FRIEND OR FOE?

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 November 1895, Page 2

FRIEND OR FOE?

I discovered one thing some time ago, and that is that the license as a system, after a fair trial for several generations, for all practical purposes of destroying the traffic or saving the community from the crime and misery connected with it, has proved itself to be a ghastly farce—an utter failure. It really does nothing to stop the sale. It really puts a legal sanction on the stupendous and awful crime. It does no good. It is useful as a handle for the politician in some places, puts a tremendous power in their hands for mischief, but does nothing to stay the awial tide of misery, drunkenness, devastation, and ruin. Every saloon-keeper makes his living at the mouth of hell.— Rev Dr. Cuyler. The evils of alcoholism can scarcely be exaggerated, though there is a wonderful power cf resistance to them in some constitutors It is not only that alcohol causes diseases of the gravest cnaracter directly such as cirrhosis, neurit us, gout, Ac.—but that by the general misery and inDutriti >n of families which it involves it favours all other degenerations. —The Lancet. A publican’s daughter made a very interesting statement at the B.W.T.A meeting in Stockton recently. Upon the publican’s family, she declared, the influence of the public house bad been of an entirely evil character. She had therefore refused the offer of a public house which would have brought her in a week. —Home Taper.

with more certain repetition, the lesson whenever a person, however moderate he may suppose mmaelf to bo, comes to the conclusion that to him alcohol is a necessity, he is in at least the first stage of alcoholic disease. The declaration of tho sense of necessity is, to use a medical term, diagnostic of alcoholism. The sense of a necessity for alcohol is the first symptom of alcoholic disease. —Sir li. H. Richardson. So email a quantity of alcohol as four fluid drachms, or half a fluid ounce, is sufficient to disturb the eye for correct vision, the muscles of the hand for the detection of weight, and the sensory tip of the finger for the sense of touch. lh. J. J. Ridge. Alcohol circulating in the blood with proper oxidation; alcohol diminishes nervous power and activity ; alcohol shortens the average duration of life; alcohol produces disease and hinders recovery. — Dr. J. J. Ridge. Alcoholic expenditure in sickness is becoming smaller. In the London Fever Hospital in 18C3 the consumption of alcohol was JO3 5s per bed. whereas in 1888 it was only 15s per bed/* —Med cal Pioneer.