| Show and so it goes with all our getting wisdom in treating the question of drink Is slow in coming we neglect the ounce of prevention but consider gravely the pound of cure we let the sapling grow crool crooked ted and then try to straighten hard bard firmly set tree we try to cure the tree by a treatment of its fruit the habitual drunkard Is worthy of our pity and concern but far better would it have been it if such a one could have been rescued before the terrible habit became fixed if the first glass could have been prevented there would babe have been no no drunkard we permit me men to establish on an our most prominent business street the most tempting in and alluring display of liquors the saloon is often the most prominent place in the town the procuring in of drink Is made as easy as possible and the trap to catch the young unwary feet is laid where most people go by these are schools for fo r the making of drunkards and these after they are made we wonder vonder how we are to reach and we plan how to best burn turn them from their evil ways but we have begun bagua too tod late the time to look after the habitual drunkards of ten twenty ye years a rs hence Is today and now |
