ALCOHOL AND INSANITY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 36.

ALCOHOL AND INSANITY.

It is announced by a cablegram that one of the leading officials of Scotland has come to the conclusion, says the Christian Work, that alcoholic drink is the chief cause of the alarming increase of insanity in that country. It has long been a recognized fact that whisky-drinking is one of the greatest evils, if not the greatest evil, that afflicts the land of Scott and Burns. Among all their great and admirable traits of national character, the Scottish people have this weakness for intoxicating drink, and it has brought nothing to them but misery, shame, and disgrace. It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when the sturdy good sense, the moral courage, and the determined will which are so largely characteristic of the Scotch people will manifest themselves in the crushing out of the liquor traffic, which has brought upon them such a burden of woe.