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III. ALCOHOL ( Special ) 

 (General effect to produce poverty and crime.) 



1. AMOUNT IN LIQUORS. 



a. 3-12%. 



Beer, stout, porter, ale, champagne, cider, etc. 



b. 15 to 20%. 



Sherry, gin, port wine, and many patent medicines. 

 ($75,000,000 worth of patent medicines contain al- 

 cohol.) 



c. 55%. 



Whisky. 



2. AMOUNT CONSUMED. 



a. Beer, 1,000,000,000 gallons. (Requiring 60,000,000 bush- 



els of grain, a great loss.) 



b. Wine, 2,000,000 gallons. 



c. Whisky, 4,000,000 gallons. 



3. ALCOHOL IN HEALTH. 



a. Has no good effect. 



b. Weakens instead of strengthens. 



c. Weakens digestion, and decreases value of food con- 



sumed. 



4. ALCOHOL AND DISEASE. 



a. Affects liver, kidneys, heart, blood vessels, and nervous 



system. 



b. Said to cause Bright's disease, gout, heart disease, and ca- 



tarrh, and weakens the white corpuscles, or those cells 

 that naturally fight off pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. 



5. NATIONAL Loss THROUGH LIQUOR. (One thousand arrests 



per day through drunkenness, and one half the number of 

 destitute children made so by alcohol.) 



a. Ruins homes, bodies, and character. 



b. Ten thousand of our convicts victims from its use, and 



30% of the inmates of almshouses. 



c. Courts disease, suffering, and death. 



d. Money loss per year at least $1,200,000,000. 

 Gladstone said : " Alcohol is productive of greater evils 



