The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-04-24
WHOLE NO. 1853.
[From the chronological Journal
Radical Reformers.

Finding the best interests of our city
"going to the dogs" through the wicked
ness corruption, or imbecility of bad
men in office; finding gambling, theft,
robbery, drunkenness and murder run
ming riot" and even the seats of justice
occupied by upscrupulous jurists, two OF
our leading papers, the Times and the
Tribune, buckled on the armor of moral
warfare, and have been fighting bravely
The ITibune attacked the keno gam
blers and the panel houses, causing the
dreds of the "fancy." Had the authorl-
ties been as vigilant as the reporters. not
one gambling hell would have been lett
in operation in the city of New ork.
The Tribune deserved and received the
thanks of all good citizens for its efforts
routing out theseacurses of New York.
The Times made it a speciality to look
after the political thieves who were
found robbing the city treasury. 1t made
such exposures that 1T aroused the "hoie
community to a sense of its danger, and
so led to the organization of the Commit
tee of Seventy, and those measures which
succeeded in bringing about change IN
the administration of affairs at our last
election. The efforts to punish the
scoundrels who were plunderIng the
honest and worthy taxpayers have not
been successful yet, but their time will
come.
Next, the Times turned its attention to
the quack doctors of both sexes, who
were found in large numbers, engaged IN
either poisoning, robbing, or numbering
their victims 1t was found that many
self-styled doctors were practlclng with
out any right to do so, never having
studied medicine in regular course; and
that bad women were assisting in the ne
farious work of producing abortions The
public were startled by the recital OF hid
eous crimes of this nature, and many OF
the perpetrators have been brought to
the bar of Justice.
One other class of wicked swindlers re-
mains to be dealt with. They are the
mo cure no pay" doctors, who filch
money from "indiscreet young men"
They hide behind Anatomical Muse
ums, Howard Associations" New York
Universities" etc. Some work under
real others under assumed names, adver-
tising largely, and promising to "cure all
diseases" They sell vile compounds,
which are either useless or injurious; and
their prescriptions are worse than use
less.
Next come the patent-medicine men,
and the "Bitters" makers. few stepped
roots and herbs, mixed with sarsaparilla,
spruce, ginger, hemlock, wormwood,
with -four, licorice, ETC., serve to make
pills, while whisky and aloes serve as a
basis for "Bitters." Different makers
have different mixtures, of course, but
all are bad, and only damage any stomach,
human or animal, into which they are
poured. The makers are, one and all,
simply wicked impostors. They know
they lie on every label they print. The
public is deceived. Poor invalids, like
other dying men, catch at straw, and
are robbed and poisoned It is alcohol
in the bitters which stimulates the patient
and deludes him with the false hope
that the stuff may do him some good.
Regular physicians, not already drunk
ards or liquor drinkers, ought to have
stop put to this business by teaching the
people, through the press, the lecture
room, the sick room, and even through
the pulpit, what they ought to knoa0 on
these subjects.
We rejoice, at any rate to know that
the secular press is turning REFoRMEB,
and following in track which the Phre-
uoLogicOt Journal has ever pursued, and
exposing crimes IN high and in low plac-
es. The time must soon come when re-
spectacle newspapers, such as the L'ade-
pendent, Observer, Evangelist, etc., shall
cease from advertising the vile COM
pounds of quack doctors, and come over
and help the secular press to put down
crime, imposture, and swindling of all
sorts. When the religious press refuses
advertise quack medicines, a great gain
in morality, economy, and temperance
will be realized Men and brethren, you
knosc these words to be true. As you
love your fellow-men, your country, and
your God we beseech you, to carry on
this war against the devil and his legions.