Co be trusted to reproduce the race. Also I believe that our as regards the divorcing of such individuals should be made tically self-acting, instead of encouraging good women to marry of this description in the hope of reforming them by their stian principles and their good example; that, I think is disly immoral, I care not who has upheld such a position. "We can pile up perfectly enormous and appalling figures, ing up into the hundreds of thousands, of the different types efectives, but taken altogether, they do not come to more than or 5% of the total community. 95% of the community are normal and sound, and the vast majority of us, no matter what ns we should be subjected to, are hopelessly and monotonously I not even cranky enough to be interesting. The general age of the race is high and good, and the real field of eugenics, y judgment, is the recognition of this fact, first of all. "We must alter our attitude to the great mass of the people. ave actually taken, in our inspired intelligence, that 2% or 3% fectives as the creatures which all men would become, if they not held down by the strong hand of the law, or upheld by the ort of religion. We have pictured 2% or 3% of defectives as ›asal type of the entire community, and have allowed that to our laws, our prison regulation and our methods of what we leased to term justice, until we have produced a code which, avagery, stupidity, and ineffectiveness to 97% of the comty, was never needed for a moment, except by the 3% of unnates at the lower end of the scale. "We should recognize that the tendency of 95% of humanity The cider selli almost ne cent. of a venient ve State. How the follow liquors the Of fifteen 7.07, and average wa Analy Spanish w to be 5.94, or over ha by volume Of the there are: 1,2 per 4, 6 per 8, 10 pe Theref cent. of ald from 8 to 1 The B this to say The frequency with which the food inspectors find so-calle er selling in Kansas, coupled with the facts that the products a ost never true cider and that they usually contain a high pe t. of alcohol, has led to the belief that they were merely a con ient vehicle for the sale of intoxicating beverages in a prohibitio te. How these products compare with beer and wine is seen fro following facts: In seventy-six samples of American ma ors the average alcoholic content was 5.61, and the highest 7.8. fifteen other samples the highest alcoholic content in beer wa 7, and the average 4.45; the highest in ale was 5.37, and th rage was 4.49. Analyses of German, French, Austrian, Russian, Italian an nish wines given by König show the lowest alcoholic conten be 5.94, and the highest 15.77, while out of sixteen samples nin over half of the samples, were below 10.3 per cent. of alcoh volume. Of the 31 products listed below of those containing alcoh re are: 1, 2 per cent. alcohol.....one 4, 6 per cent. alcohol....eight 8,,10 per cent. alcohol..three 2, 4 per cent. alcohol....two 6, 8 per cent. alcohol.. fifteen 10, 12 per cent. alcohol....two Therefore, over 74 per cent. of them contain from 4 to 8 pe t. of alcohol, or as much as strong beer and ale, while five ru n 8 to 12 per cent., which is as high as many foreign wines. The Bulletin of the North Dakota Pure Food Department ha to say on "alcoholic ciders:" sed. Cider containing from ten to twelve per anfit article of beverage to be used in any comthe natural and genuine product. It is as much verage as any of the other spirituous drinks nual report, Dr. J. S. Abbott, Food and Drug Texas, touches on the question of the sale of Abbott says: e common brand of cider upon the Texas market These modern ciders are made of the juice of with cane sugar or glucose and then fermented. gic in the English language, such a compound pple wine,' just as grape juice fortified with d is 'wine,' or 'grape wine.' ines are sold right along in prohibition territory, ey contain from 8 to 10 per cent. of alcohol, at ordinary wine contains, and there is no fuss ut it seems that a farmer cannot grow grapes and sell the wine he makes from these grapes. , however, and make and sell all the apple wine perchance it is called 'cider, fortified with sugar' the Internal Revenue Officers." tate Bulletin reports: onth of January, last, 100 of the 165 sample of passed as legal. Of the 60 ciders examined, 34 ost instances being so classed because of the e of soda added as a preservative. This practice apples th they will strict enfo vote of la hibition in Boston He "The Maine is of many c ed $25. The inhibition also includes vinegar for housewiv e farmers of lower Delaware have banded together and decla y will test the law. Gov. Haines of Maine, in his inaugural address called for ct enforcement of the prohibition law, declaring that the popul e of last year, which decided by a small majority to keep pr ition in the State Constitution, had settled the question. T ston Herald, commenting on the Governor's address, says: "The hypocrisy with which the liquor problem is handled ine is shown clearly in the exemptions in favor of cider. T mers have their cider without interference or formality of a nse system, and nobody denies that hard cider has been the cau nany crimes against life and property in the rural sections. Y s the country vote-the vote of the men who make cider and dri and treat their neighbors on it-that forces the city laborer ak the law to get a mug of less harmful beer. And thousan city people who vote for prohibition patronize the express con ies that do a rushing business under the present condition e hypocrisy thus engendered has permeated every branch of t itical and official life of Maine, whatever party is in power." |