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and our constitutions and to ruin the vital- 

 ity and potency of our men and women ; and 

 that we give our children $452,000,000 to 

 spend on candy and soft-drinks to sour 

 their stomachs, retard their growth, and 

 make them unfit; and when free scientific 

 advice is offered that will benefit both 

 themselves and their offspring they turn a 

 deaf ear. 



Within twenty years, the people of this 

 country will have had their eyes opened and 

 most stringent laws will be passed by Con- 

 gress as to health certificates and restrict- 

 ing the manufacture and sale of all alco- 

 holic beverages. The Kaiser, the Czar and 

 now the King of Italy in the present 

 European war, realize that to have effec- 

 tive armies, the drinking of alcoholic bev- 

 erages must be stopped. 



Dr. C. E. Stockard, in the November, 

 1913, "American Naturalist," gives an 

 account of experiments of an extensive 

 nature with guinea pigs. These animals 

 were kept in an intoxicated condition by 

 forcing them to inhale the fumes of alco- 

 col. Where controlled animals, under 



