The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-05

| q week nShting 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 Whiskey) 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 few minutes and
| then leave the diseased condition
| palmer to view than ever and growing
| worse Many times the Coffee slave
realizes that he is between two fires.
He feels bad If he leaves off and a
! little worse if he drinks and allows
the effect to wear off
So it goes on from day to day Ev-
| cry night the struggling victim prom
ises himself that he will break the
! habit and next day when he feels a
| little bad Gas he is quite sure to-,
/ breaks, not the habit, but his own
resolution 1t is nearly always a tough
/ fight, with disaster ahead sure if the
| habit wins.
There have been hundreds of thous-
ands of people driven to their graves
through disease brought on by coffee
\ drinking alone, and it is quite GER
| tain that more human misery IS caused
| by coffee and tobacco than whiskey,
/ for the two first are more widely used,
and more hidden and insidious In eff
feet on nerves, heart and other vital
organs, and are thus unsupported until
much of the dangerous work is done.
Now, Reader, what is your opinion
for these things2 Take look at the
question from this point of view.
There is a law of Nature and of
Natures God that things slowly evolve
steady and dignified advance toward
more perfect things in both the Phys
fcal and Spiritual world. The pom
derous tread of evolutionary develop
ment is fixed by the Infinite and will
not be quickened out of natural law
by any of mans methods.
Therefore we see many illustrations
showing how nature checks too rapid
advance. Illinois raises phenomenal
crops of corn for two or three years.
If she continued to do so every year
| her farmers would advance in wealth
far beyond those of other sections or
countries. So Nature interposes a bar
every three or four years and brings
on a bad year
Here we see the IeveIing influence
at work.
for a number of years and grows rich.
Then Nature sets the ''leveling infiu-
ence" at work on him Some of his
investments lose. he becomes luxurious
and lazy. Perhaps it is whiskey. to-
bacco, coffee, women, gambling or
some other form The intent and pur-
pose is to level him. Keep him from
evolving too far ahead of the masses.
A nation becomes prosperous and
great like ancient Rome. If no level
ing influence set in she would domi-
nate the world perhaps for all time.
But Dame Nature sets her army of
Jewellers" at work. Luxury, over eat
ing and drinking. RIGHTEOUSNESS, waste
and extravaganza, indulgences of all
kinds, then comes the wreck. Sure,
Sure, Sure.
The law of the unit is the law of
the mass Man goes through the same
process. Weakness Gin childhood),
gradual growth of strength, energy,
thrift, probity, prosperity. wealth,
comfort, ease, relaxation, self-indulg-
ence, luxury, idleness, waste, debauch-
cry, disease, and the wreck follows
The Jewelers. are in the bushes along
the pathway of every successful man
and woman and they bag the majority
Only now and then can man
stand out against these Jewellers and
hold his fortune, fame and wealth to
the end.
So the Creator has use for whiskey,
Tobacco and Coffee to level down the
successful ones and those who show
signs of being successful. and keep
them back in the race, so that the
great field tthe masses) may not
be left too far behind.
And yet We must admit that same
all wise Creator has placed it in the
power of man to stand upright, clothed
in the armor of clean cut steady
mind and say unto himself, 81 decline
to exchange my birthright for mess
of pottage."
~ will not deaden my senses, weak
en- my grip on affairs and keep myself
cheap, common and behind in fortune
and fame by drugging with whiskey,
tobacco and coffee, life is too short
It is hard enough to win the good
things, without any sort of handicap,
so a man is certainly a fool trader"
when he trades strength, health, mon
ey. and the good things that come
with power, for the half-asleep con-
dition of the "drugger" with the GER
tainty of sickness and disease ahead
1t is a matter each individual must
decide for himself. He can be leader
and semi-god if he will, or he can go
along through life a drugged clown, a
cheap "hewer of wood or carrier of
water"
Certain it is that while the Great
Father of US all does not seem to
mind" if some of his children are
foolish and stupid, he seems to select
others (perhaps those he intends for
some special work. and allows them to
be threshed and castigated most fear
fully by these Jewelers..
If q man tries flirting with these
Jewelers. awhile, and gets a few slaps
as a hint, he had better take the hint
or a good solid blow will follow
When man tries to live upright,
clean thrifty sober and undrugged,
manifesting as near as he knows what
the Creator intends he should. happf-
ness. health and peace seem to come
to him. Does it pay?
This article was written to set peo-
pie to thinking, to rouse the God
within" for every highly organized
man and woman has times when they
feel a something calling from within
for them 10 press to the front and be
about the Fathers business don't
mistake it: the spark of the Infinite
is there and it pays in every way
health. happiness. peace, and even
worldly prosperity, to break off the
habits and strip clean for the work
cut out for us
It has been the business of the writ
err to provide a practical and easy way
for people to break away from the
coffee habit and be assured of a re-
turn to health and all of the good