The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-10-29
AlIENIST SAYS
D0W|E'S A LUNATIC
Messt York Expert After a Care
full Study Announces
Conclusion.
GIVES sic NAMES Foo9 IT
Mesa.onanis and Paranoia Form Par
CT the Doctors Diaanosis-se-
.icves Now What He Once
Knew Was False.

New York, Oct. 26.-Dr. E. c. Spitzka,
the eminent alienist, has been making
n study OF John Alexander Dowie. who
calls himself Elijah Ill, the restorar.
Cases resembling that Of the gentle
man who is now holding forth at Mad
ison Square garden are so common and
frequent that / do not pay any atten-
ton to them" said DR.. Spitzka. but
John Alexander Dowie's cease is Pc
culiar: It has features far more at
tractive to me than the ordinary.
The nan shows the natural result
of his career. He has played a false
part so long before the world, and to
play that part he has been compelled to
present the true relations to himself
so constantly that the false role has be-
come second nature, and now when old
age is coming upon him with all It's
Weakening Influences it causes a far
greater breakdown than old age does
IN a man who leads an upright and
honest life.
Not Originally a Lunatic.
You cannot say that a man of his
kind is originally and necessarily a
iunatic. but he now falls within that
definition, which he might have avoid
IsNSN Il EltuEal-l lie. he
mas been so raised by his success into a
confidence in his personal magnetism
tisae now, when his personal magnet
ism Is enfesblsd by old age, he can
not reconcile himself te recognize his
failure, and it leads to the ridiculous
demonstration which he is making on
the stage at the garden.
tSFiieriS he was able to control his
scao's automatically, Whereas, with
o.a ase, he has lost that power and.
K & TOOL, he bshbles what he really
thinks. All the egotism of old age
comes out in its most disgusting form
In such cases.
Il a deiusion is to be called a false
and ridiculous belief, out OF which 4
man cannot be persuaded. Dowie fills
uFsder the definition OF having delu-
saoaal Insanity,
Names His Kind of Insanity.
think that DR.. Buckley is in the
main right when he charges that Dowie
Is a qHnatic, wssa megalemania. para
noia and other twists OF the mind, al
1hoRsh Ia1l 70 find the ingenious fan
tastes in Dowis's schemes which many
pa~ranoiacs show.
I wish onia one in the press re-
PoI'fers section, when this man made
MS vicious attacks on them had risen
ano replied 10 his demand for truth
with this remark. You want the
truth You shall have it, and more
than you will possibly care for
should have liked to nave seen Dowie
when thai was hurled at him.
Some people may say that my dag
does not take into consideration
that business ability shown by Dowie
and his evident ability to collect tithes
to n1anag property to
tive advantage. There are many pc.
cutlar and apparently inconsist-
EN- combinations in the char
actsr of certain insane per-
There are proiect-making lu-
natics who unite the most effective tall
ents of the worst and most success
frauds with the hopeless delusion
OF a disordered mind, and persons of
this type have played a part in the
worlds history which is really remark
n seldom recognized"
-a-Hta |M.E-E.