The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-05
Manufacturing Drunkaris af so Huch
Per Line.

per Line.
The Philadelphia enquirer, in an edi-
torial under The above title, delivered a
mcritcd lecture TO its contemporaries ana
dida grand good service to the public at the
same time 1t spoke us follows:
"Scycral Of our esteemed contemporaries
have largely embarked i'll what. to some OF
them, at least, must be very uncongenial
work of manufacturing criminals and pau
pcls, of providing inmates for our prisons
and almshouses, and of sowing bountiiully
and broadcast the seeds of poverty, disease
and DEATH OF course they are being paid
high prices for doing it, but considering
the infamous character of what they are
doing it may fairly be questioned if they
are sufficiently rcnuneratcd. For in
stance, in Yesterdays issue of the cs
teemed RGc0rd which in its editorial col
umns has long been doing noble service for
the cause of temperance, which has, III
deed made itself the useful organ Of high
icense-in its reading columns, with no
indication or mark about it which any but
one familiar with the printers craft would
recognize that it was an advertisement,
there appeared an article under the title of
THE Failure of Beef Tea, from Tie Ihila-
delphid Press, which sets forth that beef
tea is not to be used rs n restorative in
consumption, and that whiskey should be
employed instead. The last paragraph is
as follows: Now what we find most eX-
cellent for conyalescents is -- whiskey;
and if men will drink this is al healthful
beverage and food combined
The entire article, which advocates the
use, by conSumptiycS, Of whiSlley instead
of bcef tea, is presented by the RecoM
in its reading columns as an editorial cx-
preston by the Press Just so far as its To-
cation, its general appearance and language
lead the public 20 believe that it is an cdi-
torial opinion, and not y mere quack adj
vcrtisemcnt, it is Il cheat and II lie. That
is the Rccord's affair; but what does the
respectable Press say to having an article
which was inserted in its columns rs an
advertisement reproduced in n contcmpo-
rary rs one OF its leading editorials?
Does it propose by its silence to conspire
with the Record against the public :! If it,
by refusing to make any protest against a
contemporary publishing matter from its
advertising columns with every appearance
OF being from its editorial columns it makes
itself il party TO the imposition upon the
public
In the esteemed Times of yesterday there
appeared check by .jowl with its reading
matter an article on The Ravages of Con-
sumption, Which had no mark or indica-
ton of any kind to show that it was an adj
vertiscmcnt, yet it was IN exhaustive puff,
paid for at SO much per lime, of this same
whskcy quackcry. 1t was as all similar
articles are, most ingeniolISly written to
deceive, its purpose being to show that
Professor Wood, of the University of Penn
sylyania, recommended whskey as cure
for consumption. 1t is not true that he did
SO, and the declaration that he did is as
wicked and cruel a lie as could be printed,
for the reason that, acting upon so high
authority thousands or tens of thousands
of people suffering with consumption may
be tempted to contract the alcoholic
habit
We are pleased to notice this new drec-
ton of reform. For we have been panied.
after reading strong expression of temper
ance opinion in others of the leading Phila-
dclphia papers, to find Them teaching peo-
pie to doubt the propricty of trying to en-
force prohibitory liquor laws passed by
small majorities, when true patriotism
teaches that laws should be respected and
obeyed when fairly passed, no matter how
small the majority. We have noticed this
in both the North Amelfcan and Iublic
Ledgef. The latter, we understand. en-
joins abstinence in its own establishment.
but in its advertising columns directs and
temptS the weak ONES of other households
to the free concert" and free lunch,
beer saloons, and ruin. Besides the licenses
granted by the state, these notices. in
otherwise respectable journals, give to the
saloons greater shade of Responsibility
than any other agency. And while these
journals think they can not afford space
Tor temperance truths from lcadinn sneak
crl, to the exclusion of such high paving
advertisements, can families afford to
admit such temptations into their rcadine
circles II. Btngham, in Temperance Gas-
cite.
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