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rise 10 defective individuals under all
circumstances, while perfect germ
cells produce perfect offspring only,
when the embryo develops in nor
NAL or favorable environment. This
fact has been demonstrated in alco-
holic experiments with eggs of the
lower vertebrates, which develop out
side of the body. Fresh fish eggs,
when exposed even to the fumes of
alcohol. produced veritable monsters.
Racial degeneracy has overtaken
the American negro since his enamel
patton in 1868. This is no doubt due
to his change from total abstinence
and healthy surroundings as a slave,
to alcoholic dissipation, and a poor
environment as freedman. Before
the civil war the negro was trustwor-
thy, truthful and practically free
form mental and physical blemishes,
while today a large number of them
are immoral, untruthful, indolent and
degenerate. Besides, their longevity
has diminished and criminal tendency
greatly increased. German vital sta
tistics have shown the defective re-
suits from alcohol (beer) among the
sons of brewery employees, 76 per
cent. of whom were found unfit for
military service. There can be no
reasonable doubt but that the crime
and degeneracy found among the low
er classes of the English people are
largely due to the general use of al
cohol among both sexes. The mental
and physical integrity of our nation
until now has been preserved through
the germ plasm of our high minded
and intelligent American mothers who
formerly rarely INDUCED in alcoholic
beverages. Today the growing ten
dency among young women to the use
of cocktails and high-balls is becom-
ing the greatest menace of the age,
and unless checked will lead to the
of our race, as is the case
with France and other European
countries where alcoholic beverages !.
are in general use
Following the general use of whis-
key as beverage fifty years ago
many of the most prominent and in
-ellectual families of our country
have been eliminated and not infre-
luently in the second generation.
Many of their representatives became
lrunkards and died childless, or left
cursed with feeble mind. cpl
epsy, tuberculosis, insanity, or some
other form of degeneracy, which rem
lered fertility impossible. Study the
family records that have been gather
I'd by the eugenist on the subject of
alcohol, and the thinking world will
stand aghast. Among the statistics
N my possession are many quite sim
lar to the following: Judge c. and
wife, superior people, with a family
Of four sons and three daughters. The
Judge was an intelligent gentleman of
the old Southern School, who took his
.oddies regularly, and occasionally
went on sprees.' He died during mid
die age. All of the sons were of or
binary mental calibre, became alco-
holic addicts and died young, several
Of them as pronounced drunkards.
One of the boys married and became
the father of feeble-minded child.
Two of the daughters Gied at a young
age, one morphine addict, the other
from cancer. The third daughter,
now an old woman, suffered from err
raticism, which rendered her intolera-
BILE to society. Another equally sig
nificant family history: Mrs. j., a
beautiful woman of healthy, moral
family, was married at the age O.
twenty to a young man of equal social
standing, who drank regularly, as
was the custom of the day, and on
occasions became as drunk as lord.
During his brief married life oftwelve
years his wife bore three sons and
two daughters. All of the sons and
one daughter became alcoholic adj
diets and died at an early age. while
the second daughter became a NOR
phine fiend and a sex violator. After
the death of the first husband thel
widow married again, this time to a
total abstainer of excellent charac-
ter Singularly enough, she again J
bore five children. three boys and
two girls, all of whom developed into
splendid men and women and be-
came valuable members of society.
Prof G. r. Stockard of Cornell, re-
cites the experience of a sober, indus
trious woman who married man of
high moral habits and became the
mother of three normal children. Aft
er the death of this husband she mar
ried man of Incorporate habits and
bore three more children, one of
whom became drunkard, one an ep-