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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichi, il est film4 d partir de Tangle supiriour gauche, de gauche d droits, et de haut en bas. en prenant le nombre d'Images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants iliustrent la m^kthode. 2 3 ) 5 6 MICROCOPY RESOIUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) ^ r 'PPUBmrvHGElnc ^^^ I65J tost Main SIreel ' =^=S (716) 288 -5989 -Fax i Is.'S^ (Prohibition Sorlen.) A^ The Dietetics of Temperance. BY THOMAS C. WATKINS. The really important question is not so much how alcohol' is generated, as what it does when introduced into a healthy human being. None hold that % it is a neutral element. Does it act as .;: nourishing food or as mere stimulant I —as nutriment or as poison ? V/ill it I help to sustain health and strength, / which is the chief use of food, or, will I it act in the opposite way, and lessen I the strength, and injure the health of \ its votaries ? If it really is adapted to • man's organism, so as to strengthen I and nourish the system, then the use I of it is no violation of temperance principles ; but if its properties or re- lations are unsuitable to man's normal wants, then temperance positively dic- tates abstinence from it. I am happy to say that the chemical experiments of late years, conducted by men of the greatest renown in that science, and the experience of the most daring and successful explorers, and commanders of armies, all go to prove incontestibly that alcohol is a poison which slays more men, and women too, in all the walks of life, from the beggar to the prince, from the private soldier to the general or admiral in command, from the poor Indian on our Northwestern shores, or the Hottentot in the vast jungles of Africa, to those wealthy merchants, whose god- is Mammon, who disgrace the fair fame of Canada, -Treat Britain, the United Stales and most of the great commercial countries Fl of Europe, by sending out cargoes of whisky, brandy and rum, to poison, to mibrute, to destroy those poor, simple children of nature, to slay them by the thousand— yea, the million! And to offer upon the altar of Bacchus more victims from every nation, than the destroying angels of pestilence, famine and war have ever done. The experience of hundreds of thousands of total abstainers, under the severest trials, the most varied circumstances —m all regions; as well amongst arctic or antarctic ice and snow, as on the burning sands of equatorial regions ; has proved that people are bette°r ablj to perform the labor and the duties, and enjoy the natural pleasures of existence, without alcoholic liquor than with it. The fact has been incontest- ibly proved amongst the soldiers in India, China, Afghanistan, the Crimea," Africa, Canada, amongst the farmers and workers of all classes in Britain, the United States, Canada, etc. The abstainer has also a decided advantage on the score of health, and length of days over the moderate diinker. The death rate amongst the British troops in one presidency, after an experiment extending over several years, was, that out of equal numbers, four free-drinkers and two moderate drinkers died to one abstainer. The British and Foreign Medical Revieiv gives the following report from Mr. Bell, Surgeon to the Caraeronian regiment at Fort William, III ^■■'S'!.- "During the years .832, '-Ji und 1^34, there were 386 men ■■a- -J ,.^ luhcu WCi^llcd they were going to > forging ; naked, wi from then moment i and to tak oatmeal a they ventt labor, and proved to drinks, un( which the does recor stainers w less subseq drank alcol "The T General L England," adult perio shows that rate of m( has been eh other offices tions of live to 23, at the dent, separa stainers, and ers; but whe were divide accrued to ( respectable I a mucli larg( dying than c Moderate Se the estimatec actual death; seven of the ( ing section, a ity and for a s would have b deaths were f3 ■totalers. Water- ravellcrs, Charles Angus Cameron, prize at Wimble- '69, and carried •hailenge Shield Edinburgh, were the steadiness in danger, the heroic actions, -. and the inde- ' and exposure "y, while sus- >d, entirely free ement, as they le's Brigade, in the reach of tiguing march d enjoyed un- iickness, crime istorian of the sickness, no ier and the ^ the hero of t>ear strong advantage of icants in the erals, Stewart ho fought so '. and ascrib- nce to their rink, during ler, and the ''inter cam- under high 'orne much he anchor- forgers of s at Wool- nour-plates > v/orks at itimony to The Lon- g the roll- i: "The 1 weighed twenty-one tons. Sometimes one came on groups of men, who were saturating the rough I^ands of sacking in which they were enveloped with vwUcr, before going to wrestle with some white-heat