John Barleycorn by Jack London (golden son ebook .txt) 📕

easier tolearn to smoke than to learn to drink. They learned becausealcohol was so accessible. The women know the game. They pay forit--the wives and sisters and mothers. And when they come tovote, they will vote for prohibition. And the best of it is thatthere will be no hardship worked on the coming generation. Nothaving access to alcohol, not being predisposed toward alcohol, itwill never miss alcohol. It will mean life more abundant for themanhood of the young boys born and growing up--ay, and life moreabundant for the young girls born and growing up to share thelives of the young men."

"Why not write all this up for the sake of the men and womencoming?" Charmian asked. "Why not write it so as to help thewives and sisters and mothers to the way they should vote?"

"The 'Memoirs of an Alcoholic,'" I sneered--or, rather, JohnBarleycorn sneered; for he sat with me there at table in mypleasant, philanthropic jingle, and it is a trick of JohnBarleycorn to turn the smile to a sneer w