Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-21
New Series--Vo1- 10, No. 13-

We have no faith in that class of
drinkers called moderate" 1t is a
growing appetite, and he who drin as
moderately from the love of liquor will
ultimately become an immode:0 q. II
not an inveterate, imbiber or - L
which stealeth away mans brains"
The only safety for young man is to
learn that drinking is not manly ac-
quirement, but that it requires more
true manliness to refuse the protfered
glass with the firm reply-'I never
drink" 1t is fashionable to ask every
friend one meets to take u drink. The
man who does not lead his friend to the
bar is regarded by the regular practition-
er as mean or stiugy. 1t requires true
manliuesS 10 set ones face against this
fashion. 1t is the drunkard's custom,
and no man who feels his responsibility
to himself to be led to follow it. There
is no real friendship in inducing friend
to drink, no more than there would be
TO invite him to take small portion OF
any other description of poison. Whisky
kills by slow process, and when one
thus assists in making drunkard OF
his friend, he helps to shorten his life,
to destroy his usefulness, and, perhaps,
by neglecting his duty, to bring death
and destruction upon Others. If men
will drink, let them drink out of their
own bottles or at their own expense
Do not encourage those who do not
drink and do not care for liquor, and
have not the firmness to refuse, to take
a social glass.
To prove that whisky kills, it is only
necessary to read the daily lists of death
to see that it undermines and destroys
health, and life is shortened and death
produced by it. Within the past year
deaths have occurred in our city of those
who have been in times past among the
most active and energetic business men.
From moderate drinkers, they had be-
come inyeterate topers. Business for
sook them, their wealth dwindled away.
their families became destitute, am
after staggering through our streets IL,
rags, begging money for glass, the!
ultimately staggered into drunkard's
grave at the age of prime manhood
Every man who drinks sees around him
the fate of the drunkard, but he foolish
ly thinks that he can control his appe-
tite and stop when he wants to. But he
will find out, when it is too late, that he
is beyond redemption. Indeed, we cal
recall the names of dozens of citizens OF
DdlIlIlOIt w LlO dG OHC "CIC az
head of prosperous business establish
ments on Baltimore street, kept theiI
carriages, and might, but for liquor
been to-day in prosperous circumstances,
who have prematurely passed away anC
left behind destitute widows and chill
dren. Rum did it, and rum will con
tinue to do it.
There is not an employer in the city
who does not every day see that some OF
his employees are daily decreasing ID
usefulness from a growing love of liquor
1t comes on them by degrees, and they
ultimately become nuisance to the em-
ployer and to their associates. TheiI
usefulness decreases, and if they are III
a position of trust, the lives of all the
other employees are endangered. Some
business men escape these troubles and
risks by making drunkenness cause
for discharge. Verify, we think they
"are wise in their day and generation"
They would as soon think of trusting
maniac with the charge of an engine as
a habitual drinker, and We repeat that
the time is not distant when it will be
unsafe to trust this class of men with
any employment except that of the pick
and spade.-[ Baltimore American.