American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . y, but not in civilized America. 14 MODERN BLACKSMITHING INTEMPERANCE NE of the chief reasons whythe blacksmith is not sosuccessful nor respectedas before is his intemper-ance. The danger for»^ the smith becoming adrunkard is greaterthan for any other me-chanic. It is often the casethat when a customer pays abill the smith is requested totreat. This is a bad habitand quite a tax on the think of it—fifteen cents a dayspent for liquor, will, in twenty-five years, amount to$9,000. Then add to this fifteen cents a day for ci
American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . y, but not in civilized America. 14 MODERN BLACKSMITHING INTEMPERANCE NE of the chief reasons whythe blacksmith is not sosuccessful nor respectedas before is his intemper-ance. The danger for»^ the smith becoming adrunkard is greaterthan for any other me-chanic. It is often the casethat when a customer pays abill the smith is requested totreat. This is a bad habitand quite a tax on the think of it—fifteen cents a dayspent for liquor, will, in twenty-five years, amount to$9,000. Then add to this fifteen cents a day for cigars,which will, in twenty-five years, amount to $9,000 atten per cent compound interest. If these two itemswould be saved, it will give a man a farm worth$18,000 in twenty-five years. How many smiths arethere who ever think of this? I would advise everyone to put aside just as much as he spends for liquorand tobacco; that is, when you buy cigars or tobaccofor twenty-five cents put aside as much. When youbuy liquor for one dollar put aside one dollar. Try. MODERN BLACKSMITHING 15 this for one year and it will stimulate to continualeffort in that direction. The best thing to do is toswear off at once, and if you must have it, take itout of business hours. Politely inform your friendsthat you must stop, or it will ruin you. If you drinkwith one you must drink with another, and the oppor-tunity comes too often. When you have finished somedifficult work you are to be treated; when you trustyou are to be treated; when you accommodate onebefore another you are to be treated; when you orderthe stock from the traveling man you are to be smiths keep a bottle in a corner to draw custom-ers by; others tap a keg of beer every Saturday for thesame purpose. No smith will ever gain anything bythis bad practice. He will only get undesirable cus-tomers, and strictly temperance people will shun himfor it. What he gains on one side he will lose onanother. Besides this he will in t
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