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Show o HE IS NOT WANTED. Most people are intelligent enough to know their own interest. And it does not take much hard thinking to convince an honest minded and intelligent in-telligent man that drunkenness is a curse, and that moderate drinking often leads to it Drunkenness does not make a man respectable today. It does not recommend him for a respon. sible position. It does not entitle him to the confidence of his friends. The railroad company does not want a drunkard . in the signal house or on the locomotive. The steamship company com-pany does not want him on the bridge. The commercial house or banking institution in-stitution does not want him handling its funds. The merchant does not want him behind the counter. The manufacturer does not wrant him beside be-side the machine. .We do not call in a drunken physician if we care much for the patient We do not expect a drunken lawyer to win a suit We do not want drunken clerks in our stores. We do not want' drunken judges on I the bench. There is the strongest argument ar-gument with most people in favor of temperance, and even in favor of total abstinence. |