The Hagey Institute.

White Ribbon, Volume 3, Issue 27, 1 September 1897, Page 7

The Hagey Institute.

For the Cure or Inebriates. This Institution seems to be doing good work in Auckland many cages of “cure ” being claimed by the promoters. An ex-patient, in reply to an interviewer from the New Zealand Herald , said that ‘he 44 gold cure ” had not only eradicated all liking for intoxicants from his system, but had given him a new and hopeful view of life, and this change had been effected in two months. lie sa’d that he felt towards drink as a person would who had never tasted it, but had the advantage of the personal experience of the evil results of drink. When asked if it was not likely that in bis business relations he might return to it again, he replied that anyone who had seen, as he had, what intoxicants would do for him, w'ould not, after being cured as thoroughly as he had been, tamper with the stuff again tor pleasure, for that was tht only reason why one should do so. Nobody with a grain of common sense would so act. The evidence given by this man as to the complete loss ot will power induced by c rink is tragic, as well as pathetic. 44 Bee pie say exert your will power and overcome the evil. As well ask a child to stop breathing. A drunkard has no will power when the terrible craving comes over him: it is non-existent.” The cure in his case seems to have been thorough, as not only did he lose the drink crave, but his general health was restored. The same interviewer saw Mr Bagley, a resident of Honolulu, the other day, and he gave evidence of the success of a similar establishment in Honolulu. He said that altogether about 2uc graduates (ex-patients) had been turned out ot their Honolulu Institute. So far as he knew, not one of them had returned to drink.