The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-08-29
HOSTETTER'S BlTTERS.
The Evils of Excess rohibitory Laws
Medicinal Stimuli.
From the Cincinnati Commercial, May 2S. 1865
TNTEMPERANCE HAS NO AVOWED

TToW "e cincinnati COWmcctuf may 20. 1910
TNTEMPERANCE HAS NO AVOWED
IADVOCATES Evcp ito slaves cursc the vice
IN which tbev v;cld or regret with moudlin
tears. their INABILITY 10 resist the false annette
for stimulants which long.continucd excess has
enrendered or ali the millions whom it de.
grades. butfes and ruins there is not one who.
In his sober moments. stands forth its cbampion.
Temperance, ON the other hand has host OF ac-
tive and energetic friends. Society, as Il body,
breaches if albion oh so many members of society
fail to practice it, 1t is advocated in every pull
nit it's PRONUNCIATION is the object of large and
respectable social ORGANIZATIONS: II is made
side issue, and sometimes a main issue at the
polls, and stringent laws are enacted to enforce
It,
In short. all parties. all creeds. all interests
unite in deprccatiug drunkenness. aud the only
question connected with it upon which they do
not agree is as to the wisest method OF conrol-
ing the evil. Prohlbtory State legislation has
been thought by many sincere aud good men to
be the best remedy but it has been lied again
and again in New Eugland and elsewhere. with
out having produced any of the beneficial effects
expected IRON it and at last Massachusetts. so
long the sti onghold OF prohibition, has repudia-
ated that policy by an immense majority. The
Federal government partly in the terest of
temperance and partly for revenue purposes, has
imposed a tax upon domestic liquors which. if
the law were rigidly executed, would lessen their
consumption and increase the sum total OF the
national revenue, but it appears TO have slgnally
failed in both these objects There is no percept-
ible decrease in the manufacture or consumption
of domestic spirits and no proportionate aug
mentation in the receipts of the government from
that source Laws of this nature are always OK
tcnsivey evaded, and result in large amount d
official corruption and public demoralization
without accomplishing the primary Objects which
their oripinotors had in view
hut n
ences are more potent than penal statutes in re-
stroininn this species of excess. Father Mathews
moral and relinious crusade against inebriety
nrobablv did more good than all the prohibitory
laws that have ever been enacted.
The extreme prohbtionists insist that alcohol
hoe m uses ms n medicine: that it is when taken
into the stomach. necessarily poisonous. But
haro thn c,cultv tho, has made disease and the
rouedv for disease a study for so mnny ages in
oro,s;no ito knowlpd oe and periccting its syst EN-
of treatment with every passing year), meets the
,aat;on Win , noiut flank dccial Who are
mo SSnst comnetcnt 10 decide this question. in
L;h tho bonIth and lives of millions of human
,'n;mrs my. ;nvoivcd-thc professors of the art of
;1;r;duo,s who contessedlv are in
nc''l"s y, A. .,,asa,iho fo. thnir own ailments
wy p.he 'h,, nrostr,tad Inv illness place their
h:r i;no rnon tho ,)octor? Does not the
my "nran;an nv ,vhnm nnvt 10 Cod they put their
pioiee:io" : ~ "n ,non, hettar ,h,n thew do
A., ~, ,l,lin nrpO
""S'" N,.;" ,,hosns or dispnscP Common sense
III o.. ."' ,hn nf;rmotivn Phvscinns tell us
.., sih,;o ,o,ioinns are omony the most val
',"tIo ronno,,,i agents in the Materia Medca.
10y I,;nh o,mnnt no disncnsed with without
rpan;fo;n,r tbo bn,Ith and lives of multtudes of
90. ."o: : lie If ,vo mt trnst in them-and
.ne.i p".'. .,st IN tbom ;e evident or we would
'n,' w, WI ihn, in 70 minister TO us when in dan
Nv. o',, 'n, bonp1 to subscribe TO their dictum
go 81 e, thon os medication is concerned the
, ~ '" ~, tha nhilonthronists who advocate tenn
o.go.. " ho,lI hn 20 aid the profession ia its
Pciiiee nsor,s n sncurc q nurc unadultcra-
taI aiooIoc stmnant for curative and prevent
~. ",,onas II INV law could be devised for
I've puipo.se ,,.,oinyyome and imnurc ljouors of
neep.ns ~" az of the sickroom. it would be an
..lno;,I,a h,nssno. and if. ON the other hand
r,,,, ,,,nrontno;no y uurc s,imulant to all who
', az" eotnssion,Ilv declared to need it could be
.n att;o,,1jv onrnrcnd that too. would be of inf
pp;tn homoHt ~ monlind But no such special
lnoislntion could be rendered effective 1t would
hn ovodcd and rendered null and void by the in
torcsts in conflict with it, lust us the liquor laws
nre now nullilied by similar causes.
But when. as in the case, for example. OF
UOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS- medi-
cin,l stmulaut has been proved beyond all cavil,
tn he absolutely free from adultcraton and
complete specific Tor a large class Of diseases, no
hcnrvolcnt and enlightened friend OF Temperance
con consistently M his voice against 1t. On the
contrary. cyery proper effort should be made to
nrocurc the substitution OF such a tonic for the
ncrid. fiery and poisonous fluids too frequently
commissioned TO inyalids
# should be a powerful argument in favor Of
q preparation like this, that 1t has been deprived