The Arvada enterprise., 1910-11-04
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STRONG DRINK is RUINous
Men Pre-emlnent for Intellectual At
tainments All On Side of
Temperance.

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imagination to lofty heights OF fancy
impossible to be reached in-seber
moments.
| Both Burns and Poe were victims
of the drink habit and both geniuses
but their cases so far from supporting
| the claim of alcohol to usefulness ar.
| CUES against 1t.
If Burns and Poe, God-gifted as they
were, had Kept their faculties clear
and their reasons undimmed, what
I tnfight-thesB have -dope2-Tbe- for
mer might have become the Homer
of the Eastern and the latter the
| Dante of the Western World. AS II
was, these twin stars of the armament
| of literature scintillated fitfully for
only few years. They simply reeled
through life until they came to the
verge of premature graves and tot.
| tered into them ere half their time on
earth was spent, writes Madison G.
Peters in an exchange.
The age of Johnson may be termed
the golden age of English literature
| It's sky was studded with brilliancy.
but how long did the light last? Men
of such transcendant gifts as Gold
smith, Savage and Shenstone did not
know the meaning of life. Their brief
| careers were spent / nriotous living
Charles Lever, prince of Irish novel
lists, represented the Irish squires and
| gentlemen as hard-headed, hard-drink
ing, rollicking fellows, whose chief
amusements were fox hunting, love
making, and breaking one another's
heads. For the most part this por-
trayal was true, but there were some
notable exceptions to Levers crea-
tions among the gentry of Ireland
The men who did the most for Ire.
land, who reflected an undying glory
on her cause, were, If not teetotalers.
at least temperate. Grattan, Flood,
Wolfe, Tone, Fitzgerald and Emmett
were temperate. O'ConneIl seldom
drank a glass of wine. The Duke of
Wellington was an abstemious man.
Parnell in the heyday of his fame
could not be induced to touch liquor.
His head was always clear in the
house, and this was the secret of his
| pOii'iNaI IOleSl6ul, WHICH enabled llm
to accomplish SO much.
The great leaders of AEnglish poll !
tics, both in the past an present eih
turtes. have been strictly tempe
men. Gladstone only touched lieAi
wines on rare occasions. Morley, AL
four, Spencer, Harcourt, Salisbuy.
Chamberlain, all early took fteir
places beneath the Temperament IAN.
ner AT royal receptions and atnsas.
sadors' balls none of these men could |
be induced to take liquor in any form.
The well known literary men of |
England in our time have almost to
man been temperate. Dickens, |
though he drank a glass of ale be-
times, never exceeded discretion. |
Reade, Besant, Paine, Buchanan, Ten.
nyson and Browning were all on the
side of temperance.
The same can be said of the leading
statesmen and writer's of Germany
France, Italy and other European
countries at the present day.
The same Is notably true of emf |
ncnt Americans. Have any of our
great inventors been drunkards? They
have spent their days and nights in |
ceaseless activity, perfecting their de-.
signs with clear brains and STEADY |
hands. only desisting to obey the call |
of exhausted nature.
Edison, the wizard of electricity
never touches intoxicating liquors
Could the Wrights and Curtiss Yen.
pelin and Bleriot have conquered the
air with rum-drenched brains and |
jangling nerves?
Our great scientists and medical
men, knowing well the dangers thar
lurk in the sparkling glass, shup If as
they would deadly poison. Kelvin
Crookes, -Roentgen and Koch have ali
been total abstainers.
Drink -the-vital- organs and t
dulls the brain. 1t has stripped tho
crown from the brow of manhood and
engirdled 1t with crimson band NJ
shame; 1t has plucked the fowers
from the garden Of success and In
their place has strewn the weeds nj,
failure. 1t has wrenched the sword
of victory from the hands of conouor
ors. turned 1t into scourge and drIr
en- them from the arena OF fame int,
the darkness of obscurity; from rova,
brows 1t has taken imperial crowrs
and dashed them into fragments a.
the stone of defeat and lgnomy.
The men who made America wers
with some notable exceptions, of AZ
stemious habits and austere lives
Liquor never adds. but always suh
tracts. So far from being stjras,
liant, 1t is an anaesthetic; it deadona
instead of quickens. Science
classed 1t as sporifc or parcoto
Instead of helping man up # Dr..
him down; instead of placing him on
the sun-crowned heights of succooa
and honor 1t places him in the pnt,os
of failure and shame. 'ei