The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-09-25
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

lntemperance is Decreasing. Declares the
Atlanta Journal-The Business World
Has No Place For the Man Who
Drinks.
The "fresh" young man who feels
obliged to carry bottle with him to all
places where he thinks he will not be Of
fered something Ito wet his whistle" is
rapidly passing away. The business world
has no place for him and he is growing
into disfavor socially. The evidence Of
this is seen on every hand.
A few days ago M. Jules Cambon, the
French Ambassador to this country, said
in an interview at Paris in speaking OF
the American people: 'There may be
some hypocrites among them, but the vast
majority abstain from strong drink"
In commenting on this statement edi.
torially the New York Sun says: ut is
true, as general observation must have dis.
covered. that, prudence in, drinking all
kinds of alcoholic liquors has increased,
and that total abstinence from them is
relatively much more frequent than for
merly."
1t is plain that the business conditions
of to-day require the services of sober
men. No others need apply. Great enter
prises can only be carried on successfully
by those who utilize fully their natural
mental gifts and their physical energies.
! The hard drinkers cannot command the
confidence Of business men, hence those
who indulge immoderately in the use of
strong intoxicants sooner or later become
oafers.
1t is noticeable fact that the thriftiest
communities after they get settled down
to business produce fewer drunkards than
Ibosa nyharo 1oaGD0 10 tho r,lo
| Only few days ago the news columns
! Of the Journal showed that fewer licenses
| to liquor establishments were granted in
| Atlanta during the first six months of
this year than for the same period of last
year, although the city has in the mean.
time grown largely in population.
Ambitious men have learned that sue
cess can only come either in business life
or in the professions to those who keep
their wits about them all the time and
preserve themselves so as to be able phys
ically to perform great labor.
This state of things has had its influ..
ence socially for apparent reasons, and
hence those who at dinners and other So
/ the extent of obvious intoXication are no
longer regarded with amusement but with
commiseration, and as needing such ten
der care as is given to q sick man.
1t has always been a matter OF remark
that in the clubs in Atlanta there is very
little immoderate drinking. The young
men are busy here, and understand that
the enterprise and sobriety of their com.
pettors will not suffer them to destroy
or weaken their capacity by indulgence in
the use of strong stimulants.
The New York Sun says "even the
Tammany General Committee, once called
a collection of red noses, is now full of to-
tai abstainers;. that none of the great po:
litical leaders of the present is hard
drinker that many of them are total alb
stainers, and that the same is true of the
great leaders in finance, in trade and in
the professions. Strict abstemiousness is
the rule among them and reputation for
intemDerance is always injurious"
Archbishop ireland was quoted in the
temperance is increasing, and his conclu-
sion was based on information obtained
from the Total Abstinence Society of
America, Catholic institution.
1t will be noticed that the observation
Of the French Minister has been confined
to the large cities of the West and the
East where temperance is not enforced
oy law, but is simply brought about by
business and social standards.
The Sun arrives at the conclusion that
as a result of increasing temperance
among the people the liquor question
has been practically eliminated from pol
!tics, for the evils of alcoholic abuse are
recognized by all parties and by liquor
dealers not less than by the rest of the
public"
Whether the Suns conclusion in this
particular is correct or not it is gratifying
20 note the evidences of the fact that ours
S becoming more and more nation of So
Der and temperate people.-Atlanta Jour-
lal.