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Show THE DRINK CUA5C II llaji m lrl In All Ilia MwrU'Crt lUalr. It I a notablonnd klgnincnct factthat the drink curw haa Iwtn otknonlvdited aa one of tho ch.tf factors lu two (treat evil which now oersiialow tho rM llxcil world, and that & ulso one of tho moving cauioa in a rvctnt event which threat ned at one time to plunjro two ChrUtiau natious iutothe liorroraof war. Wo refer to the vuluu In Kuiia, tho ruin and degradation of the rwtiu1 of Africa, and tho ipiarrtl Willi Chill. In a recent interview with Count ToLttol I ublihel In 1 ho World cf thU city, the KtiMlnn ihlhtuthroiiit dUtinttly uun-tlou uun-tlou drunkennei a one of threi tluru; which hio led to the reM.nt dUtro, Tlio other two thing aro iiuirovtdcnc4 and douilr, Tho Kuudnn corn. -pon lint of tho Nw York Tina and others ho bae lurrtltftted the famine district bear tefttimotiy to the ftuinu fact. The terrible ter-rible vodk t, tho Kuwian drink, li at the txittomofn luryo jmrt of tho inhry Ai for m hut rum i doing for thenatUe of Africa, nil tho vorll knowi tho luinful story We nro ihtfully lu dlffimnt ut tho hIdtou cruelties practiced prac-ticed by tho Ambalavo dealt rs In tnrrj-In tnrrj-In on their t radio among tho poor iuktoci of tho Dark Continent, but it may bo doubted whither tho rum lui lorbl from ClirUtlun nations, and laruuly from our own country, hi nut Wcii,lnrectiit)ear, at Iumi) a cune utou thtwo heathen iuoilo at tho Arab klinu trade. Navery may luvo nllectol a much larRcr numb r of oople, but It li not un evil that takm hul I of the bloxl. Hum not only turM-stUotw who drink today, but It nache out with deadly and paralyzing par-alyzing Kriibp upon futuio generations. W 0 may put nn ud to la er by force, butba)oii.taiidcuinon will not ellmt nate tho mm oton which wo h io put Into tli etiiof thoAfrican negro. And then a to the Chilian (piumd, it biagen t rally ctncehxl fact that the riot In Val pnmUo, which Martol all thutroullo, hal it tcca.louirtl) if not thleil) iu tho drunken antics of aomo American sailors. And so H I all around. Whichever wnj w 0 turn lu our vfTurt to omelloruto tho oonditlon of mankind, wluttber it bo tu Us sot lal, io!ltic.tl or industrial smtus, vi- find tin drink curio in tho wa). Christian ut Work. |
