THE DEBT OF ALCOHOLISM.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2577, 4 November 1893, Page 4

THE DEBT OF ALCOHOLISM.

The most telling sermon, simply because it does not attempt argument against the drink habit, is the comparison, of national expenditure on bread, clothing, and other necessaries, as against the amount squandered in intoxicants. You, will see in almost every Temperance Hall in the world, diagrams showing the enormous proportion of the world’s earnings spent in contracting a debt against health and society, which the drinker can never repay, for the reason that his opportunity to do so will never arrive. In England, at any rate, the drink bill and the cost of food, clothing, and education is as 8 to 1, and all this expansion of expenditure means the contraction of ever increasing debt—against health, against society, against decency. This drink disease is a terrible thing. In this century we are as giants—our mechanical inventors show us the way to so multiply power that the pressure of a finger lifts a ton—we have banished darkness, annihilated time and space, and chained sound at this spot to reproduce it 16,000 miles away. And with all our triumphs we see that the intellectual giant of the 19th century sinks into a degradation which most barbarians never knew, and that as we progress as a nation, we retrograde as individuals. The real reason of the extremes of intellect and bestiality meeting is a purely physical one. Drunkenness is the outcome of a nervous disease, either acquired or inherited. The patient in the great majority of cases is willing, nay, anxious to be cured. His will power, however, has become paralysed, and he must have all the aid obtainable to renew the battle for the recovery of his manhood and maintain it successfully. He must take something that will carry the poisonous and inflammatory matter out of the system, aid digestion, and assist in making pure, rich blood. That something is Warner’s Safe Cure, weighed in some thousands of cases, and found wanting in none., Mr Wm. PattCrson, Grocer, of Cairns (Qld.), writes thus, under date December 7th, 1892 : “ When I first commenced the use of Warner’s Safe Cure I was suffering from the effects of the excessive use of strung drink. After I had taken a few bottles my shattered system was built up, aud I felt a new man in mind aud body, quite prepared to attend to business. Some two years later I had a severe attack of kidney disease, and again I resorted to Safe Cure in conjunction with the Safe Pills. After taking it for about five weeks I was quite well again. Safe Cure always gives me immediate relief, and 1 consider it the best family medicine iu the market.”