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We all agree that alcoholic intemperance
is one of the greatest sources
of human misery, being the direct
cause of a large part of crime, of
poverty, of illness, of insanity, of
early death, and in the next generation
of idiocy and depravity. We all
?crT.o^ further that all alcoholic bev
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erages are dangerous for children
and psychopathies; and we agree
that to fight against such evils is the
duty of every conscientious reformer.,
Our possible disagreement appears :
thus only when we consider- the
means by which these evils can be
removed in the highest possible degree
without introducing other evils
equally calamitous. After studying
this problem for more than twenty
years and after repeating frequently ,
in the psychological laboratory all
the significant experiments, and after
curing scores of drunkards by psychotherapeutic
means and thus being
near to the question all the time, I
am fully convinced that under the
present condition of American life
the only wise way of reform is by
working toward temperance and not
towards prohibition. It must be a
campaign of education towards a
moderate use of light alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition and Pragmatism.
Since I uttered this opinion publicly
a few months ago in a popular
magazine, a whole literature of socalled
replies has gone up. There
was no lack of vehemence and an
abundance of misstatements, and;
even the excitement of the presidential
campaign would not be sufficient *
to excuse the denunciations and fal- i
siflcations which my friends, the prohibitionists,
indulged in; but I i
looked in vain for a- single argument
which could change in the i
least my opinion. Of course, I do
not deny that the other side has a
much simpler remedy. To exclude ]
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an aiuuiiui iruui tuis tuuuu j uj yi\ihibition
laws seems to get rid of the
- / . ?vil with one stroke; it needs much
less effort than a true education towards
temperance. But the prohibition
movement is just like the free
silver movement in economics, or
like socialism in politics, or like
spiritualism in religion or like
Christian Science in medicine, or like :
pragmatism in philosophy. They all
gV V contain a little core of truth, but
their truth is old and they become
new fashioned movements only by
new sensational formulations which i
appeal to the unthinking crowd. But
just this always secures at first an
immediate cheap victory; a superficiality
of thinking prevails in the 1
world and can never resist the enthusiasm
of fanatics. I have hardly i
any doubt that this prohibition movement,
too, will at first overwhelm,
by its very superficiality, the sober
efforts for education and reform in
this country, just as the vaudeville
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the serious drama, as the cheap magazine
has demolished the book store,
as the yellow press has captured the
masses, and as in a hundred other
forms the appeal to superficial judg- i
ment has been successful. Then of <
course the reaction comes in time, 1
and the cry for prohibition will just
as swiftly disappear as the cry for I
' free silver.
Our Habitual Disrespect for Law.
Let us not forget that we want to
make laws for a nation whose habitual
disrespect for the written statutes
has proved in the last years to ,
be the chief source' of its troubles, 1
and let us further not forget that we j
want to legislate against a physiological
desire which belongs to a
majority of men. The absence of!
this desire in women or in a large <
number of men whose nervous system
is differently organized can '
easily mislead. I personally, for instance,
brought up in a temperance ]
household, have had my life long a i
physiological dislike not only for
strong drinks, but also for beer. But
in planning for the millions I should
feel reckless and irresponsible if I 1
Bimply generalized my own chance
constitution. I have no word, <
whatever, against the so-called restrictions
of personal liberty; I do
not know a right to personal liberty
if it interferes with the common
good, but the more I must demand
that this common good is determined
by the careful observation of the real
facts.
Prohibition Brings Many Evils.
That kind of abstinence legislation
which prevails in certain parts of the
country and is evidently near in
others is surely not for the common
good. That it destroys industries
and makes hundreds of thousands
breadless, and that it deprives millions
of a harmless, joyful feeling is
still the smallest harm which it produces.
But far more important is the
disrespect for law which it creates.
Prohibition puts a premium on the
systematic violation of law and produces
a form of corruption which is
sun worse tnan tne corruption wnicn
irradiates from the saloon. Further,
it reenforces drinking in its
most miserable and dangerous form.
