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JANUARY 6, 1905
The Commoner.
Moderation or Total Abstinence
Mt Vernon. Iowa, December 1, 1904,most diametrically onnosito to ,
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For many years I nave oeen a con
Bt'int reader and adruiiei of your ex
cellent paper, but I have sometimes
wondered if the position that you have
taken as advocate foif the moderate use
of alcoholic boverages is tenable. The
effects of alcohol upon the human body
both in moderation and in excess, have
in recent years been carefully investi
gated by competent men of various
countries, and their contributions to
our knowledge of the sut ect have shed
much light upon tho problem. The
writer recalls that about twenty years
ago the New York Legislature passed
an act that required the effects of al
cohol and othor narcotics upon the hu
rian organism to be taught in cUo
schools. Other states followed New
York's example, and the consequence
was that the authors and publishers of
ext-books in their haste to comply
with the requirement often sacrificed
accuracy and fell into many exaggera
tions. A reaction from such teaching
was inevitable. But in the past few
ears, the subject has been approached
and investigated in a more judicial
spirit. The conclusions reached can
generally be accepted as reliable.
Among the more recent work3 on
physiological chemistry, that of G.
Bunge, a professor in tho University of
Bale, Switzerland, is widely used and
recognized as a standard. In his sec
tion on alcohol, he does not simply
give his own views and the results of
his own investigations, but he includes
the work that has been done on the
subject in England, the United States,
Belgium, France, Germany, Austria and
other countries. The conclusions arrived
at by all these investigations are al-
moderate drinking, it is shown that
what seems to bo tho stimulating
action on body and mind that
tho moderate drinker experiences la
uu w me paralysis or tho nerve cen
ters. Also to this paralysis aro duo tho
feeling of warmth. Alcohol does not
Improve digestion but retards It All tho
evidence tends to 3how the uselessness
and tho harmful ncss of tho beverage
oven in moderation. Another authority,
A. Baer, by collecting a largo mass of
evidence, shows that soldlors are able
to do better service In every climate
when entirely deprived of tho use of
alcohol. It is admitted that alcoholic
drinks diminish tho metabolic pro
cesses, the breaking down of the tis
sues; but this breaking down is nat
ural and tlGSiral'le. as it is the source
of all our energy.
t can luudly ue proved that moderate
drinkers cciiIIluc to use intoxicants in
moderation. Unlike tho ordinary foods
and drinks, alcohol creates a progress
ive appetite for itself, and the tendency
Is to use such liquors in evcess. Mod
erate drinking, therefore, is exceed
ingly dangerous, and with such risk
tho very doubtful advantages which
you claim for It are not commensurate.
Bunge states as a hard fact "that from
seventy to eighty per cent of crime and
from ten to forty per cent of tho sui
cides in civilized countries are duo to
alcohol. A benefactor of the race and
a powerful facer in tlio education of
civiliLed cojip uaivs, s -v. -v went
paper is. should you not now advocate
a policy of total abstinence as strongly
as you have advocated that of modera
tion? I am, sir,
NICHOLAS KNIGHT.
Tho Wise Judg
Representative Dlnsmoro of Arkan
sas tells of a rural justice of the peace
in that state who was approached by a
man desiring a divorce. The justice
was in a quandary. Calling the baliff
to his side, he whispered:
"What's the law on this p'int?"
"You can't do It," was tho reply.
"It's out of your jurisdiction."
The husband, observing the consulta
tion between the two officials, anxious
ly interjected: "I'm willin' to pay
well; got the money right here in this
sock!"
At this the justice assumed his grav
est judicial air. Adjusting his spec
tacles, he said:
"You know'd before you camo here
that 'twarnt for me to separate hus
band and wife; and yet you not only
take up the valuable time of this here
court with yo talkln', but you actually
propose to bribe me withTnoney! Now,
how much have you got in that sock?"
"'Bout six dollars and a half, yo'
honah."
"All right! Then I fine you $5 for
bribery and $1.50 for takin up my time
with a case outer my jurisdiction, and
may the Lord have mercy on your
soul ! "Collier's Weekly.
