The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-23

(c) Swedish soldiers who had
drunk two thirds of a glass Of brandy
thirty minutes before target practlce
had their efficiency lowered from
ltWenty-four hits out of thirty snots
to only three hits out of thirty shots;
(d) In building trades there are so
per cent more accidents on Mondays
than on any other day in the week,
where the workmen are accustomed
to getting their Saturday night drlnKs'
n te) In mathematical work. efflcien-
cy is lowered over 40 per cent ana
in memory work sometimes as rnuch
as 10 per cent.
He reduces his victims to such
state that they are the first to be dis
missed from their positions aud the
last TO be employed in any service.
even the wliskey traffic itself
He renders his victims nnht Tor SER
vice in any modern occupations.
whether industrial. commercial or pro-
fessional
He not only takes the money from
his victims without giving them any
values In return. but subjects them to
a slavery from which II Is impossible
for them 10 exirieate themselves by
their own will power
He not only thus rohs his vtctims Of
their property and in the end Of their
lives hut he causes iuest3mable want
and suffering and prtvation and pow
erty to the families Of such victims
and In many cases the violent death OF
such innoeents.
He takes the rosy checked maiden
and reduces her 10 wrinkled paieness,
bv kidnapping her natural protector,
He takes bright-eyed and bright
faced children and places them in in
stitutions for the fatherless and moth
eriess
He takes beautiful and blushing
penury and want
He produces IS per cent of the
crime.
He produces IS per cent OF the In
sanity epilepsy and sickness.
He produces ~ per cent Of all the
poverty.
He reduces the number Of ccnte~
narians from one per thousand TO only
one In % 600 ia this country,
4 He has rnisdlrected financial energy
in this nation in such "a way as to take
large legitimate values eut OF ordinary
and proper lines Of business activity.
He has employed in his own death
dealing business two and one -half
billions Of dollars which, ifr employed
In the ordinary business of the ma
ton. would give work to five millions
iof people instead Of 10 two million.
I He takes from the legitimate husl-
nesses ST SEQ 600 600 per year ia The
( United states which, II spent for
the things Of vital value would make
the average life longer the average
family happier the average business
better. the average emuloye more
efficient, the average family income
larger,
lie ever hurts business. because he
takes from other and useful bust
nesses every dollar that come in his
Golfers,
He robs the wage Garner of the
Saturday night pay envelope and
briags hunger and cold TO the latter
wife and children.
He took from eur nation last year.
/ in economic values,
fa) SIS, 500. 900. GEO for the 5000
untimeiy deaths caused by him,
fbl So 00o, 00e, GEO ON account OF
efficiency lowered In ctr citizens:
(c) s2.oB0 600, 600 for added costs
to take care Of crime. pauperisnl.
idlocy ana insanity produced by al
/ "a sl.soo. 100000 In toll from
those who drink
T Total, s22 600, 600. 600 Ia our nations
annual toll to King Alcohol.
/ Thus he takes from our life in this
nation more than twenty times as
much OF cur financial values as are
/ represented in the total expense OF
Z our national kbNGE9AlfNASl OK Ivy gill
times as much for the downfall OF
man as the government spends for the
upiift Of rna3.
/ He dedes public sentiment. and.
though ne processes 70 love local self
vernrnent. he refuses to obey local
laws passed by local vote OF the
people II IL means a restriction Of his
nefarlous traffc.
He recognizes himself az a monster
+ OF so horrible mein that he is ashamed
20 have himself introduced into any
community under his true name, but
calls himself LEGAL Self Government
( or Good Government Association"
Tor Personal Liberty" or Saver OF
Taxes" Thus he is Il sneak and
fraud and deceiver, because all such
names belle his true character.
He sheds crocodile tears over the
/ loss Of sixteen men in Mexico and
endeavors TO keep II from the news
Z papers that he is staying every year
IN cold blood, 100 600 and woanding
600 900 others.
He tolls our boys into his saloons
/ by the use OF free drinks to gain re-
cruits for those annually slain by
him.
He admits the evil OF his trade by
prohibiting those employed to use his
products.
He taxes us for more than all the
values Of all the products of all our
farms, OF all our forests. all our mines
and all our Observation-Disclosures to
taking all that mother erth produces
on earth ana sea combined.
He creates sorrows ana multtplies
grief
He strikes the young man as light
ming the tree: he takes from the mid
die aged man ambition and hope;
Irohs old age of its serenity and peace. 4
He turns men into monsters and
women into harlots.
He invades the ballot box to cor
jrupt it.
He pollutes the stream of public
affairs and poisons all II touches,
He dulls the edge OF endeavor, de- /
thrones the reason and destroys the
human souls.
He gradually relegates to the rear
all who enter his procession.
He has filed the prisons with Grim I
inals
He has hlighted the lives Of mill
lions who live in the shadows and are
helpless
He has filled the police stations
with the dereliets of humanity.
He has rent asunder the holy bonds
of wedlock and sent thousands of
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