ALCOHOL'S EFFECT ON HEREDITY 143 



At certain hours during tlie day, big 

 wooden troughs are filled with this hot 

 mash, which contains a certain amount of 

 alcohol ; and which the cattle soon grow to 

 love. 



Formerly, this refuse was run into the 

 streams, but it killed the fish. 



The most valuable possession of any 

 family is its inheritance of health and 

 strength, brain, physical and moral force. 

 Alcohol can, in one generation, disrupt and 

 destroy the precious heritage of many ages. 

 It may turn back the beneficial effect of 

 generations of good heredity and give to 

 the world, in the guise of a man, a thing 

 neither man nor beast, a thing without in- 

 tellect, without moral fiber, and without 

 will. 



There was a day, before whiskey and 

 tobacco became its staple products, 

 when Kentucky supplied more great men 

 for its numbers than any other state. The 

 people of Kentucky realized what was 

 causing its degeneracy and at the last local 

 option election 100 out of 120 counties went 

 dry, and as soon as every county goes dry, 