forging J sometimes on men nearly naked, with the perspiration pouring from them, who had come to rest for a moment from the puddling furnaces, and to take a long drmk o" the thick oatmeai and water, which is all that they venture en drinking during their labor, and which long exjjerience has proved to be the most sustaining of all drinks, under the tremendous heats to which they are subjected." Dr. Bed- does records the fact that "total ab- stainers worked far better, and with leas subsequent fatigue, than those who drank alcoholic liquors." "The Temperance Provident and General Life Assurance Society, of England," taking the most favorable adult period for each class of risk, shows that for a period of years, the rate of mortality amongst abstainers has been eleven per thousand, while in other offices, very careful in their selec- tions of lives, the death-rate is from 16 to 23, at the same age. In the Provi- dent, separate books are kept for ab- stainers, and respectable limited drink- ers; but when the quin-quennial profits were divided, one-third more profit accrued to the teetotalers, than to the respectable limited drinkers, owing to a mucii larger proportion of the latter dying than of the teetotalers. In the Moderate Section, from 1S66 to 1880, the estimated deaths were 3,761, the actual deaths were 3,754, or within seven of the estimate. In the abstain- ing section, at the same rate of mortal- ity and for a similar number, the deaths would have been 2,205, but the actual deaths were only 1,573. in other f3 words, 632 teetotalers refused to fulfil the calculation of the actuary, who remarks: "Count how much more time is given to the human race, time to improve, time to repent, time to amend. Listen to the home rejoicings of the women and children, for the fur- ther years granted to their protectors ! Reckon how many thousand more children can be educated into good men and women by the prolonged existence of sober fathers. Estimate, If you can, the value of a matured citizen, who is si)ared to complete the schemes ripened by experience." The great navigators to the polar regions, both British and American- Ross, Parry, Franklin. Richardson, Kennedy, Hays, Hall and Kane, have all with one voice asserted the perni- cious, the evil results which follow from usiug alcoholic liiiuurs in cold latitudes. Whatever tends to lower the vital activity, or to depress the heat-generating powers of the living frame, must be absolutely avoided in the rigorous climate prevailing in the arctic and antarctic circles. I might swell the host of witnesses, who, from actual experience, have testified, that all alcoholic liquors excite the nervous •system, weaken the muscular action, - increase the beating of the heart ; but impart not one atom of strength-giving, or warming material, to sustain the inc.eased nervous and muscular action it causes, and hence the lassitude, and craving for more of the poison, to raise the excitement again. Dr! Carpenter, in his Manual of Physio- logy, says : " Alcoiiol cannot supply any one of the important purposes for which the use of water is required in the system ; while on the other hand, ;/ tends to antagonize many of those purposes, by its power of precipitating most of the organic compounds; whose solution in water is essential to their appropriation by the living body. The great e.id of food is, to impart force or power to tiie system, to enable man to perform his daily work ; and the only possible ways by which food can gene- rate power are three: ist, by the organization of tissue; 2nd, by the supply of chemical ingredients to pro- mote the change in the blood ; and 31-d, by supplying fuel for oxidation, and thus producing the heat of the body. Anything which can perform these operations without injury to our systems is food ; and nothing is food which does it harmfully." Professor Lehman, says in his "Physiological Chemistry :" « We cannot believe that alcohol, theine, etc., belong to the class of substances capable of contributing towards the maintenance of the vital functions." It is plain from the testi- mony of Dr. Smith, F.R.S., and of hundreds of the most skilful chemists and medical men in Great Britain, the European Continent, the United States and Canada, that alcohol does not con- tain one of the requisite elements necessary to nourish our bodies. It cannot make tissue, or supi.ly salts and phosphates, or feed the furnace to maintain the warmth of the system It prevents the excretion of foul gases from the body, and retains effete matter of various kinds; which are productive of rheumatism, gout, bilious and en- teric fevers, etc. In the sixth edition of Dr. Turner's "Elements of Chemistry," he quotes Liebig's descrip- tion of alcohol, in which he concurs that "alcohol is a non-conductor