The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-04-03

responsibility. Some young men, ap
parently successful, may be dashy in
dress, loud in manner, and ~disrespect
full of women and sacred things. Blu
the young man who is respectable al
ways wears best. The way a young
man carries himself in his private life
Outlines means much to him in hiE
business career. No matter where be
is, or in whose company, respecta
bility, and all that it implies, will al
ways command respect.
THE USE OF N~TOXIoANTs
If he be wise he will entirely avoid
the use of liquors. II the question Of
harm done by intoxicating liquor is
an open one, the question Of the good
derived from it is not.
Simply take the hard common sense
view of it. The temporary exhilara
ton which is supposed to come from
alcohol either in diffused or concen
trated form is unnecessary to a young
man in good health. Therefore. it can
do him absolutely no good. He does
dot need it, ard not an Inc of better
health will will come to him by reason
Of il. But it may do him harm. The
chances are that it will. And no young
man can EFF ord to take q single risk or
chance in the morning Of a business
career He needs the unhampered use of
all his powers; all his health, all his
intellect, and all his manners.
do not ask him to accept this on
any ground but that Of expediency.
He will see for himself that for every
young man in business who does drink,
no matter how moderately, there is
some young man of the sustaining
kind waiting around the corner for his
place who will do his work all the bet
ter because he does abstain. And EN-
ployers prefer the abstaining sort. The
president of the two largest railroads
In this country have each told me per
so0Rlly within the past year that they
will no longer employ any man for any
position or their roads who drinks even
moderately. And this is growing to
be a CO nm0n custom in all branches Of
business. Alcohol is becoming more
and more each day to be regarded 10
the business word as a positive detri
ment to a mans greatest usefulness.
know it is said, when one brings up
such an instance as this, oh we'll,
that man drank to excess. One glass
will hurt no one" How do these peo-
pie know that it will mott One drop
of kerosene has been known to throw
into fame an almost hopeless fire, and
m glass of liquor may fan into fame
q s~mouldering spark hidden away
where it was eve thought to exist.
The spark may be there and it may
not. Why take the riskH Liquor to
a healthy youngm will never do him
the least particle of good; it may do
him harm. The man for whom I have
no use Is the man who lie
continually asking q young to lust
have a little; one glass, you know" A
man who will Willingly urge a young
man whom he knows has q principle
against liquor is a man for whom a hal
ter is too good.
Then, as I looked around and came
to know more Of people and things, I
the always unanswerabIe Rrgu
ment in favor of a young mans alb
stinence, i. e., that the most successful
men in American to day r those who
seldom, if ever, lift a wine glass to
their lips. Becoming interested in this
fact, I had the curiosity to personal
~ inquire into it, and of twenty eight
Of the leading business men in the
country whose James I selected at
random, twenty-five were abstain
ers. l made up my mind that
there was some reason for this
If liquor brought safe pleasures why
did these men abstain from it
TOBACCO.
l believe that if young men would
not smoke until they attain their thir
tieth year, it would be the wisest so
luton Of this whole question. One
thing is certain: the young man who
does not smoke is far better off than he
who does; and those addicted to tobac |
co will, I think, agree with this state !
ment.