News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-01-17
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WHISKY DRlNKER TO HIS SON
Drinking Man Can Save His Own
Children From Dangers Better
Than Any Other Person.

How should whisky drinker talk tt
his son? If 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 nc hing to leave to
you or your mother.
THE difference between myself and
successful men who have passed me
is this:
Il 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 i'll, as his brain and his
physical strength may decide. OF 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-confidence for real effort
1t presents all of life's problems and
duties in false light. 1t makes those
things seem unimportant which are
most important.
1t 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.
1t Is a well established fact that in
the usual order of events drunken.
ness would be handed down from ia.
Their to son, and hundreds of thou
sands of families would be ultimately
wiped out by whisky.
1t is not true, fortunately, that the
son of a drunkard actually inherits
drunkenness fully developed. But
drunkard gives to his son weakened
nerves and diminished will power,
which tends to make him a drunkard
more easily than his father was made
a drunkard before him.
The great safeguard of drunkard's
children undoubtedly lies in the warn
ing which they see every day in their
home and in the earnest advice which
the man who drinks will give to all
young people If he have any con-
science left.
II the man who drinks would save
his own children from the same dan
ger he can do so better than any 9TH
er. He need not lose their respect by
telling them of his own mistakes, if
these mistakes have been hidden from
them. Let him simply tell them with
out personal reference what he knows
about whisky, its effects on a mans
happiness, success, self-respect and
physical comfort
Whisky gives a great many things
of men-negative gifts most of them.
or these gifts here are a few.
Lack of friends, lack of WILL lack
"a oSAA CopSSI, IdSh VI ucI FOuo
lack of everything save the hideous
craving that can end only with uncon-
seriousness, and that begins again
with increased suffering when con-
seriousness is restored.
With the fear of whisky, there
should be impressed upon children
sympathy and sorrow for the unfortu-
nate drunkard.
One of the ablest men, and one of
the most earnest in America, said to
his friend very recently:
Il never drink, as you know. But
when l see a man lying drunk in the
gutter 1 know that he has probably
made that very day a harder effort at
self-control, nobler struggle to con-
troll himself, than l ever made in my
life, He has yielded and fallen at last,
but only because all of his strength is
insufficient to overcome the disease |
that possesses him."
Teach your children that drunken
ness is horrible disease, as bad as
leprosy. Teach them that it can be |
avoided; that the disease is contract
ed in youth through carelesness, and |
that it is spread by those who en-.
drinking in others. Tell them
hat the avoiding of whisky is not
merely a question of morals or ODE.
Hence to parents, but question in.
1olving mental and Physical salvation,
success in life, happiness and the re.
;pect of others.