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Show H ALCOHOL A POISON. H Prominent men on the liquor side H of thin controversy have repeatedly fl urged that tho moderate use of alco- H hollc beverages 1b beneficial. Let na see bow such advice harmonizes with H tho Investigations of science: H On the 18th of December, 1902, In H the city of Paris, France, a report was made by a committee appointed by the government, and drafted by Pro- feasor DeBove, dean of the Faculty of H Medlolne, and Dr. Falsans, physician H to the Hotel Dlou. Hj "Alcoholism Is chronic poisoning re- H suiting from the habitual use of alco- H hoi, even when it is not taken In n amounts sufficient to produce drunken- Hj noes.. Alcohol 41b useful to nobody; It H Is harmful to all." H Ono hundred professors of physlolo- H gy in German universities have signed H a declaration -which Includes the fol- H 'lowing: H "All the prevalent ideas in rogard ' H to tho invigorating and otherwise ben- H eflcial properties of alcohol in small H doses have been proved erroneous by H sclentiflo rearch. Moderate drinking K has a taprdenoy to make the body moro Hj liable to disease and to shorten life." H But even, "worse than the alcohol lt- H self are tho poisons used in adultera- H tlons. Dr. 'Warren, state food com- H missloner for Pennsylvania, has made flj an official statement in which he says: H "Out of 600 samples of alcoholic H liquors, 450 samples were found to he l adulterated. WOOD ALCOHOL, caus- M ing nerve atrophy, convulsions, lm- M paired vision, blindness and oven M death; salicylic acid, causing intestinal H derangements, dyspepsia and kidney H diseases; COAL TAR dyes that are H active poisons and that cause diseases of the digestive tracts; SULPHTTE8 H that have the same effect; RED PEP- H PER and other POWERFUL 1RRI- H TANTS are sorao of the adulterations H which lurk in many thousands of hot- H ties and kegs of whisky, wine, beer M and other intoxicants that undoubtedly H will be placed on sale within tho next M year. The Pood of this poisonous Btuff H has JURt commenced. A new leglsla- B ture will not meet until January, 1907.. H It is necessary that public attention M he called to the dangors that lie in H the use of adulterated drinks." H Admitting the presence of such H adulterations, the general manager of H the St. Louis Wholesale Liquor asso- H rfatIon, in a letter written to the liquor H trado, April 15, 1907, said: "We have 1 unwittingly sold this accursed poison H to the youth and the flower of our H manhood, many of -whom have been H crazed, have lost their manhood, their H honor, and their all, because they H t drank it Their mothers, tholr Hiatore, H their fathers, their brothers and their H friends are driving us retailers out of M business." H And the advocatos of the saloons H class such stuff among the foods! Not H only thai, but advise men and women H to drink it. Tho contontion in Ogden 1 today is, SHALL THESE POISON m v8TORDS CONTINUE to dispense un- H der the protection of the law, that 1 which "produces more idleness, crime, H disease, want, misery, than all other causes put together?" |