The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-06-01
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
The New Temperanco Any.


There seems.to be quite adherence of opin.
ion among those who are urging on the tenn
perance reform as to the real nature OF what
may be called the liquor appetite, us wei as to
the propcr means and remedies to be used for It's
eradication or cure. Mr. Moody and other
reformcrs Of his class claim that the formation
and indulgch.c of this appetite is due to sin
fnl wc.t'. icss which Is to be overcome by a
yiro Gus resort to repentance, faith and prayer.
Another class holds that the existence Of the
appetite is a specific physical disease, to be
treated as amy other organic and dangerous
malady Willie still another class seems to re-
gard it as a perniclous habit which can be
| formed or broken off at will.
Recently one DR.. ID. Unger, now resident
of Minneapolis, Mimi, and belonging to the
second class mentioned, has come before the
public asserting that lie has discovered Gin
chORd rabrd, or the red cinchona bark, to be an
adequate and full specific for the liquor APP
petite. He claims that this discovery was
made by him while practicing as physician
in an ague district of Maryland, and that he
has tried ton various persons in various places,
and with uniirom success. Accordingly he
now holds up the tincture of cinch0na rubra
in strong doses as a remedy which every drunk
ard can lay hold OF as Il rope to pull himself
out of the destructive alcoholic floods in which
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true, every temperance worker also who cares
to be practical as well as theoretical can rescue
those victims of MEDITATION which mere eX-
hortaton and preaching are unable to reach,
by a timely and persistent use OF the same in
fallible agent. And furthermore, if this pre-
tended discovery proves to be anything real
and effective, there must pertorce be radical
change in the entire methods of temperance
reform Instead of simply putting a red rib
bon outside the drunkard's diseased and en-
feebled body, there must be liberal supply off
red Peruvian bark put within 1t, if any lasting
good is to be accomplished. Temperance
campaigns in future must resolve themselves
INTO efforts at raising money to purchase the
precious cinchona, and seeing that it is pro-
perly administered A leader of such move
ment, instead of merely holding public meet
ings and securing pledges from hard drinkers,
will hencetOrh have to supple such efforts by
going round from house to house physician
like and carefally nursing his patients up to
a staple and sef-relant manhood, or gathering
them into some huge hospital where they can
be more constantly under his eye.
Before any such revolution Is inaugurated
however, the proposed remedy must be thor
oughly tried, and be found eilicacious. There
may be something more or less new in the APP
plcation Of this particular drug to the pur-
poses mere lnulcalCu, Dlu the principle Oh treat
ing drunkenness as Il physical disease, instead
of Il moral CRIME is one of long standing.
Years ago, in several states, costly Incbriatc
asyums were erected and oflicercd for the eX-
press purpose Of receiving inebriatcs as pa
ticnts and cndeavoring to cure them by means
of proper medical appliances and remedies,
intcrmingled with social and moral influences
But it must be confessed that the many reports
which have been given from year to year by
those in charge to state commissioners appoint
ed to oversee these institutions do not augurI
avorably for any distinguished success by this
new remedy, nasmuch as those hitherto tried
have signally failed, in the majority of cases,
to eradicate or exercise the drink demon when
once intrcnched in the human system. Still
we most sincerely hope that the red juice of
this famous cnchona bark will be the instru-
ment in the hands of the long-lookcd-for Josh
VA to ovcrturn the wall of the Jericho citadals
and fortresses which indulgence in drinking
habits have built up so strongly in the bodies
and minds Of so many thousands OF captured
and suffering victims. At all events, the new
remedy is worthy of faithful and lengthy
test and we take pleasure in suggesting such
a trial of its merits to any who may be under
the dominion Of the liquor appetite, and are
longing and praying delverancc thereirom.
The tincturc of red cinchona bark (making a
pint of liquid from n pound of bark taken in
tcaspoonful doses, and repeated, can hardly
fail to have Il most beneficial effect upon all
weakened systems, whatever may be its virtue
as Il new temperance ally, or rs an intalliblc
specific for the m,dHtd q pOtu.