The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-12-07
SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER.
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There was little notice III Mondays
! paper that should cause all thinking peo-
pls To pause and consider ways ard
means for helping poor. weak humanity.
| It was this: over 100 Sunday arrests
are made by the police. the charge in
f., each OF the cases being drunkenness"
! Then there have been recently many no.
tices in our papers urging the law to pro-
hibit the sale Of bad whisky. This has
been discussed very freely, and it makes
one ask the oie5tio;:, lis there any good
whisky. in one sense OF the word?'
OF course We know that Impure alco-
holic drinks inname the brain and cause
men to commit acts that otherwise would
not occur, but We think a man that fills
up DAY after day with good whisky and
goes home to nistreat wife and children
causes just as much sorrow: the man
fun Of bad whisky may take a chair or
some other article Of furniture and break
his wife's head and kill her-the man
with the good whisky may be more quiet
and only break her heart and let her
live TO go through the same fortunes
every day. Which is the worst?
would rather any time be the dead
woman
If there Is necessity for suppressing
the sale of bad whisky. 1t holds just as
good in the case Of the good whisky. No
tfce the statement in the item above:
.0ne hundred Sunday arrests" What
does it mean? Simply that men who
labor six days go to the saloons and
spend the earnings that should go to
the hard working women at home and
the starving little ones The immortal
Henry Grady, in his great tempeianc &c
speech, gave utterance to some OF the
most sublime thoughts on this subject
The Whisky Traffic" He said.
Tonight it enters an humble homo TO
strike the roses from Il womans cheek,
and tomorrow IT. challenges this republic
in the halls of congress.
To-day it strikes a crust from the lips
OF a starving child and tomorrow leVies
tribute from the government Itself.
There ia no cottage humble enough to
escape K; no palace strong enough to
shut Il out.
at is tho mortal enemy OF peace and
order. the despoier of men and terror Of
women. the cloud that shadows the face
Of children, the demon that has dug more
graves and sent more souls unshryed to
judgement than all pestilences that have
wasted life since God GENT the plaques
upon Egypt, and all the wars since
Joshua stood beyond Jericho.
1T comes to ruin. and It shall profit
mainly ny the ruin Of your gong and
mine
1T comes to ,nlslead human souls and
to crush human hearts under It's rum
bling wheels
ut comes 10 bring gray-haired mothers
down IN shame and sorrow 10 their
graves.
III comes 10 change the wife's love into
despair and her pride into shaans.
1T comes 10 SIN the laughter on the
lips Of little children.
1T comes to stihe al the music Of the
home and fill IL with sadness and desoia-
ton.
IT comes to ruin your body and mind,
TO wreck Your home"
How true this picture 3s, ana We ask
the question, what IS 20 be done?
4 good woman writes 10 me from
Anericus. Ga. who seems SO anxious 10
suggest some way to help The man who
drinks, ana suggests an anti0ofe to re
made and give free; but. alas we need
more than that-ve need 10 unite in tre
common bonds Of humanity the church,
The Sabbath school, and the home, and
work against the sale Of all alcoholic
drinks ard also teacll the weak that
their only strength is III a higher power
then, ana then alone. can SIC feel we arc
helping 20 crush the blasting sin OF IN
+e-uperance-r0t all the antidotes or lee
trree in tho world win do what tie sH4ee
Of God call-and that alone.