People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — The Cost of Alcholic Paralysis. [ARTICLE]

The Cost of Alcholic Paralysis.

It is enough t) siy* that this fell plague of is in the market: flh&t half a million men are engaged in its manufacture and sale; that it is sold at a profit of 400 per cent.; that the American people pay $1,300,000,-! 000 every year iu buying the; palsy; and that the national) government, most of t/he States, and a multitude of towns and cities look rtpett the spreading, oi this wasting paralysis among, the |>eoplo as one of the choicest sources of revenue, atrd that any attempt to stay tfte march of the disease is ‘regarded as an infringement of personal liberty.

Across our land strides the grisly specter reaching out his deadly hands for all our noble, beautiful boys, the hope of the future of America and of the world. More than against the cholera that comes on the winds from a£at\ let us quarantine against the dread paralysis that is bred in the Vat and the still, and sold over the bar within our own fair land. Let "us make the quarantine wide as the nation sustained by tJ» true hearts and strong baVAis and pure ballots ol all the good. That quarantine against alcoholic paralysis we call National Prohibiten.-From “Paralysis Foil Sale;” Demo rest’s Magazine for August.