The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-01

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who gets helplessly$ drunk and Swalllousl
An the gutter, because the former's ex-
ample will be commended and followed
the Ii ALTERS Will be scornedS and Stunned.
The great ngltshgauthor Rudyard Kip,
ling held your view OF the case. till .chanc-
Ing to SEQ two sea n,ps lead two young girls
to ruin through drink, he yrDteS as fol-
lows: 9TH recantings previous topinions
became asprohibitlonist. a5 Better i n
THAT a l man should 90 without his beer
lin public places and content himself VIVA
swearing AZ the nhrrow-nindness OF the
majority; better II Bis to poison the in-
side with very vile temperance drinks.
and to buy4lager flrtiVely ateback doors.
than to bring temptation to the lips Of
young fools such as the * four i had
seem I understand now why Epreaei6fs
rage Sagainst drink. IL have said, there
yet my ownsdemand for beer helped d.
rectlys to send those two girls Keeling down
a back IN street %Sto--God alone knows
what end. %#sl
i hope, my friend. that you may come
Ito Mr. .S5Kipling's evident conclusion that
moderate drinking leads to excessive.
drinking; that without moderate drink
Ing there will be no immoderate drinking;
and that It 81 better for one to be de
prlved of a@prlvilege lNf the convenient
use OF ,ntoxicants may be SO considered>>
Ethan to8take the risk OF settling an Bex-
ample that may be ifatal-shocklngly
fatal-to those who follow 1t.
Blythe way, you8see Mr.AKipling refers
$to#beerS as ~aGdangerous drink. I believe
4 great many good people are greatly
deceived by the skilfully prepared claims
of the bre Wers TO the effect hat beer is
not to b compared with Distilled spirits,
5a$healthful beverage
Hearing mo mention the subject of
moderate drinking my friend and teach-
err Professor r., Bingham. q the
Following statement: ff$ S@&S&tS
sS9My $motherSwas married stwice.#EaT The
brother or sher FIRST husband was q well
lSto-do tenant farmer named Q Lang
ford. John LanEford. like most English
farmers, considered beer and hard work
eating and drinking: vet led the&way in
hard work. His good health. regular
habits, and success in farming were made
use OF as trump$cards sagninst$the argu-
ments OF temperance advocates.
,,Mr. Langford had four sons, each Of
whom was convinced that Temperance
was foolishness.s and that beer drinking
was necessary for workers. Yet before
the old 81 farmer died all his sons were
ruined By alcoholism. The farm was
take on from them. the stock was sold Off
and beer was the source OF the whole
trouble. the effects OF beer on his
sons SOM came home to the father, he said
that III he could have his life over. not
q drop OF beer would he drink nor allow
|$itS TO come into the house k
~ Gustave Won Bunge, M ID, professo Of
physiological chemistry, University sof
Basic says In his recently published
BOOK, 1.-THE Alcohol Question:
mo one who uses alcoholic drinks.
|eyen beer or wine, in the most moderate
quantities, can rid himself OF being q
temper. Every drunkard was once a
moderate drinker.as and everybody who
sby15his5gsexample IL inducing others to-
SdrinksstmodeTatetyS Is leading some into
intemperance: He sets the stone rolling
IL sts6noyionger within his power to stop
itSs$Th tempters are not tho d%runkards.
SOn#the contrary. their example has tho
treat merit OF serving as q warning. It
III 1.-THE moderate drinkers who are the
|tempters. And Just as long as the
temptation continues immodernte drink
Ing, with all Its Observation-Disclosures,
insanity and %~crlme-neYer Will be ban-
ished. we dare not lose sight OF tho fact
thatsno drunkard ever has been rescued
~ rasolyina to drink moderately. In
every instance whore he succeeds it Is
ithroush the conviction that his only hopo
IL in avoiding the first glass n
IN BIIa Dor Comm ssloner5of Wisconsin,
81 Beck, In his recent repoTt, makes
this statement I'm the United States,
3 III. a$ total Of $3.50 persons convicted
of crime. who were q ,gatIler-5