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D Additional comments:/ Commentaires suppl^imantaires; I This iteni is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmi au taux de rly, in i\, few words, some imporiant facts for the million which the million will not take the time nor trouble to learn from an elab- orate treatise ; to tell some things which have been told before, and also to place some matters before the reader in a new light, and set him to thinking about them. WHAT IS ALCOHOL ? Were alcohol found in vegetable or mineral nature, as are opium , strychnine, ai-senic, and mercury, or were it found in nature at all, there might be some gi-ound for supposing the reator had de- signed it to sei-ve some useful or beneficent purpose ; but even in tliat case no valid argument would exist tliat any of these •deadly poisons, so fatal to life and health, must have been intend- ed to enter the human ByHtem as nutriment or stimulant foi' the- healthy, or as remedial agents for the sick, or weak, or aged. But alcohol is not found in nature. God never created a par- ticle of it. None would ever have existed but for the art of man interfering with the operations of nature. So far is alcohol from being a natural or legitimate product that its manufacture is x WAR A(^AIN8T NATURE AND ACiAINST NATURE'S GoD. Having nO' legitimate use as a drink or remedy, being a poison and a curse, a deadly enemy to health, peace, and human happiness, a special weapon of wari'are against morality, vii-tuo, and vJhristianity, the production, sale, or pm-chase of alcohol, giving it to others, or its use as a beverage, in the fonn of spii'ituous licpiors, ale, porter, wine, bitters, or other alcoholic intoxicant, is a bhttijihem- om defiance of Almitjhtij God, a u'ar iviujed for the frustraiioit of Hi-H divine purposes and desiijns, a violation of every one of tJw Ten Commandments and of everij precept of the Ooqwl, and. it is the Idackest and vilest treason aijainst humanity. Somo readers may at first sight pronounce the foregoing a rash or un- tenable assertion, but unless tliey can disprove the following un- questionable facts it must stand as literal truth : — 1. Alcohol is the intoxicating proi>erty in all fermented and distilled liquors that are unadulterated. The mildest and the sti'ongest beer, tlie lightest and the heaviest wines, the cheapest and the most expensive liquors and cordials, as well as the vilest fiery whiskey or gin, are used as beverages and remedies, sim- ply and only for the sake of the alcohol they contain, in greater or less propoi-tions, according to their strength. 2. Alcohol is a deadly poison. It is the product of putreBcence or rottenness. It cannot be made from anything which has not been rotted and putrefied. Alcoholic spirits, wine, or beer can only be produced by tlie destruction of food, by the decomposi- tion and degi'adation of sugar (tlie trifling quantity of pure al- cohol which might be required for legitimate pm-poses, if tun> su(ih as preserving dead sntikes and insects in bottles, could of com Si be distilled, at extra trouble and expense, from certain plants nob usi^d for food, but tlie prtsent demand can only be supplied by the destniction of food). Sugar do.-s not contain ' 5 any alcohol, but when subjected to the process of fermentation, which is a process of putiefaction and decomiiosition, its form and nature are entirely chanp^ed, and it is converted into alcohol through a mysterious chemical af^ency. It is .'vid(mtthatnatm-e novel' intended to produce alcohol, and, una«sisted, never would have done so ; for this fermentation must be carefully watched Jind canied on under certain conditions of temperatm-e, and it nmst be aiTested, too, at a certain stajje, otherwise, if permitted to continue, tlie alcohol is converted into vinegar, another liquid entirely different from Ijoth alcohol and sugar, and possessing useful properties. \ 3. The sugar contained in tlie juice of the cane, the beet, the gi-ape, and other fruits and vegetables, in the sap of the palm Jind the maple, and in animal milk, though diffeiing somewhat in their qualities, are reailily convertible into alcohol by fer- mentation. 