Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-11

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Rhine within thirty days.
Victories are being won here too.
Wisconsin has made herself right by
defeating a number of congressman
We have our battles and we are win
ming them too.
-$$ w. S. S. So
BY next July perhaps booze will go
from this country. John Barleycorn
will climb from his throne and de-
part we know not hence.
The loot is great now and will be
for some time. Whiskey that sold in
bond for 80 cents a gallon now sells
for $40 a gallon retail. 1t is the same
whiskey. 1t still sells plentifully.
What makes it sell? Why do men
poison themselves. Ask the sphinx.
Perhaps this is the question he has
puzzled owe for ages.
Life is dull is it not? Do not it's
dead levels Cypress and stifie? Do
not men long for a bit of surcease
from their woes and ills? Real or
imaginary, true or fancied, this is
the basal a for the craving for
strong drink. Most men, even hard
ened drinkers, hate the taste of the
stuff. Few can get it down without
nausea softened by a Chaser" But
they will drink it so long as it ex-
lists.
New generations will grow without
this desire because the thing itself
will be gone. Perhaps the Children
of Men will grow to deeper insights
into real values. Perhaps they will
satisfy their thirst for purple mo-
ments by mental stimulus, happy do
ing and desire for physical perfec-
ton.
Whiskey lifts up and makes the
world seem glad. Power and might
sing generously in the soul of the
drinker under the influence of the
drug. Paths that were hard become
smooth and rose-fiung. Life. that
vas complex becomes easy and full
of jovial fellowship.
But deep in the soul of the drinker
John Barleycorn tells a story that
he is all in all. "Forsake All Things
and Follow Me-" he whispers to his
dupe. Ever and ever he stretches
his lure. Ever and ever it reaches to
the grave.
Most men who drink are not bad
men. Many Of them are generous and
charitable. Many of them have hearts
as tender as those of little children.
So with those who sell it. Many of
them are good men too. Better
sometimes than the f~rock-coated hyp-
ocrite who steals during the week
and parades to church on Sunday
morning!
But the traffic itself is a menace to
the race. It is IN impeachment to our
kind seeking through the ages for
better things for those who come af-
ter US. With other impediments it
must be removed.
John ~Barleycorn will go some day.
No one will regret his passing.
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Now is a good time to begin think
ing Of further Liberty Bond invest
SIS w. S. S. S.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Day.
And now-you men who have stood
by
While they went forth-perhaps to
die
These drafted lads who day by day
In loaded transports sail away
You men who've seen them in their
might
Departures youths-to fight your
sight
Now that the new draft bill is
through,
How does the matter stand with you9
Will you make answer fair and square
When you fill out your QUESTIONABLE?
Prepare you-man! The witness
stand
Is calling you to show your hand
To prove how much is Patriot
And how much blather and pure rot
How much of service-not of gold
You would give up or would with
hold
How much exemption you would
claim,
And by what right you ask that same.
You may be one who thought no doubt
That somehow things would straight
en- out
And peace would come-and you he
free
Still to work out your destiny
Your dream of love and love of life
With equal hate of blood and strife.
Why, untold millions have gone
through
Those same emctions-dreamed like
you
Your a can boast no circumstance
Without some parallel in France,
A nd xhntrrh 0oal 49, - I---. -