Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-02-05
ROSEBURG REVIEW
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 5, 1856.

'loh ol IhentaI, moral ana physical DIS
ease and death filling our country with
drunkenness, vice and crime; our pris-
ons and insane asylums with inmates
and the grave with suicides. From all
this we aie irreslstably driven to the
conclusion chat allopathy is the great
cause of intemperance which pales in
to lnsigniticance all and every other
cause combined. The chief culprit
that sits undisturbed on his throne
while it is considered vile heresy to
call his assumptions into question.
The folly of our prohibition friends
Is clear ly seen in a summary of the
following facts. First: they do not
aim single blow at the great cause of
lntemperance. Secondly: they uphold
support and make provision for its
perpetration by employing allopathy,
when sick swallowing her intoxicating
narcotics aud by providing for their use
as medicine. Third: they sound no
notes OF warning against any intoxi-
cant except alchohol and they try to
make it the "scape-goat" to bear the
sins of all other poIsons, thus practi-
cling fraud and deception upon the
unsuspectlng. Fourth: they even
sanction the use of alcohol, as medi-
cine, as well as, all other poisons, and
aim to prohibit the manufacture,
sale and use of alcoholic liquors, only
as a beverage The prohibition party
goes no farther than this. For the
right, to manufacture, use and sell al
coholic liquor for medical purposes,
is not called i'll question, but is, posi-
lively conceded by the prohibitionists
Indeed; this is as far as they can, or
dare go, without attacking allopathy-
the hodry headed monster in his citadel.
For t he moment that the medical
aspect of this question is presented,
that instant you beard the lion in his
lair; who, shaking his shaggy name,
would spread his talons and show his
carniverous teeth, while his NUT
tering roar would be heard all
oyer the land, and answered by
hundred thousand doctors of Amer
lea, who would rally around the
standard, upon which is written in
characters of death, the motto; where
poison is there is virtue It argues iy-
norance, insincerity, or cowardice upon
part of prohibitionists, that they have
suffered this king of intemperance, to
remain SO long undisturbed on his
throne, swaying his sceptre throughout
the land without even mutter of
discomfort upon their part, while
they attempt to correct only now and
then, faulty vassal But suppose
the prohibitionists accomplish all they
propose, that is, stop the use of alco-
holic liquors as beverage. What
then; why simply this: none will be
used as beverage, and no one would be
likely to get drunk on alcoholic liquors
except those made SO by the doctors.
Oar boys and young men would not
drink whiskey or spend their money
for it, under the most stringent laws,
and the most scrupulous observances
OF those laws, by the people, this is
the utmostgood that the most sanguine
can possibly expect or hope for. This
would not prevent men from graf
flying their narcotic irritants, for
such articles constitute the great
mass of allopathic medicines. Neither
would il prevent men from becoming
intoxicated, for intoxicating agents are
found IN great abundance, exclusive
of alcoholic liquors. The drunkenness
OF many nations is produced wholly
by allopathic medicines, without any
alcohol. The drunkness of the inhabi-
tants of Persia, Hindoostan, Arabia,
and Egypt furnish example of this
fact and prove beyond the power Of
successful contradiction that alcoholic
beverages are not essential to drunken
less; neither would such meanness
break up the haunts of vice. Our sa-
looms would be changed in manner but
not in character. The low, the vulgar,
the gambler and drunkards, would be
found there; the card and billiard
tables, and the intoxicating narcotic
beverages would be there and young
men and boys would be drawn in and
ruined then, as they are now and men
would spend their time and money as
they now do. The hundred thousand
doctors of America would continue, to
administer nearly three hundred vile
poisons, poisoning the blood, weaken
ing the intellect, intoxicating the
BRAIN prostrating and paralyzing the
nervous system -weaking and destroy
ing the moral organs, and exciting the
animal propensities, and thus pervert-
ing every faculty Of the soul, mind and
body; preparing men and women for
place in the lowest dives in degrade
ton, vice and immortality. From all
this it is evident that oil the physical
and mental wrecks, legitimate Sc
quences Of poisonous medication will
still continue to curse our race, calling