The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-04-18
WHAT WHISKY DOES.

| IHiS is 10 be no sermon on teetotal
ism. The desire is to discuss will
! young men and others, not senti.
mental principle, but the interest OF
each individual.
Strong drink is the curse of mil.
lions in our modern civilization.
Ihere is throughout society what
may be called a whisky level" This
level exists in every great city and in
every small village. There are men
oiassed as whisky drinkers, hard
drinkers, and whatever they NAV pro-
fess to believe, they are and they know
they are the pariahs of the commu-
nifty.
whisky has many apologists: there
are many arguments offered in its ia
vor. But these arguments are feeble
compared with those that may be
brought against it.
You are told truthfuIIv tbis.
The drinking nations of the world
are the great and successful nations,
A small handful of drinking English
can subdue and control the temperate
Hliilons of India, Egypt, etc.
FerIectly true. The powerful races
90 drink. But the powerful individ-
uals do not drink.
Ihe conquering armies are arp3ias of
urlnklng men usually-but their lead
ers are sober, temperate men. IF Won
want 10 be one of the ordinary crowd
no worse and no better than others
erlnk spirits moderately as whiskv's
i[lehos ~ put it. But remember that there
~ sucn thlng as drinking whisky
HIouetately for the ordinary man.
h,,.Ia nuIliiiooerate drinking makes Won a
nrute, SO called moderate whisky dpin1
ing takes the edge off vour abili+I,
I GU can't be one of the really succasS'
crate drinker. - De d mod
nat does young man lose bv not
drinking spirits? use ny iio'
,,11, ~ the hrst place, it is necessary to
Gnitivate the taste in the beeinnine, -
"ny cultivate it at all?
IN the second place, admittine all
Sle usual sophistry about moderata
tirtuAing, tirtin whisky means the loss of
.ate, loss OF money, loss of clear
mental thought Nteai
mere is boasting, lying. vacilla tior
procrastination, seIf-delusion ~ at,on, ..ion.
glass of spirits. ~ every
now many millions of men. on tba;r
qylng beds, have wished ferventiv and
spirits? Au never tasted
DID any dying man ever reora4
temperate life? siet
England drinks more gin. perbans
tlan any other two natjonS De.
1a in sin OF England is drunk bv BnSr
1Sna Ia,l, iallures. The successfuI eF
The Thsiano m don't know the taste of eio
tbn ueeper you go into Whitecbenai
per capita. u sin bottles
foung men should know .n5 s,
reinember that whisky and LII udly
Spills I,l cheat their bodies and b.ein otner
t, Mhisky w does for the nerves wbat atiis'
aSlI T aoes Tor tired horse. d
our system needs REST Vs.
- compete with others ouebt - lam Ian,
.nd recuperate. Whisky lies ~ ~ Hieep
naAes you think that il can ,;' III II
ese tS ana the renewed strength IT, on ne
,lss an appetite in the nervos o, ,
no l,a. you satlsfy that appetite If
,aueS gu you tnlnk you have found res
a ken nstn, whereas you have onIv
Iour brain and heart are Iasho,
,oiI em,shy INTO temporary activitv Any ny
,ee ou WONDER that you are passaJ ~,
1te ~ race by the man of less abiIit,,
~ ~ heeo not wonder. He hoe ei,-o,,
,ts - ,oraln' body and heart norma, res+
IRE IRE you nave given yours a beat
~ you say Yes, 1 have a nat,,rsi
Tbet AoI IT, then to you saw
bonId ,,ni is M the very reason why You You
.o'li aouia not take it. If you have M
raving. for it. why sho,Ild wa, nHVe mo no
by it? And if YOU have t'Inh peoh
,,,S, ,ES,ravlng, surely if you are wise vo,
,,t ,,is, not put yourself in danger bv in
oint LOOK at the thing from the view
ONT of your own interest Nie"-
,o,.,. - you nad to employ young men to
lg men, "'oiu urlnk-
,o,,s nnen don't drink whisky yourself
a w give every successful. conserve
rre i,,ah the best of reasons for mis-
~ sely I often moral cowardice underlies
ls beginning Of a drunken caraa,.
mere are ideas of good felIows,,;1 eeI
ociated with drinking "siiip as
r;,,,, hundred thousand young men
rink every day because tbey a-a