What Alcohol Will Do

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 15.

What Alcohol Will Do

An exchange tells what alcohol will do: "It may seem strange, but is nevertheless true, that alcohol, regularly applied to a thrifty farmer's stomach, will remove the boards from the fence, let the cattle into his crops, kill his fruit-trees, mortgage his farm, and sow his fields with wild oats and thistles. It will take the paint off his buildings, break the glass out of the windows, and fill them with rags, take the gloss off his clothes and the polish from his manners, subdue his reason, arouse his passions, bring sorrow and disgrace upon his family, and topple him into a drunkard's grave. It will do this to the artisan and the capitalist, the matron and the maiden."