard to aico-
hol. when the Postal Lifc Insurance
Co. n generation ago. first took up
tho statistics OF this country and
tried to compare tho mortality be-
tween those who were total abstain
crs and hose who were not. they
found that those who were total alb
staincrs had the highest mortality.
the users of alcohol. but 1t turned
out to be due to the fact that the
insurance or muual benefit societies.
which consisted of those who did
not consume alcohol. were sclcc;
class. namely. they were the reform
ed drunkartis. and they were people
who were Just about to die anyway
and therefore their mortality was
very great. II was due to alcohol. not
due to the lack OF alcohol. within
the last generation, when we have
had u set fpeople coming in who
were total abstainers early In life.
the opposite is true. so that now you
find for tn" Golden Sccptre. and
other societies consisting of total alb
stainers. the death rate among them
is less than the average. I recently
saw the statistics of The New York
Life Insurance company. In refer
ence to these matters. and they con-
firm the facts | have recited.
| Experiments made on the effect
of the continued daily adminisrra-
ton of 40 to so grains OF alcohol
show a decrease after a few days in