Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-10-09

Can You Afford To +!

Young man. can YOU afford Ia drink. Your
l.guor costs money. bat thai Is but q very small
Percentage 81 the whole cost Of drinking. luu
D. - that YOUR life MAY lee a surcc--. Nru d.
-,re to accumulate property. gain honor. or l..t-
t.r still. you desire 10 become an honest ~
,l,ctatic man.
VII. thc world !, nor remarkably generous.
II d,e- not sratuitou-iy heap IT, gin, nn any
one. AMI If a drinking man. you labor at - great
a-ais au'a-c in YOUR effort, 20 H., 20 I.,'iuc-
tan. For ninctc, n-;wcn;irths 81 al with
whom You have dealings. have morr respect
for. aui more conf l-nrc in a strictly temperate
nam than one who drinks. Aal II you desire
thu patronage or assistance 81 men. ,ou must
first gain their confidence.
u alone. - 1 tn"s>s. HAT D., q tcu uI con
rrit which hides Your wcaAne., from YOUR own
Niaw, but conceal, il from no other. Il +. an
ola story. iiu nine ont Of ten time, il i q IL and
mon viii ic liked. 10 think tha, il i, much more
probable that sour ease /, one of the nino than
TIA" tenth. Nearly all drunkarl- made the
same assertion ST the beginning. ani many Of
them continue to make it when they arr %
drunk that they canno; get the words from
ia air mouths withou, "A hiccough
Bat il YOU are certain YOU lean take il or let
ii alone. - You choo>e.' then Immediately let
it alone forever, while you can.
Perhaps you think moderate drinking does
not iniurc one, reputation much. You are
mistaken. Mon who know that YOU ar q mod
crate drinkcr have not the plainncs, Of speech
Ia tell yoR just what they think Of moderate
drinking They DO not wish 10 cmbarrass You
or hurt your feelings. They arr too polite to
pitch into vou'' a subject in which they
hate no personal concern; and II Won want
their employment or assistance they will rvade
you. You fail 10 get what YOU want, but never
msirust that the real cau,e i, because they can
not trust sou.
They know that human nature l. such that
under certain circumstances or in certain states
Of health thai 4 single glass Of liquor may rem
der a man incapable Of doing his duty; that his
mind for the time may be so impaired that he
viii make inaccurate statements, bad calcula-
rion-. and manage all affairs in such way a.
10 indicate poor judgment.
And they know that AT the very moment
when his abilities most required they may
be- wanting.
This j. a matter Of the greatest Importance
in selecting sea captains or others who have the
entire management Of property Of great value.
II men are to trust thousand, OF dollars worth
of property in your care. they have Il perfect
right to demand tina; there never shall be q mo-
ment when YOU shall not b. in fIil possession
Of your reason.
But, perhaps. the ,addest thought in regard
10 occasional drinking is the danger of forming
a habit which will hold YOU in i lifelong bond
age; and place you in "a position where your
best friends dare not assist YOU. lest their peeu-
mary assistance. instead Of relieving your pow
erty, should simply afford YOU tho means to
further crafty your appetite and sink you still
deeper in misery. Temperance men are often
deferred from assisting Incorporate relatives
simply on this account. They consider rum
shop To be unmitigated nuisance. whose very
presenca is curse to the earth. They wish
they were all in tIat place of which the grog-
shop is the most fitting type. And sooner than
spend one dollar to sustain a grog-shop. they
would throw live in the fire. Now, who that
has feelings like this can bear TO furnish even a
friend with money, when he knows that friends |
thirst is SO strong for drink that he cannot re-
frain from spending that same money to sup |
getting holes:
Now. young man, are YOU willing 10 place |
yourself in such position that no prudent |
friend will dare trust you with the disposal of
dollar TO relieve your own poverty. No ration |
al man will thus deprive himself of his friends |
confidence.
Sir, drink will take your money, your prop |
erty, your home, your domestic happiness,
your employment, your health, your reason,
your responsibility, your influence. 1t will de-
priye you of your friends confidence, aud leave
you in more destitute and more pitiable con-
dition than rooster deprived Of his feathers
1t will divorce you from everything that is near
and dear. and bequeathe to you penniless,
pitiless orphanage. Is it not an expensive lux
Iryr Can you afford it. RIG.