Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-08
THE BENEFITS
OF ALCOHOLIC
STIMULATION
There Are No Arguments to
COntrOvert the Follow
ing Facts

Argument, reason, rhetoric and per-
suasion is often useless when applied
to men while under the influence or
liquor, but few men drink all the time,
and it is almost inconceivable that
reasoning man, even IL drinker, VIII
not in his lucid intervals listen to
the arguments against drinking when
there are absolutely none for it.
! There are no arguments to controvert
the following facts:
/ Drunkenness destroys the family re-
latons; mans perspective becomes
perverted he sees insult where none Is
| intended and becomes estranged from
his lifelong friends.
| If you are an employer, will you
knowingly employ drinking man, even
though you yourself drink? Is 1t not
fact that even after night of mod
crate drinking you are unable to carry
on your business the next day with
your accustomed celebrity and vigor?
To say nothing of the money spent Tor
liquor drunk by yourself and treating
your friends, have you any idea of the
| immense amount of time wasted dur
| ing this period of drinking together
with that time you are incapacitated
from attending to business? Is your
health and the health of your progeny
of no consequence to you? 1t is an in
controvertible fact that the continued
use of alcohol will in time ruin the
strongest of constitutions. This is not
the rabid utterance of a prohibition
crank. but the sober observance of CEN
turles of scientific investigation and
experimentation both upon human be-
| ings and animals
Even the last prop has been knocked
| from under the unfailing argument or
| the moderate drinker who says that
! alcohol stimulates a man and enables
/ him to endure greater hardships, botn
| physical and mental, than he could
| without its help, when 1t was shown in
recent maneuVers of the German
army that on test marches of different
! lengths fewer men fell out of the ranks
| from fatigue and other causes of the
| companies that were allowed no alcohol
| than those that were supplied with
alcohol This test was not applied from
any humanitarian motives, but simply
! to obtain the greatest military er-
| fciency from a given body of troops.
| food-it is an artificial stimulant of
| cardiac and cerebral centers very short
| ly followed by a corresponding de-
| preston of the same nervous system,
each subsequent stimulation requiring
! n greater amount of alcohol and fol-
! lowed by depression one degree lower.
! | need say nothing of the sociological
| aspect of the case, as this is already
! well discussed, also of the numerous
! diseases directly caused by the toxic
| products of alcoholic assimilation by
! the human economy, but even leaving
| these universally recognized facts out,
| it seems that this array of evidence
! ought to be enough TO make man
| pause.
Now what can be said for the de-
| fense-the side of alcohol?
| Absolutely nothing that can stand the
| test of sound, sober Judgment yet as
! long as the world lasts men will argue
| for those things they desire to believe
and perhaps honestly believe, too, but
| herein lies the extreme danger of the
| whole traffic, its speciousness to its
| victims, and herein lies the cruX OF the
whole situation-that the drinking man
| MUST have help to see this matter in
| a true, unbiased light
| Hence the evolvement of the various
| liquor cures.
! Now apply this same reasoning pro-
cess in the selection of cure-and
you will find them varied. viii you
| select q treatment that takes from
| three to six weeks of your time, and
uses hypodermic injections, OR one that
takes shorter period of time but
promises no lasting results, or will you
! go to the Neal three-day cure that
! gives a plain contract to absolutely
eradicate all craving or desire for alco-
hol in any form or refund the money!
To any reasoning man this question
answers itself, and as this article was
written to such, enough is said.
To sum it up-if you are a business
man, drink deleteriously affects your
capacity for business. If you are
working man drink destroys your
chances of obtaining employment and
also your domestic happiness and self
respect. Take it any way you may look
| at it. in any walk of life, and ignoring
the moral side of the question alto
gether, there is only one summing up
/ to be made-drink is the greatest curse
of a so-called civilized world
All c0rreSb0n1anCe strictly Confid6n.