The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
need OF EDUCATION IS
PLEADED BY HORSFAIL
English Physician Says People
Must be Taught Dangers of
Alcoholic Use.
WOULD FIGHT IGNORANCE
Foreign Residents of United
States Must be Given Infor-
mation, He Says.

mation, He Says.
DR.. A. H. Horsfall, London, Eng
land, gave the Toronto convention
reminder OF the need OF education as
to the evils of alcohol. DR.. Horsfall
said:
II want to strike une note and that
is that in all our discussions and
activities we should endeavor, so far
as possible, to act and to think of our
opponents who like their alcohol and
who think that we ale wrong. We
must give them credit for the same
sincerity that we clam for ourselves.
They believe that they are right. We
believe that they are wrong. | be-
lieve it is only in that way that we
can come to solution. We believe
that their sincerity is the result of
ignorance.
when you get at the basis of it,
the acton OF alcohol on the human
body-as those of you who heard DR..
Saleeby last evening and have also
heard the talk on the scientific aspect
of the question will I believe, agree
with me that now, as never before,
it is incumbent upon lis to awaken
our peoples to realization that alco-
hol at its best is of no use as
remedy.
Therefore we must approach the
legislative method and means with
that idea foremost in our minds.
"The second point ! want to
emphasize is this: that the evils
which Prohibition is about to fight
have lasted thousands of years, the
habits and customs OF people for all
this long period of time are not 60
ing to be eradicated in one short
year 1t is no use on the one hand
to endeavor to force the people
against their wills to do thing I'M
less you have their good will at the
back of it.
The main thing is then to get the
great mass of people feeling good to-
ward this movement. and with such
. mass with good will behind their
efforts we will succeed.
Another fact which we must always
keep present in our minds is the prev
alence of alcohol IN our human sys-
tens. And bearing this in mind we
must remember that wherever you
End anything rotting, call it ferment-
ing if you wish. but rotting--that Is
the term---wherever you find anything
rotting, whether it is grain, or any,
thing else, there you will find alcohol
10 being formed. have wonderful
example of this which ! will explain
to you.
Drink Bee Wine
TT has been my privilege during the
last two years to go -up and down
England to conduct local option
campaign. In the course OF that !
found in the country districts very
good temperance people drinking bee
wine. Bee wine is a wine that IS made
of honey. They get little yeast and
put it into honey shell and cover
il with water and set it beside the
KITCHEN fire and that makes the stuff
they call bee wine and these good
temperance people, members of tee
total societies, were taking this bee
wine and giving it to their children in
perfect ignorance of the consequences.
"That is an important fact we have
always got to bear in mind. The
honey must rot before they get the
alcohol from it, just as the grape, just
as under the skin Of every grape,
there is little germ which ferments
into the grape juice and becomes
wine.
"These are important facts we have
always to keep in mind and we must
always remember that education is the
keynote of progress.
immigration Seems Powerful
Weapon
"The solution is always to educate
these people and DR.. Cherrington
emphasized the existence of the for
eign elements in these various parts
of the United States. There are 6S
per cent of people in the State of New
York who come from foreign coun-
tries. The immigration law, think,