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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. nstead of feeding

the hungry they have allowed them to starve because their bread was taken to buy

drink. !hey sent souls to prison and did not minister to them"

#$cerpt %rom& arry (melia )ation. !he *se and )eed of the +ife of arry (. )ation.

!he written word was a powerful tool for the !emperance movement. ooks, pamphlets, and

posters all informed the public of the dangers of alcohol. !he contents of alcohol were a popular

target. !he movement had the word of doctors that it was made with various poisonous

substances, like hemlock, tobacco, nu$ vomica, and opium.

-any people are made cray by the use of alcoholic liquors. n some asylums where these

people are kept, it has been found that nearly one half of the cray people were made cray

from this cause. )ot all of these were drinkers themselves. t often happens that the children of

those who drink have weak minds or become cray as they grow older...

sometimes one is sick or suffers very much because of wrong things that his parents or grand/

parents did.... 0ver 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. -any men and women are insane because they inherit disordered bodies and minds,

caused by the drinking habits of their parents1 and the descendants of 2moderate drinkers2 differ

in this way as well as those of the drunkard....

Will you have a cockroach or a cocktail? 3ev. !. 4. 5unt, of Wyoming, 4ennsylvania, says that a

winemaker of that 6tate told him that&

!o give the peculiar flavor of -adeira to some liquor which he intended to sell for 2-adeira2

wine, he put a bag of cockroaches into the liquor and left it there till they were dissolved. 5e

also stated that this was a common practice.

!he 7uice of this dirty, stinking, ravenous bug tastes e$actly like the best -adeira wine.

%rom the book leaves of healing

( noted scientist, 8r. (nstie, made the following e$periment&

nto the stomach of a large, healthy cat he in7ected an ounce of alcohol mi$ed with water. !he

cat soon became drowsy, its limbs became paralyed, and in two and one/quarter hours it died.

8o you know what fusel oil is? t is a poison so deadly that physicians dare not prescribe it for

any purpose. t is made in large quantities and is used in adulterating liquors. (lcohol and fuseloil are present in all fermented and distilled liquors.

Will you take beer? %rederick (ccum, a chemist of +ondon, wrote&

!o increase the into$icating qualities of beer, the deleterious vegetable substance called

cocculus indicus is employed. 0pium, nu$ vomica and tobacco have also been used.

(merican beers are also adulterated with poisons. 8r. 4arris testified that nu$ vomica, tobacco,

hemlock, oil of vitriol and quassia are used in all malt liquors. esides these, 7alap, potash,

wormwood, nutgalls, green copperas and sugar of lead are used.

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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.#$cerpt %rom& arry (melia )ation. !he *se and )eed of the +ife of arry (. )ation.

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 andsoul. 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. en 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.!

"xcerpt #rom$ %arry &melia 'ation. The (se and 'eed of the )ife of %arry &. 'ation.!

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