The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-06-22
WHISKY DRlNKER TO HIS SON
Drinking Man Can Save His Own
Children From Dangers Better
Than Any Other Person.


How should whisky drinker talk te
his son? II he talked as he feels, he
would hold up the fiat. brown bottle
and say:
MY boy. you know that ! am poor
man and have nothing to leave 10
you or your mother.
THE difference between myself and
successful men who haye passed me
Is this:
81 have gone through life with this
bottle in my hand or in my pocket
They have not"
A man comes into the world pre-
pared to do his share Of the worlds
work well or Ill, as his brain and his
physical strength may decide. or all
his qualities the most important prac
tically is balance.
The whisky in that bottle destroys
balance, both mental and physical.
1t substitutes dreaming and foolish
self-confdence Tor real effort.
1t presents all Of life's problems and
duties in a false light 1t makes those
things seem unimportant which are
most important.
II dulls the conscience, which alone
can make men do their duty. In spite
Of temptation. and struggle on TO sue
cess In spite of exhaustion.
Keep away from this bottle, and
keep away from those who praise IT,
He who hands It to his fellow man Is
criminal, and he who hands 1t to a
young man is a worse criminal and a
villain.
1T is impossible but that offenses
/ will come, but woe unto him. through
whom they come. st. Luke 27:1.
II is we'll established fact that In
the usual order of events drunken
ness would be handed doyn from ia
ther to son, and hundreds of thou
sands of families would be ultimately
wiped out by whisky.
II is not true. fortunately, that the
son OF a drunkard actually inherits
Drunkenness fully developed. But a
irunkard gives to his son weakened
nerves and a diminished will power.
which tends to make him drunkard
more easily than his father was made
drunkard before him
The great safeguard OF drunkard's 8
children undoubtedly lies in The warn
ing which they see every day in their
home and in the earnest advice which
he man who drinks will give to all
young people II he have any con-
,cience left.
II the man who drinks would save
lis own children from the same dan.
ger he can do so better than any 9th
sr. He need not lose their respect by
elling them Of his own mistakes. II
hese mistakes have been hidden from
hem. Let him simply tell them with
,ut personal reference what lie knows
about whisky. its effects on a mans
happiness, success. self-resIect and
physical comfort
Whisky gives great mary things
If men-negative gifts most Of them
)f these gifts here are a few.
Lack of friends. lack Of will. lack
If self-respect, lack of nervous force
.ack of everything save the hideous
,raying that can end only with uncon
,ciousness, and that begins again
with increased suffering when con
Iciousness is restored.
With the fear of whisky, there
should be impressed upon children
Iympathy and sorrow for the unfortu
late drunkard.
One of the ablest men, and one o
he most earnest in America, said tC
ais friend very recently:
Il never drink, as you know. Bu
when see a man lying drunk in tn,
gutter, know that he has probably
made that very day harder effort a
Ielf-control. nobler struggle to con
rol himself. than ! ever made In III,
ife, He has yielded and fallen at last
,ut only because all of his strength Il
insufficient to overcome the diseas,
hat possesses him."
Teach your children that drunken
aess is horrible disease, as bad al
eprosy Teach them that 1t can b,
welded; that the disease Is contract
ed in youth through carelesness. an,
hat 1t is spread by those who en-
courage drinking in others. Tell then
hat the avoiding of whisky is no
merely a question of morals or obe
Hence to parents, but question In
folving mental and physical salvation
mccess in life, happiness and the rs
meet of others.