The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-03-29

dash Of some other chemical. For
instance, little chlorine, he said,
added to alcohol produces ehloroform
little of another powder and one has
ether, and little Of still another
and one has prussie acid, the most
deadly Of organic poisons.
Is Anaesthetic Not Stimulant.
| He gave the word of chemists and
scientists for the statement that al
cohol is not, as it specifically appears,
stimulant, but in reality an anaesthe-
tic. The appearance of stimulation is
effected through the power of the al
cohol to deaden the moral and will
control nerve centers almost immedi-
ately, thus allowing the lower nature
and the animals instincts livelier ac-
tion and temporarily giving the i'm
preston of stimulation to these. But
he averred that any man who had
made the experiment would know that,
piled with still more of the alcoholic
| poison, even the muscles and animal in
stincts become paralyzed and anaesthe-
tized, the same effect almost immedi-
ately felt on the delicate nerve centers
And he asked them to recall the feel
| ing on E'the day AFTER
Takes Less Alcohol Than Ether to
| Poison.
The speaker said six ounces of pure
| alcohol will kill and that no antidote
! could save the victim who had swal-
been known to recover after as many
as eighteen and twenty-five ounces, re.
spectively, of ether and chloroform.
He gave as proven statement that
alcohol is poison which affects the
most newly developed cells of the ami,
NAL or plant to which it is given, tend
ing to cause it to revert to its original
or atavistic state.
Makes Moral Perverts.
AS an instance, he cited that if q
Burbanked' plant in which beau.
tiful color has been developed, is given
a little alcohol daily in solution with
the water given it, it quickly loses
the newly acquired property. If a
puppy dog is fed alcohol it loses the
characteristics of its finely bred and
immediate ancestors and becomes un,
manageable and wolfsh, like its fai
away progenitors. If any plant or ami
NAL is alcoholized it reverts to primal
characteristics. The reason is, he ex,
planned, that alcohol attacks the new
est and tenderest cells. Therefore
when men are alcoholics, the results
of civilization, control Of passions
high morality and great intellectually
are gradually sloughed off and the man
is savage-ized, slowly but surely.
Effect Upon the Child.
The speaker gave statistics to prove
! that children and grand children OF
Incorporate and often of temperate
drinkers are materially affected; that
the child of parents, one of whom
drinks even moderately, has largely
increased chances of being still born
insane later in life, subject to disease
or to become feeble minded or physi
cally defective.
| He quoted statistics to the effect
| that children of parents who both
drink average only one normal child
in every six born; they produce an
average of one insane descendant in
every FIVE born and one physically de-
formed in every seven, beside the
large percentage of Predetermined il
varying degrees of degeneracy.
Allow Few to Poison Many7
Capt. Hobson asked whether this ma
tion is willing to sit back and allow
the one-third of one per cent of It's
| population to grow rich and opulent
by poisoning 1--WE million.
No well regulated community would
give a man license to go out and
poison even one individual if the po
lice force was what it should be, J, said
the speaker, Hand whether they know
what they are doing or not, those who
dispense alcoholic beverages are dis
pensing poison, and because its deadly
effects are not Immediately apparent
they are no less certainly Deadly
Sweden Bans Alcohol.
| The Swedish government, Capt. Hob
son said shot alcohol out of the Swe
| ish army after the following test