The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-09

uaI ana ina lie us Die ill.,. -
have no right TO circumsrrlbe
mans privileges toward him self,
but, sirs, we have right to say
what he shall do to others. We
have no right to prevent man from
prosecuting scientific studies and
researches to his hearts and minds
content, but, sirs, we have right to |
prevent his preying upon the ere
dulity of his fellow man. | regard
the medical science as the grandest
imposition since the days OF Mo
hamed and Joseph Smith. TO be-
come an expert patent medicine
man or physician it is only required
that one become an adept in the
art of duplieity.
Brothers, the foundation upon
which the prohibitionists based
their great forcible and just argu
ments was that the rum dealers were
engaged in traffic from which the
consumer derived no special or
lasting benefits. Now let me ask
you, my brothers, after having paid
physician $50 or 500 doctor
bill, not only robbing your families
of all the luxuries conducive of do
nestle happiness, but, sirs, the
common necessities of life, what
benefit have you derived from it?
"Oh" says the doctor, II gave you
health and vigor, thus enabling you
to work and pay my next BILL"
Yes, my brother, be has given you
a dose of experience seasoned by
the distresses OF poverty and want.
What difference is there between the
doctor and the rum dealer? The
only difference can see is that the
rum dealer has less arsenic in the
decoction which be sells you, re-
quiring a longer time to kill his
victim than the doctor who is en-
abledD to kill you sooner. This
question of time is more than rebuff
ted by the enormous price which
the doctor charges for his medicine.
The rum dealer will sell you a pint
of liquid damnation for 80 cents
the doctor will sell you the same
amount for from SIS to $500. The
arguments advanced by the ants in
refutation of the charges of the
prohibitionists was that whisky was
a necessary evil. Admitting the
fact, and also the fact that the doc
tor is necessary evil, yet it be-
hooves us in justice to ourselves that
We reduce his enormous charges.
What right, sir, has the doctor to
charge you from SIS to $50 per diem
for services rendered when the me-
chanic and farm laborer only re-
! ceive from 20 cents to 50? Now lei
} us compare the labor, condition, &c.
! of the two men. The doctor mount
ed upon a splendid horse we'll ca
, parisoned and himself dressed il
, regal splendor, and whose mind il
at ease because he has left happy
; family at home pampered by luxury
r and enjoying the blessings o
, plenty, and whose physical nature
has never known fatigue, and who's.
children enjoy all the privileges o
society, dressed at the height O
fashion and indulging in all tn,
designations and social vices of tn,
: upper tens or Bsaunsonde. TheI
} see the poor laborer as he trudgei
behind his pillow, clad in rags ant
7 filth, living upon diet scarcely as
7 simulated or digested by the stom
f ach of brute. See him as b.
a plods slowly along, famished b,
: thirst, exhausted by hunger ant
J fatigue, working for 26 cents day
3 hoping by strict economy and I'm
} remitting toll to llquidate the mort
8 gage held by the merchant or tn.
! doctor. See his children ostracise,
by society, the subjects of the jeers
: ridicule and contempt of the rich
q the avenues of honor and distinc
e ton closed to them forever, Will
e they are chained down to earth b
/ ignorance and superstition, doome'
9 to life of insignifcance and calum
: ny. See them again as they retnr
: to mother earth with scarcely
0 stone to mark their Last restin
d place, borne down to prematnr
g grave by want, despair and oppres
d sion. History oblivious of thei
E claim to heroism and glory; tradi
: ton never finding them out an,
d they die "unwept, unhonored an
: unsung."
s Great God! my brother, how Cal
: you tcleraIe such injustice, incon
: sistency and inhumanity? Arise
s Let US vindicate ourselves and b
! man to man an equal and a brother
d Now let US note the advantages
S be derived from the motion
It adopted.
+ RESOLUTIONS.
:, 1st, 1t will prevent extortionate char