It Is Just as Bad as Before

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

It Is Just as Bad as Before

It Is Just as Bad as Before.—"German chemists now say that about ninety per cent. of all alcohol swallowed is turned into carbonic acid and water in the system, and that alcohol robs the cells of the oxygen required for their life. Drunkenness is caused, they say, by the action of the excess of carbonic acid in the blood upon the brain." But science does not help it any. The alcohol is just as evil, just as full of all possible wickedness, as before its chemical analysis. Its moral analysis, is seen in its various forms in the homes and lives of those who use the vile liquid.