Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-11
10 WHAT Is RIGHT

ININiIIlA|A hNNIA N.INH'.." N. ''N'." '''
very shadow OF temples and churches
dedicated to the worship of tho Ale
mighty Il is only question of time.
lot us consider for "a moment the
progress that has been made. There
was "a time ia England whom immod-
crate drinking was the rule 10 was
vice acquired during the wars In the
Netherlands and 90 became $50 m"nac-
ing that It had 10 De restrained by
stringent laws. Says o. writer OF the
I1Iizabetheau era;
Superiority in drink is o. sim that
ever since we have mixed ourselves
with the Low Countries. is counted
honorable: but before we knew their
lingering wars was held in tho high
est degree of hatred that might bc.
Then. II we had seen man go wall
lowing iu the street or lay sleeping
under the board. we should have spat
at him and warned all our friends out
of his company. Now. bee ls nobody
that cannot drink 'supernagulum'
'carouse' the hunters 'hoopei' .quaH
ipse fraze crosse. with hoalthr gloves,
humps frolickes,' and thousand such
domineering Inventions
a century ago the most prominent
statesmen OF England and France
were celebrated, IL seems no less for
the quantity Of wine they imbibed than
for the eloqucncc they dispensed. or
William Pitt the first Earl OF Chat
tam, It has been said that he was him
self only "when sharp ht of govt
had driven the nerceness Of port and
claret from his brain" Lord Le Des-
penser is described by a friend and
companion as one who "from puzzling
an his life at tavern bills, was called
by Lord Buto 90 administer the iiuanc-
es of a kingdom above ono hundred
millions I'm debt" Lord Weymouth,
secretary OF state under George H.
was. q is said. celebrated druukard.
Charles James Fox is said, while IN
office. to have "boozed I'm daylight. and
dozed I'm the afternoon"
Samuel johnson seems To have con-
sidered drinking quite am art He
says:
Drinking may be practiced with
great prudence, man who exposes
himself when he Is intoxicated has not
the art OF getting drunk. "a sober man
drunk, readily enough goes into
new company which "a man who has
been drinking should never do. Such
man win undertake anything; he is
without skill In inebriatiOn. ] used 20
stink home when / had drunk too
much A man accustomed 10 self
examination viii be conscious when he
Is drunk. though am hahitual drunk
ard win not De conscious of DO. / knew
q physician who for twenty years was
not sober yet In a pamphlet which
he wrote upon fcvors, he appealed 10
Carried and me for his VindicatiOn
from a charge OF drunkenness. A
bookseller who got a large fortune by
trade was so habitually ana equally
drunk that his most Intimate friends
never perceived that he was more sober
at one time than another"
samuel johnson observed that men
generally lose their modesty when
drunk. and are no longer conscious of
their defects. A very few men, he
says, are improved by drink
Alexander the Great was certainly
not improved Il Is related of him
that ha committed murder during "a
drunken carousal and could only with
difficulty Doe restrained from killing
himself. According 20 Plutarch. dur
ing feast onenaa was given AloXau-
der by one of his officers. Alexander
snatched a spear from one of his
guards, and nan the offender. one
Cltus through tho body. Tie fau inn
mediately to the ground, and. with
dismal sroun. expired. Alcxanders
rage subsidized boz O. moment Dee came
10 himself and, seeing hs friends
standing in silent aslonIshmsut by
him. DC hastily drew tho spear out
OF the dead body and was applying 10
TO his own throat when hia guards
seized his hands and carried h.m by
force into his chamber.
A great change has come oyer the
world for the better Statesmen mo-
longer drink 90 excess. prUuArls arc
not tolerated Don polished society. Mon
cannot even hold f. position of TRUST
on o. steamship on railroad, in Bu
ohicl, on iu Ca manufacturing pFtab-
o lishmont unless they AFRO sober
Drunkguncss iH regarded ts I'd vice aua
the drunkard iH summed. This change
has been brought about u public some
umcuG and the u.Nl stop Boa Che oto-
luton. ls tho abolition of tha saloon
from cities and e1mmunIues 10 uW
come 10 be- only question of Ume.
But why should NOT Utah be boz tHo 1l-
Nuno. FuaTl of ,HIa Trlaru'
Ih. uo1UI. bore have fHr ytIIs HuI
yoar preached total abstinence. auI
many have uruets.I Do s1usoieutousI}.