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Hm) York 14909 USA (719) 4«2 - OaOO - PtMM ^^ Cri9)iii-9999-rai BTTOWK mVISiaN, S. OF T., SERIES OF TRACTS. ■.If©. !.■■■ % MAY I DRINK MODERATELY ? — - - ^■» ■ — . — IT IS "A GREAT SIN TO BRINK MODBRATBLY » BBVBRAQB8. OF ALOOHOLIC READ and be convirjced. Do you doubt, and ask Why ? That is a fair question, Every person who states a proposition should have good reasons why. By thei|f:fruits ye shall know them, is a sound ph^osophical maxim, like all other maxims of Holy Wfit. The respectable mpderate-drinking reader, t«> whom this tract is addr^sst^d, has no need to be told that drunkenness is a great diminisher of human happiness. All the histories of the past and the incidents of the present time thrbtig abundantly to this sad conclusion. But it may not be so apparent that drunk- enness is the inevitable product of moderate drinking. And yet, though this plain truth may remain nnrecognized by multitudes of wise and good men and women, it is just as mt^ch a truth as any other true/thing. If drunkenneeusi does not come from mode- rate drinking, /whence (foct it come ? ^o one dare say that it can be produced oy any other process than beginning and continuing the practice of drinking. , Of the number who begin and continue that practice, la numbOT— greater or smaller according fto circum- stances— will I become drunkards ;. and with their arunkenness will come the Ivarious and extensive forms of inconvenience, misery and cjdme, always attendant upon that unhappy condition. If many persons of great religi^^s, political, financial and social influence, now practice the vice of moderate drinking, a. future day will inevitably have a large number of drunkards; and, ^ the other hand, if but few persons drink but few will be drunkards; T^at is trUA of an individual is true of a community. As a man soweth 80 shaill he reap. The number of those who die from drnnkenhess is nil known exactly, but is generally underrated VI- \ 'Sran^^y^^S 3A*1- ./-.-A-a^i ■^.- 2 MAt I DilNK MODlRATStt? rtthei? than overrated, and is not far from 100,000 in OanacTa and the United States each year; and when we wy these ooontrilf contain half a million of drunken men and women, we are prob- ably rather nnd. r than over the mark. A full half million pass to the drunkard's grave in five years, at the rate of a hundred thousand a yesr ; and thus, bv simple arithmetic, the class called drunkards would in that time be extinguished if not supplied from tome source. The class is not extinguished, notwithstanding so many die ; hence, from 9ome source, tie stock is kept up. What 18 that source ? Who fttrnish tne cause of this unhappy effect? Unouestionably those who begin and continue' the practice of drij^kinff alcoholic beverages in any of the forms and names by which they are known, from the mildest fermedtation to the mos^ concentrated distillation. Every one who drinks them at all, un- less fo^^irgent medical reasons, is a member of the great lilcoholio party, through whose aggregate agency ihis great iniquity is con- tinued. Men and womefa strive to faoric«te a fig-leaf refuge to shrink behind when this subject is considered. Many who drink are loud in their condemnation of drunkenness, earnest in their desires and effo'rts to procure by law a relief from the miseries of drunkenness, and even willing to have a stern and stomly-en«orced prohibitory law against the «e/2% of these beverages of death. In all this they are ri^ht ; but the evil can never be cured until the duty of total abstinence is practically carried oat by indivi- duals who drink moderately. DRuiiKKNNEsa cannot bb raq- DUCBP WITHOUT MOOBRATB DBINKINO, AND DBUNKBNNB88 CAX NBVBB BB BTOPPBD WHILB MODBRATB DBINKINO GONTINUBS. The v«oder of these beverages may be-^nd oftentimes no doubt is— a highly sinful and eminently mischievous person, because his traffic leads to drinking. He is the indirtcf producer of vast mischief, Mid, as such,i8 to be rebuked and hindered in his traffic. The drinker is the direct producer of the mischief. The vender eoiWM the sin, the drinker oomnati the sin, and both are sinners. The Tender has this palliation (if crime admits of palliation^— thatjie sometimes gains a pecuniary pro^t by the traffic. The drinker is not only the direct sinner, but pays his money for the wivUege of sinning ; and, if there be any degrees in this guilt, the dnnker is the worse of the two. And if there be any diffeience in the degrees of guilt between moderate drinkers and drunkards. >< ^*%'i. MAY t DRINK MODIRATBLT ? 8 ada aWd' onntrMM e prob- ion pM8 inndred • called ed from idins so What effect ? 3tioe of mes by „ be moB| all. un- looholib ia con* fipiffe to > drink ri their )rie8 of i*orcedl " death* d until indiyi-j 38 CAN . The S)t is-^ 186 his f vast traffic, render nners. on),— The Dr the It, the nee in karda. -A the moderate drinker is worse than the drunkard, because he sins without inducement. In estimating the moral turpitude of an evil deed it is neoes«arir to consider the situation and circum- stances of the evil-doer. How stands the case between the respect- able and (so-called) sober drinker and the drunkard ? The first has, as yet, a brain unclouded By alcohol. His capacity to esti- mate the relations between cause and effect is undiminished. His appetite does not urge him to drink. He feels none of that craving for stimuli which perpetually presses upon the drunkard. He is in good repute among his respectable neighbors and friends, and 18 so situated as to be able duly to appreciate the value of a good reputation. And yet, with all these potent dissuasives to hold him back, and no appetite to urge him on, be drinks, although he well knows— or ought to know— that his example is fraught with imschief to all who follow it; and he also knows— or has good chance to know— that, if he occupy a high position, his example will befolLwed. The drunkard, standing exactly in a reverse position, is, comparatively, undeserviii| of censure, and infinitely less mischievous— so far as the effeotflpis example is concernei Upon these data, and others like themfijot hero referred to, we ' . .\ .■.■P: 'ij ■.A, •■•>: ■ • i?ff /• . si¥LV, .4S5?ri :&«■ •V ■\ \ ' ^ ' '' *t,. ■Tiv- ■^ ^ ^;