Tragedies of the Liquor Traffic Author:John Regan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the pledge. They have gone down into the gutter and lifted out the victims of this devilish system. And when they have lifted them out of the pitfall, the pitfal... more »l would be re-opened so that other men would fall therein; and temperance men have a job on hand all the time. Temperance workers have established temperance lodges. They have built Friendly inns. They have built coffee houses. They have established reading rooms, and put lecturers on the platform and paid them. They have circulated books and arguments; and farther than that, they have gone into towns and cities and organized leagues to raise the fallen. 'HE'S ALRIGHT, MOTHER."—From the Chicago Examiner. This article and illustration on preceding page, was taken from the Chicago Examiner of May 19th and the author, Mary Ellen Sigsbee has vividly portrayed, both in picture and text, the insidious influence liquor has on mankind. 'HE'S ALL RIGHT, MOTHER." This little boy's father is neither cruel nor a spendthrift when he is sober. In fact, he loves his home and children dearly and is often very wretched because of the sorrow and privation which his weakness brings upon them. He is such a good-natured, easy-going soul that others besides his little boy find him excellent company. Perhaps if it were not for this same good nature he would be better able to withstand the temptations that so continually beset him. He goes into a saloon to take "just one drink," but when he is there he finds this is impossible. He always means to brace up, however. It is because of this that mother and Johnny always go out to find him. They manage to brave his drunken wrath because they remember his sober kindness. Today we have come in time. There is always a chance—if he sees Johnny and mother before he gets the whiskey—tha...« less