Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-16
1HE:, TAKE A DRINK. !"
|. M of Treating and What
:, Anost Invariably.
Leads To.
,.,,sr Proportion of Those Who
;, :, Public DO So Because
Invited.
.,,a Voice. New York.

,ot,,,o" habit are furnished by
ea mn newspaper man of Brooklyn,
, o"H and social relations have
~ a clear insight into the relations
~ nmic;ous social custom to the wide
nee of inebriety:
n INST know the facts about the
- :. habit in order to know what an
:. clement it is in the matter of
~ ln' arinking. Let us go to the FAM
W. House bar. We will sit ut
i, u n. rink bottle of lemon soda as
nsa for being there. In one hour We
lse frrv men drink at the bar; four
seL drank alone. Thirty we're accom-
n hn from one to three friends. Each
. " Sixteen came in parties of
e, th1ee. and each member of the
treated Down town, at Nash 4
& We see few men come in singly.
T an hour, while sitting at the lunch
/, we have seen fifteen parties, rang
nm two TO five persons each, stand up
hor In most cases each man has
,' and in nine cases out of ten these
have been Joined by other men,
one of whom has been acquainted
ome one in the party, and introduce
and reciprocal drinks have. taken
all round.
may saw this doesn't prove much,
bot i only happened so. But claim
h. treating" habit is responsible for
Of ,le excessive drinking. This is
pst theory, butts based on personal &C.
tanceship with large number of men
have suaared from the drinking habit
whom I have met while holding
ii posiiion in both State and National
mment, and in wide acquaintance
men generally, from a very early age.
, rs take a report Of 600 cases Of in
~ in the Kings County IN. y In
f. Asylum. Of these 800 cases, 458
me inebriates from association, i. e.,
going with drinking men and indulg-
II the habit Of treating. Among other
es given are melancholia, injury, bust
disease. trouble, being in the army
ming, probably, the fatigues and ex-
re Of military life-and heredity. AS
redity. the specialist in dipsomania
not believe that because a mans faith
grandfather was drunkard he must
ecessity be one. What he says is that
IN so situated as to relationship will
a standing tendency toward the ex-
i've use of liquor, and that he should
use it at all. The specialist says that
are very few men who really like the
of alcoholic drink, but there are
Nv men, IN our present state of civiliza-
the condition of whose nervous sys-
is such that they cannot escape be-
ling inebriates if they drink at all.
Iany an inebriate, morally speaking,
Id like to stop the habit, but he drinks
what he believes to be physical me-
kitv. Hence it is that q man who has
e been committed to the inebriate asy-
can never drink with safety on his re-
be.
distinguished artist was lately found
d in a liquor saloon. Three years ago
tod me Of the great excuses in which he
indulgins, and asked me how he could
told him the first thing to be done
rs Falstatf says, forswear "villainous
Accompany. No man could ever break
habit as long as his companions, during
ial hours. were men as badly off as him
I. \ year ago two of his quondam COM
bons died from excessive drinking.
on after this the artist voluntarily went
ian Mebriate asylum, was cured, and for
lime did we'll. The doctor of the institu-
IN met him, and his former patient said
drank nothing but beer at his dinner.
ou must stop that, said the physician,
cu can drink absolutely nothing intoxi-
llng." The artist failed to heed the
der; sure enough, he relapsed into his
habits and died.
The methods Of carrying on business re-
rted to by some firms in the mercantile
prld lead many men to become excessive
hnkers. More than one-half of the
RUNNERS, or commercial travellers, in
Inited States make it matter of bust
ss to treat their customers to liquor and
CARS. II is not absolutely necessary to
Prsue this custom in order to get trade,
d men who are thoroughly buslnesslike
fuse TO use any outside inducement.
lit the more ordinary class of "drummers u
a large amount of treating" as they
Fl'sve ii helps along trade.
The expense of creating" goes on their
pense account and is rarely questioned.
pine travellers make q gross charge for
ely expenses; others. in the smaller
enses, have an itemized expense book,
P'h the various items of expense printed,
fd blank space to put in the amount.
hen they treat" the expense is put down
that account.
At certain times of the year the country
|eftAant comes to New York to make pur-
passes and see the styles. The drummer
Pet, him at the store and treats him while
1 Is IL the city to dinners and plenty OF
Foid Fetreshment. In former times some
PiSes We.e i'll the habit of employing a
EFci'Il man, whose duty it was to meet the
(efcAants 10 take them out and show them
be city.
| SEINE Years ago there was country ped
peE who, i'll his travels; had made the &C
''&1ntance of large number of business
zen, zen, he came to New York and was en-
loSed by u big mercantile house, though
Hne" nothing about the business car
Gu or III the establishment. His duty
as TO induce his friends to patronize
.e :, establishment, Whenever they came
: '! 4. city lie would meet them and center
ai them royalty at the expense of his
nployers.
with such methods prevailing in certain
ol'IohS OF the mercantile world it is not
ltNflslnS that many business men con-
"l The drinking habit and, sooner or
"ef' become excessive drinkers. OF the
"a hundred inebriates in the Kings County
sNiain above spoken about, nearly two
INJURED We're merchants, clerks and sales
NEBRASKA PROHIBS.
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