The moderate drinker is cut off,
while the immoderate drinker is created.
It abolishes light wine and
beer; and opens wide the way for the
worst whiskey. It eliminates every
sound supervision and makes minors
and inebriates the favorite customers.
A clean surface appearance is
bought at the expense of inner moral
and mental destruction. Worst of all,
the masses who feel the instinctive
need of an anaesthetic quick find
substitutes. I speak as a psychotherapist
whose experiences cover the
whole country, if I say that the
spreading of cocainism and morphinism,
of sexual perversions and ruin
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ous habits among the abstainers is
alarming. But even on the surface
anyone can see to what degree oi
dullness on the one side and of vulgarity
on the other side the masses
are led if the means of physiological
relief are cut off from a strong handworking
population. To fight intemperance
by prohibition means to substitute
one evil for another; a reform
by slow education towards a
moderate use of light wine or beer,
is the only way to permanent success
in this country, as long as Americans
remain Americans.
The Contentions of Dr. Williams.
Of course there are not a few who
are convinced that alcohol is ruinous
for everyone, even in moderate quantities;
and it has become the fashion
to support this belief by the results
of scientific investigation. My whole
life belongs to science, but after
most careful study I am convinced
that there exists no scientifically safe
fact which demonstrates evil effects
of a temperate use of alcohol by normal
adult men. Every claim on the
one side has been disproved by just
as important experiments on the other
side. Even on physiological
ground, everything is uncertain. Dr.
Williams, of New York, tells us that
alcohol is never a food, and Dr.
Dana, of New York, the president of
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tells us that alcohol is always a food.
Dr. Williams writes that alcohol always
lessens the power for work;
and Dr. Dana writes that, as proved
by recent experiments, alcohol has
no effect, one way or the other, on
capacity of work if given in moderate
daily doses. Dr. Williams writes
that alcohol is the greatest evil of
society; and Dr. Dana writes that the
immediate removal of alcohol from
social life would lead to social and
racial decadence.
But I, a psychologist, am naturally
more interested in the mental side.
Dr. Williams and so many others
dogmatically assure us, for instance,
that alcohol cuts off the power of
mental production. But is really a
psychological labratory necessary to
demonstrate the hollowness of such
general statements? I know scores
of men who never produce better
than after a moderate use of alcohol,
and it is well known that this is true
in exceptional cases even where immoderate
use is indulged in. I had
to hypnotize only recently a well
known New York author whose secret
trouble is that he has never written
a page of his brilliant books but
after intemperate use of whiskey. Dr.
Williams assures us that every moderate
use of wine and beer reduces
the powers of intellectual activity;
and again the phychological experiment
is said to have proved that I
must think there instinctively of
the man who has given to
the world the methods of psychological
experiment, professor
Wundt, of Leipzin, the greatest living
psychologist. He is seventy-six
rears old to-day; has written about
forty, volumes, which are acknowledged
the world over as the
deepest contributions to psyhcological
thought; has written this year an
epoch making book; and yet has
taken for sixty years twice a day,
beer and wine with every meal. I attended
last summer a number of international
congresses and saw there
at many banquets the leaders of
thought of all nations. I watched
the situation carefully, but did not
discover any abstainers among the
sharp and great thinkers of any nation.
Total Abstainers Not Clearer Thinkers.
To demonstrate that the abstainers
enjoy clearer methods of thinking
than such drinking scholars
would be indeed an interesting experiment,
but from the prohibitionist
literature, I cannot gain the impression
that clearness of thinking is
their particular strength. Typical of
their unclearness is the way in
which they draw arbitrary consequences
from the real experiments.
It is, for instance, quite right to
claim that alcohol makes our mental
associations slower, but they interpret
it as if that means a destructive
crippling of our mental life. They do
not even ask themselves whether or
not this retardation of association of
ideas may not perhaps be a most
helpful and useful relaxation of certain
brain centres. With the same
logic they might demonstrate to us
that sleep is a most runious invention
of nature, as it paralyses our
brain centres still more; and they
have not the slightest understanding
for the fundamental fact that such
an inhibition in certain parts of the
brain belongs to every single act of
aiienuon. iney ao not rase tne
trouble to ask whether or not our
associations are also changed
through the digestion of a dry meal.
