The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-11-27
Whlskey and Fools

WutSNGy oU0 TOOlS
Red Oak Express: Last Sunday
afternoon two full grown fools passed
on a acertain street in Red Oak, both
drunk. Not two gentlemen in state
of intoxication, remember, for there I
is no such thing, but just two plain
fools and both Of them beastly drunk.
"A drunken man is an unmitigated
fool. He was a fool before he be-
came drunk. That's plain speaking,
but it's fact. Those two characters
who made a spectacle Of themselveson
the street last Sunday may have
mothers and sisters who long to have
them make men of themselves, who
shed tears of shame and sorrow over
the rascals, imploring them to mend
their ways and praying for their i'm
mortal souls. ThaG is all right and
as It, should be, but those young
scrapegraces should be reminded of
the fact that they are fools for the
lack of decencY, fools for the lack Of
honor and plain, unvarnished fools for
the lack of common sense. You may
tell such a specimen of mankind that
he is doing wrong, that he is injuring
his health, his morals his reputation,
etc, and he will probably agree with
you and make a long string Of worth
less promises. Tell him that lie is
fool and he may smile and say that
he knows it. Treat him as a fool and
watch the result. Not one man in
fifty will consent to mingle with the
public that has branded him as a
fool and treats him as one.
| That young man who will load up
on whiskey and move about among his
fellowmen in a drunken state has lost
| his sense is beyond the shadow Of a
doubt The only doubt is whether he
ever possessed such a thing as sense.
4 Plain, ordinary sense is the faculty
that governs our actions. our looks
i and our habits. 1t tells us what to
& do and what: not to do, how to enjoy
4 life as men and women, how to pro-
long our existence in this world and
Ito have some thought for our future
i welfare in the world that is to come.
J, That's plain, common sense. In The
). idiot asylum we find the fool. HI
!, acts like a fool, looks Ikea fool and
5 wouldlive like a fool if his keeper!
s would let him. Some such fools are 81
far gone in the lack of in telligenct
h that they have to be tied hand ant
E foot to prevent them from buttinl
l their brains out against the wall
S That's just the kind OF fool that wa
! mentioned at the beginning Of thi
j. article, only the drunken fool has n,
t one to hinder him from killing hi
t character, his reputation and his ow.
/. self.
t The young man, just loosed from his
a mothers apron strings, who will max
4 fool of himself in the manner des
cribed above, has but one excuse 70
his conduct, aud that is, lack Of tina
which goes to make a man. The oil
!. topper with the acquired appetite fo
liquor may give that as an excuse 70
3 further indulgence, the youth cannot
10 There never was an excuse for begir
g 81, ming such habits, hence the utter lac
80 of sense in the individual. Judgemen
. I. lsense, reason are what make the mai
70 1.-THE lack OF such,attributes, the foe
80 20 If one is natural born fool, there
ed no help for him. If he is fool b
mt ,canse of a desire to initiate some
his fellow beings, he may possibly
,er brought to. reason by placing Il
mirror Of public opinion before hi
er and giving him the opportunity
iii see himself as others see him. Let
pc keep the mirror brig ght. 5fs
lis r--- 81
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