The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-20
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
TIE VICE OF iNTEMPERANcE.

Strong Drink the Curse of Millions In
our Modern Civilixaticn--Lyinr. Pro-
crastination and self-Delusion Are
In Every Giass of Spirits.
"There is way that seemeth right unto
a man, but the ends thereof are the ways
OF death. Proverbs, XIV, IL.
This is to be no sermon on teetolaism.
The desire is to discuss with young men
and others, not a sentimental principle,
but the interest OF each individual.
Strong drink is the curse Of millions in
our modern civilization.
There is throughout society what may be
salled whisky level" This level exists
in evecy great city and in every small vii
lage. There are men olassed as whisky
drinkers, bard drinkers, and, whatever
they may profess to believe, they are and
they know they are the pariahs OF the
community.
Whisky has many apologists; there are
many arguments offered in its favor. But
these arguments are feeble compared with
those that may be brought against it.
You are told truthfully this:
The drinking nations of the world are
the great and successful nations. A small
handful Of drinking English can subdue
and control the temperate millions OF In
1ia, Egypt, etc.
Perfectly true. The powerful races do
drink. But the powerful individuals do
not drink.
The conquering armies are armies Of
drinking men usually-but their leaders
are sober, temperate men. If you want
to be one of the ordinary crowd, no worse
and no better than others, drink spirits
moderately" as whisky's friends put it.
But remember that there is no such thing
IS drinking whisky moderately"
Immoderate drinking makes you a
brute; it classes you among those in the
picture; so-caled moderate whisky drink
ing takes the edge off your ability. 1t dis
counts your mental activity. You can't
be one of the really successful men if you
start out to be moderate drinker..
What does young man lose by not
drinking spirits?
In the first place it is necessary to culti-
vate the taste in the beginning. Why cul-
tivate it at all!
In the second place, admitting all the
usual sophistry about moderate drinking.
whisky means the loss of time, loss of
money, loss Of clear mental thought.
There is Boosting, lying, vacillation, pro-
erastination, self-delusion in every glass
Of spirits.
How many millions of men--on their
dying bed - have wished fervently and
mournfully that they had never tasted
spirits?
Did any dying man ever regret temper
England drinks more gin-perhaps
any other two nations. But the gin of
England is drunk by Engand's failures.
The successful of England don't know the
taste of gin. The deeper. you go into
Whitechapel the greater the number OF
gin bottles per capita.
Young men should know and daily re-
member that whisky and all other spirits
cheat their bodies and brains.
Whisky does for the nerves what lash
does for tired horse.
Your system needs rest. Your brain to
compete with others ought to sleep and re-
cuperate. Whisky lies to you. 1t makes
you think that it can give the rest and the
renewed strength. 1t creates an appetite
in the nerves, and when you satisfy that
appetite it makes you think you have
found renewed strength, whereas you have
only taken new dose of poison.
Your brain and heart are lashed by
whisky into temporary activity. And you
wonder that you are passed in lifes race
by the man Of less ability. You need not
wonder He has given his brain, body and
heart normal rest, while YOU have given
| yours beating.-New York Journal.