It's a parasite, forger, thief, pander, liar, brutalizer, murderer! "Those are the plain facts.

There isn't, and there never has been, one word to say for it or any excuse, except morbid predisposition or self-inculcated inclination, to offer for swallowing it.

Now go to your brewers, your wine merchants, your champagne touts, your fool undergraduates, your clubmen, your guzzling viveurs--and they'll all tell you the contrary.

So will some physicians.

And you can take your choice.