The Monitor., 1891-04-10
oFFIcEns W. c. T. T.. wooDsTowN;
Financial Ruin.

Financial Ruin.
1t may be set down as Tact that tue
drinking man can neveraecumulate money,
unless he is the fortunate possessor Of
| bpnapza-a business that is as to profits
beyond any consideration as to expenditure,
no matter how reckless. Rum has burned
a hole in his pocket which leaks faster than
auy ordinary business or money lug
avocation will replenish it. Bankruptcy
and financial ruin are inevitable. The
drinking man is at a disadvantage in his
| business, because the money which should
be used to push trade, or tide over dull
times, or extend his operations into new
| lines or new territory, is sIeLt for lum aid
| in the excesses Which follow in the tial of
that demon. He becomes mole aid more
| involved, ard trits lttIeI cl mtit i'll all
ways but tie tie v lich is lls ,uin. He
will lop II all nttdless tSiei dilure save
til It for rum and its att, Meant vices. But
| they are like the horse.lttch's Gaugl lttIs
tney cry, Give, give" until tie II az e.
comes desperate; lie Wlo was itekl,ss in-
c,ieLtaly, now b,ct mes tekltss labh-
| ually. The crash of financial iuin ct mt 5
aud his course from that time is dileci
plunge into habitual drunkenness, poverty,
aud fually death.
Reader, did you ever consider the grim
fact-that ninety ger cent. of the men en-
| gagged in legitimate lines OF trade in This
country fail sooaer or latei, And did you
ever trace this back TO its eausa? Tie
pathway of trade is strewu with wrecks,
aud nine ont of ten of them weie caused b,
rum. l. should be plain to I'll that in these
days of ii ice comIis ttlon in iiaGe, IL.
legitimate profits in any line Of busnt -
are too small to stand the drain on the
pocket imposed by the rum habit. Appar.
emily the cheapest of all dissipaIions,
drinking is tie most costly. All other
extIavaganceS have limit, but the ihiist
for rum is limitIess. Ii is like the OCEAN
which receives all the ivers of the world,
yet it is never aly fuller. Tie more you
drink The more you must, al d iLtle can le
| but one end 10 both lie dIinleI's MONEY
only costs frghlfully in mouty, but ii
takes away the power to make money.
| Il is as dangerous to a mars finances as it
| is to his body, his mind and his soul.
But though it is fact that hiuety per
| cent. of our business men fail, sooner or
later the influence of rum in 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 bus
mess. While many do this, there are many
others who do not, and yet v hose downfall
| is just as surely the result of rum as il
| they had done so. To DO a successful
| business in these rushing days, when every
avenue of trade is the arena OF keen COM
petition, requires brains. 1t will not do
| that a man shall have business sagaciiy,
that he shall be sharp in bargaining and
| quick witted to avail himself of every open
ing for profit. He must not only be all
these, but h. must remain so; aud he must
| give all his attention to business. Nov,
he cannot do these things and daily with
rum. With many men a single glass Of
the Internal stuff benumbs the brain; aud
the man in this condition, with his meutal
faculties clouded With the fumes Of Ium,
can never hope to succeed in the struggle
with competitor of equal natural ability
who never touches rum, aud So keeps his
head clear, his wits keen, and all his facal
ties On the alert. He who drinks Will
surely fall behind through his dnl, wits.
His trade deserts him. he has losi he ahi.
iiy he unc- possessed through ,aknig his
brain III rum. aud lie goes TO ihe all The
cause is stat d rs bad it,vestn ent>, >" ZOO
great competition. bad ebts," or some.
thing similar. But these are the result Of
drink, and Ium is really the cause ui his
failure.
Tie business man who begins to drink
might Ist as we'll close un his establish
meut a ono il he int 5uds To continue The
unequal II ut tn cope with rum and " ith
his business rivals at the same time There
is no l.ne oi safety but in the entire abeud
onment of rum. He may keep his head
above water for a few years. but the inevi
table end " i'll as surely come. Viewing
these facts, is there not pert inencY i'll the
claim that it is the highest duty of man to
save ilh bIbltltT man iIOD blfDstiI! Inns
sidious devil of ium, " hen he ouce gets
his CLAWS fastened upon a viciim. never
leos,te his huld ull lie has hIm aL tie
mouth of the pit Of hell -Ioledo Blade.
hemi.Annuai w. q. Il. u. Convention
The following is The programme for the
st mi annual etht,u;ion OF the Salem Co.
| W. G. f. L TO be held in the NJ. Z.
church at Emer. on ", dn, sday, 22d inst {:
MORNING SESSION.
! 10 o'clock, Devolions. led by Mrs. Walter L.
| Mayo. OF Allowny.
| Roll Call.
! Appointment of mmitt.es-Credential
Re9o. II ions, Courtesy, sc.
Minutes of 1tsi meetii e.
| 1870 paper by Miss Lniiisa Powell, of Han
c'ck's nridse. nljtct-"Tobaceo and
Nurcaiic-."
| 10 81, paper by Miss Anna Macal ioner, Of
Wood.town. on 'ReceptiVc Influence OF
Cider Drinking
Singing.
Paper by Miss Emily Il. Kirby. of Woods.
town. on "HOw TO increase our Member
ship "