4. The gluten, or starch, which is the nomishing property or food contained in barley^ wheat, rye, potatoes, and m other grains and vegetables, is transfonned by the chemistry of the maltster tiud brew er mto sugar, and that sugar is f eimented and degi-aded into alcohol. It is probably owing to its high price that among Anglo-Saxon peoples milk has not as yet been tortm-ed into an 4igency of dnmkenuess, but the Tartars make themselves happy 4hnO hilarious on a fascinating alcoholic beverage called koumisSj which is fermented mare's milk. 5. No one can doubt for a moment that the gi-ain, the gi-ape, ihe vegetable, and the milk were designed by the Creator to be used as wholesome, nomishing, delicious food, to render the human race physically and mentally healthy and vigorous, hap- py, and capable of the highest physical and intellectual develop- ment and enjoyment. Used properly and rationally in their natural condition of sweetness and purity and wholesome sound- ness, they are perfectly adapted to this end. But the gluten and sugar contained in these foods are their nutritious elements ; robbed of these, they are rendered utterly useless for the evident pm-poses of their creation : in theh* conversion into alcoholic .tli'inks all the nutritious properties are destroyed, save that in & I 6 bam'l of pure wiiie or beer there are the rnnnins of about two. cents' woi-th of vitiated, poisoned, and fetid nutiiment. ALCOHOL IN THE BY8TEM. 6 Natural food is digested or decomposed in the stomach by the action of the oa>^tric Juice ; but the gastric juice cannot di- gest, decompose, or affect alcohol ; on the contrary, alcohol affects the gastric juice, decomposes it, ritiates it, andrendeisit incapable of the proper performance of its functions. Imhrje^- iihle iUelf\ alcohol prevents ami retanU the dirjestion oj food.. From the digested natural food the blood is in due comse f m«nished with supplies of noiuishing material to expend through- out the svstem in repairing the constant Avaste of the human structm-e' But alcohol flies unbidden hi. the blood, scornmg the ordinary routine and channels of conveyance, and is floated alon.^ in and Avith the blood throughout the whole system-not di^e^ted and assimilated, and a portion of the blood, as the essences of food become, but in its purity as an acrid, imtant poison, and an invading foreign foe, as foreign and unnatural anm- tmder as leaden shot, iron'nails, glass beads, or globules of mercuiy would be. Its effect upon the blood is to ritiate, inflame, and render it hicapable of properly performing its work of supplying nour- ishment where needed, and of canying away and disposmg of the used-up waf^te material of the system. It wars with and disorders every function of the various organs, even when only taken daily or occasionally in small diluted doses. It inflames and nlcerates the hmer membrane or lining of the stomach, exerts a most damaging influence on tlie delicate structure of thebram, attacking and deranging the whole nervous system, and menacmg all who continue the use ol these noxious and unnatiu:al dmiks with a futm-e of permanent bodily disease and mental imbecihty. In no instance do alcohol diinks fulfil the conditions of food or have the same tendency as wholesome food ; they cannot nourish, support, or sustain the body or imparf warmth or strength or health to it, although they may seem to for a few minutes after •being imbibed. In whatever guise it may be presented, alcohol i,_i. „„ „ «^^+4„«- /it.a+vnvpv nf health and Hfe, a per- JB a COUbUlut, Dcvcr-icoi-ijio v»v..»..,;— -- - siHtent, deadly foe to everything that tends to man's welfare and happiness in any and every direction. • IMMEIHATE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. 7. The visible and sensible effect of alcohol imbibed in any form, in spirits, wine, beer, or cider, in larjMiij,'cth lil*an adder", enjoins us " not to look upon it ", and asserts that through it the " priests and prophets went astray and peiverted judgment ". If it wrought such havoc with Noah, Lot, and the princes and pro- phets distinguished by the favour of (lod, and if it has in all ages and in om- o^^ n time dragged to perdition fro:n among all classes and ranks of men the good, and noble, and generous, and talent- ed, and excellent, how can any one escape at least partial demor- alization who uses it at all ? GENERAL EFEFCTS OF \LC()HOr.. 8. A quart or so of strong Xvhiskey, if dnuik in tune, is said to be an excellent remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake ; veiy probably it is. Being a powerful i>oison, it acts as an antidote to the snake poison ; whether the latter i.: a good remedy or tintidote for the poison of alcohol has not been as yet properly tested. It may in due time be detennined by actual experiment that those liable to be suake-bitten should keep oiihanda ])ottleof whi&key, and that those subject to wounds from the serpent of tlie bottle «houkVever have a rattlesnake in the closet as a convenient antidote. If there is any other good use to which alcoholic liquor of any kind <;au be put as an internal application, and something else may not be substituted for it with advantage, tlu; writer is not aware of it. Were the whole