| Show E editorials DI T 0 R tia L S DOCTORS AND STRONG DRINK drine M RS lomen LOZIER read an address belore before the tiie american temperance cp ulon union at Robin robinson soll soli hall ney nevy york sept 5 of which the tile f following evv 1110 illo 0 Is a report in part as a given I 1 in n t then h e N Y herald it Is a glorious Ic rious tiling thing to bo be abl abi abio ablo to cure curo tho tco sick I 1 am glad to bb engaged in tho noble p profession r ofelon of medicine we must also remember that no do position is more responsible it itis is said that the baby rules rula household the houe boue hold hoid the wife rules the husband husha mJ and tho the baby rules the wine wife but the doctor yules rul rui c 4 the baby might blight we not then say ray that thit the doctor rules the household these poor children are often injured af by ignorant doctors who order orde the gotherd to drink alawi alewine gnei an and other liquors thinking that there is nourishment in them it ia Is byi by byh a silent but steady weakening of tho the will from which the devotees pass to their thel end rend they are so a accustomed to act while stimulants that after a time these saimi blants become the sole condition condit lon iori of their til air activity at this btag stage I 1 drinking becomes a disease ana and and should be treated like one ones no I 1 niall man or woman would ever drink if they could see the con eon consequences sequences 0 of f thi gnei elt elf step experience in the old meth of reform has proved that mar ino alone unaided by woman launa la Is una ble to give up this pernicious habit it was formerly the law in all the states that man and wife were onci ono and that one the husband thus tauaa h man could send his bis sons as apprentices in liquor stores or his ills daughters to brothel keepers without his wife having the power to prevent him A woman was waa often subject tod toa to a brutal and drunken husband three fourths of the cases of born idiots are due to this cause one billion and a half of dollars are spent every year for liquor or abou about V 50 to each voter we the old course of reform must be changed the reform should be at the ballot box politics are generally thought to have little to do with wilh religion ligion io but every one should do his duty and reform all abuses as a christian christl an politician woman too should be freer v the only way is to give her equal power with man in the circumstances cum curn stances of ilfe life life ilfe and that power in dur country is ia vested in the ballot box |
