The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-15
DOMAIN or TEMPERANCE
is BEER INJURIous7


stitute for bread, a nerve builder, a
blood maker, physical architect
And its attractive feature, according
to the same literature, is that it is
not an intoxicant, produces no in
toxicating effects We have met men
who had pledged themselves against
all forms of intoxicating drink; vet
they freely imbibed beer. They were
astounded at the ignorance of those
who maintained that beer is intoxi-
eating and harmful Yet when thev
claim that they have never felt anv
evil effects, although they had in
dulged plentifully, they are imposing
on the fair name of the truth.
Beer is Injurious and intoxicating
Beer contains a certain per cent of
alcohol; and alcohol is injurious to
the system, because it is recognized
as poison; and alcohol is intoxicat-
Ing. There is no doubt that beer. con
ta1ns alcohol, and hence is injurious
DIR. S. H. Burger has drawn the fol-
lowing conclusions after a careful
study and observation of thirty-fiye
years: L think beer kills quicker
than any other liquor. My attention
was first called to it's insidious eff
fects when l began examining for life
| insurance. / passed as unusually good
risks five Germans-young business
men-WhO seemed in the best of
health and with superb constitu-
tons. In a few years I was amazed
to see the whole five die, one after
another, with what ought to have
been mild and easily durable diseases.
On comparing my experience with
that of other physicians I found thew
were all having similar luck with con-
! firmed beer drinkers, and my practice
since has heaped confirmation on con
| firmation.
''The first organ to be attacked is
the kidneys; the liver soon sympa-
thizes, and then comes, most fire..
1 quently, dropsy or Brights disease.
both certain to end fatally. ANY phy-
stefan who cares to take the time will
i tell you that among the dreadful re-
suits of beer drinking are locktaw
drinker seems incapable of recover
ing from mild disorders and injuries
not usually regarded of a grave char
acter.
"The beer drinker is much worse
off than the whiskey drinker who
seems to have more elasticity and re-
serve power. The whiskey drinker
| will even have delirum tremens: but
| after the fit is gone you will some
times find good material to work up
on. Good management may bring
him around. But when a beer drinker
gets into trouble, it seems almost as
| if you have to recreate the man be-
fore you can do anything for him.
have talked this for years, and have
had abundance of living and dead in
stances around me to support my
opinion
Beer-drinking Shortens Life
DR.. S. S. Lungren, leading home
opathic physician and surgeon, says,
/ after twenty-five years practice: at
is difficult to find any part in the con-
firmed beer drinkers machinery that
is doing its work as it should This
is why their life chords snap off like
| glass rods when disease or accident
| gives them a little blow. Beer drink
| ing shortens life This is not a mere
| opinion; it is a well-settled recog-
nized fact. Physicians and insurance
companies accept this as unquestion-
ably as any other undisputed fact of
science. The great English phys-
clans decide that the hearts action is
increased IL per cent in it's efforts to
throw off alcohol introduced into the
circulation. The result is easily fig
ured out. The natural pulse beat is
4 76 per minute If we multiply this
by SO an hour, and "a hours in a day,
and add 13 per cent, we find that the
heart has been compelled to do an
extra hours work during that time in
| throwing off the burden of a few
drinks equal to 155 tons, lifted one
foot high
The President of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company has
for years been investigating the rela-
ton of beer drinking to longevity,
and he declared, as the result of
series of observations carried on
among a selected group of persons
who were habituaI drinkers of beer,
that although for two or three years
there was nothing remarkable, yet
presently death began to strike, and
then the mortality became astound-
ing and uniform in its manifestations.
There was no mistaking it. The his
tory was almost invariable. Robust,
apparent health, full muscles, fair
outside, increasing weight, forid
faces; then touch of cold or sniff
of malaria, and instantly some acute
disease, with almost invariable ty
phoid symptoms, was in violent ac-
ttion, and ten days or less ended it.
1t was as if the system had been kept
fair on the outside, while within it
was eaten to shell, and at the first
touch of disease there was utter col
llapse, every fiber was poisoned and
weak. And this in its main features,
varying in degree, has been his OBJ
servation in beer drinking every
Il where IF Is narTIiarly dncentiVe at