Jack Watson War
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512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Jack Watson War’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One hundred millions are the victims of the betel nut, which has specially accursed the East Indies, three hundred millions chew Hashish, and Persia, Brazil, and Africa suffer the delirium.
The Tartars employ Moroba.
The Mexicans the Agave, the people of Guarapu an intoxicating quality taken from sugarcane, while a great multitude that no man can number, are the disciples of alcohol.
To it they bow, in its trenches they fall.
In its awful prison they are incarcerated, on its ghastly holocaust they burn.
Could the musterole of this great army be called, and they could come up from the dead?
What eye could endure the reeking, festering putrefaction and beastliness?
What heart could endure the groans of agony?
Drunkenness.
Does it not jingle the burglar's key?
Does it not wet the assassin's knife?
Does it not cock the highwayman's pistol?
Does it not wave the incendiary's torch?
Has it not sent the physician reeling into the sick room, and the minister, with his tongue thick, into the pulpit?
Did not an exquisite poet, from the very height of reputation, fall, a gibbering sot, into the gutter, on his way to be married to one of the fairest daughters of New England, and at the very hour when the bride was decking herself for the altar.
And did he not die of delirium tremens, almost unattended, in a New York hotel?
Tamilane asked for one hundred and sixty thousand skulls, with which to build a pyramid to his own honour.
He got the skulls and built the pyramid.
But if the bones of all those who have fallen as a frayed dissipation could be piled up, it would make a monster pyramid.
Talk not of Waterloo and Austerlitz, for they were not fields of blood compared with this great Golgotha.
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