The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-09-20
~. ct. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MAS. \. L. HOBBS.


| BUSINESS, MORALS, HEALTH.
liew Affected BY The Desesesstlsg laas-
esee Of Alcohol.
| By STATE CHAiRxAN HALL.
| The beverage use OF alcoholic
Preparations continues BY reason Of
lignorsnce.
A few days ago | examined .
young man for life insuIance. When
it came y the question whether he
fused alcoholic beverages or not, he
replied mo" Knowing by his
breath aud general appearance that
he did, asked him how many
lglasses Of beer . day he used {; be-
lreplied, "Oh, about three or four, I,
|but I never touch anything that he's
|alcohol in it, like whisky" The
Imam actually thought that beer was
not an Intoxicating beverage, and
there are thousands like him all
lover the land.
| Women especially, who would
Ihave q moral spasm il offered whis.
ky, have beer brought to their
homes daily and use il 80 freely that
Ithey take into their system q much
Iaicohol a. is found in two or three
drinks Of whisky. Their ignorance
|of the true nature Of alcoholic bev.
Ieraees leads them into . great error
lin believing that beer is 3 harmless
bevtrage. Beer Is a. dangerous .
. beverage % any alcoholic prepa.
lration We have. Il will not make .
|person drunk - quick - whisky,
tbut it will create the alcoholic appe-
lite just as will whisky or rum.
Ibelieve careful observation will
consince any one that beer is max.
ling far more drunkards than any
lother beverage.
Men and women and whole fam
lilies are wonderfully deceived By
1.-THE use Of beer, thinking it 10 harm
less, when u scientific truth is ths
Ino beverage is more certain to star
Ia certain course Of degradation in I
family than beer. -
Our great business enterprises o
1.-THE country, as steamship lines
railroads, banking institutions, etc.
have found that the use Of all alco
holic beverages degenerates the bus
Iiness ability Of al their employees
Hence they do not employ, or con
|tinus in their services, drinkini
men, for the sufficient reason tha
their business degsnerates under th'
management Of drinking men
There is no better business maxim
lin the world to-day than this: ~
drinking man cannot be dspspdel
upon for safe business. !" We speal
lof the degrading Influences Of alco
|hol on business, because such
llarge portion Of msnkind =! .prusen
lare anxious to look at the bushes
lside Of ill questions firut.
Next to Vhe: business interests q
lths country, people valustbs' 'hous
What h the greatest dh5lrQysr Q
elhappy homes In this fair laud
!. There are many but no one 90 Sres
10 the degsusrate itAusnoe, of q
'.lsaloon and its ass0ciste evils. Tn
,tlhomes that rum has deslroy0d Uul
oil other causes. A drink
ling father is sure 10 staft long se
Iries OF moral. intS3laatnsl and phys
|ical dsgsussative influences In hi
family that will reach to the thirt
land fourth generation.
II is the e66ervation Of ever,
Ithoughtful man snd woman thu
drinking will destroy the moralit,
: |of 1 man quicker and surerthaI
: lanything else. ImmOral .mea ar,
drinking men % . rule. Teke, 70
Iexampls, . msn Who u her itatin,
Isbout committing An immoral deed
les stealing or murder, and he goei
land takes two or three drinks o
!. isoms alcoholic beverage. Will ths
oIinfluence Of that beverage swing
Ihim toward doing that evil deed ol
Ifrom il? Il will swing him towardI
gIcommitting the crime every time.
= Whist influence has strong drinl
bIon intellectual development? In my
xItown, which is an average OF tht
Ioounty seats in Indians, we hav'
I had Ave TO ten saloonkeepers il
business during the last twenty .fiv'
. ysass, and not one Of their childrUI
eIhss graduated from high school o.
sttehdcd college. Moderate dSiak
-lers q . rule rave degenerate chill
ssIdrsn whom il comes TO intellectual
7 liability.
81 Dr.. Parker, Of New York City
who stood At the head Of the mod
Iical profession for years in the Em
ipire state, declared: "That thirty.
1three and one third per cent. Of oil