Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-12-12
UNDER THE GALLONS!
Fri.htrul COndemHafiop Of . Mother Ry Her Son-what Does It Meanf

Not long ago a weeping mother called to bid goodbye to her only son, who was soon to Oe executed.
 "Woman," !" he exclaimed, in q momen- tary frenzy, Woman, l would never have been here hal you done your duty by me when l was yOungi"
 This vas q terrible parting! lt horrI- fed the spectators; lt nearly crazed the consCience-stricken mother.
 One can scarcely Oyerestimate the mothers influence m the moulding oi the character oi her offspring. But how often. oh, how often. do mothers seem to ignore this responsibility
 During a recent trip on the rail, the writer made the acquaintance of Dr. A. J. Benedict, of Sackett's Harbor, N. T., a person who has made study of human development. Re,crrinc to the murder ous tendency of the times, we asked that eminent man Il the outlook was not dis coura.inc.
 'It looks so," he said, "but fancy we have a cause and the remedy for such evils. In my professional career l have found by hard study that We have emerged from savagery by development oi 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 10 save the race. Boys stuff dime novels, and the pistol is to them the only respectfully glorious instrument tO se- cure fame. Women read trashy litera- ture and straightway try 10 murder their husbands and friends by poison. Busi- ness men yield 10 the tempter, and forge and steal and default. Ministers, charmed by beauty. forget the behests of conscience. On every side we see the weakness oi personal integrity"
 ' Do you regard it as a disease?"
 "MOre especially as the result of dis ease, which, however, may be pre- vented"
 "Please define how"
 "I 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 farm CTS W fife rejoices in big. physical frame, and yet she dies prematurely. The nerve cannot stand the strain of contin- ual work. The minister falls dead in his pulpit, but he never did days physical work in his life The lawyer faints in the presence of the court and is soon . wreck or a corpse, and yet the work is nerve work. The man of affairs is over come with apopleXy; the politician 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-eNcite the nervous system, and this fact kills or demoralizes them"
 "li all this be so, how would you rectiiy it, then?"
 "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 imag- ined she was cursed of God. She was a farmers wife, and worked early and late. never saw finer specimen of physical womanhoOi than she, but she was a nervous wreck She became blOodless, had .he very worst of female disorders, and was in the last stages of albuminuria or Bright's disease. This latter disease works particular havoc with the nervous system and produces insanity and de- spair. She was insane and desperate and l fear tainted the blood of her off, spring with these terrible tendencies. treated her for several years. One by one the standard remedies of the schools failed, but I finally cured her with Warmers Safe Cure, and she is to-day strong and well. Yet thousands of women, like her, every year bring ill., formed and criminally-inclined children into the world. Is it any wonder that nervous diseases prevail and that the whole moral sense is demoralized2 If that remedy were generally used, we would have stronger mothers, stronger stronger men and women, and with perfect physical and mental health, crime would decrease and society be more secure"
 such -andid opinions are surely worth l