THIS IS DRINK.
Dunk nevei builds .1 cottage. It ivvei stuffed a hungiy little stomach. It never inspired a kiss of puiity. It never planted a garden 01 sent a happy little girl to swing upon the gate in anticipation of father’s return. It never made a contented hearthstone*, or bred a yeomanry to inspire the ir country with sturdy pride. It deals in mortgages anil e*vi< tments.
It wrenches bread from the* lingers of c hildren. It triumphs in !>li»\\s and hate, in suspicion and f<*ar, in lust and disease. It tramples upon the* flowers, strike's the hinge’s front the* gate, and sends the little* one* Hying from the* fathers approach. Selfishness, hopelessness, decay, smite* the* land in which it rule’s. —Clarence True Wilson, in “The Optimist. ’’
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 8
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128THIS IS DRINK. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 8
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