The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
Still Too Many Die Drunkards.

Too great a proportion of the of the world I'LL
drunkard And this is true also of America not
wthsanding the liquor drank is annually on the
per capita Rum-saturated and ginsoaked
inappropriate appelatons for all of the greater
cities OF boast it that their glory
begotten civilization Quite sensation
recently England Anglican bishop Of
equatorial published letter that 20
Europeans of Africa
by strong drink London heart of England
and the empire ginsoaked fairly
in matted liquors OF course the alcohol
tropics deadly temperate yet
is the temperate civilization of the temperate which
caters responsible intemperance
provinces ard possessions.
While intemperance decreasing United States
by statistics. increasing in a number of
Europe great proportion Americans
spite of their enlightenment and Notwithstanding
temperance lecturers the laws
and the study effects alcoholism
taught public schools drunkards. However
decrease in liquor consumption and in the number
drunkards denunciaton of
the drinker and the abuse keeper
greater enlightenment more generally
appreciated that it is only duty to live emperately
consideration conceivable The average American boys
highest life and there is no boy
in the wide world who clearly understands that
drinking can possibly excel
a matter of sentiment OF emotonallsm but a
downright unconroverbe fact that the young men who be-
addicted in the race of lfe and
graves lives are half lived out The
American boy is coming the business world
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professions behind the cear-headed tenn
perate Saloon keepers themselves like
ploy barkeepers drink they won't have drunk
ard. simply because it is No writer or
speaker is his best when stimulated by liquor
neither is the bookkeeper clerk. mechanic salesman
artisan Alcohol not only kills later.
pacitaes the living Its dangerous
structive. and this is enlightenment of
knows that a handicap and a weight
We speak Of for the middle
life seldom acquire drink habit Action and re-
action equal. and man must inevitably
suffer the deadenng force reaction whether he be
physical laborer The after evil Of stimulation
be circumvented liquor seller will not excuse
drunkenness moment the so-caed moderate
drinker defend his habit will, nine times out of ten
deprecate and exchange observes that upon
this question public sentiment against Of inoxi-
cans feeds Itself and grandmohers
felt rather disappointed young man did not SOW his wild
that s changed The young man who feels
he going success in life wants none Of it. and
the young these times feels chary
Of the attentions a drinking Therefore It is no,
prohibition nor penal laws against the traffic which
working the the foolish Instantaneous
and indefenshle habit; bu; it is higher
civilization begotten convincing persuasions of en-
nghtenment; it is the advantageous appeal from PHILIP
drunk 70 Philip sober in life wherein everybody
seeing that the temperate out stronger and
longer than the incorporate greatest modern tenn
advocate is the hypocritca political spouer
nor yet the salared reformed drunkard posing as TIL
fearful example, but it example OF the ncr
fellow race Of life in which all ar
0on1 pauI'S General an Ar,arir,n