Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-21
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MIR. ANDREW ]. Bowen, who Is now
conducting q temperance campaign In
this city, takes issue with the PROPOSE
non Of a Chicago physician to cure the
taste for intoxicating drinks by the -uss
OF drug or plant Which he claims 70
have discovered. =
The account Of this disoassss spd i's
.wo,iderf,il results, IA attested ~ the
Chicago press, were noticed in the REa-
IsTyR Yesterday, ., - - a u
z W 40 not rroies y know @yshng
- about the merits Of this new remedy,
but We do know that il il has been oil
any good to any man, II is worth trying
by every other man who feels that the
sfstters OF appetite have mastered Nun
I'VE do not agree with Col. Bowen In his
assertion that such experimentsdo harm
They may not, as yet, have &C
complished much good, but in OCCASION
Al instances they have materially as
sisted the drunkard to recover lis sell
control And we sas ne feason why
there NAV not yet be found among the
thousands OF new medicinal prepare
tons that are every year springing into
use, some one. that may 50 exactly SUIT
the diseased and ferye-shattersd eo,itti-
ton of the inebriate as, together with
thenrocess ofmoral reformation, brace up
his physical prostration and make the
work of saving the drunkard compare
| tiSsh5 90 Ieasy task. yI6uIPI
Z That is simply what the new thS'overy
In question proposes to do as explained
by the Chicago physician. Audit looks
reasonable. II provides something I"
assist the system of the habtual drunk
ard 10 sustain itself IN the sbsence oil
the Intoxicating draught. II does this,
il is claimed, so completely as +" canse
no discomfort to the man who proposes
10 reform. II is at once a substitute aud
restorer.
{ ave understood Oh 8 BOWEN TO be
operating on the platform that most
temperance reiormers have adopted to
favor all means that will prove efilca'
cious in restoring the Incorporate.
Why will he not take this drug into
his temperance laboratory and test its
virtue before utterly denouncihe 10 rs a
humbug and an evil?
Ifhe will allow us 10 answer our own
ouestion. we would saw that his whole
crrer results from the false premises he
has set M for himself.
He denies that drunkenness is dis
aasa In this he differs, we think, with
The hest medical authority Of the aye
Thars are institutions established at
nnblic exnense all over the country that
aro ,be diract outprovth nj ths opposite
theory. And the results of treating
the drunkard in these asvlums for his
disnS and curi,w his .diseue. has been
the means of continuing inebriate asy-
lums at the public expense-no longer
as an experiment-bu as institutions
ouite as essential to the public good rs
,ha Insane Asvlums.
II strikes Ms AZ utterly unite nable
n assert "a Mr., Bowen does, that
because the Bible declares that no
drinkard shall inherit eternal life, that
therefore the drunkard cannot he dis
sssed "for the reason that Con would
not damn man because OF a disease"
liza wicked man voluntarily stuffs his
stomach so full of ripe peaches that he
can not gel rid of them and should be-
come diseased and die in consequence,
we do not suppose God would damn
him because he found his stomach full
Of ripe peaches, but the moral obliquity
involved in the lack OF selfrestraint or,
in other words, Il oil having created him
4 man. and he having voluntarily re-
duced himself to the level of hog
subiects him 10 the penalty of abusing
his manhood.
How much mora moral guilt il in.
vo,yad in tina act of taking sonetl,iny
INN his stomach which he know i'm al
vance will endanger, il il does not
wreck, both his moral and physical he
inep -...-aa-. .EaasisA.
Or he NAV 20 one listen further; i'll
stead NJ the slow prooess of physical
destruction which intoxicants produce,
bomav with deliberate intent swallow
a sufficient draurht of poison to des-
troy his life almost instantly-and will
Mr.. BowES claim that there are no
moral consequences involved in such
nm Act for which the suicide must
suffer- Will the man fail OF Heaven,
and II so. for what? For what else is he
reasonable, but for inducing a dissasr
that ate up his yitals? Is ne damned