The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-09
what whisky Does.

This Man Knows Whisky ls the Ute
OF an article in the Cleveland Post. The
article is in the form OF a comment upon
the statement made by a young man who
was under arrest for killing his stepfather,
a crime that he had committed under the
circumstances OF great provocation. Here
is the article:
81 would not touch whisky IL it was To
save my life. | have seen too much OF its
work. I have seen the misery it has made
for my mother. ] have seen, too. the brute
il made OF my stepfather when he was I'M
der its influence. III it were not Tor whisky
our trouble would never have happened
and / would not be in Jail. / never touched
the stuff, and I've made vow l never
will"
These are not the words OF an impas-
stoned temperance theorist. They are the
calm deliberate utterance of n Young man
who killed his drunken stepfather in de
tense of his mother and was incarcerated
tenant had pressed glass OF whisky upon
him, urging him that his weakened condi-
tion demanded it. But he knew whisky
and he had no use for it.
Here is what might well be accepted az
an expert opinion upon the effect or
whisky I
This Young man has had experiences that
have shown him what whisky will do. He
does not need to theorize. He speaks with
positive information.
But for whisky he would not have been
in iail.
Decidedly true, And equally true it Is
that but for whisky few other people ever
would be in Jail. 1t is not putting it ton
strongly to say that whisky causes nine
terths OF the crimes that get people in jail
This Young man has seen the misery.
whisky has made for his mother.
And who cannot call up from ones own
recollection dozens OF mothers whom
whisky has made miserable?
Scarcely a community or social circle but
has scveral-often good, patient, uncom-
planning heroines who have given up hope.
and whose desoated hearts are left to feed
on the agony of despair. {
They bear the deprivation. the neglect,
the abuse. the blows. and utter no moan-
but in their hearts there is moaning al
wavs. -~l
The earth has been salted with tears
shed by mankind in sympathy with the
brave women who send their husbands and
sons to battle. sitting alone at home with
their tears and fears. but such women are,
happy. proud. exalted, compared with the
drunkards' wives, crouching with tears and
fears and shame, while their husbands
give their lives up to the devil-Drink $50
The bright, sweet hopes of their bridal
days have become R mockery. The vows,
upon which they staked their life happi1
ness have proved light as air. The love
that once bade fair to be shelter in every,
storm has been beaten down and torn t0
ruin by whir,winds OF bestial passions.
There are millions OF women like this.
Il have seen. too" says this Young man.,
"the brute whisky has mnde OF my step
father when he was under its influence"
Yes. there is the truth-it makes a man q
brute. He NAV be good and kind and ten
der when he is sober, but whisky makes
him n brute He nav he provident and
thrifty when he is himself. but filed with
whisky. he becomes an entirely different
class OF being.
Sober. he may not he abe to realize that
he can be a brute when drunk. He may
I've the last one to know the misery that his
drunkenness causes in his home. He can
not view himself in correct perspective
But this young man who was sent to yaII
because OF whisky speaks the simrle truth
He has seen how whisky turned good
man into a brute, hanpy wife into a mis-
erah'e drudge and devoted SON into an
unwilling murderer.
And whisky is no respectcr nj persons
What it does in one family it will do in an
other What it makes OF one man it has
made OF millions. The woes of this one
woman is a woe that over goes crying and
moaning throughout the earth.