in 1832, only two out of five thousand members of temperance
societies died." The Northwestern Life Insurance Company of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the oldest and most successful
Companies in the Northwest, has lived for nearly forty years next
neighbor to lager beer interests. The shrewd men of this company
have studied the influence of the beer industry upon those who engage
in it. The result is, that they will no longer grant an insurance policy
to a beer-brewer, nor to any one in any way engaged in the business.
In their own words their reason is this: "Our statistics show that our
business has been injured by the short lives of those men who drink
lager beer."

Then, we need to study the drink evil in its relation to society. "A
recent report of the chaplain of the Madalen Society of New York
shows that of eight-nine fallen women in the asylum at one time,
all but two ascribed their fall to the effect of the drink habit." "A
lady missionary makes the statement that of two thousand sinful
women known personally to her, there were only ten cases in which
intoxicating liquors were not largely responsible for their fall." "A
leading worker for reform in New York says that the suppression of
the curse of strong drink would include the destruction of ninety-nine
of every one hundred of the houses of ill-fame." "A missionary on
going at the written request of one of these lost women to rescue her
from a den of infamy remonstrated with her for being even then
slightly under the influence of drink." "Why," was her indignant
reply as tears filled her eyes, "do you suppose we girls are so dead
that we have lost our memories of mother, home, and everything
good? No, indeed; and if it were not for liquor and opium, we
would all have to run away from our present life or go mad by
pleadings of our own hearts and home memories."