It presents all of life's problems and duties in a false light.
It makes those things seem unimportant which are most important.
IT DULLS THE CONSCIENCE, WHICH ALONE CAN MAKE MEN DO THEIR DUTY
IN SPITE OF TEMPTATION, AND STRUGGLE ON TO SUCCESS IN SPITE OF
EXHAUSTION.
Keep away from this bottle, and keep away from those who praise
it. He who hands it to his fellow man is a criminal, and he
who hands it to a young man is a worse criminal and a villain.
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It is a well-established fact that in the usual order of events
drunkenness would be handed down from father to son, and hundreds
of thousands of families would be ultimately wiped out by
whiskey.
It is not true, fortunately, that the son of a drunkard actually
inherits drunkenness fully developed. But a drunkard gives to
his son weakened nerves and a diminished will power, which tend
to make him a drunkard more easily than his father was made a
drunkard before him.
The great safeguard of a drunkard's children undoubtedly lies in
the warning which they see every day in their home and in the
earnest advice which the man who drinks will give to all young
people if he have any conscience left.
If the man who drinks would save his own children from the same
danger, he can do so better than any other.
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