Jack Watson War
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512 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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First, by getting our children right on this subject, let them grow up with an utter aversion to strong drinks.
Take care how you administer it even as medicine.
If you find that they have a natural love for it, as some have, put in a glass of it some horrid stuff and make it utterly nauseous.
Teach them as faithfully as you do the catechism that Rum is a fiend.
Take them to the arms house and show them the wreck and ruin it works.
Walk with them into the homes that have been scourged by it.
If a drunkard hath fallen into a ditch, take them right up where they can see his face, bruised, savage and swollen, and say Look, my son, Ron did that.
Looking out of your window at someone who, intoxicated to madness, goes through the street, brandishing his fist, blaspheming God, a howling, defying, shouting, reeling, raving, and foaming maniac, say to your son, look.
That man was once a child like you.
As you go by the grog shop, let your boy know that this is the place where men are slain, and their wives made paupers, and their children slaves.
Hold out to your children all warnings, all rewards, all counsels, lest in after days they break your heart, and curse your grey hairs.
The man laughed at my father for his scrupulous temperance principles, and said, I am more liberal than you.
I always give my children the sugar in the glass after we have been taking a drink.
Three of his sons have died drunkards, and the fourth is imbecile through intemperate habits.
Again, we'll battle this evil at the ballot box.
How many men are there who can rise above the feelings of partisanship and demand that our officials shall be sober men?
I maintain that the question of sobriety is higher than the question of availability, and that however eminent a man's services may be, if he have habits of intoxication, he is unfit for any office in the gift of a Christian people.
Our laws will be no better than the men who make them.
Spend a few days at Harrisburg, or Albany, or Washington, and you will find out why, upon these subjects, it is impossible to get righteous enactments.
Again, we will war upon this evil by organized societies.
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