The Red Cloud chief., 1913-03-20
As a Business Proposition
What Do You Get For Il!

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phase Of 1t. The business side is, as
far as the consumer Is concerned,
usually neglected The moderate
drinker feels that he will never "go
to the gutter and only small per
cent OF them do.
Most people want to get something
for their money. If they acquire "a
habit they want, some place along the
line, TO be able to feel that they have
value received in some form. The
young man ready to start in business
doesn't always stop to analyze things
thoroughly, but he starts in with the
idea that he is securing benefit, tenn
porary or permanent, in recreation or
a business or social way. What does
he get and what are his prospects in
these lines when he starts the drink
habit?
He usually begins by sneaking in
the back door to a saloon, or in some
booze joint. The people he goes with,
or finds there, are not at that stage,
those he is proud to be found with.
He is rather ashamed Of himself for
awhile. He spends his money at the,
rate Of five or fifteen cents a drink,
and it's over in a minute-that is the
moderate drinker or the one lust COM
mencing, and he is the fellow we are
now after. The fellow who gets on a
high lonesome and makes fool Of
himself, is sorry enough afterward-
but he is weak. He needs bis back
bone pushed up in front.
Our man gets his drink and 1t is
over he does not intend to get drunk.
It isn't very desirable place to loaf,
for the chances are that the fellow
who has had too many is there, with
his tongue loosened, and ready to put
his arm or two affectionately around
you and pribble away for twenty min.
utes telling something with nothing in
it. not even point. So our man goes
on about his business, knowing that
he has spent In his fifteen cent drink
what would hire him the use OF dol.
lar for two years, to invest and re.
invest and keep his credit good. He
knows from every authority, without
a single exception, that he has hurt
himself physically to some extent.
The fellow who blows his money at
the soda fountain has the edge on him.
because il that fellow gets away with.
out immediate cramps in the stomach
he is probably uninjured. No author.
ity, medical or physiological, contends
that drink Of liquor is more than a
temporary relief. Like shot of dope
it leaves you worse than You were be-
fore. 1t don't make you ft to do any
thing except, II you take enough more
to become fool Every athlete has
to tsbooi It, or he can't get in the game
Even the prize fighter who bushes ur
between times must cut It out when
he trains for real business, and il he
has enough "between times It gets
him.
The big league ball clubs are put.
ting the anti drink clause In their con.
tracts and the little leaguers after
they have boozed cant sec the ball. II
you drink, and want in that line OF
business you have to lie or keep out.
The railroads, factories and large
concerns that employ men have now
pretty generally adopted the rule that
the drink habit Is sufficient cause for
discharge, and you have to lie and
conceal it like hypocrite to get o,
hold your job.
II you start a store, the banks the
mercantile and credit agencies send
out inquiries whether you drink, and
II the answer Is yes, that don't help
your credit.
| What are you getting for your
money? Did you ever know anyone tc
get job because hs took q drink
MANY have lost Jobs for that cause
The fellow who has to have brace,
to do bis best, can't get the Job II hi.
employer knows It. You've not only
spent your money aud got nothing but
. gulp In the throat for 1t, but you've
put yourself under Q handicap. Yo,
know you will trust any man quicker
and more fully iC any important worl
II you know he don't drink, than /,
you know he does. Why will yo,
spend your money on a handicap fov
yourself? II you go to new town Il
enter business or hunt a Job, unles,
1t is one Of the old time mushroor
frontier Towns that soon busts of It
self, is your standing better to pu
your money into bank or saloon!
You buy the foam and the headache
and the shaky nerve aud dull eye tha
makes you lose your job and you ge
absolutely nothing else for you