The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-05-08
HosTETTER's BITTERs.
EVILS OF EXCESS.
PRozEHDYToRv LAws---RarDYCrNAx.
STIMULI.

It's slaves the vice TO which thsy yield 81 re-
Ygret, with naudlin teArs their inability ~ resist
the false appetite for stinsiants whieh long cor.
| tinuod exsess has sngendercd. or all The millions
whom Il dsgradsI, bru.sss and ruins. there Is not
champion. Temperance, on the other hand, has
n host Of active ssd snsrgstis fricnds. Society.
ms body, breaches Il, although so many members
Of society fail 10 practice Il. II IL advocated In
every pulpit its prohibition Is the object Of large
ard respectable social orgAniEAtionsj II Il made q
aide issue, and sometimes the main issns at
the polls, aud stringent laws srs enacted to enforce
IL.
In short, NIL parties all crecds, all interests
mite in dSpreeatlng drunkenness; and tho only
question connected with IL upon which they do
not agree 10 TO tho wlses method Of ofcontrolling
the evil. Prohibitory State Legislation has been
thought by many sincere and good men TO bo the
best remedy bat 1t has been tried again and
again In New England and elsewhere without
having produced the beneficial effects expected
from II and al last Massachusetts,. SO long tho
stronghold Of prohibition. has Tspudiated that
policy by an immense majority. The Federal
Government. partly In the in.srest Of temperance,
and partly for revenue purposes. has imposed a
tar upon domestic liquors which, if the laws were
rigidly executed, would at once lesson their con.
sumption, and increase tho sum total Of tho ma
tonAl revenue, but Il appears TO have signally
failed Ia both these objects. There Ia no pereept.
ibic decrease In the manufacture consumption
Of domestic spirits. and no proportionato aug
nentation In The reesipts of thu Government from
that source. Laws Of tLis nature are always ex-
lensvely sVadsd. and result in a large amount Of
Official corruption aud public decentralization.
without accomplishing the primary objects which
their origiuators had in Wow,
Experience seems TO teach u that moral inGu.
SRevs are more potent than penal statutes In
restraining this species of excess. Pashes
Mashsws moral aud religious crusade sgaissi
iasbristy probably did more good thAn al
the prohibItory LAYS thai have ever been sn.
acted.
The extreme prehibilionists insist that alcohol
las no usss - = medicine that IL L.. whsp taken
into the stomach, necessarily poisonous. Bat
here the faculty that has made disease snd th,
remedies for disease lts study for 90 tsany Ases
increasing ita knowlsdc aud perfreiiDg its systsH
of treatment uisb every passing yesr. meets Ih'
sllsgation vlsh = point blssk denial Who sr'
boat son pstsst 10 decide this question. In which
the health ssd li.ss Of millions Of bu1sn btiBg
are involved sbs professors Of the art Of hsalin;
or individuals who. soAfesssIiy. are insampas
% prescribe for their own Aitaents. and sho, whsi
pTcstrsted by illness. place their chief Tsianes ei
the doctor: Docs not the profession In whom. Eex
~ God. they pat thsir iTsst 10 sickness. knoY
better than they do whether alcoholic tonies ar
or are not necessary In certain phases oT disease
commes sense Ansssrs in tbe Affirmative. Physi
clans tell Us that alcoholic medicines are anon.
The mort vAiaabls remedial agents in Massri
Asdisa-spseaes which cannot be ditpsnsed uill
without sacrificing abe health and lives Of multi
iadss 81 their patients. 1--we put trust in taem-
aud lhAt No pet trust 10 them is evident, or ~
should not call them IN TO minister to us she
IN dAngsr-Ss are besa1 10 subscribe 10 their die
ium.
| So far, Isen, As medication Is concerned. ID
: object Of The phIlAntkropisis who advoeata ten
psrancs should be 10 aid lie profession In II
prais, worthy sasris TO secure pure, nnadulicra
ed alcoholic sii'nsIant for curative and prevent
i've purposes. II any Law eo1id be devised 70
kesf,isg the unuholesoms ard impure liquor
: of commerce ost Of ths sick room, II would b
. an InappTeeiabie blessing, aud IT, on the oths
hand. law guaranteeing = pure stimuIsnt {
all who are professionally declared 10 need
sould be practically enforced. that. too. woul
be Of infinite benefit To mankind. Dut no sue
special legislation could be rendered Elective
II would be svAdsd, aud rendered null an
Void by the interests in conflict with Il. Jul
as the liquor.laHs arc now nuIliGsd by simi.s
causes.
Bot when-ss In the ease, for example. Of Ho
letters Stomach Dittsrs-H medicinal stimalaE
has been proved. beyond all eavil. to be absolute
/ Iy free from aduitcratiOn, and complete speeiC
for . large class OF diseases. no benevolent an
enlightened friend Of temperance can consistent
lift up bis voice against il. On the contrary, e'
cry proper effort should be made to procure Ii
substitution of such = tonic for the acTid, fiery an
poisonous auids too frequently administered |
invalid.
Il should be 3 powerful argument in favor Of
preparation like this, that IL has been deprived
reeti6cation and by the medicinal vegetable mgr
dienta Of which Il partly consists, Of all the deli
!" teEious properties present In ordinary alcohol
stimuiants and which begct an unnatural cravin
for strong drink, thereby leading directly to II
= temperance. This We say, should be strong n
: gument in its favor with oil rational temperate
men, for since stimulants are medicines that cal
not be dispensed with, It is manifestly all impo
tant to administer the best
As a recognized and standard tonic OF undisp,
ted purity. Hostetters Bittcrs may be cited as
apt illustration Of tho use Of stmuiants ms col
= trasted with their abuse 1t is not intended as
beverage; indeed, there are many varieties Of III
medicated alcohol which the man who loves stron
drink for itself would prefer TO tho Bitters. n
topper is partial to the article for It's effect, whc
taken in excess, is that of IN cmetic. 1t Is r,
garded as medicine only, and is prescribed Il
she prevention and cure of sickness, and for notl
/. ing else.
The temperance reader who has perused III
= foregoing remarks In candid and impartial sp
it, will see. we think, that the cause ho has
heart and which unfortunately has heen great
retarded in its progress by intolerance and mil
conception, is likely to be benefited rather tha
retarded by the employment in medical practiC
of q Wholesome pharmaceutical preparation, wit
q pure stimulative basis instead Of the abOmina
BILE frcwater, (now more abomnable than 1t eve
was before) sold by liquor dealers and at tayer
l. bars.
PREPARED AND SOLD BY
> Redington, Hostetter & Co.
PrTTsBuRG. PENN