The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-11
THE DRUNKARDs' EXPRESS.


A Method Of Dealing with Drunkards in
London, Where by Appealing to Their
Pride Reforms Are Being Accomplished.
II is now some years since trusting
women who had sent their husbands,
sons, fathers and brothers to divers and
sundry places guaranteeing to drive the
thirst for strong drink out Of the most
confirmed drunkards began TO despair Of
the efficacy of such treatment. Men who
had been away to an institution of heal
ing, and who had returned home loudly
trumpeted as complete cures, were found,
after varying intervals, returning TO the
heshpots and wallowing anew in the
CUTTERS. The metal which had been in
iected into their systems, on the hypo-
dermic plan of the morphine fiends, had
not given them any of its own quality
of strength. Making no appeal to the
principle, pride or seIf-respect Of the
individual, indictments which failed
made worse failure Of the man than
he would have been without their use.
When he fell, he fell, like Lueifer, never
to rise again.
Since then the old experiments have
UttAt lAiiA anew anu AtdtC AdAltu Win Llt
old persistency. Appealing to the pride
Of principle OF a man without either is
o veritable casting of pearls before
swine. Much more pathetic cases are
those Of the weak and iFresolUte, in
whom the appetite RACES 50 strong as to
be stronger than their desire to shake it
off No man can ever shake of an APP
petite for strong drink in the strength
Of mere resolve. He may be strong in
the quality Of mind which asserts itself
in his dealings with others to the point
OF having his way in all things He may
be q strong. assertiye spirit in the con-
troll of events, but lie will find, when
he comes to set these qualities Of mind
against a physical appetite, whether ac-
quired OF inherited, that they are as
straw and stubble in a day Of fire and
whirlwind He must inevitably lose the
fight and surrender, unless he can put
to warning with the passion for drink
stronger passion in his nature pride,
principle, profitno matter what.
This has been discovered in England,
and there they are throwing light into
hitherto dark places by drawing the So
cial lines against drunkards, in the way
of providing a series Of trains out Of
London which are known as the drunk
ards expresses, and into which all the
drunkards are to be put. The result is
that men who have been in the habit Of
going out of the city drunk for years
haye become sober. They do not want
to be ticketed and labelled and put into
| inferior coaches because Of a weakness
which marks them as degenerate beyond
the average of degeneracy. The reforma-
tive effects of such course by the rail-
ways leading out of London cannot be-
measured in advance Every man who
is worth saving will be in measure af-
\ fected. There are some, doubtless, who
will do no more than turn up sober at
the time for taking the train, but this
in itself viii be something in the way Of
gain. For, after all, the man who is
sober once in a while gets more out Of
life than one who maintains monoton-
GUS drunk to the point Of missing the
sweets OF that variety which is the spice
Iof liying.--St. Louis Globe Democrat. i