The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-30
THE GREAT DES1 ROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THs VICE or iNTEMPsRANcs.

For IL Fills Our Jaiis.
The crime of Michael Leddy has made
nation think! Maddencd by whiskey.
this man gives the police a case which
is pronounced by the Magistrate to be the
most narrowing Of all his experience.
This rum-orazed man goes to his little
home IN the suburbs OF Greater New York
on beautiful Sunday afternoon and al
most instantly transforms it into a hell
Catching hold of his little eight-yearo,d
daughter. he forces open her mouth and
pours a glass Of whiskcy down her throat!
The mother, shocked at the outrageous
action OF her husband, screams out in her
indignation, and the brute hurs plate at
her head cutting deep cash in her scalp!
Stunned by the blow, the woman falls
heavily 10 the floor when the brutal fellow
advances toward her. lifts his heavy boot
and, with the malice OF fiend, stamps her
already blood-covered face. Two years ago
he kicked out one of the poor woman's
eyes Sunday he crushed out the other
one!
1t was a picture for hell to qloat over
the little girl reeling and delirous from
the fumes OF the whiskey that had been
forced down her throat, the mother pros.
trate on the floor. insensible from her
wounds and half stranged by the blood
that flowed from them, and the father,
furious as a demon, gloring about him up.
on the ruin he had wrought
Father is good to us when he is sober"
sobbed one of the children, and we may
well believe it.
The crime that shocked New York as il
had not been shocked for a long time, and
that sent shudder throughout the whole
country was the WORK OF WHISKEY-
THE WORK OF THE DEVILS RIGHT
ARM.
There are great many people who still
persist in believing that there is some.
where in the universe a being of infinite
naliap and anita xt.hnca rnOttO iS 'ENyil hp
thou my good and whose supreme de.
light is found in promoting the misery and
wretchedness of mankind.
IL is not for me to say whether the belief
is true or false but this know, that an
infinitely malicious being. bent on the de.
struction of human goodness and human
happiness, could not possibly hit upon
more effective means of accomplishing his
internal purpose than that which is fur.
nished in the whiskey bottle.
If whiskey were out of the way nine.
tenths OF the crime, degradation, brutality
and misery of the world would disappear.
| There is no doubt about it. With whskey
! out of the way the homes that are now
dark would be bright. the homes that are
now wretched would be happy the homes
/ that are now disgrace would be an honor.
Everybody knows that this is true. The
| sober man knows 1t, and the drunkard
knows it. In fact, the drunkard knows it
great deal more thoroughly than the man
who does not drink.
He has been maddened and degraded by
it. That has burned its Generalization
into his very soul and made him hate and
despise himself. 1t has caused him time
| and again to be ashamed to look at the
sun, ashamed to look into the eyes of his
wife, children or neighbor.
1t has made him do the things that, in
his rational moments he loathed and de-
tested with his whole heart, and awaking
from his delirium he has had all he could
do to keep from destroying himself!
The unspeakable accursedness of the
whiskey habit is fact which none but the
rum-imbruited victim of intemperance him
self would think of disputing, and even he
would not dispute it, except while in the
midst of his mad, unreasoning orgies.
To destroy the reign of whlskey would
be to destroy the reign of crime. To thor
oughly sober the race would be to prac-
tically civilize and Christianize the race.
through scoundrels ever since the food"
has been drunken blood-blood inhamed,
perverted, poisoned by strong drink. Get
the whiskey corpuscles out of the worlds
blood and it will be largely humane, decent
and moral. The scoundrelism is mainly
the result of the Generalization induced
by drunkenness!
The pathetic words of the little girl.
Father is good to us when he is sober"
are applicable to the overwhelming major
ity of mankind Nine hundred and ninety
| nine human beings out of the thousand are
inclined, when sober, to be reasonable and
gentle.
1t is natural for men to think: it is also
natural for them to be kind and consider
ate. but when maddened by whiskey they
are but beasts.
1t was not a man. but a beast that COM
nitted an awful crime Sunday, and for the
beastliness nothing but whiskey is respon.
sible.
1t was whiskey that committed that
crime, for it was whiskey that transformed
Michael Leddy from human being into
a demon.
Every man who has ever swallowed a
glass OF whiskey well knows that even one
| gless disturbed to a certain extent the fine
balance of his moral nature and upset,
however slightly it might have been, the
natural poise OF his human reason. And
| when the one drink becomes the dozen, or
the score, the man falls from the living
perpendicular of his rational, moral man.
! hood to the dead level of the unreasoning
| brute.
The human element in him is for the
time being mastered by the "ape and
tiger forces; reason no longer appeals to
him, affection has but little influence over
him, and he is ready for the most silly OF
the most savage deeds.
In fighting whiskey we are fighting hu.
manity's most deadly foe 1t is the one
NHSiiy VI NHlCH u put out Ol lnc
way would almost insure the departure OF
all other evils.
It is the whislley bottle that fills our
iails with criminals and out asylums with
lunatics. 1t is the whiskey bottle that
burdens the State with the mighty army
of paupers and incapables 1t is the whis.
key bottle that is responsible for nearly
every instance of domestic infelicity, from
the first ugly scene between husband and
wife to the divorce, which breaks up the
home and turns the little ones adrift upon
the world.
1t is the whislIey bottle that debauches
our public servants and causes so many of
them to betray their trusts. 1t is the
whiskey bottle that is mainly responsible
for the low ebb to which. in so many in.
stances, our municipal politics has fallen.
1t is the whiskey bottle that stands be.
tween us and the coming of the Kingdom
of God
Smash the whiskey bottle and you break
the devils right arm.-New York Ameri.
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