The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-12-01
THE NEW ISSUE
IN TEMPERANCE.
WHISKY MEDICINES" :"
THE VOICE,
The Leading Temperance Paper, Sounds
the Call to New Crusade in
the Following Article.
ANOTHER HEAD ON THEH ;

of alcoholic traffic that seems to have been
overlooked by those engaged in the crusade
against the rum power. Ii, as is believed
and taught alcohol is most dangerous when
it fights in ambush. if it is most to be dreaded
when it finds its first entrance to the system
in the pleasant sauces and dishes of the home,
then the form of alcoholic traffic in question
is doubly dangerous, for it comes in the guise
of medicine and attacks system prepared
by weakness to easily surrender to the assault.
In many
PATENT MEDICINES
country, by all classes of people, there is q
percentage of alcohol which puts them on q
level with beer, rum, and whisky as intoxi-
cants 1t is the smallness only of the dose
prescribed which prevents prompt recogni-
ton of the intoxicating effects of these So
called medicines by those who use them.
''It is safe to affirm that they are
MEDICINES IN NAME ONLY.
Their chief value lies in their alcoholic effect
as a stimulant. In fact. these who know,
attribute the benefits ascribed to this class of
medicines wholly to the stimulatiye effect of
the alcohol they contain. They are used
largely by persons not in the habit Of drink
ing liquors, and the little dose taken three
or four times day is as stimulating to these
people as his regular finger of bitters is
to the regular liquor-drinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
"What ought to bedone, at least, is to com
pei erery patent-medicine manufacturer TO put
on the urapIcr of his bottle the quantity Of
alcohol IL contains. That would at least leave
people to exercise their own judgments.
More than that, no paper truly interested in
temperance reform should print the adver-
tisement of any alcoholic medicine. 1t
should lie the duty Of every temperance or
ganization and branch in the country TO look
into this question, agitate it, and deal with
the facts Just as earnestly and honestly as
other facts have been dealt with
Approaching the gravity Of the issue raised
bv the strong statement CT facts made ia the
foregoing article, we wish to call general at
tent!on to the fact that Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and DR.. Pierce's Fayorite
Prescription contain
NO ALCOHOL, no WHISKY, NO INToXICANT.
OF ANY KIND. -
These medicines are equally free from opium
and other narcotics.
They are in the sirictest meaning of the
words, temperance medicines OF 10 other
medicine, pat up especially for woman's use,
can it be trHthftuiy affirmed, as of DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, that 1t contains neither
alc0hot or opium or other narcotic IN any
form.
While the negative features of DR.. Pierce's
medicines may only interest some of the
readers of this article, the positive features
of these medicines must be Of interest to
everyone. The great value of Golden
Medical Discovery y in the cure of diseased
or deranged conditions of the stomach and
d igestiye and nutrtive organs is testified to /
by tens Of thousands who have found health |
and healing is this great remedy. The . Dis
coyery" increases the action of the blood |
making glands, and by curing the diseases |
which corrupt and cripple the stomach and |
digestive and nntritive organs, it enables a /
1uii and pure supply OF blood to be sent TO
every lart of the body.
WOMEN KNOW IT'S WORTH.
Women who are always apprcciative of
benefits, have been especially appreciatiye of
he benefits following the use OF Dr. Pierce's |
'ayorite Prescription. Its wonderful cures
IF Irregularities, inGammations, alterations,
and female troubles, have caused women to
name it, :" that God-send to women 1t is
entitled TO wear the blue ribbon 7" of
merit as we'll as the blue ribbon of temper
ince.
THE BIBLE OF THE BODY.
Perhaps no greater gift was ever offered |
than the Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser. 1t contains 1,00s pages, and has
over 100 illustrations, and is the life work
Of its author, DR.. Il. V. Pierce, chief con-
shifting physician to the invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, n. Y. This book
has been well called 1.-The Bible of TIE
Body" 1t is to the body what the Bible is
to the soul, a lamp unto the feet and light
unto the path" 1t deals with the great
questions of physical life so simply that all
may understand and 50 purely that it is
essentially the one medical work for the home
library. The book is published in two
forms, one bound in paper-covers, and the