of electricity, which greedily absorbs water from the atmosphere, and de- prives animal substances of the water they contain, causing thera to f4 up. Hence its use in anatomical pre paration.s." These properties make alcohol a most hostile agent co di(;es. tion and circulation. No two ag.nt m nature are more antagonistic in thti, action, than water and alcohol. Wha: water does for our bodies, alcohol tend' directly to undo. Everywhere water IS hailed as a friend by all nature ; the flowers in our gardens, the growing grain and grasses, the trees in the forest, the cattle on a thousand hilN the burning thirst of the wearied traveller, all illustrate the necessity, and the divine benefaction conferred upon the three Kingdoms of nature, by this glorious boon— the blood of nature " the water of life !" We marvel at its numerous properties! "It cleanses-, but never pollutes ; it aids to nourish' but never starves ; it excites to normal action, but never irritates to fever and innammation. It ab':.rbs heat, and cir- culates it equably throughout our sys- tems, better than any other agent, and m suitable quantity, is always retained until the function which requires it is fulfilled. Hence, while it wastes no force, and does not in the slightest degree detract from the sum total of organic power ; it aids in the perform- ance of every natural work. Alcohol, then, contrasted in all its physiological properties with water, cannot ration- ally be regarded as Drink, any more than as food, since the one purpose of drink— that of acting as a vehicle or menstruum of digestion and circulation —is counteracted exactly to the extent that alcohol is introduced into any living thing, whether vegetable or animal. If water, slightly mixed with alcohol, is poured upon a bed of cresses or flowers, it will blanch the leaves, wither the petals and arrest the growth.' Some who love strong drink say that " althoug nourishin drink pur bcor, and 'lich art lion, boU listillera idvertise '"highlv ; Lyon Plaj these boa of cheini; Edinburgh forming n one part ir conclusive the brewer genous, bl( grain, and sugar into mate sourc( in our fooc by the Cre; which coiT " atrengthei derive theii interwoven of plants, ( of growth ; the food, b by the acti( the heat ai frame. Dr. the Royal ( given a de food and st; says : " In meaning, th which accelci action is not tion of ' vitj air, water, h the Materia single agent, increasincr l^ — a -*■ or of adding f5 ; in anatomical pre s properties make tile agent io dif,'es. n. No two agt nt: intagonistic in thci; nd alcohol. What 3dies, alcohol tend?; Everywhere water by all nature; the Jens, the growing the trees in the a thousand hills, of the wearied the necessity, and n conferred upon of nature, by this blood of nature. We marvel at its I " It cleanses, t aids to nourish, excites to normal ates to fever and rbs heat, and cir- )ughout our sys- other agent, and always retained ich requires it is e it wastes no in the slightest he sum total of in the perform- ivork. Alcohol, its physiological cannot ration- )rink, any more one purpose of IS a vehicle or J and circulation ly to the extent iced into any vegetable or tly mixed with L bed of cresses :h the leaves, £st the growth, drink say that "although alcohol may be nciiher f nourishing or warming', they do not drink pure alcohol, but only wine and beer, and these contain other elements ' 'hich are food." This is a sad dclu- ion, bolstered up by the brcwc;rs, "istiUers and wme merchants, who advertise beer, porter, wine, etc., as "hi??hiv nourishing." Professor Sir Lyon PliyCair, C.B., in his analysis of these boasted drinks, while professor of chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, reported thit of blood- forming matter, he could only detect one part in 1666 parts. I.iebi;r shows conclusively, that the main object of the brewer is to get rid of all the nitro- genous, blood-forming elements of the grain, and to transmute the nu^ritious sugar into alcohol. The whole proxi- mate source of physical power is found in our food, into which force was put by the Creator. That food, and wine which cometh out of the earth, and "strengthened man's heart," but which derive their energy from the sun's rays, interwoven with the cells and structure of plants, during the natural process of growth ; this solar force fixed in the food, but liberated in the blood by the action of oxygen, reappears as the heat and energy of the hum.in frame. Dr. Paris, late president of the Royal College of Physicians, has given a definite distinction between food and stimulant. Of the latter he says: "In their generally accepted meaning, they denote any influence which accelerates vital movements, but action is not power. With the excep- tion of ' vital stimuli,' such as