Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-12-24

of robbers and assassins, to relieve
hose dying of hunger or exposure. A
1an who would refuse to succor one in
distress and danger would be brute
not man.
There is an obligation of mutual
helrfulness. The strong must help the
weak and unfortunate. Christianity
carries this rule into all relations I
life. 1t requires those who are able
bear the infrmities of those who
weak, that assistance be ever ready
save those who stumble. Can we
say that this obligation is binding on
the moderate drinker? We mean, of
course, the man who drinks chiefly fol
the pleasure of it. We may not compel
him to give up a habit which he believes
to be perfectly harmless to him; but
may we not appeal to him to give it up
because it encourages others in habit
which they can neither keep within
proper limits nor easily throw off? Is
it not noble thing to say in the spirit
of Paul, I will drink no wine while the
world standeth if it cause my brother to
offend?
Most people despiseia drunkard. Mis-
cradle wretches are they in act thought
and appearance. We miss in them the
thing that makes a man so infinitely
superior to a brute. They cringe like
towards, grovel like reptiles, and
debase and befoul the image of the AL
mighty. Poverty, shame and disgrace
are their companions, and they become
actually loathsome. And yet they were
not born so. tits the drink habit which
drags them down into the mire. What
is there in the pleasure of wine to the
man never tempted to abuse it to com
pensate for the Wretchedness fnd ruin
it produces in the weaker thousands
and tens Of thousands who cannot use
it as good creature? Can the self
controlled moderate drinker, with a
glass in one hand, reach the other hand
to his less fortunate brother and bid
him be a man? Can he counsel him
with any hope Of success, to drink and
let it alone? Can he say: "Give it UP
altogether," unless he himself sets the
example? We do not put the emphasis
exactly where Miss Willard puts it.
She holds that there is no moderation
in the use of what is harmful" We are
willing to admit that wine may be used
as beverage in such moderation as to
produce no apparent harm to the user,
But we do not believe that moderate
drinkers are helpful, or can well be, to
immoderate drinkers, and our creed is
summed up in these words: Abstain,
if not for your own good, for the good
of others.
A young man, only 27 years old, bear
ing an honored name, was adjudged
an "habitual drunkard," requiring the
care of guardian and to be committed
to some institution, in the court Of the
chancellor of New Jersey. His father
Gen. John Watts Kearny, is the son o
Gen. Phil Kearny, of military fame
The boy had good educational advant
ages, but he began to form the drinl
habit in college when only II years old
and went on from moderate to immod.
crate drinking, finding ere long that
when he would let it alone he could not
His thirst swallowed up all good reso-
lutions, his will power, his manhood
and left him a wreck.
There are no wrecks upon the face of
the stormy deeps so sad so terrible, as
wrecks of young manhood like Kearny
And the saddest thing about them is
that they might have been prevented
4 college faculty may think it perfect
" right to have wine at college dinners:
but let them consider what results may
follow among the students.-N. Y. In
dependent.