Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-02-19
THE DRUNkARD.

pui diibo I'aHhHtis
The following from the Denver Post
should be read and pondered over by
every boy or young man who drinks,
| 1t is all the truth and deserves to be
| copied by every paper in the land;
"The policeman who killed man
on Friday morning was drunk when
| he did 1t. When he was sober ne was
the best policeman on the force.
| When he was drunk he was so much
worse than the worst policeman on
the force that there is no other with
which to compare him.
"All of which is only one way Oi
SAYING that whisky is just about the
worst enemy any man in uniform or
| out of it ever had or ever will have.
There is no room for the man who
gets drunk, anywhere in the machine
of modern civilization.
"It was all well enough in the old
| days. when nobody but slaves worked
anyway, and when man who got
drunk took Up no ones time but his
own in doing it
To-day, the man who drinks too
| much might just as well go and drink
himself to death and be done with 1t,
for all the good he is in the world.
No railroad company. no business
house of reputable standing. no news
paper office. and no other place where
men are supposed to do the work
they are paid to do. reliably and well,
has any place for the drunkard.
THE best clerk in the world who
drinks is thousand times more use
less tnan the worst clerk in the world
who doesn't drink, The sober man
may be a fool-well and good, His
employer knows ii, expects it, counts
IN it, and is not disappointed.
THE drunkard is so good on Mon.
LAY, so excellent on Tuesday, SO eff
ffcient on Wednesday, so up-and-go-
ing on Thursday that the man who
employs him goes to the country, re-
lying on the drunkard. Whereupon
the drunkard gets drunk-and there
Is nothing left of the employer and
ais interests but strong smell of
whisky in the air and few empty
bottles on the floor.
NO drunkard who ever lived could
ever resist a chance to get drunk just
at the very time when II was vitally
important that he stay sober.
The drunken printer will keep
straight. as he calls 1t, for six months
when things are running smoothly,
and on election night, when there are
extras to get out. he win fail over his
machine-drunk. And the next morn,
ing he will wonder why the foreman
doesn't greet him with a pleasant
smile.
The domestic drunkard will be as
pleasant and agreeable as a June day
three weeks out of the four, and on
the fourth. when his wifes distin-
guished relatives come TO visit, he
will come home drunk and insult the
whole family just as surely as the
run rises on summers morning.
rs someone dead in the house. very
Ill, dying, perhaps, do You need quiet
and peace as you never needed 1t in
your life?
That's the day the drunkard takes
w set uIunh anu colne nome ana
make things pleasant.
is there a fire at the store, and
do you need every clerk In the place
to help save the goods? The drunk
ard sees his opportunity and slips
away between the fire engines to be-
gin bis carouse
I'm any case of emergency or of
any long. severe strain, don't count
on the drunkard, no matter how sober
he has been or for how long
His drinking habit is the weak
link in the chain, and just as sure as
you put the least strain on that chain
it breaks. and leaves You helpless and
infuriated.
Weak, helpless. selfish. egotistical, |
that is tie man who drinks,
and yet boys will work for week to |
learn to like the taste for whisky"
PACIFIC ROAD
HURRIEs TO DURANGO