The desire for intoxicating liquors a disease : its causes, its effects, and its cure, with the danger of a relapse : together with illustrative sketches, the good salesman, the would-be politician, &c. / by George Moore.

  • Moore, George, of Baltimore.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The desire for intoxicating liquors a disease : its causes, its effects, and its cure, with the danger of a relapse : together with illustrative sketches, the good salesman, the would-be politician, &c. / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perate, lias been converted into a coward, and so far from being of service on the field, he has damaged the cause he should have sustained, and rendered himself an object of reproach among his comrades, and a burden to himself. Young soldier, answer the inquiry for yourself, and to yourself: Will you be will- ing to waste your money for the liquor that can do you no service, and may rob your country of your services by enfeebling and destroying you ? This result is inevitable, if you persist in the use of your cups until the control is complete over you, then you will assuredly be undone. Reason with yourself but a single moment. Ask your- self what benefit all the liquor you have drank has done you ? Ascertain whether you have been rendered better or worse by your habit. If you have been worsted in the trial, the caution has been administered through your experience, and if you heed it not, and pass on and are punished, the blame that you can cast upon none but yourself, will surely fall most heavily upon you. Your place is in the ranks of the