The farmer and mechanic., 1914-08-18

At the International Congress Against
Aicohoiisrn, held ia Stockholm in 1se7
me International Bureau Against Al
cohoilsm was formed. with provisional
headquarters at Lausanne Swit-a-
iand This bureau was put under the /
cnarse or DR.. Robert Hercod, a man
OF extraordinary command Of Ian
| suages and much diplomatic
aoiiHy' and with courage and |
| tN. p.. seFei ahce tnat arent t y
nho" no nnslts. The bur- au is
| sues an international service sendirp
| out arucles for the press on the atco-
! mol question in different languaees
| it publishes an International Year
LOOK In German and French, and is
| planning one in English. 1t also
Dr1nss out The international Monthly
| Tor the Investigation Of Alcohol as
well as publication known as Absti
nence. which gives the news Of the
lwor1d-wide anti-alcehoa scampaiEn.
The Economic Waste Due to Alcohol.
In the parliaments Of practically
fesefy European country there have
Oeen recently introduced and in many
| cases. enacted into law. bills provid-
fne either for the total suppression
OF the liquor business or for its strin-
gent regulation. The European 6eht
1
Dered. Is being conducted almost ex-
cIuSiVely on economic grounds. Com
paratlvely little attention is now de-
Voted 10 the arraignment Of the moral
effect on individuals. European gov
ernments and European public opinion
are concerned chiefly with the de-
monstratlOn Of waste and the in iury to
the state through the traffic
The Dcploraiie State Of Franc
| Ly,r
the modern commercial promotion Of
| Intemperance than any other nation.
statistics show that in the French Re-
puDnc there is now a drinking place
? for every forty inhabitants More
alcohoilc beverages are consumed. per
, capita, by Frecnhmen than by any
: | other nationality, or twice that of the
/ United States. England has one drink
' ing place for every 430 inhabitants
4 Sweden one for every 5000, Norway
4 | one for every 5000 There are more
than 100000 drinking places il
! France. $4,000 in Paris alone, and ar
increase Of consumption of intoxicat
r years of 1900 per cent DEPUTY
e Reinach, leader of the anti-alcoho
o party in the Chamber, has made sew
: eral efforts to secure the prohibition
IS of the manufacture of absinthe ane
i to limit the number Of drinking places
i So far. however, he has been unsuc
8 cessful. In the Senate, during tn
l. session Of 1901, he introduced
: bill reducing the number Of saloons
'e This bill passed the Senate, but failet
y in the Chamber. NJ. Reinach assert
n that France consumes more absinth
" than all the rest of the world put to
4, gether, and absinthe records show
If is the most fruitful cause Of crime il
IT | France. The Academy Of Medicine Q
N France has unanimously demande
n the total suppression Of all beveras
sc liquors containing alcohol, eXcep
e, wine. In the French army the pre-
it. blem Of alcoholism is most serious. -
,e few years ago. according to N
Mt Reinach, already quoted at least 3
per cent of those entering the arm
~ were incapable of service, owing
the effect of alcohol The War O1
| flee is taking measures against this
IL According to government statistic
G in France and Switzerland. 81 pc
C cent of the total number of deaths {
re men is due directly or indirectly
70 alcohol Twenty per cent of tt
IN cases Of mental diseases and 40 pc
hs cent of crimes can be traced to tn
e same cause. According 10 M. Hen
TO Schmidt Deputy from the Vosses. An
ne President of the new French Miita1
n Temperance Society known
ne LAlarme, very large proportion
no the deaths from tuberculosis through
pc out the republic are due to the veal
ening effects Of alcohol consumptio
m, Anti-alcOholism is one Of the CHI
in planks of the platform Of the Fre1.o
ds Union for Woman Suffrage. On pas
"a "a Of our las number we presented
TOR condensation of an article which r
as Gently appeared in La Revue. shown
Die the extent to which public opinion n;
es- been aroused on this subject in Franc
I'D The Magnitude of the Task
til GeEnany.
OSt Tn Carmany the movement touch
nd all classes from the Kaiser on Il
,ed throne to the poorest Socialist on Il
is ack streets Of Berlin. Absolute su
nix nression is the demand. I'VE cam
nst discuss moderation with any man
saws DIR. Matthaei. one OF the sts
ses physicians in the German army.
it's AS the result .. seV.i"
al agitation, the Dui'oeS - 80. :;