Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 287, 24 September 1891 — The Curse of the World. [ARTICLE]

The Curse of the World.

It is useleBB to deny that ardent liquors } wines, and bears, are in« and it is equally undeniable that aleohol, the £fBsict of decomposition, in some form, leads to mental and phisical premalur6 decay. .Tbough difiering on many subieots to moral, social and politicāl with our cotemporary thel P. C. Advertiser % yet there are certain things whieh that newspaper writes about and publishes, that, when truthfully said f we cannot disagree upon. Thus it; is in speaking and puhlishing a translated article ( from a French Journal, denouncing aleoholie drinks as a curse, the Leo is iu aecord. The only fault we find with P. Ū. A. is in the publication fof thk arti<Se, hh on feo ij^b|ttJl : ,:lp.ihe welfare of mankind. It seems as if the more serioue matters, that sh@uld iiave the greatest considcrafion \vith onr jonroalists, are only slightly ī\dverted t®, and in most 08bii a|id fear ani in eome *out*of t£e way corner. ! V\Y <jm o:ih r :īttribnte tliis fear|fuliK,ss nn the part of thosc whose . y la ttio public n»ind. to n r thut it may give offcnce to its patrons. Tiiis is particularly tM ' ' wb*n of- a ! fatliioe «i u or i udnlgonoa| such as prostitution, drunkenness, t ,other equaiiyjbeaslJy ,and ing habit*. I,roiKnot being hampered by ; \nv fear of

friend6 and patronage for speaking the truth nor docs it put 011 any any affectation. We know that \vrong habitB and wrQug doing ao man'B fridnds, and if, from intereste<i m«tiyes, or other reajSpq% we are task foa* , hols- - r the pepple ean see their character or actions reflected, in clear and unmistakable ligM; T them, J - Aut' $"•<■ & Pm-■': &t)t i Wtiol£ifg'WhW> o&4he r d#rth isdbo bttt>bifig< f S& tt« &eamj f/one ofWe )p?o%ctte', t5f 1 r v6|getabie alpp»? 6 $§»?• (.fr?meptati#n, ,rTfepa; ihe *lātk, affd &'■ bftg(s, j Vf frdr\ ji\jction 5 of aMi;- By \means'iol> 1»» . ( .y *i ov''O r- s -o - •'' *■!•'< • : P'■ i ■■•■ J .. tHe j alcpJiol , piay-,he %<W ttWj & tbei*<k&bwh as bdm(lg. eaae thfe $>arley fifotei ] it s iB o māde, is/ kfeējjpd : fojr i hours at a* moderate temperature, to ge,rifiiaate, during whieh process the starch contained m the grain, is convērte<i into means the sugar || y turned into aleohol. *<> I { | r a , . * -i -f .. •; The habit in man for aleohol is uilnatirral, and is the resuit of our perverted natures. Aleohol js the putrefaction or death of vegetable matter ? and when taken into tho human system must i eventually destroy it. But the| |reatest mreery invotJves in its us£f is not io the consumer alone. It j permeates his family, society, a na-1 tion, tbe world. In the Unitedj ptates alone, this deadly curse, according to Statistica coilected at i Washington reaches the enormous | sum of |7,000,000 and over annually, and is increasing. Liquor and. iteallies, tobaeoa, tea, coffee ,ind opium coat nearly 000, in tlie year 1887, 2»ore than $80 anrfieally fbr eaeh naap, wo*t nn&a »An(l child in that ceuntry. The sum expended is nearly .$250,000,000 more than is expended tbr 6read. meat, cfolh'nir, < % duoation, y • *- - and Chrigtiarn mis^ions. . L . *T'H-us it is that fe;ir*e, Htu iibsorbuig ; tho v:Uuitv ,of the Mjutan fatuilv, and robbing inan of bis and bis suppoFt a,nd tiikinti[. iw.'y ;uiJounr: ol fiioiiey that. wo\ild oihorwise bu U$ v ful fur the amvnloraiitfn ot" the Hu! , >i v n fairtii v. ■ —- ... + .— -■ - " That lvev. S. E. Bisliap tefls his Amoman reader« io thc Rcrif.i9' bf Jkmthat J. X.; W iwLdi%v( 1! ,Ui*wfciUn.. The, u*xA .&l\} Jirove what an piihop is on politic&l mattere.