The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-08-15
HOSTETTER'S BlTTERS.
The Evils of Excess Prohibitory Laws
Medicinal Stimuli.

From the Cincinnati Commercial. Nay 20. 1868
TNTEMPERANCE HAS NO AvOWED
ADVOCATES. Even ts slaves curse the vice
10 which they yield. or regret. with maudlin
tours their inability to resist the false appetite
Tor slimulants which longcontinued excess has
engender,d. OF I'LL the millions whom it de.
grades. butifee and ruins. there Ia not one who,
IN his sober moments stands forth its champion.
Temperance. ON the other hand his II host OF nc-
tive ind energetic friends. Society, M u hOdy.
breaches 1t. although 40 many members OF society
fail to practiceit. II is advocated in every pull.
pit It's PRONUNCIATION is the Object OF large and
respectable social organizations; 1t II made
side issue, aud sometimes main issue. 1T the
polls, und stringent laws are enacted to enforce
In short, all parties, all creeds. oil interests,
unite in d+prpcating drunken mesa. and the only
question connected with it upon whicS they do
not agree is aa TO the wisest method Of cOntroll-
ing the evil. Prohlhi,ory State legislation has
been thought by many sincere aud good men to
be the best remedy bu, it has been tried again
| and again in New England and elsewhere. with
out aving produced any vi the beneficial effects
expected IRON il and ut last MASSACHUSETTS, no
long the s,i onRhold OF prohibition. has reputiia-
ated that policy by in immense majority. The
| Federal government, partly IN the interest OF
| temperance and pat tor revenue purposes, mas
| imposed u tax upon domestic liquors which. II
the law We're rightly executed, would lessen their
| consumption and increase the sum total OF the
national revenue, but it appears ~ I'VE signally
failed in both these objects. There is no prrcept-
lille decrease in the manufacture or consumption
Of domestic spirits. and no proportionltc aug
| mpntation In the receipts OF the govern ment from
tina, source. Laws OF this nature are always eX
| tcnsively evaded, and result IN large amount OF
official corruption and public decentralization .
| without accomplishing the primary Objects when
| their originatOls had in view
Experitpce set ms TO teach us that moral inf1u
pnces are more potent than penal statutes IN re-
straining this species OF excess Father Mathew
moral and religious crusade against in"briety
probably did more good than all the prohioitory
laws that have ever been enacted.
The extreme prohibitonists insist that alcohol
has no uses as Il medicine that it is. when taken
into the stomach necessarily poisonous. But
here the faculty that has made disease and the
remedy TO, disease study Tor so mnny ages IN
creasing it's know ledge and perlectng its system
OF treatment with every passing Year,, meets the
allie pa,ion With Il point blank denial. Who are
IN. H.st competent to dcciue this question. IN
which the health and lives OF millions OF human
lpin o. are involved the professors Of the nrt o
healing or individuals who, coniessedly: are 'h
comnpi.nt TO prescribe for their own ailments
and who. when pr, strAted Ivy illness. place then
chief reliance upon the doctor! Does not tue
profession in whom. next TO God. they put their
trust in sickness. know better than they 40
whether alcoholic tones are or are not necessary
answers in the affirmative. Physicians tell us
that alcoholic medicines are among the most val
unhle remedial agents in the Materia Mrdica
sppcifcs which cannot be dispensed with without
sacrificing the health and lives OF muliitu"es o,
their patients. II we put trust N them "uu
that We put trust in them rs evident, or we "V"''
not call Them in to minister to us when III dan
ger VIC are bound to subscribe to their dici um
So far. then, us medication is concerned the
ojec, OF the phiianthropsts who advocate" tenn
prr,nce should he to aid the profession Ia It's
trustworthy efforts to secure pure unadui'era-
led alcoholic stimulant for curative and prevent
i've rurposes Ii any law could be devised for
keepins the unwhocsome and impure liquors oi
| commerce out of the sickrOom, 1t would be al
| uppreciable blessing; and 1t, on the other hani
| IL law guaranteeing pure st'mulant " All VINO
| are professionally declared to need II coulu o.
practically enforced that, too. would be OF inn
mite benefit to mankind. But no such special
legislation could be rendered effective 1t would
he eyudcd, and rendered null and void by the in
ele.ts in conflict with il. just rs the liquor laws
are now nuIlitied by similar causes.
| But when as in the case, Tor ex lmple. O.:
Tl0STLTTER'S STOMACH BIrTERS Il m"d-
cinal stimuant has been proved heyon' oil cIvi''
to he absolutely free from adu'trrI,on. and il
complete specific or large class Of diseases no
benevolent and enlightened friend Of Temperance
Can c. usistently lit his voice against 1t. On the
| contrary cvery proper Effort should br made To
| urocu,r the substitution OF such II tonic Tor the
| acr,i fiery and poisonous fluids TOO frequently
administered to invalids.
| 1t thou Id he a powerful argument in favor OF
a prppar;,ton like this. that it has been deprived
Ly rrc,ilication, and Ivy the medicinal vegetable"
ingredients Of which i, partly consists. OF all the
d, j+terious proptrties present in ordinary alco-
hoIc stmui.nts. and which beget an unnatural
craving tor strong drink. thereby leading directly
10 inttmpcrancc. This, we say, should be u
strong argument in its favor with all rational
| to., mem for since Stjmul;lutS npUl