Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-03
MUCH ALCOHOL CONSUMED
IN LIGHT Wines AND BEER
So Called Mild Drinks More
Deadly Than Supposed

Did you ever heal the argument i'd
vanced that beer, because of it's low
alcohol content, should not be classed
as an intoxicant? Did you ever heal
anti-saloon advocates abused as intol-
Grant fanatics because they objected to
this so-called mild and beneficial bev-
erage? Well, here are a few facts.
The human stomach is so constituted
that no matter how great the dilution
Of alcoholic liquids taken into it may
be-, it quickly extracts the potent poison
and passes it into the circulation. In
fact, any substance capable of prodUc~
ing definite physiological action pro-
duces it's effect more quickly when
diluted than When concentrated. The
reason is easy to comprehend. If, for
instance, you take a dose of EPSON
salts, dissolved in a small amount of
water, on a partly filled stomach, the
entire dose comes in contact with per-
haps not more than four or five square
inches of the walls of the stomach, and
all the absorption into the system must
take place through those four or five
square inches. If, however, o take
the same amount, dissolved in a quart
of water, a much greater area of the
stomach is contacted, and absorption
is correspondinGly more rapid. An
ordinary medicinal tablet acts much
more quickly when chewed up and
swallowed with a large drink of water
and ever a slow-acting pill will take
effect within a few minutes if dissolved
In water.
So the fact that beer contains alcohol
in a high state of dilution does not
mean that the system does not absorb
all of it. The fact is that such alcohol
as is present enters the system much
more quickly than if taken in highly
concentrated form.
AS Deadly as Whiskey
Whiskey on the average contains
about As per cent of alcohol The aver
age drink of whiskey served at a bar
Is not to exceed one fluid ounce, so that
the drinker consumers 45-100 of an
ounce of pure alcohol with each drink,
or ZIG drops. Light wines contain not
less than IL per cent of alcohol, and
they are served in glasses containing
about four unces. Each glass of wine,
therefore, contains four times II, or
48-100 of an ounce of alcohol, or 23O
drops. Beer contains varying percent
ages of alcohol. In Europe the per-
centage runs from 2 to 4, but in the
United States it is almost invariably
made stronger. 1t is safe to say that
much of the beer sold in this country
contains 6 per cent of alcohol. This is
borne out by the best scientific author
tiles. Beer, moreover, is sold in larger
glasses than those used for any other
drinks, the average Schooner contain
ing from 8 to 10 fluid ounces An s.
ounce glass of beer. therefore, contains
s times 6, or 4S-100 Of an ounce, 23C
drops, of pure alcohol, exactly the same
as a 4-ounce glass of wine, and Il
drops more than a drink of whiskey.
These figures demonstrate that the
average glass of beer contains more
pure alcohol, n therefore has more
intoxicating power, than the average
drink of whiskey; n when it is CON
sidered that men think nothing OF
Z gulping down six to ten glasses of beel
while standing at a bar, the contention
Il of the brewing corporations is quickl!
q disposed of.
Il Food Value is Joke :.
N One of the greatest chemists tn,
world has even known was Baron Jus
tus Won Liebig, author of many scien
tifc books, and recognized all over tn
scientific world as a leading authorit,
on the chemistry of foods In one o
his hemical works, entitled Chem
Ische Briefe," he says:
ut is now possible to
with Mathematics certainty that, S
far as enriching the blood is concerned
the -four that will lie on the point of
knife affords more nourishment tina
four measures of the best Bavaria
beer; and that anybody who drinks
measure of beer daily would thus i'm
bibe in one year about as much nour
ishment as is contained in a pound {
bread"
ully-Prudhomme, a distinguish
Frenchman, also regarded as an au
thority in such matters, is responsible
for this statement:
al in my opinion as to alcohol /
all it's forms is, that it is fitted, thanh
to the devastation it brings abou j
the nervous system, to animalize pee
pie in all grades of society, and, soone
or later, to annihilate the superiorit
which man has slowly acquired ovt
the anthropoid ape"
Brewers and saloon advocates al
fond of assuring us that beer is
harmless beverage, rich in food value
mild and ~innocuous; and in Colorac
the liquor forces are at the presel
time endeavoring to bring about Il
passage of a law which sholl declal
that beer is not an Intoxicating liquo