The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-23
There poverty dwells with her hungry


Again we discuss with our readers the
ham that is done by alcohol.
We have no idea Of preaching teetotal-
ism We have no desire to advocate laws
regulating mems lives against their will
Education and discussion and sef-study
can convert men from whisky; laws can
not
We publish these editorials on whisky.
not so much in the hope of doing good di
rectly. MS in the houe of making among
our readers tens Of thousands of advocates
of temperate living. This newspaper goes
into the hands of millions Of good earnest.
successful men and women. We seek to
impress unon them the inheritance Of dis
cussing the whisky question with young
men. Upon the co-operation of our read
ers we rely entirely for any good that we
NAV accomplish
To-day we deal with the work that
whisky does in deluding and swindling the
ambitious Young man.
You need not be old in this world. to
know many n man who started out hope
fully, full of ambition and promise and
who has now ended among the whisky
wrecks.
Whisky is especially dangerous. because
it makes n man lie TO himself as well as to
others. 1t makes his own mind deceive
him. II makes his ambitions. the hest ele-
ments that are in him, work for his own
downfall.
Such young men exist by thousands A
man is naturally able. he has a good head,
strong emotions, unlimited possibilities.
His hope nj progress is his ambition. While
he controls himself his ambition tells him
that it can be realized only through work.
Bnt whisky tells him another story.
Whisky SAYS to the young man:
"Of course, you will succeed; of course,
you are great; YOU are not appreciated;
your thoughts, are beautiful; your origin.
Il sa
10 many young man this happens:
He sits down at the table an earnest.
modest young man. He takes one glass of
whisky, and that one glass makes a change.
1t begins the elimination of his earnest
ness. He takes another glass, and another,
and a fourth.
Look at him now. and see what whisky
does for its human friends.
His earnestness is gone Concentration
is gone from his eyes, trmness from his
mouth, all strength of purpose has left his
expression.
And the modestv which inspires in men
a small estimate of themselves. and an in
clin9tion tor hard work, has been wiped
out by whisky also.
Dragging. concet, foolish self-conhdenee
these whisky has substituted for the
qualities that promised success.
Whisky is a cunning enemy. No great
general ever planned campaign or cleared
away obstacles as thoroughly as whisky
plans and removes things from its path.
When whisky plans to lead a man to
murder it first eliminates kindness and
th2 sense of right and wrong. In their
place 1t puts insane rage and vicious ha-
tired. And in the prison cell next day YOU
see wretched creature, with white face
and trembling hands, protesting:
Il don't know Why killed him; he was
my friend"
Or
81 don't know why killed my wife; no
better woman ever lived"
But whisky knows why the murder was
done, for whisky robbed the brain of its
balance, of the qualities within us which
make such crimes impossible.
To the young man with an ambition
whisky works on the same lines. 1t tells
him that hard work is not necessary. 1t
persuades him to accept alcoholic dreams
in place of realities.
And the man wakes up among the
worlds failures. wondering why he be-
lieved the lies that whisky told him. why
the world has gone by and left him to fail
ure.
When you see young man with whisky
in his hand and loud words in his mouth.
tell him that nothing is accomplished in
this world without hard work. and that
whisky is the enemy of hard work
And II any young man reads this who
has known through personal experience
what whisky does, how it encourages false
hopes and makes hard work repulsive, let
him think the matter over seriously for
himself. Let him take to himself the ad-
vice which he would instantly give to turn
from his whisky to his books, and from
cheating dreams to hard and disagreeable
but useful realities.-New York American
and Journal.