A Deluded and Pitiable Slave
By G. F. Rinehart
Shunned by Manufacturer, Transportation Company, Merchant, and Farmer — His Condition Cries for Relief WHO is it that always enlists in the army of down-and-outs? — The man who drinks.
Who is the last man to be employed? — The man who drinks.
Who is the first man to be laid off? — The man who drinks.
Who objects to paying ten cents for a quart of milk, but readily pays one dollar for a quart of booze? — The man who drinks.
Who is it that pays the saloon license when he can not pay his other bills? — The man who drinks.
Who believes that whisky keeps him warm in winter? — The man who drinks.
Who believes that the same whisky keeps him cool in summer? — The man who drinks.
Who always scores lowest in efficiency? — The man who drinks.
Who forgets the fine distinction between right and wrong? — The man who drinks.
Who becomes careless of his personal appearance? — The man who drinks.
Who becomes reckless in his speech and conduct? — The man who drinks.
Who pays cash to the saloon-keeper, and asks his grocer for credit? — The man who drinks.
Who fails to distinguish between his own money and that of his wife and children? — The man who drinks.
Who impoverishes his family while debauching himself? — The man who drinks.
Who "stimulates" his brain until he becomes maudlin? — The man who drinks.
Who "stimulates" his legs until they become wabbly? — The man who drinks.
Who uses up all of a fourteen-foot sidewalk when he is loaded up with "stimulant"? — The man who drinks.
Who paralyzes himself, and calls it "stimulation"? — The man who drinks.
Who poisons himself to give him "strength"? — The man who drinks.
Who advocates "personal liberty" as an excuse to trample on the rights of others? — The man who drinks.
Who claims a "personal liberty" to blow his vile breath into the faces of sober people? — The man who drinks.
Who insists upon his right to buttonhole a stranger and fill his ear with maudlin drivel? — The man who drinks.
Who insists upon his "privilege" to stagger out of a saloon and leer at passing women? — The man who drinks.
Who buys less clothing, that he may buy more booze? — The man who drinks.
Who can not buy of the merchants, because he buys of the saloon? — The man who drinks.
Who keeps legitimate business out of town in order to keep up the saloons in town? — The man who drinks.
Who makes a sober man pay more for what he buys, in order to balance the uncollectable accounts against himself? — The man who drinks.
Who is the first man to fail in health when he thinks himself the strongest? — The man who drinks.
Who can not get work on ninety per cent of the railroads? — The man who drinks.15Who can not work for eighty-eight per cent of the merchants? — The man who drinks.
Who can not secure employment from seventy-nine per cent of the manufacturers? — The man who drinks.
Who can not secure a job from seventy-two per cent of the farmers? — The man who drinks.
Who can not serve either as a soldier in the army or a jacky in the navy? — The man who drinks.
Who can not secure a job behind the same saloon counter that he has patronized from the front? — The man who drinks.
Who never lives as long as God intended him to live? — The man who drinks.
Who leaves to wife and children the memory of a misspent life? — The man who drinks.
Who will be unable to give a satisfactory account of the talents entrusted to his keeping? — The man who drinks.
Who leaves his family unprotected and needy when he has cut short his own career? — The man who drinks.