With such carekss misinterpretations
of isolated experiments, I could
demonstrate to you most easily that
every hour of physical exercise is
ruinous for the higher mental life;
or that the fatigue from the hearing
of one hourls lecture makes mental
cripples out of all of us. The fear
of those who want to cut off a bottle
of light beer with the evening meal
from the home table of a hardworking
laborer on account of the psychological
experiments is comparable
only with the fear of those who wish
that every man might live isolated in
the middle of the ocean because in
every other place the laboratory can
demonstrate numberless microbes
and bacteria.
A Temperance Campaign Approved
. The only reasonable argumenl
against moderate drinking of normal
adults is a fear that they ma>
transcend the wise limits. Yes
I contest the only word which made
an impression on me in the pamplets
written against my essay was one
contained in a Chicago pamphlet,
which said that we must consider
Americans are reckless and carry
everything to excess. But can that
really be the attitude of a civilized
nation? To legislate as if the citizens
are irresponsible children, incapable
of moderation, would mean
a degradation of the whole country.
With the same right we might pro
hibit every sport because it becomes
ruinous for the organism if carried
to an excess. Surely the Americans
are reckless and excessive; otherwise 1
we should not have ten times more I
railroad accidents than Europe, and
gambling and an absurd chase for j
i money all over the land. But the
i only sound consequence would be
that every reformer has the duty to
. educate towards moderation in every
i field. Prohibition 'removes every
[ temptation. Thus it has no educative
influence whatever. To learn to be
moderate involves the development
of will power, which is beneficial in
every walk of life. Only cowards
, who have no trust in their own will
, prefer to be removed from every
temptation. I remember well a man
who was president of an abstinence
society for many years and then used
once for medical purposes a glass of
brandy, and as he had not been
trained in any moderation, the one
glass stirred up a craving for more
until he was lying in the gutter; and
when he was brought to me to be
hypnotized he confessed that he had
no will to abstain from overindulgence.
The campaign for temperance
as against prohibition is a campaign
for education which goes far
beyond the special purpose, and
works against excessiveness and
recklessness in every field. If all
the serious enemies of intemperance
were to unite on such lines of conservation
progress, a real restoration
in health and order might soon be secured;
the radicalism of prohibition
only delays reform until it may" be
too late.
RELIGION AND PROHIBITION.
Our Govan Correspondent Discusses
These Questions at Some Length.
Whether we accept the plan of
creation as revealed in the Book of
Moses or the theory of evolution, we
do know that man is now (and most
assuredly has always been) entitled
to "something" higher than this comfortless
life affords. If he be immortal
he is doubtless a counterpart of
the creator, and hence the inspiring
thought that he is formed?physically?at
the impart of God's word
from the pre-existing matter unto
the likeness or "image" of himself.
Exalting realization!
We dare speculate when would
the father so choose to send his son
back to earth again, as he (the
Christ) promised that he is coming
again; but we do know from historic
record that his mighty presence has
been through many ages man's guidance
'till the son came. We were
told as the first intimation of the
coming of the Messiah in Gen.: "The
scepter shall not depart from Judeah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come, and unto him
shall the gathering of the people be."
Jesus Christ, the exemplary character
and son of God, did come, we
are told by the evangelists in corroborating
statements, and by the spirit
power manifested to him he arose
unto his father.
In consequence he has left it with
us; with the faith that by his exemplary
life we will be transformed
like himself. In disignating his di
sciples or followers he said: "By
their fruits ye shall know them."
I believe his ministry is given to
all mankind and I would particularize
the different species of man as
subdivided into the five great races?
for what reason would the creator
have endowed races with articulate
speech? Surely he must have intended
for these races to occupy a
higher sphere than the inspired lives
of Longfellow would dictate one not
to be:
"Be not like dumb driven cattle."
