The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-06-16
PULveRIZE TIE RUM POWER.

PULVERIZE TIE RUM POWER.
The Cost of Rum to the Drinkina
Man.
Rum costs. The man who pays q
dime for drink thinks lightly OF it,
but when he takes twenty drinks day
he has paid 90 for Rum alone-which.
multiplied by 365. gives the neat sum
of $3.50 per year. Now. while there
are many drinkers who as yet do not
indulge to the extent of a score Of
'nips' day, there are also large
number who exceed that-who 60 as
high as thirty or forty daily. Then.
too. it is not necessary that q man
shall himself drink the entire twenty,
or the whole forty, as the case may
be. Your drinking man is generally a
'iolly fellow" at least while the fumes
of Rum are in his brain; and he is con-
stantly creating" as well as being
treated" He drops into a saloon to
get ''sustainer," and finds a half-doz-
en- men with whom he has a drinking
acquaintance. "What will you take?"
springs to his lips instinctiyely. and he
pays for seven drinks. And this ex-
perience may be repeated half-dozen
times each day. The drinking man of
convivial habits always pays for more
Rum than he drinks himself. because
there are always lot of hangers on
about saloons. who are generally out
of money, but who will drink with any
body who will stand the expense, and
never return the compliment
The actual cash outlay of the Rum
habit is so great that only a million
aire can stand the financial strain for
any length of time. The man of
moderate means ruins himself, in a
money sense, in the indulgence of the
appetite for that which also destroys
him physically and mentally. But
what is actually expended by him for
his own drink is by no means all. The
man full of Rum is careless with his
cash, reckless of his expenditures. and
totally unfit to transact business of any
kind which requires clear head and a
cool brain. The exhilaration conse-
quent upon his rotations makes him
feel as though he is made of honey,
and he pays it out with a recklessness
that certainly must bring regret to
his sober moments. He does with it
the most extrayagant things. and it
goes, he knows not where. Under the
reckless promptings of the Rum Devil.
the man flush of money is pretty sure
to do one of two things-either visit a
gambling-room and waste his money.
or seek the gilded haunts of vice and
pour it out in the lap of her whose foot.
steps, according to Solomon, take
hold On hell"
1t may be set down as a fact that tho
drinking man can never accumulate
money, unless he is the fortunate pos
SCISSOR of q bonanza-abusiness that is,
as to its profits beyond any considera-
ton of expenditure. no matter how
reckless. Rum has burned hole in
his pocket which leaks faster than any
ordinary business or money-making
avocation will replenish it. Bank
ruptcy and financial ruin are inevitable.
The drinking man is at y disadvantage
in his business, because the money
which would be used to push trade, or
tide over dull tines, or extend his
operations into new lines or new terri
tory, is spent for Rum. and in the ex-
cesscs VIII CHI follow in the trail of that
demon. He becomes more and moro
involved, and tries retrenchment, in all
ways but the one which is his ruin.
He will lop off all needless expenditure
save that for Rum and its attendant
vices. But they are like the horse
leeche's daughters; they cry ''Givc.
give" until the maa becomes desper-
ate; he who was reckless incidentally
now becomes reckless habitually. The
crash of financial ruin comes, and his
course from that time is direct plunge
into habitual drunkenness, poverty,
and financial death.
Reader, did you ever consider the
grim fact-for fact it is-that minety
per cent of the men engaged in legiti-
mate lines of trade in this country fail
sooner or later? And did you ever
trace this back to its cause. The path
way of trade is strewn with wrecks,
and nine out of ten of them was caused
by Rum. 1t should be plain 10 all that.
in these days of fierce competition in
trade. the legitimate profits in any line
of business are too small to stand the
drain on the pocket imposed by the
Rum habit. Apparently the cheapest
of all designations. drinking is the most
costly. All other extravagances have
a limit; but the thirst for Rum is limit
less. 1t is like the ocean, which re-
ceiVes all the rivers of the world. vet
is never any fuller. The more you
drink the more you must, and there
can be but one end to both the drinkers
money and his physical endurance.
Rum not only costs frightfully in
money, but it takes away the power to
make money. 1t is as dangerous to a
mans finances as it is to his body, his
mind, and his soul.
But though it is a fact that ninety
per cent. of orr business men fail,
sooner or later. the influence of Rum
is causing the failure OF at least nine
out of every ten is not so clearly SEEN.
We do not mean to say that these all
fail because they drink up the money
that should be used in business. While
many do this, there are many others
who do not. and yet whose downfall is
just as surely the result of Rum rs
if they had done so. 10 do success
full business in these rnshipO dave