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52 up the organs to increased activity, as they endeavor to quickly eliminate the poison, and when alcoholic liquors are taken under these abnormal conditions, it may actually be a natural appetite and productive of benefit instead of evil, for the evil that will result from the undigested mass of fermenting food if it remains in the stomach for a great length of time might be as great or greater than that resulting from the use of liquor.

There has been so much preaching on alcoholic intemperance that whenever one speaks of intemperance he is supposed to refer only to this evil. But it is time these narrow-minded temperance advocates were awakened—it is time for them to realize that the real cause of alcoholic intemperance is intemperance in eating; and never until this is understood and made plain to the victims and the classes that are to furnish other victims, will anything of importance be accomplished towards stamping out the alcohol curse. Intemperance begins at the family table, and it is perfectly natural,