It is only through the Bible the
only book of revelation, that man
has a promise of being immortal or
more than inanimate life, but yet
according to Chas. Carroll, in his
book entitled: "The Negro a Beast;
or in the Image of God," he gives
some teaching that I cannot attempt
to refute; but I'll hold fast to my
first statement that Christ's minstry
is applied to all races of mankind,
hut tn nnoent. this is a great conelom
eration. It is here that we meet with
inconsistencies.
To quote from Carroll?a writer,
Dr. Young: "The whole world is
made up of mind or soul and matter.
The term matter is a name which we
apply to a certain combination of
properties or to certain substances
which are solid, extended and divisible,
and which are known to us only
by these properties. The term mind,
in the same manner is a name which
we apply to a certain combination of
functions or to a certain power
which we feel within us, and is
known to us only by these functions.
Matter we know only by our senses.
Mind or soul only by our consciousness.v
"The profoundest philosophers write
concerning the negro's mind as they
; do concerning that of the white man.
The negro has all the intellectual fapilitlpB
rnnRoiousness. uerceDtion.
memory, association, imagination,
comparison and pure reason. He has
; all the sensibilities, animal feelings,
' rational feelings, aesthetic emotions
1 and moral emotions. He has a free
will and is governed by motives. He
j dreams, walks in his sleep, and may
; become insane. [Ibid.] His immortality
is found in those principles
; of his nature by which he feels upon
his soul the awe of a God, and looks
forward to the future with anxiety
[ or with bope by which he knows to
! distinguish truth from error and evil
from good, and has forced upon him
1 the conviction that he is a moral and
1 responsible being. This is the power
1 of conscience, that monitor within
5 which raises its voice in the breast
of every man?a witness for his Cre
ator. There is thus in the con;
sciousness of every dark son of Ham,
I a deep impression of continued existr
ence."
Carroll says: "In the above state
ment we observe that Dr. Young la
teaches that 'the whole world is w
made up' of 'a certain combination n<
of properties' which is termed mat- sc
ter and is 'a certain combination of ec
functions' which is termed 'mind and ki
soul.' Dr. Young thus employs the si
terms mind and soul to describe the bj
mental organism and thus blends and v<
confuses these two creations which pe
God made separate and distinct. He cr
thus eliminates the soul creation, the of
possession of which distinguishes bj
man from the animal, makes him de
akin to God, and endows him with ly
immortality, etc."
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1 propose to end on the liquor 01
question by showing our responsibil- ce
ity to an inferior or subordinate race tt
?the negro race. w
We will admit to a subject who Xi
persuades to good deeds that there pi
are many good things in certain doc- tii
trines or persuasions; but we say ra
that we can't accept these teachings w
as they may deprive us of some of ui
the pleasures of life. They forget i
that life should be one of resignation SI
and sacrifice. bj
The great point in carrying con- fic
viction to men, and thereby bringing th
about a general reformation is to get
people to thinking, first, and from a fe
consideration they become interested, "f
and should you get a man interested, te
he will doubtless resolve upon the eq
issue, and see the good motive in a sa
doctrine. Hence we would have con- bj
demnation upon the evil by public sp
sentiment and when we get this the 01
"rum shop" will go, and then mor- lil
ality will reign supreme. We are ti<
taught by precept and example to Y<
"handle not nor touch not the un- Yj
clean thing." ar
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nch law.
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>groes are responsible for so man
itrages, but I believe a great per
ntage is due to this. But we hav
leir testimony and besides sobe]
hite human reason as a guidance
ow, shall we continue this immora
actice any longer? Shall we con
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goaveling in ignorance?am
hich race is striving to make recog
tion for themselves in this land o
llightenment and civilization
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eir race?
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rior race. The abolitionists o
'anatics" up North have tried t
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jn that all men are created equal.'
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i- The cause of American liberty is
i- not characterized in or by "racial
i- equality" as he said: "Now we are f i
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l- whether that nation or any nation so
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