The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-27

them at the low estimate of s6gg per
year and they would add to cur wealth
over s3s, e9e.00o annually, Add to this
the disabled. the imprisoned and dis
eased made so by the business and
sou would have a larger amount.
1T Is eonservatively estimated that
30 per cent of the paupers In some
of our States are made so from drink.
Q. there Is no financial gain to our ma
ton In any sense arising from this
cursed business. The government
grows poorer every day by ALLOW ing 1T.
How long will we allow this parasite
TO suck the very life blood out Of eur
manhoodf
Waste Of Life.
THE waste of life. We have noticed
this already from one viewpoint. But
! am now thinking OF the lives slain.
the lives weakened through disease,
and the weaklings born. without q
chance In life. because of this awf full
curse to mankind. The medical world
liz rising up and Conouncing 1t one
OF mans greatest enerAies to health.
The Journal of American Medical .aeRo-
citation put 1t "in the first rank of the
enemies to he comhated In the bat
tie for health" Professor Nothnagel
Of Vienna, says. at is q Gin to give
children wine or beer. 1t IL criminal
to teach that wine noarishes. The
dreadful neurasthenia of our day IL due
just 10 this early use of alcohol. Those
who say that alcohol Is poison are
wholly right" This Is the opinion of
the worlds greatest medical lenders
those especially who are dlsinterested
In the sale of intoxicants. Alcohol
lowers the power of resistance against
disease. The causes given in 2o192
hospital cases of tuberculosis were
as follows: Alcoholism, 1929; lack Of
fresh air. Csc: priyation. So: heredity
80. contagion. 4s2. Think of 1t. Al
cohol lowers the power OF efficiency
This Is shown in our schools our army.
our public and private enterprises
Would you see this fully, then watch
the finished product OF the saloon.
II life Is measured by happiness,
prosperity and peace, then what can
you say for the homes where these
things are destroyed by drink2 Alive.
but oh what miserable life. Many
a poor mother and child had as soon
be dead, II they are to continue in
their miserable condition. Men. can
we allow this? Is there not enough
manhood In old Virginia to stop this
awful curse of home, childhood and
nation?
The One Remedy.
There are several remedies In deal
Ing with this evil. One long recogniz-
rescuing the individual Give the
poison to him and then set about to
get him to leave it off Parents.
wives. and friends have sought to
rescue the loved one from the way Of
death. Sweethearts have dreamed Of
1t before marriage, but too often to be
disappointed in the end.
Education and enlightenment or
the subject of intemperance has been
mighty remedy against the curse
Instruction is now given in the schools
OF almost every land. Old Germany ia
stirred 10 the very center over the
drink evil and is teaching her youth
Its curse. But there is another remedy
IN which we are interested now. that
or prevention. An ounce of proven
ton Is worth pound OF cure Any
nation has Il tight to legislate against
this Shiny viper 1t is licensed be-
cause ii has no inherent right. We
must remedy the environment which
is continually tempting our boys and
girls. We must prepare the world
for our children as well as our chill
dren for the world. To make pos
sible the Panama canal the health
conditions had first TO be remedied
The poisonous mosquito had TO be
destroyed. This is our business today
with the enemy OF life. progress and
happiness. Would you stand for the
uplift OF the home, the school the
church. and the nation, vote for State
wide' Would you stand for the hun
CRY child the weeping mother. the
Borrowing wife. the man who Is down
and out. the boy on the way To doath
and misery, then vote for prohibition,
Men, play the man one tiTe, and let
that time be on the cpd 81 Septemb Der"