oh, why is it so silent as a general thing on the liquor traffic?

Why are so many of its

members in this devil's work?what a retribution will be theirs when it will be proven that
instead of clothing the naked they have robbed children of clothes. Instead of feeding
the hungry they have allowed them to starve because their bread was taken to buy
drink. They sent souls to prison and did not minister to them!
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The written word was a powerful tool for the Temperance movement. Books, pamphlets, and
posters all informed the public of the dangers of alcohol. The contents of alcohol were a popular
target. The movement had the word of doctors that it was made with various poisonous
substances, like hemlock, tobacco, nux vomica, and opium.
Many people are made crazy by the use of alcoholic liquors. In some asylums where these
people are kept, it has been found that nearly one half of the crazy people were made crazy
from this cause. Not all of these were drinkers themselves. It often happens that the children of
those who drink have weak minds or become crazy as they grow older...
sometimes one is sick or suffers very much because of wrong things that his parents or grandparents did.... Over in the poor-house is a man who does not know as much as most children
four years old ... because he is the child of drinking parents whose poisoned life blood tainted
his own. Many men and women are insane because they inherit disordered bodies and minds,
caused by the drinking habits of their parents; and the descendants of "moderate drinkers" differ
in this way as well as those of the drunkard....
Will you have a cockroach or a cocktail? Rev. T. P. Hunt, of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, says that a
winemaker of that State told him that:
To give the peculiar flavor of Madeira to some liquor which he intended to sell for "Madeira"
wine, he put a bag of cockroaches into the liquor and left it there till they were dissolved. He
also stated that this was a common practice.
The juice of this dirty, stinking, ravenous bug tastes exactly like the best Madeira wine.
From the book leaves of healing
A noted scientist, Dr. Anstie, made the following experiment:
Into the stomach of a large, healthy cat he injected an ounce of alcohol mixed with water. The
cat soon became drowsy, its limbs became paralyzed, and in two and one-quarter hours it died.
Do you know what fusel oil is? It is a poison so deadly that physicians dare not prescribe it for
any purpose. It is made in large quantities and is used in adulterating liquors. Alcohol and fusel
oil are present in all fermented and distilled liquors.
Will you take beer? Frederick Accum, a chemist of London, wrote:
To increase the intoxicating qualities of beer, the deleterious vegetable substance called
cocculus indicus is employed. Opium, nux vomica and tobacco have also been used.
American beers are also adulterated with poisons. Dr. Parris testified that nux vomica, tobacco,
hemlock, oil of vitriol and quassia are used in all malt liquors. Besides these, jalap, potash,
wormwood, nutgalls, green copperas and sugar of lead are used.

We believe that such an era of health, happiness and

prosperity would be inaugurated thereby that many of the
social problems of the present age would be solved.
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I believe that, on the whole, tobacco has done

more harm that intoxicating drinks. The tobacco
habit is followed by thirst for drink. The face of the
smoker has lost the scintillations of intellect and
soul. The odor of the person is vile, his blood
poisoned.
I find that drink causes so much enmity between
the sexes. Drinking men neglect their wives. Their
wives become jealous. Men often go with
abandoned women under the influence of that
drink that animates the animal passions and asks
not for the association of love, but the gratification
of lust.
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