The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-08

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Hooked upon rs acrank.n Not
| that il -bothers him. at all. A
crank Is simply man OF woman
| Who don't think exactly Ike you
| 10, anyway, and when you are a
liquor man a crank is pretty apt
to have pretty strong temperance
predeIecfivcs. But cranks are
VERY useful things in this world
/ They help to run it.
i OF course the opinion Of a crank
Ills worth but little, but he likes to
90 blissfu.ly on and air it, just
the same, so with this little pre-
Eamble this crank will take advan-
tage Of the kind permission or
the editor and make few more
remarks on this same subject or
! temperance, or internperance,
rather.
incompetence has been the
Ecurse Of this county. 1t has been
at the bottom OF all the feuds and
bad blood that have made Logan
i notorious. 1t has made the name
Iof Logan a by-word throughout
not only this State, bat the whole
zUnion.TFIler here,
christian gentlemen, honorable
and worthy of respect in any
place, bnt when you pick up a
paper from a Northern city, do
you see them lnentionedg No
1t is the ssbold bad man. of ira
| dition; he who has shot his man !;
he who drinks bad whisky, whoops
and yells and paints the town red
generally. This is the man who
IL used to represent. the county"
in the average newspaper article
ON Logan w Risky has HURT His
county. Not to come down to in
dividual cases, it has been the
] cause of more trouble, morally
socially, financially and spiritu-
ally than anything under heaven.
Many man, who would other
wise be pretty fair citizen, live
a peacable life, and maybe get to
heaven when he died, has lost
seIf-control, self-respect, money,
friends, trust in God, and conf
dence in man through that one
vile thing-whisky.
What does it give a MANI
Sometimes boy drinks, thinking
it will make man of him. He
generally finds out his mistake,
but often he finds it out too late.
"A man who will take half-hour
and think what fool he is for
drinking, and how infinitely he is
capable of degrading himself by
it, must be a right hopeless case,
What pleasure is it for fellow
to lie around like any hog in the
gutter and then wake up with a
feeling that his head is the size
of flour barrel, only more so,
and that the world is about the
toughest place one could conven-
ientY striker
Maybe he has lots Of fun while
he is getting that way. Granted
he does. it is fun at his own ex-
pense, for he is either laughed at
or pitied, and few men like eth
er.
Some drink to- drown trouble,
but they generally end by getting
into it. There is not much logic
in that way of getting out of trou-
Bile, it is a case of addition in
stead Of subtraction, for it gives,
in place OF taking away, sorrow.
Some drink out of sheer contrari-
ness, simply because they think
| it hurts some one. 1t does. 1t
hurts the drinker, but perhaps
the. best way to, manage such a
donkey is to let him alone. Mules
are unsafe.
But the question is still the
same: how can any self-respect-
ing man so far lower himself as to
get drunk? Leaving out all feel
ings of religion, or of duty to
ones friends and ones country,
of the obligation to society and
all these other things that we
could bring up in argument, how
can man care SO little for his
own self as to get beastly drunk?
'sTHAT CRANK
The first trial of DR.. Woods
| Norway Pine Syrup will satisfy