Alcohol and Workplace Reliability
perverted. His moral perceptions are blunted. Business is finding it out. It wants reliable men—men on the job when it is time to begin work, men who will speak the truth, men who are sober and right-minded, reliable men. Safety in factories, with great and powerful machinery, on railways, and elsewhere, demands cool-headed, wise-acting men, whose brains are not muddled with alcohol, whose keen observation and moral perceptions are not under the inhibitions of the toxic poisons of whisky or beer or wine. Hence over thirty railways in the United States consider liquor drinking sufficient cause for dismissal. Companies like the Standard Oil and its distributing firms, and many, many others, are examples of this. Japan, Russia, the United States, demand that their navies shall be free from it. Military men the world over are working to the same end. Even many saloon-keepers demand totally abstinent bartenders. It is condemned almost everywhere. It is time for the traffic to go. Help it along into oblivion.