Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-05

she continued to do so every year her
farmers would advance in wealth far
| beyond those of other sections or
countries. So nature interposes bar
every three or four years and brings
on dad 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 ''leveling inl1u-
ence" at work on him. Some of his
investments lose, he becomes luxurious
and lazy. Perhaps 1T is whisky, tobac-
CO, coffee, women, gambling, or some
other form. The intent and purpose is
to level him. Keep him from evolving
too far ahead of the masses.
| A nation becomes prosper IS and
great like ancient Rome. If n leveling
influence sets in she would dominate
the world perhaps for all time. But
Dame Nature sets her army Of 'lev-
elers" at work. Luxury, over-eating
and drinking, licentiousness, waste
and extravaganza indulgences of all
kinds, then comes the wreck. Sure,
sure, sure.
The law of the unit is the law Of the
cess. Weakness Gin childhood), grad
ual growth of strength, energy, thrift,
probity, prosperity, wealth. comfort,
ease, relaxation, self-indulgence, lux
ury, idleness, waste, debaIchery, dis
ease and the wreck follows. The lev
elers" are in the bushes along the
pathway of every successful man and
woman and they bag the majority.
Only now and then can a man stand
out against these Jewellers" and hold
his fortune fame and health to the
end.
So the Creator has use for whisky,
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 (the 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, cloth
ed in the armor of a clean cut steady
mind and say unto himself, Il decline
to exchange my birthright for mess
OF potage.'
81 will not deaden my senses, weaken
my grip on affairs and keep myself
cheap, common and behind in fortune
and fame by drugging with whiskey,
tobacco or coffee. life is too short. 1t
is hard enough to win the good things,
without any sort Of handicap, so man
Is certainly a fool trader when he
trades strength, health, money and the
! good thin, hat come with power. for
| the half-aSleep condition of the drug
ger with the certainty Of sickness ana
disease ahead"
It Is a matter each individual must
decide for himself. He can be Lead
er and semi-god IL he will, or he can
10 along thru life a drugged clown, a
i 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
10 be threshed and castigated mos.
fearuflly by these Jewellers"
If man tries flirting with these
Jewelers. awhile, and gets few slaps
as 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 g he knows what
the Creator intends he should, happi-
ness, health and peace seem to come
to him. Does it pay?
This article was written to set peo>
pie thinking, to rouse the God with
in" for every highly organized man and
woman has times when they feel
something call ''g from within for
them to press l. the front and "be
about the Fathers business" don't
mistake it.; the spark Of the Infinite Is
there and 1t 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
1t has been the business of the
writer to provide practical and easy
way for people to break away from
the coffee habit and be assured Of a!
return to health and all of the good
things that brings, provided the abuse
has not gone too far, and even then
the cases where the body has been
rebuilt on a basis of strength ana
health run into the thousands.
It is an easy and comfortable step
to stop coffee instantly by having well
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