The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-01-15


caused such legislation 70 be enacted was
party of progress, a party that recog-
nized the true principle Of temperance.
giving and bringing forth measure that
would be hailed with delight by the law
loving and law-abiding people of this
nation.
Such law would not interfere with
any law or right the state may have as
sumed toward the suppression of the lille
gal sale of intoxicating liquors, not even
for the excepted purposes. But on the
contrary, it would aid the several states
who now possess prohibitory laws on
their statute books in curtailing the
greater evil in the suppression of the
sale of the impure article as against the
pure. which by them is permitted to be
sold for excepted purposes named in
their laws. Wines and liquors are per-
mitted to be sold by registered pharma-
cists in our own state, who appear to
have monopoly of the business. more
acted prohibitory laws against the sale
of alcoholic liquors: but not single
sentence can be found ia any such pro-
hibitOry laws that would require any
druggist or pharmacist TO sell pure or
unadulterated liquor. The druggist or
registered pharmacist that adulterates
the wines and liquors that he offers for
sale is entitled to no more respect than
the man that keeps fhe lowest and most
degraded dive and dishes out the vilest
liquor that can be found. Then he. too.
must be placed in the same category as
his brother SalOOniSt that mixes and sells
the vilest decOctiOn that can he imagined.
All such individuals are arrogating to
themselves rights and privileges not war
ranted by any law. human or divine. and
by what right or authority are they per-
mitted to do these things: While il is
true that the legislature of the state of
Kansas has enacted law permitting all
registered pharmacists who may be able
to secure a permit from the probate Judge
of the county in which they live and
propose to do business, the right and
privilege to sell alcoholic liquors for the
excepted purposes named in the law,
yet we deny that with it they get the
right or privilege to defraud the general
public by the sale of an article that
would never stand the test of pruity,
were it ever questioned. The sale of an
impure and adulterated article of liquor
is a fraud and deception, no matter
by whom it may be sold, so long as it is
sold for what it does not prove itself to be.
If druggist advertises for sale ''pure
wines and liquors" aud sells an impure
and adulterated article, he is perpetrat-
ing fraud and deception on his GUS
toners and under the law can be pun
ished for so-dOing. Should the article
purchased be for medicine on a physi-
clans prescription the person taking it
for said purpose would be far more like
ly to die from the effects of it, than to be |
cured of the ailment for which he takes |
it. The physician prescribing it could |
not hope for or count on any beneficial
results from it on his patient so long as
he does not know the character of the |
medicine he has gwen his patient. Then
if all this be true, so much the greater is
the need for protection against those that
are especially charged under the law
with the sale of alcoholic liquors for the
excepted purposes. What greater evil,
then, could druggist or registered
pharmacist commit than to adulterate
the very medicines that enter into a ply
sician's prescription prepared for his
patient? None could be named that
would equal it. Yet when alcoholic
liquors enter into the medicines prescrib-
ed by physician, the quality of the
liquor is seldom known to the physician
20 prescribing it. How, then, can he he
held accountable for any unfavorable re-
suits from the medicine so compounded?
Then after all has been said and done,
IS there not some central ground upon
which the people of this nation may stand
md be more perfectly united on this
question? We think there is. since peo-
Die are very 10th to endorse and follow
extremes, either the free and anrestrained
ale of liquors or the total abstinence or
side of the measure, hating
Is it were between two opinions on the
question. not knowing which of the two
% choose; people who will accord to
heir fellow men every God-given right
md privilege which they themselves
would wish to possess, placing them
elves on an equal and exact basis I
# right and justice, who, doing this.
'annOt well be classed as extremists.
But the man who does not recog-
lie these rights and who fails to ac-
ord them to his fellow men, is .
lot entitled to be hailed as a citizen of {
his or any other nation of which he may
lain citizenship, and who not only is an