The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-05
So Jewelers.
The Mission of Whiskey, Tobacco and
II - Coffee.

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If SO, lie must have made these
We know what He made food and
winter for, and air and sunshine, but
why Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee9
They ule here sure enough and each
performing it's work.
There must be some great plan be-
hind it all; the thoughtful man seeks to
understand something of that plan and
thereby to judge these articles for their
true worth.
Let us not say "bad' or "good'
without taking testimony.
There are times and conditions when
1t certainly seems to the casual observer
that these stimulant narcotics are real
blessings.
Right there is the ambush that con-
ceals a "killing' enemy.
One can slip into the habit Of either
whiskey, tobacco or coffee easy enough,
but to "untangle' is often fearful
struggle.
It seems plain that there are circum-
stances when the narcotic effect Of these
poisons is for the moment beneficial,
but the fearful argument against them
is that seldom ever does one find a
steady user Of either whiskey, coffee or
tobacco free from disease of some kind.
Certainly powerful elements in their
effect on the human race.
1t is matter of daily history testi-
fed to by literally millions of people,
that Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee are
smiling, promising, beguiling friends on
the start, but always false as hell itself
in the end. Once they get firm hold
enough to show their strength, they in
sist upon governing and drive the vic
tim steadily towards i'll health in some
form; if permitted to continue to rule,
they will not let up until physical and
mental ruin sets in.
A man under that spell (and tunder
the spell' is correctly, of any one of
these drugs, frequently assures himself
and his friends, "Why, can leave off
any time I want to. I did quit for
week just to show / could.'' It is a
sure mark Of the slave when one gets
to that stage. He wiggled thru week
fighting every day to break the spell,
was finally whipped and began his
slavery all over again.
The slave (Coffe slave as we'll as To-
bacco and Whiskey) daily reviews his
condition, sees perfectly plain the
steady encroachments of disease, how
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 growing
worse. Many times the coffee slave re-
allies 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 of.
So it goes on from day to day. Every
himself that he viii break the habit and
next day when he feels little bad (as
he is quite sure toy breaks, not the
habit, but his own resolution. It is
nearly always a tough fight, with dis
aster ahead sure if the habit wins.
+na There ha0s been BEEN. hundreds 95;s Of
on 81 ooffee drinking O' alone,
and it is quite certain that moro
human misery Is caused by coffee and
tobacco than by whiske7, for the two
first are more widelyused, and more hid
nep and b nSdo ona in obsP he effects
and are thus unsupported until much of
the dangerous work is done.
Now, reader, what is your opinion as
to the real use the Creator has for these
things? Take a look at the question
from this point of view.
There is law of Nature and Of
Natures God that things slowly evolve
steady and 'dignifed advance toward
more perfect things in both the Physical
and Spiritual world. The ponderous
tread of evolutionary development is
fixed by the infinite and will not be
quickened out Of natural law by any of
man Is methods.
Therefore we see many illustrations
showing how nature checks too rapid ad-
vance. Illinois raises, phenomenal crops
of corn for two or three years. If she
continued to do so every year her farm
ers would advance in wealth far beyond
those Of other sections or countries. So
Nature interposes bar every three or
-four years and brings on "bad year,
Here we see the leveling influence at
work.
A man is prosperous in his business
for number of years and grows rich.
Then Nature sets the "leveIing infu-
ence' at work on him. Some Of his in
vestments lose, he becomes luxurious
baeeo, coffee, women, gambling, or soma
other form. The intent and purpose is
to level him. Keep him from evolving
too, far ahead Of the masses.
natlOn becomes prosperous and
great like ancient Rome. If no level
ing influence set in she would dominate
the world perhaps for all time. But
Dame Nature sets her army of "level-
ers', at work. Luxury, overeating and
drinking, licentiousness, waste and ex-
travagance, 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 pro-
cess. Weakness Gin childhood), gradual
growth of strength, energy, thrift, pro.
bity, prosperity, wealth, comfort, ease,
relaxation, elf-indulgence, luxury, idle
ness, waste, debauchery, disease, and the
wreck follows. The "1evelers'' are in
the bushes along the pathway of everv
successful man and woman and they
bag the majority.
Only now and then can man stand
out against these "levelers'' and hold
his fortune, fame and health to the end.
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
'teld' (the massey 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 a clean-cut, steady mind and
say unto himself, ~ decline to exchange
my blrthright for mess Of pottage.'
- will not deaden my senses, weaken
my grip on affairs and keep myself
cheap. common and behind in fortune