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That reeling drunkard is GOING HOME.
He is going home to children who are afraid of him, to a wife
whose life he has made miserable.
He is going home, taking with him the worst curse in the
world--to suffer bitter remorse himself after having inflicted
suffering on those whom he should protect.
AND AS HE GOES HOME MEN AND WOMEN, KNOWING WHAT THE HOME-COMING
MEANS, LAUGH AT HIM AND ENJOY THE SIGHT. ----
In the old days in the arena it occasionally happened that
brothers were set to fight each other. When they refused to
fight they were forced to it by red-hot irons applied to their
backs.
We have progressed beyond the moral condition of human beings
guilty of such brutality as that. But we cannot call ourselves
civilized while our imaginations and sympathies are so dull that
the reeling drunkard is thought an amusing spectacle.
LAW CANNOT STOP DRUNKENNESS-- EDUCATION CAN
Everybody knows that until recently the average statesman, the
majority of prominent men, in England, drank to excess.
Pitt was a drunkard--and Pitt was the most remarkable statesman
in England.
Fox was a drunkard.
In fact, to write a list of England's greatest men, who lived
more than a hundred years ago, would be to make a list of famous
drunkards.
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