The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 102

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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 102: August, 1940 Almost the worst indictment against alcohol is that those who do not drink are injured through its use by others. The workman spends his week's earnings on drink and leaves his wife and children to starve. The drunkard loses his job and drags his children down to woe of 'body and soul. In the presence of alcohol as a beverage, the finer instincts of man vanish, the atmosphere becomes tainted, the finer human im pulses sti¿ed. There is no denial oi these charges and a hundred others. The consumption of alcohol has been a monstrous evil throughout the ages and the human misery caused thereby is beyond computation. Its use among intelligent people rests upon two counts: Weakness of the will in the face of the tempt ing but ugly desire for alcohol, and the lustful greed for money by those who make and sell the poison. The defender of the alcohol habit declares that he is a moderate user of alcohol, therefore the indictment does not fit him. That is but subterfuge, a vain excuse. It is the moderate drinker who often becomes the immoderate user, and it has been amply demonstrated that small doses of alcohol affeglt the drinker unfavourably, both temporarily and perma nen y. The claim is sometimes made by those who should know better that the use of alcohol does not shorten life. The drink-er will point to the drinker who has attained a high age. He is the exception and the argument is unsound. Judgment must be formed from the behaviour of a group. The use of alcohol is not the only factor that tends to lengthen or shorten life. From statistics compiled by insurance companies and others it is safe to say that abstinence from alcoholic liquors tends to lengthen out the span of life, and what is of almost greater consequence, to increase health and the joy of living. The fact remains that for one drinker there are many abstain ers who reach old age. The one drunkard who lives a long life is uncommon and therefore obtains publicity. Insurance companies with financial interests involved hold moderate as well as heavy alcohol users as poorer risks than those who abstain from the beverage. The user of alcohol must there fore pay more for his insurance. Insurance statistics show that the death rate increases steadily with the degree of alcoholic intemperance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.