The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-19
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS A6ouF
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Another in the Series Of Remarkable Tenars
perauce Editorials which the News
York American is Observation-Disclosures
Anent a Drunken Monkey.
In the State of New Jersey, near ths
edge of the North River, an unfortunate
monkey got very drunk.
Some brutal men, superior to him IN
physical development and inferior In moral
qualities, persuaded the poor brute tn
drink whisky. The monkey drank great
deal too much, was absolutely intoxicated,
and his conduct was exactly like that OF q
man-tbat is to say, of the average whisky
drinking man.
II would be pleasant to relate that the
monkey tasted the whisky, felt II burn
and refused to touch any more OF 1T. Than
unfortunately is not what happened.
1t would be creditable to the monkeys
wisdom il one could say that while ha
made a mistake, and drank too much
whisky once, he could never be persuaded
to touch it again. That is not true, either-t
The poor monkey; tempted by his hus
man half brothers, drank the whisky, and
he acted exactly as the average poor, fool
ish feeble man acts under the same cir
cumstances.
When they offered him the whisky first
he didn't want to take it. They urged
him, and finally he took Just LITTLE: little his is
eyes water. Even a monkey, you would
think, ought to have known enough to let
it alone. But he did not know enough, he
took little more, then some more, and
finally all that he could get.
He went through the various stages OF
humilating incapacity that mark a human
| beings transition from sober to drunk
He became voluble at first, chattered.
| jumped about, showed many signs OF
iendlness-apparently he was a much i'm
| proved monkey.
Then he became foolish and unsteady on
his legs. Finally he became brutal, want
| ing to bite, and at last sank into a stupOr,
just the equal of any ead-drunk man.
Next day this miserable monkey, ini-
| tiated into the results of the worst curse
that affiicts his superior brothers, persisted
in his resemblance to a human being. He
was shivering, nervous, without Appetite
and evidently suffering physical il not men
tai remorse.
But he was Just like n man, and gladly
accepted the drink that was given him
with the assurance that many other mon
keys are fooled by, "a little hair OF the
dog that bit you will set you right"
If that monkey is saved from a drunk
ards grave. only the lack OF whisky, not
any wisdom or strength of will OF his own.
will save him.
II you ever want to argue with a man
against whisky. the story OF the drunken
monkey, intelligently presented, ought to-
produce an impression. You might talk
to any whisky.drinking man as follows:
Ii YOU had seen that monkey, clear eyed,
healthy and vigorous, YOU would have SAID
TO his keeper: Don't let him touch whisky
it will ruin the monkey"-yet you drink
whisky yourself.
Ii you had seen the monkey take the first
glass YOU would have said to his keeper
Don't let him take any more; the second
glass will ruin him, give him a longing for
alcohol. 1t will ruin your monkey"-yet
YOU take the second glass yourself.
Vi YOU had seen the monkey in his de-
grading progress from sober to drunk, los
rg hi- equilibrium, becoming first mandlin
7 and then vicious, you would have said to
0- keeper 'Now look at your monkey.
E1U see how Ut.. .s7 ne is; that is what
! whisky always does with @ mOnkey'-yet
that is just what whisky does with YOU,
and you give II the chance to do It.
You might also say tins 20 your whisky
drinking friends:
The monkey most resembles the man
that most resembles him, OF course. The
man that acts with whisky as the monkey
does is like the monkey.
In the brain of monkey as every child
knows, the strongest instinct is that OF inn
itation. The monkey will cut his throat
trying to initiate a man shaving. No won
der that he ruins his heath initiating q
man drinking whisky.
The monkey, as he took that whisky,
seemed foolish, especially after the first
,, taste, and il you had never drunk whisky
yourself you would be justified in despisina
the monkey.
Think how many excuses he has that
! you who drink. whisky have not.
You know that whisky has ruined mill
ions OF men and is still running millions
The monkey knows nothing about that.
You know that nine-tenths of the mur-
ders are based on whisky. The monkey
I knew nothing about that.
You know that whisky means failure
poverty and abuse for children, abuse, pow
erty and sorrow for mothers. All of these
things the monkey does not know. You
are more foolish than he when you take
, the whisky.-Editorial in the New Yori
American.