Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27

God, and the unchastity goes on. The
unspeakable human vampires continue
to fatten and gormandze upon the vir-
tue of womanhood. Gentlemen. we might
as we'll back-pedal. We might as we'll
don the sack-cloth and mend our ways
for we never will reach the heights the
way we are going now.
What was il that paved the way for
the downfall of the greatest dynasties
that the world has ever known-proud
naughty Greece and imperial Rome. 1t
was the degradation of their womanhood
by the brutal tyrants who had become
intoxicated by the prospects and they
made no attempt to curb theri bestial-
ity and their lust.
l say 20 you, men. and ] challenge
contradiction. that the virtue of woman
hood is the rampant wall of American
civilization. These vile wretches that
tempt virtue with their gold! God have
mercy. So go ahead-don't listen 20
me. Go on. # that's the way you are
made up. Call me fool-anything you
please. l am perfectly willing to have
you do it.
What are some of the errors of man
kind? Well. | find men living for booze
Oh. dear, 1 meet them everywhere! Some
of them stagger down here and take me
by the hand-oh, I feel sorry for the
poor fellow that drinks. If anybody gets
tangled up in my heart strings 1t is the
fellow that is enslaved By the power or
drink the fe1low who staggers down the
street and reels into his wife's arms.
have had the privilege TO take tens of
thousands of them by the hand and
make them live sober. respectable lives
with their wives and children.
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drink"
"Oh. Bill it keeps me warm in the
winter"
What do you drink for?"
'Oh. Bill, it keeps Inc cool in sum-
mer"
Why, you're both fools. If it keeps
a man cool in the summer and warm
in the winter, tell me why man who
drinks booze dies quicker from a sun
stroke than one who doesn't. If it Will
keep a man warm in winter, tell me
why a man who drinks will freeze to
death quicker than one who does not?
I'll tell you, my friends, alcohol drives
the blood to the surface, and a man
drinks because Of the alcohol. Take the
alcohol away and he'd just as soon suck
the spout OF a water wagon. The al
legged strength obtained from beer and
alcohol is a delusion Of temporary
the VI HIS
sense of fatigue. 1t is all bunk, every
bit of it. I say he has got a tempo
rary feeling of strength due to the fact
that he has been mentally paralyzed, but
when the reaction comes the poor ass
is worse twenty times over than he
was when he started in. There is no
doubt of ii.
Now, I say every man drinks because
Of the alcohol. Take the alcohol out
i'll i s-l,rr
Do you know what ] can do? When
ever a man drinks the alcohol drives
the blood to the surface. hence the blood
will chill in the winter and heat in
the summer. can take a penknife
and I can open a can Of Cudahy's. Nor
ris' or Armour's beef extract and | can
dip my knife in there and l can hold
more true nourishment on the point OF
that penknife than you can get out of
one thousand gallons of the best beer
brewed this side of hell. And that
amount Of nourishment that I hold on
my knife represents a beefsteak that
weighs one and three-quarter pounds.
So you have got to strain thousand
gallons of sIop through your quits and
belly to get a beefsteak.
Now. every man has in his blood lit
tie round substances like this-corpus-
Giles. One of the objects of the blood
is to DTlnR the impurities VI ulS OOuS
back to the surface of the skin and IL
passes off through sweat or perspira-
ton Whenever you are working there
is a destroying process going on where
by the cells and tissues of your body
are consumed to generate the heat &c.
your body The normal temperature of
your body is ninety-eight and frac-
ton degrees, and when you get below
or above that you have trouble. When
you get above that temperature you
have fever, and the trouble is that some
mpurity has crept into your body, and
therefore the white corpuscles chase
around and try and surround all this
impure matter and choke it out, and
if the white corpuscles can destroy THAI
matter you will be all right, but if they
can't you have fever. That's why peo'
pie die of typhoid fever.
So when you are working. no mat
ter what you are doing. there is de-
stroying process going on whereby the
cells and fibers of your body are burned
up and that generates heat so as to keep
your body up to a temperature OF nine
ty-eight degrees and a fraction When