The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-01-19
WHY HEN GET DRUNK.
A Few Pertinent Points Anent
the Incorporate Use of Al
c0hOl.
Why DO MEN GET DRUNK

W0tle the l0llIAl ue6u lluo VI ILLS
article indicates an affirmative answer
to the query, "why do men get
drunk ?" the leader must not infer
BY this that the writer wishes to be
understood as having satisfactorily
solved the question of the Incorporate
use of alcoholic beverages and set at
r,st the perplexing questi n Of, "Why
do men get drunk 2"
The writer's position is speculative
and the reasons which he offers anent
this all.ab:orbing topic are based on
observation and q somewhat varied
experience.
DIR. Leslie Keely, of bi chloride Of
gold fame, makes the broad
claim that habitu,l drunkenness is q
disease, subject to treatment and per.
manent cure. Judging from his re.
ported income, he has so far succeeded
in convincing the world Of the efficacy
of his treatment that a constant
golden stream is pouring into his
Golfers.
GOD GIVEN WILL POWER
But as q limited amount of
capital is necessary to enjoy DR..
Keeley's treatment, and as the slave
to alcohol is not generally in posses
sion of modicum OF capital, the
writer ventures . few observations as
to why men get drunk. together with
q remedy for its absolute and parma
nent cure which will cost nothing be
you'd the exercise Of God given will
power.
In the first place drunkenness is a
habit. pure and simple and at no
time in the career of the unfortunate
one who has acquired the habit does
it become a disease until the victim,
through long continued dissipation
and excessive drinking. overcharges
his system with alcoholic poison to
the extent that, the system. failing to
discharge the poison, medical treat.
ment becomes necessary. When this
happens, the victim is generally
thrown into delirium tremens, or suf-
fers from nervous prostration.
HABIT AND NOT A DISEASE.
But the per cent. of habitual
who are subjected to the
torture of delirium tremens is less
than 5 per cent. True, the excessive
use of alcoholic beverages effect the
system and eventually disturb
the functions Of the digestive organs.
producing indigestion and
ailments. but the use Of the
is purely habit and not
within itself = disease.
To illustrate. The victim of AGO.
hoi, in thousands of Cases, is COM
PEELED by the sheer force of his will
power to suddenly abstain from his
lavorite beverage, and he does this,
too, with no injury to himself and is
able to oil through the nervous
stages occasioned by his enforced alb
,tinance and continue at whatever
labor his vocation calls upon him to
perform.
Now suppose the subject we're taken
with a fever or any disease requiring
metical treatment, is it reasonable
10 pr sumo that, by the
exercise of his will power
he could remain at his work. 1t is
to suppose that unless
medical treatment was given the fever
patient, death would speedily
However strong the will
power, men are not able to Danish
The microbes of disease which find
Judgment in the system or quiet the
raging of burning fever.
A PERNICIoUs CUSTOM.
As to the causes which lead up to
The requirement of the drink habit,
they are too numerous and too varied
10 admit of discussion within the nee
essary brevity Of Q newspaper article.
It is probable that the pernicious
habit Of treating which is purely an
American custom, is the channel
which so many of our young
men unconsciously float out on the
ocean of inebriacy.
DROWNED TROUBLE IN THE FLOWING
BOWL.
1t is also true, perhaps,
that some men seek to
drown their real or imaginary troubles
in the flowing bowl. 1t would be
b .ttsr to say immerse; for no matter
bow deep one get sin the liquid of alco-
boI, the trouble sought to be drowned
always hobs to the surface again. And
every time it shows itself. it is certain
to be msgni6ed. The writer once put
the question to q friend as to why he
persisted in taking on Jag" on all
and every occasion. The booza-soaked