Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-19

school-men like DR.. Beard and the ep:-
grammatic, if not deep, Dr.. Spi,zka.
Now, as to the cure of alcoholism.
Horace Greeley, good authority on COM
mon sense subjects, said the way to re-
sumo was to. resume. The way to stop
drinking is to stop. Whether it te q
disease or a habit any cure which con
tains the smallest percentage Of alcohol is
an intentional patent-mediciEe cheat to
enable rum drinkers to fool their friends
or a snare to the drinker. Mr.. Crosby
Noyes asked in last Mondays Star: ''Does
Jamaica ginger intoxicate % Yes. Mr..
NOyes, it does, and don't you fool with it.
l have seen it tried with eminent success.
The young man to whom this question
applied told Judge Snell that since he
joined temperance society he had drank
Jamaica ginger and it had the effect of
getting him completely off his head. The
judg ruled sensibly and justly that this
dodge was too old to be used to
advantage iu these modern times and
gave the "dodger" ninety days, whereas
he might have got off with thirty if he
hadn't lied, as we'll as got drunk, and
honestly said, s'Drunk as billed owl, your
honor" HOstetter's bitters is known
among drinking men who are occasionally
under the restraint of hospitals As a ''daisy
delus;OD." That is because their friends
thinking they must have some sort of
medicine allow bottle or SO now and then.
1t is really only light gin cocktail. Any
one, except perhaps retired army officer
or Texas member of Congress, can get
drunk enough On 4 bottle of Hostetter' s
to ignore the weather and forget his debts.
TO abstain from whisky simply because
you can't get it is no cure. Whether a
man stays at St. Elizabeth's two months
Or two years, tho results, learn, have
been about the same. Going cut is
looked upon as sort Of picnic, to be
marked in red letter like Christmas, or
the wild wassail held on the cheerful day
we now devote to decorating the graves OF
our dead heroes. 1t is the same with any
other form of restraint. The crew of the
ship in which sailed around the Cape of
Good Hope, ninety six days out of sight of
land, from New York to Sydney Austria
liza, were drunk in body the first night,
leaving the skipper, myself, a Chinaman
(cook) and yellow cat to watch three
hundred thousand. dollar cargo in the con-
vict city. The New York papers tell US
that Mr.. Joe Coburn, the prize fighter,
arrived from Sing Sing lately, where he
had served a term Of seven years, and
signalized his freedom by an al-night
carouse with a few friends. Occupation
is reformation. or the surest thing to ac-
complish it. l believe that is all need
to say about the cup which cheers and
inebriates.
No one but drinking man can under
stand drinking men. There is more
maudlin nonsense talked about drinking
by bloodless, picayune-souled people who
couldn't define generous impulse, far
less feel one, aud by people who make a
living talking about it because of the
vastness of the evil, for King Alcohol re-
cruits his army from all alike, gentleman
and tramp, millionaire and pauper, than
there has been about the Star Route trial
and Mrs. Langtry in the same length of
time. As matter of fact, a man has a
right to get drunk if he wants to and
doesn't disturb anybody. With communi
ties it should be a matter Of local option.