The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-04-24
HosTETTER's BITTERs.
EVILS OF EXCESS.
IPRoRXnvToRY LAws-..raHDTCTNAx.
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whom II degrades. brutihes and ruins. there il not
champion. Temperance, on the other hand, has
a host of active and energetic friends. Society,
as body, breaches II, although so many members
Of society fail to practice II. II IL advocated In
every pulpit its prohibition il the object ofinrge
and respectable social organizations Il IL made
side issue. and sometimes the main Issue at
the pols aud stringent laws are enacted 10 enforce
It.
/ In short all parties, all creods, all interests
unite In deprecatIng drunkenness. aud the only
question connected with II upon which they do
not agree, is to tho wisest method
tho evil. PrOhibitory State legislation has been
thought by many sincere and good men TO bo the
best remedy but It has been tried again and
again in New England aud elsewhere without
having produced the beneficial effects expected
from II and at last Massachusetts,, SO long the
stronghold Of prohibition, has rcpudiatOd that
policy by sn immense majority. The Federal
Government, partly In the interest Of temperance,
and partly for revenue purposes. has imposed u
tax upon domestic liquors which, u the laws were
rigidiy executed, would at once lesson their con-
sumption, and increase the sum total Of the ma
tional revenue. but II appears TO have signally
failed in both these objects. There Is no percept-
ible decrease In the manufacture or consumption
of domestic spirits. and Ino prOportiouato aug
mentatlou In the receipts OF the Government from
that source. Laws Of this nature are always ex-
tensively evaded, and result In large amount Of
Official corruption and public Generalization,
without accomplishing the primary objects which
their originators had in view.
Experience seems TO teach Us that moral inau-
ences are moro potent than penal statutes in
restraining this species Of excess. Father
Mathew moral and religious crusade against
inebristy probably did more good than all
the prohibitory laws that hare ever been en-
acted.
The extreme prohibitohists insist that alcohol
has no uses as = medicine that Il Is, when taken
into the stomach, necessarily poisonous. Blu.
here the faculty that has made disease and the
remedies for disease its stady for 50 many ages.
increasing It's knowledge and pOFfeesing lis system
Of treatment With every passing year, NESTS The
allegation With point blank denial. Who are
best competent 10 decide this question. la which
the health and lives of millions Of human beings
arc involved? the professors Of the art Of healing
or individuals who, eOnfessediy. are incompetent
to prescribe for their Ailments. and Who, when
Frustrated By illness, place their ehisf reliance on
the doctor7 Does not tho profession In whom, nexs
to God, they put their trust in sickness, know
better than they do whether alcoholic tonics ara
or are not necessary In certain phases Of disease
ComInon sense answers in tue Affirmative. Physi-
clans tell US that alcoholic medicines ara among
the most valuable remedial agents In MAteria
Medics-speciAcs which cannot be dispensed with
without sacrificing tho health and lives Of multi
tudea Of their patients. five put trust in them
and that We put trust in them is evident, OF ws
should not cali Them in to minister 10 when
in danger-we are bound to subscribe TO their die.
tum.
So far, then, as medication Is concerned, ths
object Of the phianthropists who Advoeass TEN
pcrancs should be 70 aid the profession In IL
praise worthy Efforts to secure pure. unsdultsra
ted alcoholic siimulant for curative and prevent
i've purpotes. II any law could be devised fol
keeping the nnwholesome and impure IiquoEI
Of commerce out Of tho sick room, II would b
an inaPprcciable blessing, and II. on the othei
hand, Law guaranteeing pure stimulant t'
all who are professionally declared 70 need !
could be practically enforced. that, too, woull
be of infinite benefit to mankind. But suel
special legislation could be rendered effective
II would be evAded, and rendered null ant
void by the interests In conflict with Il. Jus
, rs tho liquoT.laWs are now nulli6ed by Gimiia
|, causes.
Bot when-as In the case, for example, Of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters-a medicinal stimulan
has been proved, beyond all eavil, to be absOlute
fly free from adultsration, and q complete specific
, for large class Of diseases, no benevolent ans
enlightened friend Of temperance consistent,
lift up his voice against it. On the contrary,
cry proper effort should be made TO procure th
substitution Of such tonic for the acrld, fiery ant
poisonous fluids too frequently administered 4
i inyalids.
1t should be powerful argument in favor Of
preparation like this that IL has been deprived b,
recti6cation and by the medicinal vegetable ingre
dients Of which it partly consists, Of oil the dele
T terious properties present in ordinary alcohol'
stimulants, and which beget an unnatural craving
for strong drink, thereby leading directly to in
temperance. This We say, should be strong ar
gument in its favor with all rational temperance
men, for since stimuIants are medicines that can
not be dispensed with, IL is manifestly all impor
tant TO- administer the best.
As recognized and standard tonic Of undispu
ted purity, Hostetter's Btters may be cited as al
. apt illustration Of the use of stimulants rs con
trasted with their abuse. It Is not intended as
beverage; indeed, there are many varieties Of un
medicated alcohol which the man who loves strong
drink for itself would prefer to tho Bitters. NJ
topper is partial to the article, for les effect wher
taken in excess, is that Of an emetic. 1t Is re
; garded medicine only, and is prescribed fo
the prevention and cure Of Sickness and for moth
ling else.
| The temperance reader who has perused th.
foregoing remarks In o candid aud impartial spir
lit will see, we think, that the cause he has q
, heart, and which unfortunately has heen greatly
, retarded in its progress by intolerance and mis-
conception, is likely to be benefited rather thar
retarded by the employment in medical practic
Of wholesome pharmaceutical preparation, will
o pure stimulativc basis, instead of the abomina
BILE frewater, (now more abomnable than 1t eve
was before1 sold by liquor dealers and at tavern
bars.
4 PREPARED AND SOLD By
+ Redington, Hostetter & Go.
PITTsBURG. PENN.
! For sale by Druggists, Grocers and store keep
erg throughout the world.