Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — Standing Treat. [ARTICLE]

Standing Treat.

The social habit of drinking at bars, where ea ;h member of a party, having been “treated” by another, considers it necessary to treat every other member, has at last attracted the attention of lawmakers. The lowa Legislature has a bill before it to abolish the custom and make it a punishable offense; and, although such a proposition can never become a law, it is significant as showing public dislike of a custom which no drinking man wants to be the first to disregard. This habit of standing treat is the cause of more physical and mental discomfort than every other convivial custom combined; a respectable man who feels the need of a glass of wine or spirits—and there are hundreds of thousands of such men, in spite of all that, the temperance people say to the contrary—approaches a bar, and finds, perhaps, several acquaintances who are drinking, and who invite him to join them. When he has done so, and drank all he came for, his spirit of independence prompts him to return the invitation, which is accepted by the others, because it would seem discourteous to refuse; then thoee who have been treated make haste to return the compliment ior fear of seeming mean, and the end is that four or five men, each of whom came for a single glass of liquor, retire with several times as muen as they needed or wanted. A sillier habit does not exist among sensible men. If a man’s reputation is so feeble that its existence depends upon the price of several glasses of liquor that nobody wants, it is not worth saving. The man who has not the moral courage to drink what lie wants, and only tbat, gets far more injury than benefit from his potations. —New York Herald.

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