The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-08-08
HOSTETTER'S BlTTERS.
The Evils of Excess Prohibitory Laws-
Medicinal Stimuli.

The Evils OF Excess ETOnlOltOEy AHWs~
Medicinal Stimuli.
From the Cincinnati Commercial. May 20. 1868
rNrEMPERANCE HAS NO. AvOwED
ADVOCATES. Even its slaves curse the vice
to which they yield, or regret. with maudiin
tears their inability to resist the false appetite
for stimulants which longcontnued excess has
en- pentlercd. OF all the millions whom II de'
grades, brutifee and ruins. there Is not one VINO,
in his sober moments, stands forth It's Champion
Temperance. ON the other hand. has host OF nc
,;vc and energetic friends. Society, AZ y body.
breaches it. although 80 many members oil societ!
mil to practice It. II e advocated III every pui.
nit lis PRONUNCIATION is the Object Of large anu
respec hsbla social organizations 1t IL made q
aide ISSUE and sometimes main issue, AZ the
nolls and stringent laws are enacted to enforce
It. - -
In short, all parties, all creeds. oil Interests.
mite In deprecuting drunken ness, and the only
question connected with it upon which 'hey 10
not agree is ns to the wiscst method Of c0ntron-
Inc t be evil. Proh,bitory State legislation has
been thought by many sincere and good men TO
be the best remedy but it has been tried again
and again In New EUgand and elsewhere, with
ont having produced any OF the beneficial enects
expected IRON il and at last MASSACHUSETTS, 20
long the stronghold OF prohibition, has repudia.
ated that policy by an immense majority. me ne
temperance and partly TOR revenue purposes has
| imposed tux upon domestic liquors which, IT
| the law were rigidly executed, would lessen ther
consumption and increase the sum total OF the
national revenue but 1t appears to have signaliy
failed in both these objects. There ie no percept-
lille decrease in the manufacture or consumption
| Of domestic spirits, and no proporllonate aug
| mentation in the receipts of the government from
that source. Laws Of this nature are always OK
| tepsively evaded, and result in large amount oil
official corruption and public decentralization.
without accomplishing the primary Objects which
| their originptors had in view
| Experience seems to teach us that moral infiu-
ences are more potent than penal statutes in re.
struining this species Of excess. Father Mathews
moral and religious crusade against nebrety
probably did more good than all The prohlbitory
| laws that have ever been enacted.
| The extreme probibitionists insist that alcohol
has no uses as a medicine; that it it, when taken
| into the stomach. necessarily poisonous. But
| here the faculty that has made disease and the
| remedy for disease study Tor go mnny ages tin-
creasing it's knowledge and periecting its system
Of treatment with every passing Year,, meets the
| allie CATION with II point blank denial. Who are
the Oest competent to decide this question, in
which the health and lives OF millions oil human
beings ure invOlved-thc professors Of the art oil
healing or individuals who. coniessedly, are in
! competent TO prescribe for their own ailments
and who. when Frustrated ny Illness place theIr
chief reliance upon the doctor! Does not the
profession in whom, next 10 God they put their
trust In sickness, know better than they do
whether alcoholic tOnics IRE or are not necessary
in certain phases OF disease? Common sense
answers in the affirmative. Physicians tell us
that alcoholic medicines are among the most val
liable remedial agents in the Matcria Medica.
specifics which cannot be dispensed with without
sacrificing the health and lives OF mu,itudes OF
their patients 1t we put trust in them-and
that we put trust in them is evident, or we would
not call them in to minister TO US when IN dan
,,,lc ors1,s f<>t haIr Al IA ~
So far, then, us medication is concerned, the
Object OF the phlanthropsts who advocate tenn
perauce should he to aid The profession 10 its
praiseworthy efforts 10 secure pure unadui'era'
ted alcoholic stimulant for curative and prevent
i've purposes. Ii any law could be devised for
keeping the unwhoesOme and impure liquors oil
commerce out OF the sick.room, it would be an
| npprccinble blessing; aud it, on the other hand
| ~ law guaranteeing pure atinulant u all VINO
| are professionally declared to need 1t could be
practically enforced, that, too, would De OF nm
mite benefit to mankind But no such special
legislation could he rendered effective ltwOuld
he cvaded, and rendered null and void by the in
terests in conflict with il, just as the liquor laws
are now nullited Ivy similar causes
But when as in the case, for example. o:
HOSTETTER'S STOMACH DITTERSa meli-
cnal stimulunt has been proved. beyond all cavil,
to be absolutely free from adu'teration, and a
complete specific ior large class of diseases no
benevo en, and enlightened friend of Temperance
can consistently lit his voice against 1t. On the
contrary. every proper effort should be made to
procure the substitution Of such tonic 'or me
acrd, fiery and poisonous fluids too frequently
administered to invalids.
II should be powerful argument in favor Of
a preparation like this, that it bias been deprived
by rectification, and 10y the medicinal vegetable
ingredients of which it partly consists of all the
deeterious properties present in ordinary alco-
hoc stimuants, and which beget an unnatural
craving Tor strong drink, thereby leading directly
to in.tmpcrancc. This, we say, should he u
strong argument in its favor with all rational
temperance men; for since stimulaus are medi-
cines thu. Can not be dispensed with, it is mani
testify all important to administer the best.
AS recognized and standard tonic of undiapu-
I'd purity HOSTETTER,S BfTTERS mag be
cited us No apt illustration OF the use Of htimu
iants rs contrasted with their abuse. 1t is not
Intended as a beverage; indeed. there are many
varieties Of unmedcated alcohol which the man
who loves strong drink for itself would prefer to
the BlTFERS. No topper ia partial TO the article |
for its effect, when taken in excess, is that Of an
emetic 1t is regarded as q medicine only, and
is prescribed for the prevention aud cure OF sick
ness, and Tor nothing else.
The temperance reader who has perused the
foregoing remarks 10 candid and impartial
spirit will see, we think, that the cause he has
at heart, and which unfortunately has been |
greatly retarded in its progress by intolerance
aud misconception, is likely to be benefited, rath
or than retarded, by the employment in medical
practice OF u Wholesome Pharmaceutical Prepa
ration, with pure stimulativc basis, nsteado
the abomnablc fire.water (now more abopina |
ble than it was beore) sold by liquor dealers and
u tavern bars. T. a, !
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