food, air, water, heat, the whole range of the Materia Medica does not furnish a single agent, which is capable of directly increa.sino' ihf> ^.i...,,. ■^ ■ — 6' ,, or of addmg to the general stock of FO vital power. .Alcoholic liquors produce a t(Mn|)()rary cxcitem-jnt of the arterial and nervous systems, but it is sure to be followed by a correspondi:ig depres- sion. It merely disturbes the balance, but adds nothing to the general amount of power." Sir Donjiiun I5rodie, K. R. S., Surgeon to Queen Victoria,, says: "Alcohol removes the uneasy feelina:, and the inahiliiy of exerlioo which the want oi' sleep occasions. But the relief is only temporarv. Stimu- lants do not create nervous power ; they merely enable you. a; it were, to use up th.it which is left, .md then the\ leave you mote in need of rest thrin before. Professor Pereira, in his great " Treatise on Food," says : " Ales are not fitted for ordinary use, on ac- count of their intoxicating and stupi- fying qualities." Dr. H. R. Madden says " Alcohol is not a natural stimu- lus to any of our organs, and hence functions perfornrjd in consc(iuence ot Its ai)plication, tend to debilitate the organ acted upon. Alcohol is incap- able of bemg assimilated, or converted mto any organic proximate principle ; and hence cannot be considered nu- tritious." Dr. Chas. Wilson says in his. admirable "Pathology of Drunkenness": " No circumstance of ordinary life can render even the moderate use of intoxi- cating fluids, either beneficial, necessary or even Inocuous." Dr. Tliomas King- Chambers, F.R.S., in his Harveiark Oration before the ■ j ege of Physi- cians, says of alcoiiui : " Our pre- decessors regarded it as a fuel to life's flame, aucjmenting heat, secretion, power. We find it a dam/-er to that flamer Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., characterized "Alcohol as a shroud both to the physical and mental being ;" and souic years later, in his " Diseases of Modern Life," he says that when the intelligent physician follows the line oi its effects round, he ms nothirnr ^'lit d«,ilh, physiud and monil death" lint when we think of the misery, the incomprehensible woe, suffered by wives from the brutality of drunken husban.is-liusbands mourning over the sad degiadation cf wives, and neglected children-parents agonizmg over the ruin of sons or daughters who have fallen victims of this fell de- stroyer, wh.'jh has maddened the brain of that young man, who was once the Idol of an affectionate mother, the fond hope of a kind father, the dearest ol)ject in life to a loving sister, but who IS now in a felon's cell, waiting a murderer's doom, waitmg to expiate the crime committed under the frenzied influence of that "devil in solution." Up fathers and mothers I Up to the rescue, and save our people, save our nation from the baneful influences of this distilled damnation, and let us have a prohibitory liquor law to bless our land with peace and prosperity. Fermented Wine^at Communion. Rev. John McNe.lle, of London, ^ gumg for the use of unfermented wine ^t the communion table, gave as the substance of his plea the following etter, which was handed to him by f tH-mher clergyman with permission to Dear Sir: As a Christian member of your concregation, may I ask if it would be possible for you to have un- terrnented wine at the Lord's table ? I ^hall spend no time in apology for ask ■ng this, but give my just reSon, and this, think what course Jesus would take and ask : " Lord, what w.uldst thou have me to do?" Just before I was SIX years old my father cut his throat Jeavng my mother with five children-J three f-irls older and one lad younger than iT.vswlf \,f,. -ij- * • •'"""ser - .-,.—.1. .U3, =iucst sisrcr look to f6 dni.k when she was quite ^ „;r, Knmeen years ago I was conveMci I we ve years ago I heard a sermon on ^Ta \ =">[*, »»'»' abstinence, i signed the pledge with two bigger sisters, and we tried to persuade the one given to drink to give it up. .she was married and in a good position V ''"'' """^^ "«'''" **he signed the P a ge and tried to keep it. tver and ovt again she was tempted and fell. A last of her own accord she went into a home for the intemperate. Her onf. f "^f ""'-" y^'*'"'- ^l^*-' <.nnei:ainlultas mo,h.r H^??"'°"'""' ^ '"'^'-'^ *'f-' and lister, and moiher and things went on very happily flnstead of for a time. One day her husband had L-nid him c neld ir^'f '"'''' ^"' '"^ d-:ty com-the date ol ptedhin, to go out, so he fortified h.nselt against the cold-he took a g)a!« of hot whisky. He was careful enough not to have it in her presence Jor (ear It .should be a temptation. lie drank it, and on his coming to kiss her before starting according to his custom the fumes of alcohol were transmitted and all the old craving came back. She went out soon after her husband. and in less than an hour was a drunken mad woman. Poor thing ! she never ^.ed again. She s.iid it vvas of no use No one knew the fearful stru.