stock of it destroyed to-day, and no m.ore could be made, no honest, decent, lawful interest would suffer in the slightest degi-ee ; if temporary loss should appear in [one di- rection, it would be compensated tenfold in another or in many others. The traffic confers no real benefit upon any one ; one dealer in one or two hundred may get rich ai>d appear only to lose his soul, and his honour, and his own respect and that of his fellow-men ; but among no class of men is there such a per- ■ccntaffi' of suicitle, violent ami Huddeu death, diiiiilieir "Hh, finan- cial failuie, vlonitHtic niiHery, niin of faniilieB, and ultimate poveny , aw among li(iuor jnakeix and Kellei-s. The tvathc in tliose liquoiH and their manufaetuie in the United States employ a » the houses which sell their •• own noted home-bre,::; ales , etc and especially m .he " pure wines ", " pure brandy" '•pure whisk^^y .•. and " Un.ie bitters " of various names, hut al Ir' ^"; J"'^ '"' "''"'^^•' ^""' "J- "'"««■"' -"" "■ to.g g^sts and storekeepei^ .. expressly for medicinal pm-poses " ta the purchase of which th.,y are atrociously swindl d by the d ty 11 wholesale dealers. Doubtless at least 95 per cent, of all the beer, wine, and Mqiiors sold in the United States is drugged and doctored Avith poisonous mixtures, or made almost entirely of them, a little alcohol being required for a base to start with ; no doubt at least 95 i)er cent, of the wines and liquors sold as im- portations are fabricated in the cellars of the dealers ; and as the French do an enormous business in the fabrication of liquors and wines, it is very probable most of what we really do import is bogus. But no matter how much adulteration, the bogus liquors are only a little Avorse than the best and purest ; they equally pro- duce the desu'ed eft'ect of drunkenness. It is idle to exclaim against theni. The idea that intemperance would be materially lessened by the use of only pure liquors is a fallacy. The ques- tion is mtiotluced here merely to direct attention to the audacity with which the liquor-dealers perpetrate the most villanous cheats and frauds upon th( ir Avondrously verdant customers, and the utter indifference with which they pursue theii* business of de- stroying human life. A WAR AGAINST NATURE. " And God said. Behold, I have given jow evei*y herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree m which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed : to you it shall be for meat " (Cxenesis i. 29). No proof or authority is ever called for or given to ccmtirm an assertion inimical to temperance, Lut the world is pai-ticularly exacting and critical in demanding and com- bating proofs of self-evident facts on our side , else it would not have been necessary to refer to Sacred Scripture for cumulative evidence that food Avas designed for the suppoi't and comfort of man, and not for the pui*pose of manufacturing from the mins of its prostitution a poison charged with misery, disease, damna- tion, and death for man, and of no utility AvhatcA'er f or any good purpose. Again, in Genesis ix. 3—6, Avhere permission is gi\en to eat animal food, how strict is the injunction to respect and protect human life, Avith the penalty, " At the hand of every man's brother Avill I require the life of man ; whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ". I il' 12 Now, as alcoholic drinks are only produced by the prostitution ot some God-given blessing of food from its natural uses and ]mrposes, robbing it of all its beneficent propeities, putrefying .iiid rottmg Its nutriment, and pei-veiting it into an unnatural, jnaddenmg poison that can only curse and blast and slay man- Jiind, the production of alcohoHc beverages is manifestly a war ACJAINST NATURE AND AGAINST GoD. ' The drunkard-maker, as he commences his atrocious work of destroymg human life by transforming wholesome grain or fruit mto beer or wine or spirits, viituaUy says: "Behold this food which God bounteously provided for the hungry. I will see that the hungiy shall have none of it as food ; it would have fiUed tlie poor with contentment and raised their hcirts and ;voices in joyous thankfulness to God ; those who shall use it, after the «pell of my blighting art has passed over it, shall curse and hat<^ and blaspheme God. It would have brought joy and happiness to son-owing mothers and stamng, helpless, innocent chUdren made himgi-y and needy by my work ; it shall through my art hU their hearts yet more with woe and misery and terror. God sends it in abmidance every year to promote happiness and vir- tue, peace and order, that our comitry may be a continuous Ed-^u of happy Christian homes, the dwellings and nurseries of His <5hosen people ; but I will make [it breed strife, and hate, and i^m, and debauchery, and soitow, and death, and it shaU fill the land with dramshops and brothels and domestic hells in place of happy homes. God sent it charged with health and strength and life ; I will make it a swift messenger of disease, rottenness, filth madness, and death. God sent it to bless man's industry with reward of peace and plenty ; through me it shall serve to people the poorhouse, and [make men gnash their teeth within the iron gratings of prison and madhouse. These good blesshigs of God, «ent m His plenteous loving-kindness and mercy to His children on earth, I shall make the instniments of destrox incr all faith mid trust in God, all love to God and good-will to men; they shall teach men and women, young and old, such lessons of vice mid lewdness, theft and murder, and all manner of filthinoss a« ^1 i shall afflict the earth with the miseries and ph.gnes a)wl t 13 of hell. Not only shall they blight with physical and moral pestilence all who use them, but they shall make the ^lives and properties of the whole community ever insecure, and shall ever lie in wait to drive all prosperity from the door of virtue and industry, and to- thwart and curse and blast every legitimate, honorable, respectable work and end and interest of men ". Sure- ly we have the most amp' > evidence that the business of the liquor maker and trader is a war afjaimt nature, against GoiU and a horrible crime and treason against hunianiti/. A VIOLATION OF ALL THS COMMANDMENTS. If this business (1) defies and denies the living God, and (2) sets up its temples of idolatiy and del^auchery at eveiy coiner or station where half-a-dozen men may be enticed to congi-egate ; if (3) every li(pior-den is a school and theatre of blasphemy ; if this business (4) systematically violates every Sabbath-day, and canies on a persistent, determined war for the extinction of the sacred Sabl)atli and for its conversion into a day of especial de- baucheiy ; if (5) it teaches its votaries and victims to dishonor father or mother, and family and home, and frequently incites them to tlu> murder of father or mother ; if (6) it annually hunts to a hoiiible death its hundi'eds of thousands of victims, and keeps the hands of the murderer and assassin and hangman ever red with then- brother's blood ; if (7) it fills the land with harlc* try and (8) theft and (9) perjui'y and (10) covetousness, injustice^ wrong, and violence — and it is as self-evident as the sunlight that the rum-maker's and rum-seller's business does all these things and more, and does no good whatever in the world — then it is undeniably a violation of every command of the Decalogue. Be- ing thus a promoter of strife, hate, lust, and all vice, being a foe to vktue, peace, to the love of God and love of man, and to everything decent a^id of good repute, it is a violation of evemj precept of the Gospel, and the most powerful weapon wielded by Satan and his ang' ^s for the frusti'ation of all God's gracious pm-poses toward mankind. ARE THERE OTHERS GUILTY ? if tliC manrd'actuic and sale of the horrible poisons which u cause neaa-ly all the sin, shame, and woe of ci^ilized nations is such a monsti-ous and cniel crime against God and man, the purchase, the (jivimj to others, the me of them, and our infiuence ^^nd e^','mple given to the eoiint^UB^ce and peii^etuation^^of the liquor-traffic and the drinkin- customs of the clay, with the seeth- ing mass of f entering coiTuption and sin amf death which is their sum and substance, must he a wrong and a chime which let every one heretofore guUty of it examine, judge, and assess for himself. St. Paul, before his conversion, was no doubt a worthy, lipright man, besides l)oing very learned and talented ; yet he persecuted men and women to prison and to death with inveterate hostility, merely because they were Christians ; this conduct appeared to the converted St. Paul in a very different light, although he had been snmmg in ignorance. So, like the unconverted Paul, there are to-day many noble natures sinning wofully in their ignorajice a? to this drink question, giving then- presence and aid and counsel to a war against God, against peace, viriiie, mercy, liberiy, and truth— a war to enslave and curse and gi-ind the poor and to drive the promised kingdom of peace far from ever reaching the earth. Thousands, too, are to-day in the temperance ranks, converted from the thraldom of sinful custom and perverted appetite, zeal- ous for good and for the right, and happier a thousand times than ever of yore, who look back with hon-or and contiition upon the evil they once wrought in ignorance and thoughtless coimtenance of this Satanic evil. what