Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-01-14

of the family at the time, which con-
tains warning to guard the infant
from all effects of alcohol.
THE war has simply promulgated
this scientific knowledge 1t is
bound to have good and lasting eff
fects on the future generations of
all those countries. According to the
official Russian reports on the sup
preston of the liquor traffic in that
country the non-use of liquors has
already saved more lives than war
has destroyed
Scientifically we now know that
alcohol produces degeneracy One
child in every five of drunkards and
drinking parents show symptoms of
degeneracy, if it is not actually de-
generate. And in every seventh
birth where both parents are addict
ed to the use of liquor one child will
be deformed. But where both par
ents are abstainers nine children in
10 will be normal.
People who use alcohol furnish
the only species in all creation which
does not rise and develop naturally,
while animals and other growing
things thrive according to natures
rules. Through the evil of alcohol
many centuries have brought down
degeneracy on the heads of men.
That is why nations have persisted
and left only bleaching bones by the
waysides."
AS matter OF fact, there is not
one one-thousandth as much thought
in the minds OF Germany OF conquer
ing the United States as there is in
the mind of the liquor trust; there
is not one one-thousandth as much
plotting against America in Japan
as there is in the councils and CON
ventions of the distillers and the
brewers; there is not in all the
world any enemy the United States
need fear one one-thousandth as
much as the saloons which have our
cities in their grip. While we are
going into Mysteries over invasions
by Germany and Japan. they are
busy fighting their own battles, and
are giving us but slender thought.
Not so the real foe, the liquor inter-
ests. They are taking advantage of
this foolish fear, and laying deep
plans and organizing as never before
to seize the nation and get it into
even tighter grip. That is the pity
of it, that we should be bending all
our energies to prepare against inn
aginary foes and neglecting the en-
envy in our midst, and the enemy is
not slow to seize the opportunity. It
was only the other day that one who
knows said to us: The liquor in
terests are Selling this opportunity.
while the nation is crazy over this
preparedness business, to regain
what they have lost and make Sc
curer that which has not been taken
fro mthem." Yet, congress, which
should have taken up the issue of
national prohibition, must spend the
whole session wrangling over de-
Tense programs. The Golfers of the
societies fighting the saloon mus.
remain empty while the defense soci-
cites, security and navy leagues get
all the peoples money. What a pity
we let ourselves become so blinded
to the fact that our real enemies are
in our own national household, and
while we are arming against fancied
foes outside, leave them to sack the
house,
Again, while we are making such
a dreadful stew over the loss of lives
of few Americans in the course of
international strife, and going into
| frenzies over two or three crimes Ct
Germany against United States cit
liens, we forget all about the th1d-
sand times more crimes against Unit
ed States citizens being daily com
mitted within our borders. Great
corporations perpetrate unspeakable
atrocities and injustices against our
citizens in every state, acts to make
the blood boil happen in Colorado
and Lawrence strikes, scores of lives
are burned up by shops that violate
the fire laws, as recently happened
in New York, thousands of little
children are dwarfed in factories VIC
lating child labor laws, thousands of
men are killed by preventible acct
dents in shops that will not install
safety appliances, thousands of men
and women have their lives Slapped
away by having to work in unsan-
itary conditions--and we forget all
these things. turn away from them
now to cry for reparation from an
outside foe, which, in state of mad
ness. takes a few American lives. 1t
M axes one wonder, seeing what we