Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-05

1 cannot withstand an operation or se-
 were illness as does the teetotaler. Has man personal right to drink | 1ntoxlcants? When it makes his less I a man, no. When it degenerates him l no When it deteriorates his offspring,
 thousand times no. Are We here at the present time and 1 in our present state of physical and
 intellectual greatness because of our l selves? No. It has taken thousands of generations of ancestors and ten of thousands of years of time to produce | us as we are. Have we, as a nation, any personal right then to produce a generation of degenrates No. Are we doing it? Yes.
 How will we cut off the supply of | alcohol? There are majority of peo- pie in the United States that recognize that alcohol is the greatest detreiorat- | ing. degnerating and destructive agent or the human race, and that the traf-
 nc in 1t Is a crime. Now who is to
 blame for this crime ? Is 1t the saloon
 keeper? No. Is 1t the manufacturer No Who then? The government
 Noow, my good people. we are to
 blame for the liquor traffic and this Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not kill. Have we killed? Yes A larger number each year that the standing army of the United States. Have We food from the widows mouth and the clothes from her back, but the health and intellect of her children.
 Today all thinking people are begin ming to study this question of conser- walton. The economist, the philan threpist, the hygfenist, the educator, both secular and religious, and finally the scientist. They all reach a certain point in their work and research and are then brought face to face with the black barrier of intemperance and the liquor traffic. Is this barrier going to stop their progress? No. Nothing has ever stopped the progress toward the truth when sought by the Anglo Saxon race They have carried to fruition every moral question they have under taken and will this one.
 How are we to cut off the supply of alcohol? Educate. agitate. consolidate vote straight and do not procrastinate te. For 70 years we have tried numerous remedies without much avail Today we find the drink habit impressed up- or mankind more thoroughly than ever before. Reduced to pure alcohol, we are using IS beverage 50 per centu1n more than they did In 1870. Still 1 an, an optimist as to the outcome.
 Do not awaken in the morning and think the day is bright. The world looks good. I know a great number Of upright men and women. I think this degeneracy idea is dream" But, rather, give five minutes, just little five minutes. to the thought of that 40 Der cent of insane all at Brewster's Neck on account of alcohol That there will be a great number of cOnSump- tives treated at our tuberculosis sana- torium on account of it. That our epi- leptics. our idiots. our degenerates are on the increase due to it. That our jails, penitentfaries are crowded to the utmost by it. That that sturdy army Of prospective voters, our school chill dren, must furnish recruits and vic tims for it. That for each saloon iu this city between three and four per sons on an average each year will die of it. That in the United States 700,- 00o this year will lose their lives on account of it, and finally that every civilization of the past has been de- stroyed by 1t.
 If everyone who is interested in this subject will do this each morning for a year. our plan for conservation ot, mankind will be consummated.
 Suggested Organization.
 Dr. Chipman suggested the organ ization of a Conservation of Mankind society to represent the entire United States. saying that in the union of all the people opposed to the evils of al cohol would be found strength to break the bonds which 1t has on the nation.
 At the close of the meeting there was an auction of cake and candy in charge of Miss Elizabeth Hamilton Mrs Robert McNeely. Miss Etta M and Miss Margaret Leahey.