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usual conditions, would produce 100 nor- 

 mal offspring, the alcoholic ones produced 

 only about 30. The next generation, or 

 the grand-children of intoxicated pigs, pro- 

 duced the same number of defective young, 

 running as high as 70% defective. It 

 must be understood that the parents of 

 the defective grand-children had not be- 

 come addicted to intoxication. No, they 

 inherited from alcoholic parents the poison, 

 which rendered 70% of their young worth- 

 less. I recently visited the experimental 

 station and saw for myself these effects; 

 also the cyclops guinea pig and a speci- 

 men of human cyclop from alcoholic ances- 

 tors. The Prohibition Party once despised 

 will some day prevail — and that day is 

 not far off — just as eugenics is bound soon 

 to do, when the public is aroused to the 

 danger that confronts them and their chil- 

 dren by not following the Laws of Nature 

 and Hygiene. In 1860 the average per 

 capita consumption of alcohol was 6.4 gal- 

 lons. Today it is 19.8 gallons per capita. 

 We are fast becoming a nation of drunks, 

 The stupendous amount of liquor con- 



