The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-10
RETURN TO SOCIETY.
Effect of Hagey Treatment Upon
Many Subjects.

Many SUOJeSIS.
MR. EDITOR:-There are many who
have the impression that those who
fall by the wayside are only to be pit
led. To a certain extent, this is true.
But there are many who only need
the requisite duration TO once more
become upright members in their fami-
lies and society in general From this
has been proved many times in the
Hagey cure l believe it can be said
that some of those who have passed
through the course have not answered
as fully to expectations as was antici
pated.
Be this as it may, no doubt many
reasons can be urged; such as not
truthfully fulfilling the requirements
called for by the medical director, and
so on, 1 would simply say as an on
locker, that the Hagey course has more
than fulfilled its friends and its enc
mics expectations. 1 personally can
not, as you know, Mr.. Editor, be said
to be unacquainted with the evil of sa-
looms and their contents. Yet, l will
say that having regard to the results
of the Hagey cure, it can be said that
those who have undertaken it with a
view to really carrying out its rules,
have made themselves sober and re-
spectacle members of society.
No doubt. it will be said by those
who have an interest in doing so that
some have fallen away. This is true,
and |. as a drinking man, am sorry to
say that it has so happened, but yet for
the major part, / am proud to assert
that the greater part of the men IN
the cure have had the honorableness
to stick to their professions and have
rejected all temptations towards drag
ging them back to their former habits.
Whether it should be said that the
cure is to be counted as an effort OF
the will or a purely medicinal arrange
ment to curb the tendencies recog-
nized to exist. I do not say. But 1
believe that those who take the treat
ment find that while temporarily pre-
venting their tastes, it ultimately, by
the opportunities it offers, affords the
patients the chance of rejecting by their
own wills the liquor or the drug, which
under other circumstances they would
feel constrained to partake of.
Now this seems to me step in adj
vance. Whether a man Cor boy) has
the cocaine, morphine, alcohol or other
habit. it must be an advantage to him
TO have an opportunity to get rid of it.
And many, 7 am sorry to say, of our
Honolulu folks have become acquaint-
ed with the use of various kinds or
drugs. such as those above mentioned,
in addition to the use of liquor.
At the Hagey Institute these can be
got rid of privately, as well as openly
Inv the regular course of treatment.
The young man can have the chance 10
leave all association behind him, and
trv once more to behave as free man.
To this end the social club has been
organized. and it has fulfilled the ex-
nectations which accompanied its or
ganizatiOn.
Therefore. Mr.. Editor, I would ask
that YOU use all the influence in your
nossession in laying before the pubic
that men need not fear breaking up
their habits. but may know that they
can become straight and upright mem
hers of society by taking that portion
of the Hagey cure which pertains to
their peculiar weakness.
IT NAV be looked on, Mr.. Editor, that
this is an advertisement to train peo-
ME into the cure. You, MI. Edltor,
have full liberty to use my name 10
show those who so think that II Is not.
In other words, it is simply my luea
that those who have trouble III
STRENGTHENING themselves out, so as 10
take their legitimate places in society
should know that this Hagey Institute
affords them the opportunity of plac-
ing themselves on record before the
world. and in that way outside OF us
neculiarly medical courses gives them
the opportunity of showing the rest OF
the folk where they stand