The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-11-19
UNDER THE GALLONS I
FRI6HTFUL CONDENSATION OF A MOTHER
BY HER SoN-wHAT DOES IT MEAN?

b1 6En oJN-WhAI DOT4o II
Not long ago weeping mother called
to bld goodbye to her only son who was
sooG % be executed.
woman" he exclaimed in momen-
tary frenzy, woman, l would never have
been here had you done your duty by me
when | was youDg!"
This was terrible parting! 1t horri-
fed the spectators, it nearly craZed the
conscience striken mother.
One can scarcely overestimate the
mothers influence in the moulding of the
character of her offspring. But how
often, oh, how often, do mothers seem
To ignore this responsibility
During q recent trip on the rail the
writer made the acquaintance of DR.. A.
j. Benedict, of Sackett's Harbor, n. Y.
a person who has made study of human
development. Referring to the murder
Gus tendency of the times, we asked that
eminent man if the outlook was not
discouraging
cit looks So, he said, "but fancy We
have cause and the remedy for such
evils. In my professional career have
found by hard study that we have
emerged from savagery by development
of the nervous system and the intellectual
life, and we return to savagery as we
ignore the fact that without the solid
trustworthy nervous system, we cannot
hope to save the race. Boys stuff dime
novels, and the pistol is to them the only
respectfully glorious instrument to secure
fame. Women read trashy literature and
stral8htway try to murder their husbands
and friends by poison. Business men
yield to the tempter. and forge and steal
and default Ministers, charmed by
beauty, forget the behests Of conscience.
On every side we see the weakness of
personal integrity"
do you regard it as disease 2"
"More especially as the result of dis
ease which, however, may be prevented.
"Please define how"
~ cannot now enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies, their blood,
their bones. IHeyneUer see their nerves
and consequently many do not suppose
they hare 07ly. The farmers wife re-
Jolces in blg, physical frame, and yet
she dies prematureIy. The nerve cannot
stand the strain of continual work. The
minister falls dead ia his pulpit, but he
AC'SI NaiN . EbJoiS'i WIN ilA LIS
life. The lawyer faints in the presence
of the court and is soon wreck or
corpse, and yet the work is nerve work.
The man of affairs is overcome with
apoplezy; the politician and publlcist,
with Bright's disease. The mind of the
uatutored man is fred by the exploits Of
crime and he longs for such fame. These
persons oyerwork or over excite the
nervous system and this fact kills or
demoralizes them"
''If all this be so how would you rectify
it then 2"
''Let me tell you. A few years ago l
had lady patient who was an utter
wreck. She was the mother of several
children. She lost her mind and imagin.
Cd she was cursed of God. She was q
farmers wife, and worked early and late.
never saw finer specimen of physical
wOmanho0d than she, but she was q
nervous wreck The became blood ess,
had the very worst of female disorders
ard was in tue last stages of albuminuria
or Bright's disease. This latter disease
works particular havoc with the nervous
system and produces insanity and despair.
she was insane and desperate and fear
tainted the blood of her offspring with
these terrible tendencies. | treated her
for several years. One by one the stand
ard remedies of the schools failed, but L
finally cured her with Warmers s safe cure,
and she is to day strong and well. Yet
Thousands Of women like her, every
year bring Informed and criminally in
clined children into the world. Is it any
wonder that nervous diseases prevail and
the whole moral sense is demoraiized?
II that remedy were generally used, we
would have stronger mothers, stronger
children, stronger men and women, and
with perfect physical and mental health,
crime would decrease and society be
more secure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering.