Show FACTS AND FIGURES in the christian register appears a plea for temperance made by b josehp H crooker president of the unitarian temperance Socie society Soe ieti tN and v which a friend hands to us with s some ome marked paragraph i drink is the greatest menace tu to liberty and pros prosperity perit of the poor man various fallacies respecting the use of liquor that have long cursed therace are fast di disappearing appearing before ithe march of soenke the worst superstitions of all the apes ages are those connected with ith liquor but they are rapidly fading in numberless laboratories scientists are demonstrating mon nion thit that a constant uze uie of small amounts of even mild liduor after a temporary exhilaration permanently manent ly slows thought dulls perception cep tion and weakens the will making the drinker a lets leks efficient student and a less competent workman other scientists of horld renown forcibly proe that even occasional drinking makes the far more susceptible to die disease ae ih a british regiment in the orient having haing total abstainers abstain ers the amount of sickness among them for a given period was one oie half of one per cent while it was two and i a hilt hilf h per cent or five fie times as large for the rest of the regiment still other scientists have shown hown that the drink hibit babit leads to a veritable slaughter of the innocents among babies the mortality at the end of eight months was as 13 per cent where here parents were abstainers abstain ers 23 per cent where parents were moderate and 32 per cent where parents were vere customary drinkers one child in five in this particular group sacrificed b the drink habits of parents among doctors the term for alcohol is coming to be brain and its use as a medicine is rapidly decreasing among laa lawyers ers it is ca called 11 cd a crime producer lord chief justice alverstone Alv erstone of england recently declared that judges fommo nl hold it for at percent per cent of crime the state cannot afford to a accept apt revenues from tb thi liquor business the office of government goern ment is not to tax vice but to encourage virtue liquor pas r nation a bear ear but this represents a vast financial mental and moral loss subtract the large sum eum spent in collecting this revenue then subtract the police court prison and alum expenses caused b this traffic then subtract the bills for doctors drugs nurses hospital and undertakers directly due to the drink habit then subtract the loss of wages on account of incapacity through drink a beir air as much as the government goern ment receives then subtract we are now far down the minus side the vast sums spent by private and public charities tu to provide for the u wrecks of intemperance over against thit thib add up the tears hP heartaches artaches divorces vices crimes ruined homes diseased and neglected children and say if iou can that this is a wise way to support the government the manufacture of liquor for drink is the very greatest economic waste certain pessimists dolefully wail men have always used liquor and wu we can never stop the drink habit impossible t control an evil custom slavery has been abolished bloody sacrifices have ceased piracy has stopped barbarities Birbari lies have vani vanished blied and yet strange to sa some people deny that the race can be educated to abandon liquor A race that his hia weighed the stars tamed the made the air a ts peaking tube so that continent may to continent ind and now rivals the llight flight of birds can surely nt drunken nesb the saloon aloon is the greatest foe to peace and pro prosperity to freedom arid and manhood brewr that turns good barley into liquid do de th ith brews nothing but sorrows and crimes the distillery thit tr good food into poison for boda and soul foul distills in the end a hood of tears 1 ahe I he sup pres preshion bion of the drink habit by adula education ind the debt destruction ruction of the liquor tr offic by agi l constitute UIL tilt most effect effective ivL applied christi anity that is a pretty good temperance sermon and to all of it we cin heartis hearte he arti siv san amen |