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July 04, 1908
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6
THE NATURAL DRINK.
Water is the natural drink for man if man had
continued to live in a natural state, and only those
that 'nave made it a study know what a man in a
natural state is. Many hooks have been written on
this subject. When, man emerged from his natural
state he approached what we ('all civilization. We
;ind that In* labored with sweat on his brow; we find
that in connection with farming he raised more
grapes than could be consumed. When he tried to
preserve them for future use he found that the sub
stance had turned sour and had an astringent taste.
This astringent flavor we rail alcohol to-day; this
grape juice with the astringent flavor is called wine
in the Holy Writ. This wine was turned into strong
drink by adding grain of the tield.
Wine and strong drink were used in verv early
times almost immediately after man emerged from a
nomadir or shepherd life and stepped into the life
of a husbandman or farmer. By experience* it was
found that tin* abusive ust* of wine will bring on a
state of intoxication. In those days tin* record shows
that on different occasions some men imbibed too
freely. The Holy Writ gives us the history of the
Israelites: by coming in contact with the descendants
of this ancient people you will find to-day that these
have not fallen and become victims of King Alcohol.
The descendants of Israelites called Jews to-day
art* the most temperate people in all things; most all
of them use intoxicating alcoholic liquors to-day,
hut they do not abuse it, and hence they are a mon
ument to the balance of mankind.
Man in his natural state drinks water, but when
man has to "work in order to make a living and fill
all kinds of hazardous occupations, such as mining,
mill work. farm work, turpentining in tin*
open woods, digging phosphate*, all kinds of labor-
Some Causes for Discontent in Georgia.
While the teachers of Georgia and their wives
and children cry in vain for a little more bread and
tin* just appeals of the old soldiers and their wounds
go unheard, the solons of the State and all high-born
Georgia ring with noise of great feasting.
A trip by the solons to Chattanooga at an expense
of over $2,000 to the tax-payers is in planning, and
a hill has been introduced to raise the salaries of
members of the Assembly from $l6O to $250; those
of the Speaker of the House and President of the
Senate from $l6O to $450.
At the same time large numbers of “pap-suck
ers." whose onlv service to anvone in the State is the
political influence they exert every two years for
their benefactors must continue to be provided for.
THE REASON
ions work under the parching rays of the hot
sun that is the time In* drinks too much water,
that is the time he gets much sicker from
the abuse of water than a few soothing drops
of alcoholics for stimulating purposes. The use
of alcoholics in moderate quantities for hard
working men is a God-sent stimulant. If alcoholics
prescribed by the best educated class, the doctors,
is good stimulant for convalescent and sickly people,
whv is it not good for hard-working men that have
a sound mind, that know how to use it and when to
use it .’
There are a few leaders with a very few sincere
followers that should style themselves anti-alcohol
ists. They pretend to be Christians, followers of
Christ Jesus: they try to disfranchise the great bulk
of people from the use of alcohlics; they try to pro
hibit the salt* ami use for consumption of same. If
they are Christians they have no more right than
Jesus had. and there is no passage on record in the
Holy Writ that prohibits the use of wine on any
occasion. How much Christian sympathy do these
kid-gloved leaders display for their fellow man by
d isfranchising him from a comfort and necessity.’
This kid-gloved variety of mankind does not seem
to come in contact with the horny-handed sons of
toil: thev onlv measure evervone bv their own kid
gloved variety. They do not seem to know tin* hard
ships a man endures making his daily bread; they
do not seem to know that man needs wine as well
as bread. Tin* anti-alcoholists seem to be in cahoot
with the devil. Tin* outcome will be that they will
have many men put in jail, or rather turpentining,
for endeavoring to get their supply of alcoholics:
they ought to know beforehand that their success
will be a great sin on them and their generation.
In these hard times, too. when we haven't money to
feed and nurse our old soldiers who staked their lives
to defend our homes, nor the inonev with which to
pay our teachers the bare pittance of S3O per month
for services in the schools.
The dignified names given to two offices created
in 1902 for the sole benefit of the “pap-suckers'’ are
“General Oil Inspector" and “Compiler of Colonial
and Confederate Records." The latter is filled by a
man or fellow who is sometimes referred to as the
“one-eyed boy of Pigeon Roost;" the other by a
physician who operates a sanitarium in the moun
tains for consumptives and inebriates.
The physician makes a draft for SIOO on (Ca
lonne) Park. State Treasurer, every month and gets
