Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Russia and Prohibition By James C. Kelly If any nation is a promising field for the prohibition experiment, that nation is Russia. Russia has long been accustomed to bow to the will of its imperial government with a servility inherent in its people and demanded by its religion. It was not until the Czar issued his ukase demanding prohibition that the Russian people refused to submit to the royal command. The Literary Digest, of July 10, in an article entitled, “Difficulties with Prohibition in Russia,*’ says: , “The wave of temperance which swept Russia at the beginning of the war, after the Czar’s ukase forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors, is rapidly receding, Deprived of vodka, to which they were so strongly addicted, the Russian people, we are told by some outspoken organs of the press of that country, are consuming various poisonous substitutes, the secret manufacture and sale of which are assuming considerable proportions throughout the Empire. Cases of poisoning caused by these drinks are a daily occurrence. Writing in the Russki Vratch (Petrograd), Dr. Novoselski gives interesting figures showing the growth of mortality due to alcoholism in Petrograd. According to his official data, these were 26 cases of death from delirium tremens in the period from August 17 to September 13, 1914; 33 cases from September 14 to October 11; 34 from October 12 to November 8; 43 from November 9 to December 6; 53 from December 7 to January 3, 1915; 58 from January 4 to January 31, and 66 from February 1 to February 28. Commenting upon these figures, Dr. Novoselski writes: Before Prohibition the mortality figures varied and changed without definite regularity; after prohibition they show a regular and constant increase. The Prohibition measures were becoming stricter and stricter; at first the sale of vodka was forbidden everywhere, but at the first-class restaurants; then the prohibition was extended also to those restaurants, but with the permission to sell beer and wine; and lastly there followed a general and complete inhibition of the free traffic in any and all alcoholic drinks in general. And the mortality from alcoholism increased as those measures progressed. * * The constant rise of the mortality figures, which bears testimony to the growing number of consumers of different substitutes for vodka, shows that these are used not only by confirmed drunkards, but generally by those classes who before the prohibition law ITScd to drink moderately. * * * Frdm the report of the Obukhow Hospital at Petrograd, it can be seen that among the victims of alcoholism who entered the hospital were Persons of all ages (mainly twenty to thirty years of age) and all occupations.-—Adv.

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