Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-02-05
A NEW THEORY.
AL0PATHY VS.. PROHIBITION
REID IND REFLECT.

10 cXpecI TO get fld or an elect wDlie
the cause is suffered to exist, would be
foolishncss. 1t would be like the at
tempt to prevent the waters of the
Umpqua from rolling into the ocean,
while they are compelled TO do SO by
the irresistible gravitating force. For
SO long as this force exists, so long will
the waters flow toward the ocean, The
only way to prevent them, is to remove
the cause, which is gravitation. For it
is an established law, that effects al
ways follow causes, and that there can
be no effect without a cause. The
causes of things may be either imme-
ins causes are generally easily dis
cerned; while the remote cause, leading
to series or succession of causes and
effects, are often over looked. For it
requires All exercise of the reasoning
faculties, to trace effects back through
a succession of causes and effects, to
the remote, OF great first cause from
which the whole series spring and up
on which they all depend for their exis-
tence This VIC find, is the case in re-
gard &c the temperance question.
Where u series of causes and effects.
having their origin in a remote cause,
which gives rise to succession Of
causes which culminate in the vice of
drunkenness. The immediate causes of
drunkenness is easily discerned by the
most superficial observer. Indeed,
every school child knows that the cause
of drunkenness is intemperance, OF the
use of intoxicating potations. Yet
there are comparatively but few who
ever take the pains to inquire after its
remote cause, which is the great foun-
tain from which the hellish streams of
intemperance flow. To do this, it
would require something more than su-
perfcial thought, such as is exercised
10y the common school child; and
might add many if not all the temper
ance lectures which I have had the
pleasure of hearing. They seem to looE
no farther then the use as beverage
of alcoholic liquors for the cause O
drunkenness. And then, direct theil
energies in fruitless effort to legislat,
out of the reach of men only one use
| Of anly this one agent concerned il
| proSucing intoxication. While the
even leave its use, except as a beverag
| with scores of other agents; togethe
with all the remote causes Of intempel
ance, free, to work out their own legii
| innate consequences ef finebriation. Tn
remote cause of intemperance the grea
source of the evils growing out of tn
| abuse of alcoholic and other narcoti
irritants has its rise in the dogma upoI
which the Allopathic or regular sys
| TEN Of medicine was built, that is, con
disease is to be cured by making an
other disease in its place Hence
| their motto "dbi virus ibi virtus, =
where poison is, there is virtue. No,
it requires no college education 10 er
able anyone to see that if disease cal
be cured only by making another di,
ease in its place, that those agents tha
will make diseasa are the only ones {
value in its treatment, and that a
pcisons are the OF ly agents that wi
produce disease; it would lead to th
conclusion, that the greater the poiso
the better the medicine. In obedienc
to this foundation principle of All,
pathy, her physicians and chemisi
have ransacked creation over,--tI
earth, sea and air,-the animal, veget,
bic and mineral Kingdoms, In search
disease producing poisons which, whe
! taken into the system dwarf the siz
, stunt the growth and impair Il
! healthy action of the bioplasm of Il
! blood Thus tie embryonal cells th
r compose the bones, muscles, nerves al
! all the external and internal organs
the frame are changed from the natlul
: healthy condition to an unnatural mo
a bld state. Their blighting curse is Sc,
; and felt on every hand in the morb
craving the depraved appetites al
:. passions in the suicides and insaniti
: and in the drunkenness and vice th
Z meet us at every turn. Allopathy
therefore the bulwark of intemperan.
Q She taught the use of poisons as me-
= cine, she searched them out and tauq
!; their employment. The people believ
: her false teachings and employed thu
r for themselves, and still continue
: use them as household remedies, to /
t destruction of thousands of lives eve
q year. To sav nothing Of the vast nn
g her physically, mentally and moral
: rdined by these destructive agents
the hands of the people. Then if
add to this the vast number wreck
and ruined by the doctors It world i
1I 1I sent a picture at which humanity wo
ed ed shudder. One of the poison us
in doctors says eff such physician hs
es, tolerable practice viii in single y
ed lay the foundation of a good busir