The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-05-15
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.

whisky Ia Mans Most Dangerous Enemy
1t Units Him For All the Good Work
Of Life-Adds 20 His Capscity For Evil
Destroys Affection and Morality.
A man may have in his life a thousand
cnemes-atogether they will not be as
dangerous as the one enemy. whisky.
That enemy works with an intelligence
, and force equalled by no other
It attacks first OF all the brain. 1t
conquers the intellect, and at one stroke
renders the entire human being useless
destroying simultaneously his moral quail
ties, his mental faculties and his material
usefulness.
When man is shot in the leg he has
still three OF his limbs to work with and
his brain to guide their work
When the worst of diseases, even con-
sumption. attacks man the BRAIN at
least is spared, it works honestly aud
keeps the man respected while his life
lasts
Whisky Is a poison. and while its work
Is sometimes slow. is acts as do the other
poisons IL destroys the seat OF moral
activity as prussic acid destroys the physi'
cal organism.
A hideous thing about the worst enemy
of civilization Is this.
1t uniits man for all the good work
Of life.
1t adds to mans capacity for evil.
A hundred times in any year you may
| read in the daily newspapers this:
"The murderer had often threatened
| that he would kill his victim. Little at.
| tention was paid to his threats But
| that day it was noticed that he was
| drinking very hard. and that night the
| murder was committed.
Whisky, the poison that destroys affec-
| tion and morality. the enemy that wrecks
| ability and defeats ambition. provides
the incentive. the strength and determi.
! nation for crimes
! Possibly many young men will say:
| There are thousands of men who drink
whisky moderately. and ! can be one of
| them"
Perhaps voa can But you know that
| in China there are millions of inen that
smoke opium moderately Would you, on
that account. decide to be moderate
| opium smoker?
Not at all. You would say to Yourself:
| Others may guess about the effects of
| opium. | know that ! shall never be an
| opium. fiend. for the very simple reason
| that | shall let opium alone"
Why not take the same attitude toward
| whisky! It does IN owe year IS much
| harm as opium could do n q hundred
| Why not say to yourself Il l.uow that
| whisky will never interfere with me. he
cause | shall never interfere with whisky
| | shall let 1t alone.
| II YOU have never had anvth,nq to do
I y
nothing. 1t may possibly take from you
| everything.
If you have begun and find it hard to
stop, Is not that the very reason why
| you should stop?
If you can ston easily, STOP. ii only as
an example to others.
| II you find 1t hard TO stop stop now
before. you find it still harder, or even inn
| possible.
| Let whisky alone. if oniv because of the
| disreDutab,e work that it does; if only
to show your pity for Its innocent vic
| tims.--New York American and Journal.
Thoughts That Come with Drink.
| We wish to answer seriously seemingly
| hippant inquiry. omittiug, OF course the
signature OF the writer:
| To tine Editor of the Evening Jour
nal. VIII you tell me how / manage to
| think my most beautiful thinks in drink?
ID B.
We answer your question with great
| pleasure
Some men really do their best work
under the influence OF drink, for this
reason: Drinking has weakened their
nerves and put their constitutions and
vitality permanently below par
| They do their best work when they
| drink. Just as poor, thin abused. tired
cart horse does his best work when he is
'ashed with whip This does not speak
well for the whip does it? 1t does not
prove that the lashing of the horse is
| noble process, or the whip an admirable
instrument. 1t simply proves that if you
| abuse an unfortunate creature and render
him unfit for work, you must abuse him
| still more to get little work out OF
| him.
You think your most beautiful thoughts
| in drink for various reasons.
In the first place, when you drink you
| are quite easily pleased and you are
| pleased most easily with yourself.
1T you were sober, your thoughts would
| not seem SO beautiful to YOU Often what
| you think, in drink, you would be very
sorry TO hear repeated in your dull, sober
| hours.
| In the second place, feeling Is essen
tial TO any strong thinking 1t is essen
tial to the expression any strong emo
| ton.
The man who drinks hard, or even
| comes to rely to any extent upon drink
has dead nerves and dead imagination
| when his drink time is over.
! Drink sets the heart to beating, it sets
! the blood to pumping through the brain,
! Il stimulates the mysterious combustion
OF matter which results IN thought and
| emotion becomes stronger IN proportion
I to the strength that accompanies this
| combustion
| The coward wants to fight when he is
drunk. He has some feeling The dull
mind gets imaginative. 1t has some feel
| ing.
This does not glorify the coward or
make the dull mind better 1t usually
makes both ridiculous and pathetic, in
| addition to being cowardly and dull.
Stop drinking for six months sleep two
hours more per day than you sleep at
present, take in more fresh air, think
steadily and soberly instead OF talking
| bolsterously, you probably do now.
! We venture to predict that you will soon
| find springng up in your head some very
acceptable thinks" with which drink
will have nothing to do.-New York
| Journal.
Common Display OF Ignorance.
A recent writer says. "Is is particularly
| interesting to note whether drunkenness
! or other moral failings developed in
parents before or after birth of their
| children Another writer, after quoting
| statistics freely, urges the following as
remedy for lnebriety; by the punishment
| OF drunkenness, improving the tenement
| houses, satisfying the thirst which per.
| petuates the saloon. etc, education of our
| patients and public towards self-control
| and temperance" The above is good il.
lustration of the opinion of neraons who