-rie nnd that unless she could keep outlf 'sight or smell she never would be free For years he wrestled with God in prayer for her never doubting that He would give the needful strength some day She could not keep sober, so she left her husband and children-one a dreadiul cripple through her drinking. of the^e had been victims to the curse. Her husband had allowed her enough to live on while he lived, but he died haired broken-hearted man, only forty- hve. We never knew where she lived • she used to come to us at home no^ and then, and we gave her clothes, vve tried in every way to win her back and keep her back. If she was a mere beggar, she said she would always keep outof our way, but she must and would have drink. I need not follow the Annie Ci uiiins of ou read ti cs, sir; a lat unknoN br.iying th; \o trust Hi ihook our mn. I do le is too inkir.d. N ;lrink dem "■aiiiily; bu le curse. ainlul task )ut of a siti rave in th( nm to thinl ;o my broti nie to your ( o( alcohol o might be lij. sister, and \\ that momei might objec iicmbeis. |niy breath ' ifraid of it. |is powerful ighleous en the world w: of God did and its fearfi other brothe Oh ! make t them, lest th from the tab Opinioi Richard C erience tent rm me in 1 lerance caus^ ill social and John Brigl] is the greatesi f education : eople." Mr Bruce, Britain ;— " 1 f7 was quite yjung. ;<> 1 was converted. I hoard a sermon on ntal abstinence, i e with two bigger ed to persuade the to give it up. .She n a good position, iin she signed the keep it. Over and i tempted and fell. 1 accord she went inteniperate. Her ! shillings per week, ' year. She < une m, a sober wife and ent oil very happily y her husband had but his d;:ty com- ut, so he fortified cold— he look a He was careful it in her presence 1 temptation. He :oming to kiss her ling to his custom, were transmitted, ving came back, fter her hu,sband, >ur was a drunken thing ! she never I it was of no use. rful struggle, and keep out of sight uld be free. For h God in jirayer g that He would ngth some day. iober, sj she left :hildren — one a gh her drinking, hildren, and si.x ms to the curse, wed her enough 'ed, but he died ft him, a white man, only forty- k'here she lived ; s at home now '■e her clothes. 3 win her back she was a mere lid always keep nustand would iot follow the read the life of ^nnie Chipmnn, one of the worst iriitiins of the Whitechapel tragedies, lou read the sad end of my sister's life' Vcs. sir; all through that terrible time l Ml unknown on Sundays iiiyoiirchurch, [ir.iying that (Jod would give us grace o trust Him; fur my sister's awful death hook our (aith to its very founda- ii>n. I do not cpiestion (lod's dealing, le is too wise to err, too good to be iinkir.d. Now, sir, you would think the 'riiik demon had got enough of our aiiuly; but my only brother inherits he curse. It v ? he who had the p.iinful task of identifying my murdered sister, and of laying her in the grave. Instead of sobering him it seemed to yoad him on, for just one month from the date of her death he was turned out of a situation. ♦ * I know you are brave in the cause of right, and 1 want you to think of the danger it would be to my brother, if he romes back with me to your church with the strong smell :)f alcohol on the Lord's table; lest that might be like the fatal kiss to my poor sister, and he might meet his end from that moment. I know your deacons might object, and some of your church lembeis. 1 never touch wine. I hold |my breath when it passes, for 1 am iraid of it. 1 know the grace of God |i5 powerful to keep, but Noah was ighteous enough to be saved when all the world was drowned ; yet the grace of God did not kee]) hun from drink, and its fearful results. There may be other brothers and sisters like mine. Oh ! make the church at least safe for ihem, lest they find a way to hell even from the table of the Lord. Opinions of Great Men. Richard Cobden— " Every day's ex- perience tends more and more to con- rm me in my opinion that the lem- erance cause lies at the foundation of 11 social and political reform." , John Bright—" Love of strong drink s the greatest obstacle to the diffusion if education among the masses of the icople." M^ Mr Bruce, Home Secretary of Great ntain ;— " The drunkenness of Eng- f7 I land IS produring in this country at the present time the accumulated evils of war, pestilence and famine." He o is the testimony of some of the ablest judges in the English courts :- Judge Coleridge:—" There is scarce- ly a crime that comes before me that IS not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink." Judge Patterson ;-" If it were not for this drinking, you, the jury, and I wjuld have nothing to do." Judge Williams :— " Experience has proved that almost all crime into which juries have to en.juire, may be traced, in one way or another, to drunkenness." jud.;e Wightman :— " I find in every calendar that comes before me, one unfailing source, directly or indirectly, of most of the crimes that are com- mitted — intemperance." Judge Aider; on:—" If all men could be dissuaded fro n the use of intoxicat- ing licjuors, the oi.