of the future ? Thousands, let us hope, and you, reader, among them, who have heretofore been thoughtlessly enlisted on the side of the legions of darkness, will in the future be gallant and valiant ad- vocates and exponents of that chaste and blessed temperance which has no hate, no curse, no sting, no soitow, no remorse among its i>roperties ; no stain upon its banner ; whose end and aim IS love to^God, good-will and peace to men ; which leads no one into peiil or temptation, wishes or does ill to none, and has no Stl'ife wifb snurlif Imf nifU 4-U^ „:„„ 1 -1 . ■..,-. -~- " "^"- '"'= •-'"ia iwiu uxiains wmcii Salau i O J i 15 l)inds around his slaves to rob them of the birthright of their liberty. Reader ! we seek to reclaim a vast multitude of the aged and middle-aged who are far out on the dark and thorny downward road that leads to a death of hon-or and to a dnmkard's awful doom ; It was tliem Cluist came to save ; we wish to lead them to the Ark of safety, and point them to happiness here and to a heavenly home in the hereafter. Will you oppose and resist us, and prevent our saving rthese unfortunates by giving your aid and sanction to the demoniac influences which are enticing them to a temporal and eternal iiiin ? " At the liands of every man's brother wiU I require the life of man." We seek to save another vast multitude of the young who have entered, are entering, or soon >vill enter upon that noisome, slimy, mii-y, sHppeiT way ; lor them Chnst died ; can you be so cniel as to stand aloof, re- fuse to help us, or impede our efforts, by remaining on the side Oi the hideous monsters who, for sordid gain, have marked aJl' taese lor slaughter and ruin ? We seek to save a still vaster multitude ot the pure and innocent children of this and of many i(itiu-e years, YOUR CHILDREN among the rest, whcm the brewei-s and distillers and Kquor-sellers and teachers of cb-unkenness and vies intend to seduce and beti-ay and destroy, to rob and mimler and consign to misery here and perdition hereafter, as they have done with millions in the past • we propose to have the unrighteous sentence of these innocents revei-sed ; we desire that fair and mddy, happy and guileless boy -your boy, mayhai)-for whom the rum-fiends have marked out on their trestleboard a vile and dissolute Ufe, to close perhaps in prison or on the gallows, may be saved for a life of honored use- fulness and happiness. We desire those pure and innocent infant girls whom the (Uink-ring have marked for sacrifice and destin- ed to suffer the woes of the di-unkard's wife, or the shame and misery of a life of infamy, may not be forcibly deban-ed their natural right to lead lives of innocence, virtue, and peace. Will you, can you, dare yo^^ppear longer in the ranks or on the side of those who resist or retard or discountenance thetem- ■ l>erance refonn. and take son ice with the manslayers who slau-h- ter the imiooeut, who entrap virtue, whose Fpecial work is^'to oppi-ess and roh the poor, to trample them under foot, and to steal the food and clothing? of the wives and chihb-en of the woildn-. classes, mercilessly starvin- them to deatli hy thousands ? "" CONCLrSIOX. The use of all intoxicathi- drink, and the work of those who make and sell it, have hut one tendency-to de-i-ade, dehauch, bi-utahze, destroy ; whatever of good exists in Christian lands to- day siurvives because it has been enabled to resist the assaults which the Uquorjinterest has made for its destniction. Every honest man, eveiy vu-tuous woman, and every happy family are so in spite of that uitevi'Ht ; it has done and is dohig ever its utmost to comipt and extinguish aU honesty, all virtue, all happiness. Let the Hquor-traffic have full scope, remove all restriction and opposi- tion, and let it exert its utmost will successfully, and every vesti-e of Chnstianity, m-tue, honom-, and human happiness would soon perish from the earth. There can he no fitter closing words to a temperance address than aiose of Joshua : - Choose ye this day whom ye will serve .... ". " Put away the strange gods which are among you, and mcline yom- hearts unto the Lord God of Israel." How vastly more smful aiid degi-ading is the idolatiy which possesses om- land m this age of Christian light ! Let us unite to put awav tiie thousands of temples of Baal and Satan which everywhere blaspheme God and pollute the land ; destroy them, that the few and broken and falling altars of the true God may be re^stored and rebuilt, and the coming of His kingdom to earth rendered possible by man's consent to receive it. nri^^'ir'^lK *'"^ f -^'^ ^'''* '""^y "«* ^e considered inappro- JOSEPH LOVEDAY, PRTNi'ER AND PURTiSHr-p O' T»^- --vn' -.i..i__i., v^^ixitTA, va^iaDa*