Favorite Authors
Senator Hoar, rather against his will,
once found himself at a sort of literary
reception. Members of reading clubs,
Browning societies and similar earnest
Cheap Rates to Colorado
To accommodate delegates to the
annual conventions of National Live
btock and Wool Growers Associations
in Denver, the Union Pacific has put in
effect a round trip rate of one fare
Plus $2.00 to Denver, Colorado Springs,
or Pueblo. Tickets on sale January 7,
. and 9, with final return limit Jan
?y31st. 1905, Inquire of any Union
a agont or R' 'B- Slosson, Gen'l
wt
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folk were thick about him. The sena
tor bore up well for some ime, but was
Anally forced to seek relief In his fa
mous bynch of keys. About this time
a lady of the gusher variety resolutely
cornered him and began to "talk lit
erature." "Oh, senator," she chirruped, "how I
dote on Rossetti. Browning, of course,
I love, and, in prose, Walter Pater, but
always I find myself returning to
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Tell me, sen
ator, who is your favorite author?"
"Bill Nye," came tho answer with a
quick twirl of the keys. Saturday Ev
ening Post
"Who and Why"
The New York World offered a prize
for the best letter from a native tell
ing who he or she would rather be
and why.
.- This won the prize:
"I would be Hetty Green, tho rich
est woman in the world. So I could
open dooi-3 with golden keys ease
heartaches, relieve distress. I would
fill theater boxes with tired clerks, au
tomobiles with wornout mothers and
give them daily rides, fill my summer
home with those not able to bear the
heated city, give receptions at my city
home to ladies and gentlemen who
maintain large families, and treat them
with the courtesy extended to a so
ciety belle. I would fill this worl
with happiness, for God never meant
that a few should own It.
"MRS. N. M. HAWTHORNE,
"250 West 38th St.. New York City."
clo Sam. Ho woro cowhido boots. Ho
vr0, ?!? whl8kcrs- "o wore faded
broadcloth made up in frock coat ef
rects. His vest was cut low and partly
unbuttoned, it exposed a snowy ex
panse of frilled linen. His trousers
w.w ubBy uuu jusi a bit abort. Ho
SH?.11 iaCC 8tr,nff tl0 or nono at a
Senator Cockrell was tall, broad-shouldered,
but a gaunt, lean man. Ho
stoops a little when ho walks, and
bends hiB head forward, with a hand
spread fan-shapo behind his ear, whon
he desires to liston. Kansas City Journal.
Why Ho Prefers Th Mountains
Charles Emory Smith, who was tho
American ambassador at tho court of
St. Petersburg beforo ho was called to
sit in Mr. McKinley's cabinet as post
master general, was discussing tho
other day tho more purely personal
side of the czar it was apropos of the
birth of tho long hoped for son and
heir.
"Nicholas is really a hard-worked
man," said Mr. Smith, "but ho is not so
ruled by others a3 some reports make
him out to bo. He can, for instance,
take a vacation now and then, and he
does.'" Then ho added with a quizzical
smile: "But he always goes" to the
mountains; never to tho sea shore."
"Why is that?" asked tho unwary
one.
"He doesn't like the serf," came tho
reply. The Criterion.
when ono of his subordinates, United
States District Attorney Burnett of tho
southorn district of Now York, draws
an average of JG1.000 a year in salary
and legitimato fees. Boston Herald.
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Address
Peoples Popular Monthly,
67'J Manhattan Ilulldlnr,
DEB MOINLS, IOWA.
Entirely Too Narrow
At tho international peace congres3
in Boston, Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood
pointed out tho selfishness of thoso
who would not help to right tho wrongs
of foreigners, on tho ground that char
ity begins at home.
"Such persons," said Mrs. Lockwood,
"aro like an old woman who lived in
Lima while I was a student there.
"This old woman was absent-minded.
One Sunday morning she walked into
church, took a front seat and joined in
the service vigorously. Then the col
lection basket was pased to her, and,
putting a coin in it, she looked about.
"Slie looked about, her mind cleared,
and an expression of amazement over
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"She got up. She hurried down tho
aisle. She overtook the man with tho
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"I'm in the wrong church,' she whis
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