Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-04-03
THE GREA.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
.olER

Strong Drink the Curse of Millions IL.
Our Modern Civilization-Lying, Pro-
crastination and Self -DeIusion Are
in Every Glass of Spirits.
There is way that seemeth right unto
man, but the ends thereof are the ways
OF death. proverbs, XIV, r.
- Inns IS to be no sermon ON teetolaism.
The desire is to discuss with young men
and others, not Il 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
called whisky level" This level exists
in every great city and in every small vii
lage. There are men classed as whisky
drinkers, hard 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 it, 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
dia, 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
as drinking whisky moderately"
Immoderate drinking makes you
brute; it classes you among those in the
picture; so-called 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 drnker.
What does a 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 sophstry about moderate drinking,
whisky means the loss of time, loss of
money, loss of clear mental thought
There is boasting, lying, vacillation, pro-
crastination, self-delusion in every glass
of spirits.
How many millions of men-on their
dying bed - have wished ferventiy and
mournfully that they had never tasted
spirits?
Did any dying man ever regret temper
ate hfe?
England drinks more gin-perhaps-tha
any other two nations. But the gin of
England is drunk by England'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 a 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 thinl, 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 life's race
hy 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.