. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . uor. He is in the business for the money hecan get out of it, not caring how much poverty and penury others a low idea of his duty toward his fellow-beings, he argues thatas long as men and boys will drink the deadly stuff which he sells, heas well as anyone else, has a right to profit by their weakness anddegradation. Oh, says Shakespeare, that men should put an enemy in theirmouths to steal away their brains! Whenever we hear of a state of lawlessness and anarchy in a cityor a nat
. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . uor. He is in the business for the money hecan get out of it, not caring how much poverty and penury others a low idea of his duty toward his fellow-beings, he argues thatas long as men and boys will drink the deadly stuff which he sells, heas well as anyone else, has a right to profit by their weakness anddegradation. Oh, says Shakespeare, that men should put an enemy in theirmouths to steal away their brains! Whenever we hear of a state of lawlessness and anarchy in a cityor a nation, we can rightly conclude that the government of that cityor that nation has lost control of its people. When a man becomes adrunkard and does things which he never thought of doing before, wecan rightly conclude that his brain has failed to govern him and that 31 1 1 1 I 1 ! 1 ! i 1i i i 1 ! 1 T i 1 i 11 I i 1 ! 1 1 -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i1 ill! ■^nza^^^K \ \ 111 ! 1 M 1 1. • III ■ill ! i ! i III! 1 M i 11 1 1 V • - 1 1 f j ! 1 i ! j ! ! . 1 .L 1 i !.,....! !.._.! I 1 II . 1 1 •. 82 it has been deposed by the forces of base appetite. He has lost con-trol of himself. That is why a drinking man cannot in these dayssecure a good position with the large corporations, railroads, manu-factories and the immense commercial institutions. The great em-ployers of men have learned that they cannot trust men who, asShakespeare says, have put an enemy into their mouths to steal awaytheir brains. Brains are in demand everywhere—brains and steadynerves. So, wherever we look, we see young men learning that the wayof the saloon is the way of failure. If they can only be halted in theirway and be made to look for a moment upon another symbol—a symbolof purity and true service—they might be saved from the bitter pathinto which they are stepping. [Revise drawing by adding the bailand the lettering, completing Fig. 16. If time will allow of the sing-ing of a verse of The Ol
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