The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
What viii You Have!
W. G. T. u


bitter cold evening, in a restaurant, to
wait for a railway car, observed that
there was bar and steady stream of
customers. "What will you have?' in
quired the polite dram-seller of II we'll
dressed young man, whose face showed
some ugly tokens of the havoc of the
bottle already. lie took brandy. "You
will soon have the delrium tremens,
Young mani ~ said to myself. AS two
laboring men stepped up, and We're
saluted with the question, what will
you takeP' the one ordered ale and the
other whiskey. "You are taking the
bread from your children's mouths TO
put poison into your own mouth"
thought |, aud yet these rough sons of
toll paid down the score cheerfully.
When | hurried out to the car, the dis
penser OF death by the dram was busy
in compounding drinks for fresh GUS
toners; for at that hour, a crowd was
moving holneward at the close of their
days work. ] have no doubt that Il
large share of the patrons of that popu-
lar concern (Which seemed to be chiefly
for drinking, and not cating) really
believe that their deceitfu drains do
them no harm 81 feel better after u
good drink" cit warns me up on a
cold night :" 81 can digest my supper
better after glass of bourbon;" "if |
find that it hurts me I'll stop These,
and similar current falsehOods, would
have leaped from the mouths of all
those Celuded people who were swal-
lowing those sparkling devices of the
devil. The vast majority Of all the
customers of dram-shops, and of those
who put u decanter on their own tables,
are under a delusion. They do not
intend to commit suicide; they do not
deliberately aim to distroy their own
health, or character, or souls; on the
contrary. they defend their practice
Stoutly, and affirm that when they find
out that glass of liquor hurts them
they shall quit. No, they won't; for,
by that time, they will have become
slaves to the bottle.
Now there are three or four undenia-
BILE truths that ought to be constantly
reiterated from the pulpit, from the
press, in the Sabbath-schOOl and in the
public school. 1t ought to be made
liable, that no healthy man or woman
CNtl HcCus all dlCDOIlC UIlIh. AS
medicine it is rarely required, and the
physician is a fool who ever prescribes
it, when any possible substitute can be
used. Three things are true in regard
to all intoXicants be they wine, bran
dy, bourbon, or by whatever name the
alcohol is labeled.
First. They never feed. Alcohol
neither furnishes warmth nor nOurish-
ment. During the last British polar
expedition the two sailors who were
strictly teetotalers endured the arctic
cold better than their comrades who
used rum or brandy. A brandy-drink.
er will freeze sooner than a coffee
drinker, under he same circumstances
Alcohol does not increase the produc
ton of animal heat by its own chcmica
ACTION. Ii derange>, and in lime dcs
iroys, the digestive organs. "A large
monnt of the prevailing "Bright's dis
ease" comes from the use of whiskey
Thousands of intelligent business men
~ well as ignorant hod-carriers and
thy-laborers, order some kind of liquol
for their dinners, under the delusior
that the wine or the whiskey impsrts
strength, and aids digestion, and sup
plies flesh, or in some way does them
good. have known people TO cling
b this terrible delusion after their di
eestive apparatus has been burnt ou,
by alcohol as completely as that Mil
yankee tiretrap of a hotel.
SecOnd.-AlcohOlic drinks never in
crease the enduring power of the hnmal
body. Sir Garnet Wolseley, the hero
Of the late Egyptian war, is "A stric
Total abslainer, and he has lately beel
giving some valuable testimony in re-
gard to the worthlessness of liquors tt
sll soldiers who are exposed 10 severe
ervice. Like Sir Henry iiavelock, he
: lestities that soldiers can march better
E light better and stand dangerous eli
I mates better without alcohol than will
il. Tom Sayers. the famous pugilist
once said: 81 am no teetoatller, bu
when hare business on h0nd there,
nothing like cold water and the duml
BELLS" A cent spent in bread imparti
more permanent power than dollaI
/ spent in brandy.
| IhHu The most overwh lmins
argument against all alcoholic bev
erages is that they .Hy directly to M
brain. This is Gods mighty argumen
against tainperlng with them. Ihe.
G strike man al the point where reason
y sits, where the mortal touches the i'm
3 mortal, where they can kill both bod,
and soul. All other arguments il
hvor of abstinence from strong drinl
dwarf and dwindle in comparison witt
his one, and we ought To burn thi
INTO every boys memory and cou
science before he ever becomes a vic
i'm to the drinking customs. Th
DEVILS masterpiece is the bottle, for
dSSdSSindtes the bTdini
Now these are some of the vita
4 truths that we have got to repeat an,
e. repeat until we fasten them in ever
y young mans memory. five want l.
n Keep people from the drnking-saloo
&c or the social glass, we have got to con
y vince their reasons, to awaken thei