The Washington times., 1918-09-08
The Worlds Biggest Graveyard
1t Belongs to Whiskey-Now Whiskey Is to Be
Buried.

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Buried
AL kinds of graves, big and little the rich and the
poor, the old and the young, dug by wiskey the
gravedigger
On the finest hill in the cemetery, where lots dear
you read great mausoleum of stone, In Memory of
Our Beloved Son. Age g. The family history includes
also the line omitted, KILLED by Whisky"
In the cheapest lot, marked with wooden slab you
win find small grave bought by charity for child three
months old need not have died had not whiskey taken
from the father money that would have saved the chds
life
On each in this whiskey graveyard you read one
word You read other words if you know whiskey power
~ HOME Whiskey came In at the back door, and happi-
ness went out never to return Whiskey writer of
mortgages, an auconeer that sells furniture and mes
senger that takes chdrens clothes to the pawnshop
FAME 1t might have belonged to the man who stands
at the bar holding his glass in hand that trembes He
HAD the power he COULD have succeeded But he could
not compete with others and with whiskey He tried
whiskey, which whispered to him: "Slow down. Do not
overwork yourself You are tired. You need me- Moth
ing can prevent your success"
GENIUS. Edison says that genius is ninety five per
cent perspraon and five per cent inspiration Whskey
Is nnetyfVe per cent poison and five per cent FALSE
inspiration.
"Iu drink and stimulate my mind" says the victim.
BE drinks whiskey and stimulates only the desire for more
vhiskey.
knowledged in spite of excessive drink-Webster Poe
johnson, thousand others are mentioned True And
cut from the careers of all those from fifty to ninety
per cent Of their possibilities
AMBITION It is a spark that does in the human
brain what the electric spark does in the engine
You may pour gasoene into your cylinders from now
until doomsday You will have no power the car will not
unless you have the exploding spark that develops
force.
You may have what you please in the human brain.
will not develop unless ambition is there, the spark that
produces power.
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the body the operating table Science has done its
best But whskey has done its worst The operation that
would have restored normal body to health has ended
whiskey drinkers life Whiskey's effect health. the
tissues Of the body force and the power to
cupeate is all told in the fact that surgeons dread any
operation whiskey drinking man.
You might as well hand rotten boards to the ship
builder and ask him to make boat with them.
SUCCESS Here's to success" Every day million
say it and pour whiskey down. They should say:
Here goes success here VANsHEs success here drown
hope Of success"
OF all things that men say to each other as they pour
whskey down their threats just is true Here's
nail in your coffin"
In every graveyard whskey has been digger In al
every family history whskey has played miserable
Wiskey above and gloats all that is worth
while in life. Honor family hope buried in his graves
And for hope he digs the biggest grave of all.
The hope of mothers millions of them has been buried
in graves where whskey has planted their The hope
Of children has been destroyed and buried by whskey that
ruined their fathers.
Now, at last, the nation, measure and with
long postponement has decided that whiskey must CO.
next year.
great experiment is to be tried, that will require
all the earnesness energy and force of government is
an experiment of absolute prohibition absolute elimination
Of all alcoholic smulants such has not been tried by
any great nation since the day Of Mohammed
The problem that will confront the Government once
the law goes into effect is the problem of dealing with
secret whskey making secret drug selling the extreme
ease with which whskey be made and its manufacture
hidden.
All the power of government will be needed to carry
through this program.
Beyond question it will be exercised.
Whiskey at last Is to be outlaw, criminal Those
that make or sell whiskey will be criminals with the be-