The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-06
UNDER THE GALLONS!
Fri ht1ui Condemnation OF a
Mother bV Her Son -Vhat
Does 1t Means

Not long ago a weeping mother
called to bid good bye to her only son,
who was soon to be executed.
Woman, y he exclaimed, in a mo-
mentary frenzy, Woman, l would
never have been here had you done
your datv by me when Twas young"
This was Il terrible parting 1t
horr.ded the spectators it nearly
crazed the conseience-stricken moth
er.
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 respon-
sibility
During 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 a
study OF human development. Re-
:erring to the murderous tendency Of
the times, we asked that eminent
man if the outlook was not discourage
ing.
1t 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 de-
velopment of the nervous system and
the Intellectual life, and we return TO
savagery as we ignore the fact that
without the solid, trustworthy, nerv-
Gus system, we cannot hope to save
OF,
and the pistol is to them the only
respectfully glorious instrument to
secure fame. Women read trashy
literature and straightway 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 con-
science. On every side we see the
weakness of personal integrity"
Do you regard it as a disease %,
More especially as the result of
disease, Which, however, may be pre-
vented"
Please define how"
l cannot now enter into details.
Our people can see their bodies, their
blood, their bones. They never see
their nerves and consequently many
do not suppose they have any. The
farmers wife rejoices in a big, physi-
cal frame, and yet she dies preml-
turely. The nerve cannot stand the
strain of continual work. The minis
ter falls dead in his pulpit, but he
never did a days physical work in
his life. The lawyer faints in the
presence of the court and is soon a
wreck or 4 corpse, and yet the work
is nerve work. The man of affairs is
overcome with apoplexy; the politi-
elan and publicist, with Bright's
disease. The mind of the untutored
man is fired by the exploits of crime.
and he longs for such fame. These
persons overwork or over excite the
nervous system, and this fact kills or
demoraEzes them"
eff all this be so, how would you
rectiiy it, then?"
Let me tell you. \ few years ago
l had lady patient who was an ut
ter wreck. She was the mother of
several children. She lost her mind
and imagined she was cursed of God.
She was a farmers wife and worked
early and late. l never saw a finer
specimen of physical womanhood
than she, but she was a nervous
wreck She became bloodless, had
the very worst of female disorders,
and was in the last stages of albumi-
nuria or Bright's disease. This latter
disease works particular havoc with
the nervous system and produces in
sanity and despair. She was insane
and desperate and l fear tainted the
blood of her offspring with these ter
rible tendencies. l treated her for
several years. One by one the stand
ard remedies OF the schools failed,
but l finally cured her with Warmers
Safe Cure, and she is to-day strong
and we'll. Yet thousands of women,
like her, every year bring Informed
and criminally-inclined children into
the world. Is it any wonder that
nervous diseases prevail and that the
whole moral sense is demoralized
If 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 de-
crease and society be more secure"
Such candid opinions are surely
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