New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Twenty Searching
Liquor Questions

LASAOI QucStlOIlS
"No" is the answer Owen H.
Williams, of 21 Liberty Street
Brooklyn, appends to each of the fol-
lowing queries on the use of intox-
icating beverages.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Here are some facts from an
old man of eighty years who has "ob-
served things':
l; Let any. one come to your office
seeking employment in any capacity
with his breath so favored with whis-
key that 1T rolls out in your face. Will
you give him job? No.
=; IL you or your family need doctor
Will you employ one who drinks intoxi
cants? No.
3; If you need medicine compounded
Will you lntrust your prescription to
one who drinks? No.
q: Are you in favor of your wife and
cnrldr1n M.1 d1rlnking liquor? No.
whom you listen to for help and in
splration to be rum drinker? No.
o. Would you favor employing in our
public schools and colleges teacher
who drink liquor? No.
T. Would you select as suitable asso-
those who drink liquors? No. w. 0
o. Would you consent to the mar
rage OF your daughter to man whose
breath bore the fumes of drink when
ASKING your consent for her hand? No.
.. would you advise any one who
ms physlral, intellectual and moral bet
terment? No.
10. DO you know of single instance
where, under the influence of LIQUOR.
anythlng was accomplished better than
IL would have been done without LIQUOR
except perhaps, curing snake bites,
Where one poison seemingly counter
acts another? No.
II. Do you believe the railroads of
this country, who will not employ any
one who drinks intoxcants either on
or on duty. are acting unwisely? No
IL. DO you think thu, various life in
surance companies of the world, which
nave given the greatest study to the
effects of alcohol upon the human svs- vs.
tenn as to the promotion of health and
the prolonging of life, mistaken in their
STATISTICS and decision that it shortens
life? No.
l3. Do you believe that real estate
dealers who seek to boost their towns
make a mistake in not mentioning as
an inducement to buyers that there are
plenty of whiskey shops and saloons
"here you can tank up and help inn
Prove prove the community by SO doing, in
stead OF saying mo saloons? No.
Ia. Would you favor the teaching in
any community the beneficial and good
effects to be derived from drinking in
toxicants? No.
ID: 10 you think our government did
,unwisely in prohibiting the sale of
lieuor to either the army or navy men /?
Is. Do you believe parents do wrong
IN advising their sons to keep awav
from saloons and never touch liquor?
No. iiquoi
IT, Do you believe any one would
toxicating liquor was dumped into mid
ocean~-exccpt its victims? No.
49, Have you ever heard a man sav.
~ never drank LIQUOR and I am sorry
l have not?" No. '
10. Do you believe the wives and
mothers of thousands of husbands and
sons who have said "My husband" or
my son was good man until he com
.nenced to drink" told an untruth No.
sioper of Labor, mistaken when he
said: "I have looked into a thousand
homes of the working people of En-
rope; l do not know how many in this
country. In every case, so far as NV
observation goes. drunkenness was at
the bottom of the misery and not the
industrial system or the industrial sur
roundings of the men and their fam
lies" or
John B. Lennon, treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor, when
he said: "Too many men and women
are going down stream to degradation
for me to keep silent. To the trade
unionist there is no redeeming feature
in the saloon. Go anywhere where its
influence is felt and you see the de-
moralization it brings. We are fight
ing for social wellbeing, civic benefits
and moral uplift. Never a foul plot is
organized to injure public rights and
social wellbeing but the saloon is used
for the job"
OWEN H. WILLIAMS.