The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-20
The Coming Republican state sman.

by the republicans of the seventh con
gressional district of Massachusetts,. Thii
is q piece of significant intelligence. Tn,
doctor Is to succeed Judge Hoar, who retires
in disgust to private life. The theory tha
|, Ayers goes to congress merely as CHEAP
) means of advertising his pills, though
, entertained by some democrats, is now
generally denied. The fact ofthe matter
seems to be,that the country is on the eve o.
another great reform which has received
considerable attention from the members o.
of the administration. Ayers Is the coming
man. He is possessed of great idea, which
he de- Tres to go to congress TO advocate. He
thinks that the general government should
take into it's own control the manufacture OF
all patent medicines and place the
SUPPLEMENTARY of the business in the
hands of a medical d. partment. There are
4 many powerful arguments urged by the
doctor and his friends in support OF his pet
theory. He maintains in the ford style so
familiar through his almsnacs, that the peo-
pie of the United States are a medicine con-
suming people. and he proves this assertion
by statistics drawn from the trade in his owr
and other Dostrums. The shelves of every
village drug store bear witness to the
passion of the nation for all DIES rip
tions of pills and tonics. Now 10
the careless and indiscriminate use of
these medicines, compounded as they FIRE.
quently are by ignorant and irresponsible
parties, there is great danger. This habit
of relying upon worthless mixtures in cases
where disease has become seated in
the system Is destroying its thousands
daily, while the still more pernicious GUS
tom of draining compounds absolutely
deleterious In character is Staying its tens of
thousands. The victims OF those poisonous
drugs dispensed by the regular physicians
however, tie doctor regards as fully
as innumersble. POLITICALLY speaking,
as the sands of the-sea. If we would
save the republic, it is time for
reform. At the present rate of -deteriora.
ton in the health OF the people, the AmeIi-
can of the future will be a miserable dys-
peptic, with constitutional tendencies to
consumption, full OF scorbutic affec-
tions, unsound In mind and body.
With our exhaustive rapidity of labor,
imperfect digestion of food and oonsump-
ton of an inferior quality of patent medi-
cine, the manhood of the nation is doomed
within another generation. The land will
Ia time be possessed by puny race I'M
worthy of freedom and unable to defend its
rights against a foreign foe. As the nation
considers 1t a sacred duty to provide
for the education of the people and thus in
sure the intelligence of the citizen. so also |
should Bhis more important trust of the |
national health be watched over by pa
ternal government. President White has |
ably sdvo Gated national colleges, Creswell |
has usged che importance of a national tele- |
graph, but, without health, OF what avail are
,ur railroads, our fields OF golden grain,
bur flourish ing cities, our mental culture?
he doctor is about TO fling himself into pub
ic life. He Regards the control of telegraph
ines and railr Dads, nag even ofthe UNIVERSE
les, by the a administration as mere mi or
eforms, bet W ill advocate them for the lake
4 the principle involved, which lies at the
,ottom of hts own great measure
0 secure for the consumption of the people
OF the highest character and the
nest perfect pu rity. He proposes to put
he whole drug II -ade of the country, as be-
ore said, into th hands of a medical de.
artment of the iyovernment. The most
lzillful manufacture era, shall be. employed to
ompound the different mixtures which
be authorities msy sanction. Roots
nd herbs can be imported directly by
he state without the intervention OF mid
lie men, and thus their. strength and purity
an, in all cases, be implicitly relied upon.
ZACH pillo or lozenge may be stamped with
CURES denotiug its price and quail
", and might bear on the OBJ
tatesmau, such az Butler, kellogg,
r Noses. Labels for bottles could be fur
ished at a cheap rate by the printing !.
uzeau Of ths treasury department, on ex-
client paper adorned with elegant litho-
raphjc designs. In consideration of the
Ict thai the Gath OF the ration will be
lodged as a guarantee for every one Of
'ese compounds; no package should be
cid genuine without the signature OF Gen.
pinner on the wrapper. The result OF the
control over the manufacture y
medicines will be not only that better o
ass of medicines will be furnished. but u
lat they can be given to the people at greatly q
Suced rates. The doctor decides, and all ~
ltOnt medicine vendors agree with him, that u
g greatest expense is incurred la the adj "
srtising rather than IN the manufacture OF u
cir compou ads. A medicine that can be p'
1t together Cor three cents bottle 10 often 81
vertised at an expense of thousands of D'
dollars. Such vast outlay will y
saved to the consumer under VI
g system of governmental control o.
Jus rnlnous composition and forcing favor 4
decoctions upon the market--will soon Ia
ase. The uasightlg Disagreement off the "
and snblms scenery of the coun- "a
' will also be prevented by cutting off the TO