A New Way of Looking at the Drink Question.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 21, 2 August 1884, Page 3

A New Way of Looking at the Drink Question.

(advertiseme XT . ) (Continued ) Where I to advice }'ou from a thoroughly selfish wor illy point of view, mv advice would be t<> pnrsu.-ide everybody you can to drink, but don't taste a drop yourselves If you want to rise on the ruin of your friends ; J if you wish to undermine a rival in I business, and step irro his position ; { i f " you want the situation of some j friend you envy ; if y<>" want to I deprive a fellow-workman of his ! employment, that you may get it yourself, just get a bottle and ply him with its contents out of the sinoerest friendship and purest motives, of course, and you will soon be in a position to gravity your desires. If, on the other hand, you are sick of wealth or tired of respectability; if you are even annoyed rt having plenty to eat ; if you hate to see your wife happy, and think your children would b a . better of a few years of begging or starvation ; if you wish to enjoy the supreme pleasure of seeing everyone dependent on you wretched and miserable, then my friend get a bottle and go into it like a man, and you will so >n have all 3'our wishes gratified to the utmost. Addressing the teetotallers, the Doctor said : Let me say to you there is no ne<'d for me to expatiate to you on the evils of alcoholic drinks in order to convince V«>u that you are better to avoid them. You are on tho right road, and stick to it." Dr Trotter is a courageous man. Many may think as he doee, but precious lew would be bold enough to own it-..