Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-25
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should like to address the drug victims Of
Omaha and all over the state. l have
story for their ears that reads like
page out Of the Arabian Nights Enter
tainment" and yet every word is abso-
lutely true. Listenl
Eight years ago my life was laid waste
by an unspeakable tragedy The promi-
nent physician called in-he is one OF
Omahas wcalthiest and foremost doc
tors this very daylight me doped with
morphia for weeks. Ito save the brain"
little quoting pellets, which. indeed, for
a time give surcease from pain, from
memory and anguish but in their after
effects shatter the nerve centers utterly,
wreck the mind and ruin body and soul,
my kind friend the doctor, took the
amount Of his bill and left me to my
own devices.
or course 1 knew nothing OF the fatal
habit whose first links my doctor had
forged and riveted and which even then
held me enslaved. but from which, had 1
been warned, I might have broken. With
out the morphia pellets, the details OF
the tragedy haunted me. Oblivion lay in
that innocent looking bottle. l took the
easy path. and when the pellets were
gone, it was easy to get more. Why not?
Haven't Omaha's drug stores for years
and years. peddled the poison out over
their counters lust as our saloons sell
liquor from their bars to all who have
the price? 1t is needless to speak Of my
horror when l finally awoke to the cold
facts of my condition. Time after time
/ have striven to break the chain until
every nerve in my body was a shooting
agony and reason tottered under the
strain But I never went back to the
one who first administered the Lethean
dose-the distinguished Omaha physician.
He had doubtless forgotten my case COM
pletey. / was but one OF countless wrecks
of humanity that strew the upward paths
OF nearly all physicians-just a dope
fiend"-following the line of least resist
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No, none of us are proud OF our bonds
we lock up the secret and guard II with
care. You see we never get any real en-
couragement to break away. The doctors
all say II can't be done. Read the reports
of the methods now being used by the
city and county comminnioners and the
Omaha branch Of the Nebraska Humane
society. "oh, they'll all relapse-if they
can get the dope"
Just 80 right on suggesting they'll get
dope and relapse and you'll undoubtedly
find your ill-omened prophesy verified.
There's everything in suggestion. remem-
ber-it holds a wonderful power. Thank
God ! was not reduced TO the choice of
two evils-suicide, or the long-drawn-out
horrors OF tho gradual withdrawal
treatment" which never insures a cure,
but instead fills up our asylumns for the
insane.
! have taken an absolutely painless five
days treatment for opium, and I am
cured. will never relapse. Any
physician that dares in future, should I
ever get down and out as was eight
years ago, administer morphia or any of
the many forms OF the poppy essence into
my system, ito save the brain" will
have the biggest damage suit on his
hands Nebraska ever heard of. 1 don't
know, though but should hunt him up,
take his favorite hypodermic plaything
away and shoot him so full OF his fave rite
panacea for pain that he'd pass str,lgflt-
way over the River styx" who're all
such Grass. straightforward medical sticks
rightfully belong. Anybody interested
enough to hunt up the advertisement in
The Bee can get fun details OF the treat
men and the terms from these noble
Christian doctors
There are dozens OF cases like my own
all over the city. ready to testify to the
marvels OF this modern miracle. And yet
| hero is our triple alllance"-city COM
| mission, board OF health and humane
| society-worklng overtime and sitting up
nights probably. giving Withdrawal
treatment that requires anywhere from
two weeks TO three months time, and by
! their own showing fails after ALL For the
/ love OF common sense. wake up to the
] wonders OF healing working every day
| right here I'm Omaha. Investigate the
latest scientific discovery-the guaranteed
| five-day drug cure-Swtft. sure. harmless,
painless and never falling.
| What II our doctors do say II can't be
done. I am a living testimonial TO the
certainty of this cure today. and there
I are thousands besides me who will prove
the same. The craving never returns.
| after you take this cure. and none OF
those so treated ever go back to this
habit. unless a leading physician happens
TO experiment on one OF them in an at
| tempt TO save the brain" wish they
would give the same attention to the ssul
| that they do Co the brain. Wont some
body please get busy and raise some
money to have the dope fiends" turned
into good citizens by this quick, sure
method? Or will Il he cheaper 10 lust fill
up our asylums and jaiIs with the
/ dereiicts after the triple alliance finish
their interesting experiments? 1 am Civ.
ing YOU my name address and phone
number as a guaranty Of good faith.
CURED IN FIVE DAYS.
stands Tn for P~ro~htsI S~HaaIs.
OMAHA. March 3A--To the Editor OF
The Bee: In your account OF the lecture
81 Mary Antin YOU report her as hayins
sail: The private school Is not a menacl
20 the schools, Il Is a menace To the chill
drcn who attend the private schools. for
they dent get n chance TO he Americans -
You say the speaker placed parOohial
schools IN the same class with private
schools
There were nine children In our family.
five - whom were educated In the public
schools and four IN tho parochtat schools
We usually gathercd around tho firesids
on an equal basis. and ~ werr never
aware of The fart that some % ua YER
hsinE trained Boa a fashion that vas noi
American. Ny children are IN a. John :
shnoi az this moment and 7 rhailsnEs ths
statements 81 NAY Amin NJ ang one efss