Show THE DRINK CURSE it ny ll 11 biart in an all the world great or it is a notable and significant fact that the drink curse haa has been acknowledged as one of the chief factors in two great evils which now overshadow the civilized world and that it was also one of the moving causes in a recent event which threatened at one time to plunge two christian nations into the horrors of war we refer to the famine in russia the ruin and degradation of the natives of africa and the quarrel with chill in a recent interview with count tolstoi published in the world of this city the russian philanthropist distinctly mentions drunkenness as one of three things which have led to the present distress the other two things are improvidence and despair the russian correspondent of the new york times and others who have investigated the famine districts bear testimony to the same facts the terrible vodka the russian drink is at the bottom of a large part of the misery As for what rum is doing for the natives of africa all the world knows the shameful story weare we are rightfully indignant at the hideous cruelties cruel ties practiced ciceu by dy the arab slave dealers in carrying on their traffic among the poor negroes of the dark continent but it may way be doubted whether the rum ram imported from christian nations and largely from our own country has not been in recent years as heavy a curse upon these heathen people as the arab sa s1 slave 0 t trade rde r de la slavery may have affected a much larger number of people but it is not an evil that takes bold hold of the blood rum not only curses those who drink today but it reaches out with deadly and paralyzing grasp upon future generations we ay 0 may put an end to slavery by force but bayonets and cannon will vill not eliminate the mm mm poison which we have put intosh into the veins veins of the them african negro and then as to the chilian lit is a generally conceded fact that the fript in valparaiso which started all the trouble bad had its occasion partly it if not chiefly in in the drunken antics of some american sailors and so it is all around whichever way we ITO turn in our efforts to ameliorate the condition of mankind whether it be in its social political or industrial actus aptus status we find this drink cai ctr se int howay htay christian at work |