TEMPERATE MEN by Christian at Work

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 16.

TEMPERATE MEN.

By Christian at Work

PRESIDENT CORBIN, of the Long Island Railroad, is known the country over as a shrewd and successful business man. In matters of business he seldom makes a mistake. One of the latest evidences of his business sagacity is his action with reference to the employment of drinking men. He informs the general manager of the road that he has heard of violations of the rule as to the use of intoxicating liquors by employes while on duty, and serves notice that all heads of departments will be held strictly answerable for the enforcement of this rule. "Men who violate it," he says, "must be promptly discharged, and proof that a man goes inside a drinking place while on duty will be ample evidence to warrant his immediate dismissal. More than this, men known to drink to such excess as to frequent places while off duty will be discharged." Nor is this all.

"In the employment of new men," says Mr. Corbin, "strict inquiries shall be made as to their habits, and preference always given to those who do not use intoxicating liquors at all." Finally he announces that "heads of departments will be required to keep informed as to the habits of the men under them and make sure that they observe strictly these rules." The first effect of this order was the discharge of the engineer and conductor of a freight train for entering a saloon while on duty. Thus, slowly but surely, the business interests of the country are being arrayed against the common enemy—the liquor traffic.

—Christian at Work.