DRINK AND DRUGS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 979, 21 November 1910, Page 5

DRINK AND DRUGS.

;REMARKS BT CHIEF JUSTICE. I In a denunciation of tho .drug habit at tho Central Mission Men's Brotherhood meeting ' yesterday,' ; Sir T Robert' Stout iClassih'ed as in .the same:category the pse of alcohol and: smoking.' His cited", mariy.eminent authorities in sjupport :of his contention that alcohol: is almost in :, variably deleterious -in its" effect—that only in very rare cases of exceedingly rare disease, is its use' of benefit to-hu--manity. There was much: talk in this country about the live- million loan, but our people wasted . annually three millions bn drink. ■ In England thousands of people were homeless and in want during tho .winter months,., but. the. .country, expended 140 millions of money annually in liquor alone. Whattliß .speaker asked, must bo. the effect of this enormous expenditure' of money, on things that lowered the. physical, strength -ot the people? Ip tho course..of his re-, marks on.ligupi,. Sir. Robert quoted the following resolution ..of the. Philosophical Society of London, a-body. composed, ho Biiid, mainly of doctors and medical-stu-dents, . not ■ by any means • a, temperance society":—"That in the opinion .-,of .this society, alcohol is, of no use to healthy peopie, and. of ylittle uso to sick persons." ihe use of alcohol, the speaker continued, was fatal to the mental',alertnessh>f, a race. ; The race that always succeeded was tho race that had brains. What had enabled Germany to get into such a forefront position in the world to-day?' In thti 'early part of last century no nation in tho world .was in so poor a 'pialo a« faermany. She had been over-run l:y ?.l p f e °A ■ n J- d J*?l sun , k " in ■$***■'■ ™« dejbt.. The.hrst thing.her statesmen,did was to establish a new" university .at Berlin, and -schools throughout the Empire. At the same time land was cut up, and land banks established,, with a'view to creating' a flourishing peasantry .'These things hadmado Germany what she was to-day. The modern advancement of Jnpan was due to the fact thnt the very n^ni ednc St; Dn -PiiaWo. was given to her £T t< , Th ?,, ad 7?, nc ement of Scotland, and tho fact that Scotchmen occupied disl Unguished positions.all over tho world, Lns „? h J -, Jo - ! l? Kn ? x bf "diversities »nd of schools throtighont the country