The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-12-03

II so, He must have made these.
We know what He MAIDS food All
water for, and air and sunshine. bu
WHY Whisky. Tobacco and COFFEE:
Ahey are here sure enough aud eac
Performing its work.
There must be some great plan I've
hind 1T all; the thoughtful nau seek
to understand something of thar pa:
and thereby to Judge these articles fo
heir true worth
Let lis moi say bad" or good" with
out taking testimony.
There are times and conditions wher
X certainly seems to the casral o'9serv.
er TINT these stimulaut narcotics 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 ''uutausie" is often Il fearful!
ktruggie.
1t seems plain that there are circum-
saances when the narcotic effect OF
fc.al, but the fearful argument against
them Is that seldom ever does one find
q steady user OF either whisky, COT
fee or tobacco free troL. disease Of
some kind
Certainly powerful elements in their
effect OIL the human race.
Ii Is matter of daily history test-
bed to by literally millions of people,
that Whisky, Tobacco ana Coffee are
smiling. promising. hegui.ing friends
on the start. but always false rs he'l
Itself in the end. once ,:ey .eI n-'Ml
no!u enough TO show their strength.
they insist upon governing and drive
the victim steadily towards i'll health
n some form: If permitted to continue
to rule. they will not let ~ until ply
Steal aud mental ruin SETS in.
A man under that spell land under
tho spelr' is cOrrect,. Of any one OF
these drugs. frequently assures hin-
felf and his friends, Why. can leave
OF any time | want to. I did quit for
4 week just to show | could" 1t is a
SIRE mark of the slave when one gets
to that stage. He wiggled through 4 I
week fighting every day TO break the
tbsll, was finally whipped, and began
his slavery all over again.
The slave Coffee slave as we'll as
Tobacco and Whisky daily reviews lis /
condition, sees perfectly plain the
steady encroa chments 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
thou leave the diseased condition I
palmer to view than ever and grow
ing worse. Many times tie Coffee
slave realizes that he is between two
Ares. He feels bad II he leaves off,
and 4 little worse If he drinks and al
lows the effect to wear o6.
80 1t goes Oh from day to day. Every
night the struggling victim promises
himself that he will break the habit
and next day when he feels little
bad las he is quite sure to-, breaks,
not the habit but his own resolution.
II il nearly always q tough fight. with
disaster ahead sure if me habit wins.
There have been hundreds Of thou.
sands OF people driven to their graves
through disease brought on by coffee
drinking alone, and it is quite certain
that more human misery is caused by
coffee and tobacco than by whisky. for
the two nrst are more widely used
and more hidden and insidieus in the
eject on nerves, heart aud other vital
organs, and are thus unsupported IN
til much Of the dangerous work is
done.
Now, Reader, what IS your opinion
Ms to the real use the Creator has for
these things? Take look ut the CUES
ton from this point Of view.
There Is q law Of Nature and Of Ma
lures God that things slowly evolve
from lower planes to higher, a sturdy.
steady and di2nified advance toward
more perfect things in both the Ply
Iicai and Spiritual world. The pom
ferrous tread of evolutionary develop
ment 10 fixed by the Infinite and will
not DC quickened out Of natural Jaw
W any OF mans methods.
therefore We see many ilustra lions
moving how nature checks too rapid
ldvance. Illinois raises phenomenal
'rops Of corn for two or three wears,
{ she continued to do so every year
Ter farmers would advance in wealth I
ar beyond those Of other sections or
ountries. So Nature interposes a bar I
very three or four years and brings
. 4 bad year" s
Here we see The leveling influence 9
I work. =
man is prosperous in his business 9
Or a number OF years and grows rich. I
hen Nature sets the 'leyeling incu- il
nee" at work on him. Some Of his I
lose. he becomes luxuri- a
~ and lazy. Perhaps il is whisky. to- s
acco. coffee. women. gambling. or {
,,ns other form. The intent aud pur- t
Use is to level him. Keep him from, t
'Olving too far ahead of the masses.
A nation becomes prosperous and e
eat Nike ancient Rome. If no leveiing G,
Auence set in she would dominate
e world perhaps for all time. But -
inc Nature sets her army Of ''level- 7
5" ut work. Luxury, over eating and