-e of Judge would be a sinecure." Lord Shaftesbury :— "Seven-tenths of the moral evils of London are attribu- table to that which is the greatest curse of this country— habits of drinkin.^ and the system of intoxication." Let this black, blighting curse thus go on desolating the church, originat- ing and fostering every spt:cies of im- morality and crime, and it needs no prophet to predict th\t the vision of Lord Macaulay, in which he saw a New Zealand artist sitting upon a broken arch of London bridge, and sketching the ruins of that great city, will become a veritable fact much sooner than Macaulay thought. What Are You Doing ? The number of persons committed to prison in Ontario in i888 was 12,454; of that number 8,722 were in- tern j)crate. The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor has come to the conclusion that 84 per cent, of all the crime committed in the State during a period of twenty years was caused diicclly and indirectly by liqujr. Reader, what are you doing to stay this tide of inicmptra'i.ce that I's sweep- ing over our land, and wrecking in its onward rushing course the fondest hopes of many a heart, burying be- neath its relentless waves the fioor and the rich, the ignorant and the learned, men of genius and of influence, and leaving its wake strewn with degreda- tion and misery, heart-broken widows and wailing orjjhans ? Are you sitting with folded hands looking idly on, and in effect sajing, What is that to me? Ah, it is much to you. It may seem as nothing to-day, but on the morrow that tide rising higher and higher, may cross the threshold of your home, and the dearest idol of your heart, swept beyond your controlling influence, be wrecked body and soul. Why, then sit ye there idle ? Up and be doing! There is a gr-at work for you to do. Will you not commence at once ? Oh ! that some voice coming from a heart warmed and filled with true charily, with pity for the tempted and fallen' could waken you from this lethargy, could rouse you to a true sense of your responsibility, and make you realize that an all-wise Judge will call you to an account, and ask what you did to save your tempted, fallen fellow beings trom the terrible curse of intemperance. Bishop Foster, of the Methodi-t Church, United States, says : " If the Church will stand together one day at the ballot box, the liquor traffic will not stand one hour." Why does she not do so ? Mr. Mackay, the elect of the McCrie Roxburgh Church, at a temperance demonstration in Glasgow, said he ne-er had admitted, and never would admit a drink-seller to church member- ship. He would say to the drink- sellers, " Make your choice ; stand mside the church with Christ and his people, or go outside with the devil and drink." Is any other position con- sistent with the law of Christ.— //aw//. ton IV. C. T. U. Whisky's Work. {Bv Dr. Alexander Ross, Toronto 1 Whisky enters the mouth, the! stomach, the life of the parent and poisons 'he blood of the unborn. Whisky debauches manhood and I womanhood, and degrades and drags childhood from its throne of purity and innocence. Whisky has at its command millions | of dollars and armies of slaves. Whisky makes men sluggish, stupid I and indolent. Whisky has twenty times more gr;.^-. genes than religion has places of worshij). f Whisky makes criminals, paupers and invalids. Whisky enters the pulpit with the preacher, shuts his mouth to the truth and makes him a coward. Whisky stuplfies the brain of the! physician, and takes tLe life of hi'^ patient. Whisky enters the church with thel members, and closes their ears to the heart-broken appeals of wives, widows! and orphans. Whisky enters the halls of legislation,! and makes the legislators cringin'^I cowards. Whisky enslaves our mayors, alder- 1 men uid officials, and makes themj cowardly and base. Whisky enters the sanctum of the] editor, and makes him weak, cowardly! and treacherous to the dearest inter- ests of humanity, VVhisky mounts the bench with the! judge, lowers his dignity and extin- guishes his sense of justice. Whisky deadens the conscience ofl the lawyer, and makes him the thief of| his clients' interests. Whisky drives its victims into dens] of dissipation and prostitution. MILLIONS OF TRACTS FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION. vkl ^■»2iLi«i_i-,i.