Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-07-27
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Its beneficial effects upon the arts and
manufacturers are inconceivable. No
living man can limit the bounds of hui
man genius in arts and manufacturers
with the free use of alcohol, and patent
free aluminium. But there is another
aspect, not so bright and hopeful, in
which free alcohol (denaturized), pois-
ened though it be, may be viewed.
When looked at through the ''whiskey
appetite, 'free Alcohol is appalling.
DIR. H. w. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau
of Chemistry, in reply to a question of
Congressman Bowie, says: "Often it
has been found that practically nothing
will prevent the drinking of alcohol, if
people are determined to drink it.
Alcohol fiends will drink alcohol right
off of pathological specimens, such as
cancerous growths. They are so de-
PRAYED that you can not do anything
with them, and you can not protect
that class of humanity, and no bill
ought to try to protect them. The
quicker they kill themselves the
better"
To maintain their right to debauch,
degrade and corrupt the citizenship of
this country, the manufacturers and
vendors of alcoholic liquors have or
gained themselves in associations that
know no politics save to secure to
themselves ''the unreserved right to
sell cents worth of beer for a nickel
and two cents worth of whiskey for
a dime. :" ''The United States Brewers
Association, The National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association, and the
National Retail Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation have well recognized bureaus at
Washington working to protect the
trade" THE TRADE" that meets
no legitimate demand of human nature.
but exists to excite an abnormal ap-
petite for intoxicants." Experience
has taught them "that the supply of
liquor creates the demand, and not, as
In case of necessities, the demand the
supply" 1t is fact well known to
every observant citizen of this county
that while the open saloon has been
banished the traffickers in alcoholic
beverages with their political allies are
using their utmost endeavors to destroy
the beneficial effect of the closed saloon.
The "allies" are saying to the anti
saloon men: "don't agitate," '1et well
enough alone" you have closed the
saloon, now, keep quiet" While the
saloon men, through paid agents, are
clandestinely and surreptitiously SOW
ing harvest of jugs throughout the
county, well-knowing that 1.-THE supply
will create the demand" They are
fostering "the Drink Appetite" that
insatiate appetite that admits no de-
NAL. Writer in Hanover Herald.
A citizen of Memphis who wanted a |
drink went into saloon in the vicinity
of the meeting place of the Brother
hood of Engineers recently rather ex-
pecting to find good many of the
engineers therein. To his surprise he
was the only seeker for thirst EXTERN
inator among those present. The
saloon in short was deserted. Thinking
that perhaps the men of the throttle
had found more congenial rendezvous.
he, as matter of curiosity, visited all
Of the saloons in the vicinity, and he
found in none Of them any evidence
whatever that there was a single en-
gineer in Memphis. Nothing perhaps
could throw brighter light on the char
acter of the engineers of the United
States than this incident. The sobriety
of the engineer is matter of education
and environment. The lives of thous-
ands of people depend upon him. No
man is apt to become an engineer on a
first class railroad who is not a man of
of courage, and of charac-
ter. He must be self-reliant, faithful
unto death and temperate. The res
possibility resting on him makes him
man in every sense of the word. He
hasn't time to think about dissipation:
and so when he meets with his brothers
IN convention, just about the last thing
that occurs to him is to get drunk The
drunkard is losing out in every kind of
business. Society begins to frown
down upon him. From all positions of
responsibility and of a judiciary nature,
he has been banished. 1t is the tenn
perate man who wins out in the race
of life, and the engineer is a splendid
object lesson in temperance. Memphis
Commercial-Appeal.
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