The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-10-28
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The Mission of Whisky, Tobacco and
Coffee.

, VIC hAo" NuaI ne maze 1000 an
water for, and air and sunshine, bu
why Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee?
They are here sure enough an,
each performing its work.
There must be some great plan be
mind it all; the thoughtful man seek
10 understand something of that plal
and thereby to judge these article
for their true worth.
Let US not say bad" or good
without taking testimony.
There are times and condition,
Wnen 1t certainly seems to the casua
observer that these stimulant narcot
les are real blessings.
Right there is the ambush that con
ceals a killing" enemy.
One can slip into the habit of either
whisky. tobacco or coffee easy enough
but to "untangle' is often a fearful
struggle.
IL seems plain that there are cir.
cumstances when the narcotic effect
OF these poisOns is for the moment
beneficial, but the fearful argument
against them is that seldom ever does
one md a steady user of either whis-
Ky, coffee or tobacco free from disease
Of some kind.
Certainly powerful elements in their
erect on the human race.
1t is matter Of daily history, testi.
ned to by literally millions of people
that Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee are
smiling, promising, beguiling friends
On the start, but always false as hel!
itself in the end. Once they get firm
hold enough to show their strength.
they insist upon governing and drive
the victim steadily towards i'll health
in some form; if permitted to continue
to rule, they will not let up until phys
lcal and mental ruin sets in.
A man under that spell (and under
the SPELL is correcU of any one of
these drugs frequently assures himself
ard his friends, Why, l can leave off
any time | want to. did quit for a
week just to show could" 1t is a
sure mark of the slave when one gets
to that stage. He wiggled through
week, fighting every day to break the
spell, was finally whipped, and began
his slavery all over again.
The slave Coffee slave as we'll as
Tobacco and Whisky daily reviews his
condition, sees perfectly plain the
steady entertainments of disease, how
the nerves get weaker day by day and
demand the drug that seems to smile
and offer relief for a few minutes and
then leave the diseased condition
palmer to view than ever and grow.
ing worse. Many times the Coffee slave
realizes that he is between two fires.
He feels bad if he leaves off and q
little worse if he drinks and allows
the effect to wear off.
So it goes on from day to day.
Every night the struggling victim
promises himself that he will break |
the habit and next day when he feels
a little bad las he is quite sure to-.
breaks, not the habit, but his own res
olution. 1t is nearly always a tough |
fight, with disaster ahead sure if the
habit wins.
There have been hundreds of thou.
sands of people driven to their graves
through disease brought on by coffee
alone, and it is quite certain
that more human misery is caused by
coffee and tobacco than by whisky, for
The two first are more widely used.
and more hidden and insidious in the
effect on nerves, heart and other Vital
organs, and are thus unsupported TN.
ii much Of the dangerous work is
lone.
Now, Reader what is your opinion
rs to the real use the Creator has for
hese things? Take a look at the
question from this point of view.
There is law of Nature and of
God that things slowly evolve
rom lower planes to higher, sturdy.
teady and dignified advance toward
more perfect things in both the Physi-
al and Spiritual world. The ponder
us tread of evolutionary development
5 fixed by the Infinite and will not be
uickened out of natural law by any
t mans methods.
Therefore we see many illustrations
howing how nature checks too rapid
dyanee. Illinois raises phenomenal
rops of corn for two or three years.
/, she, continued to do so every year
er farmers would advance in wealth |
ar beyond those of other sections OF {
ountries. So Nature interposes a bar l
very three or four years and brings I
ma 'bad year" ,.'' '.. '''' II * t
Here we see the leveling influence :
t work. ''i'i'' u 'I7u riailN rxi,7I f
A man is prosperous In his business g
" a number OF years and grows rich. /
hen Nature sets the "leveling infu 9
nce'' at work on him. Some of his v
lvestments lose5 hei becomes ltlxuri- G
is and lazy:i Perhaps it Isl WHISKY, -,
'haceo,. coffee, women, gambling or D.,
,me other form. The intent and purJ s..
1se Is tOievel hifrf-kehp him from 4