ALCOHOL AMERICA'S CURSE 137 



ALCOHOL AMEEICA'S CUESE; ITS 

 EFFECTS ON THE UNBOEN. 



Alcohol so injures and weakens the 

 reproductive glands that defective cells 

 are formed. The germ cells injured by- 

 alcohol do not develop into normal beings ; 

 they are found defective and deformed in 

 animals and in humans. There are many 

 evils resulting from the excessive use of 

 alcohol. It may, and often does, produce 

 sterility. The injury may take on the form 

 of a body weakness, or the poison may 

 manifest itself in a nervous disorder, or it 

 may appear in the offspring, producing 

 various forms of defectives. Anyone, who 

 has studied eugenics, can discover if a child 

 comes from a parent or parents addicted 

 to drink, just as well as from parents that 

 have syphilis. 



Alcohol stands today in America as the 

 greatest barrier to man's continued evolu- 

 tion. Like the scorpion which devours 

 the mother that gives him birth, so alcohol 

 smothers the germs from which it springs, 

 and then destroys the life and damns the 

 soul of the man it cheers. Could men look 



