The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-05-15
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
whisky Leads the Horde of Moral Mon
sters That Fer Ages Has Trampled on
Man-If Life is Dull, Brighten 1t by
Honest Achievement, Not Rum.

| Man-If Life is Dull, Brighten 1t by
Honest Achievement. Not Rum.
The foundation, the leading factor in hui
man ills to-day is intemperance.
| 1t is d hideous army that attacks man
kind.
| Ignorance, vice, immortality, quarrel
someness, disease, obstinacy, brutality, cru
city, timldity.
Read over this list and ask yourself this
question:
J Is not every one of these tormentors of
| mankind made more powerful by whisky!
Who is the commonest murderer-the
| murderer OF whom you read every day!
| He is the man naturally good-natured
kind enough when SOBER, but rendered
| combative and murderously furious by
| whisky.
What is the history of the diseased man
| who goes in the ambulance to the public
hospital and thence to the Potters Field?
| 1t is the history OF a man born healthy,
naturally able to work and to enjoy good
have been destroyed by whisky or other
| strong drink.
What is the story of many broken
hearted mother, and what is the story of
the women who work among the unfortu-
mates in big cities?
1t is always the same story-good moral
| character, good family influences de-
stroyed; life and soul wrecked by drink.
Timdity: There is one of mans curses.
1t destroys the promising career. 1t
checks the rising man at the moment OF
| success.
Whisky is the father of timidity.
Whisky gives the temporary false cour-
age that Is followed by apathy and timid-
| ity.
| Whether men speak of the prize fighter
whose courage failed, of the tinancier
whose nerves went TO pieces at the criti-
| cal moment, or the writer whose imagin-
| alton and will died out, the story will be
/ the same:
He took to whisky and that was the
| end of him."
Deceit is another sign of mental decay.
| The lie in man is like the hollow at the
centre of the tree--it sounds hollow, 1t
| tells of decay.
lieves the drunkard's story!
| He tells how it happened to drink too
much-the judge does not even listen. No
one listens-all know he is probably lying.
He swears that he will never drink
| again. The whisky is swearing and lying
No one believes him - except, perhaps,
some poor confding woman whom nothing
can discourage.
From drink comes Boosting - another
kind of lying.
From drink men get lying, disease, OBJ
stinacy ibid you ever see sober men try
| ing to make drunkard go homeD, bru
| tally, cruelty ldoes any but the drunken
man murder his own childrenO and many
other vices that destroy them.
What single good thing comes from
whisky?
| Not one
Artificial strength, Dragging instead Of
achieving, lack Of will power, weakness Of
purpose, conceit based on an over-stimu
lated brain, foolish dreams, never to be
| realize6-these things whisky pives II
gives nothing better.
This monstrous army of vice rides over
humanity, crushing all those unfortunate
enough to be in the way.
Many of these are unfortunate. The
man made desperate by poverty cannot be
blamed when he drinks:
"Give strong drink unto him that is ready
to perish,
And wine unto the bitter in soul;
Let him drink and forget his poverty,
And remember his misery no more"
--Proverhe yyyi & and 7