Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-26
The New Issue in temperance.
WHISKY MEDICINES"
The Voice, the Leading Temperance
Paper, Sounds the Call to a New
Crusade in the Following Article.
"Anothcr Head on the hydra. ("

smother Head on the Hydra"
1T Is time attention was drawn to a
form of alcoholic traffic that seems to
have been overlooked by those engaged
in the crusade against the rum power.
If, as Is believed and taught, alcohol is
most dangerous when 1t fights in am.
bush, II it is most to be dreaded when 1t
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 at
tacks system prepared by weakness to
easily surrender to the assault. In
many
PATENT MEDICINES
which are largely consumed throughout
the country, by all classes of people,
there is percentage of alcohol which
puts them on level with beer, rum,
and whisky as intoXicants. 1t is the
smallness only of a dose prescribed
which prevents prompt recognition of
the intoxicating effects of these So
called medicines by those who use
them.
TT is safe to affirm that they are
MEDICINES IN NAME ONLY.
Their chief value lies in their alcoholic
effect as a stimulant. In fact, those
who know, attribute the benefits as
cribed to this class of medicines wholly
to the stimulative effect of the alcohol
they contain. They are used largely by
persons not in the habit of drinking
liquors, and the little dose taken three
or four times a day is as stimulating
to these people as his regular finger"
Of "bitters" is to the regular liquor
1rinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
What ought to be done at least is to
every patent-medicine manu-
'acturer to put Oh the wrapper of his
bottle the quantity of alcohol it con-
aims. That would at least leave people
o exercise their own judgments. More
han that, no paper truly Interested in
reform should print the adj
lertisement of any alcoholic medicine.
Il should be the duty of every temper
ance organization and branch in the
country to look into this question, ag
ate it, and deal with the facts just as
and as honestly as other
acts have been dealt with"
Approaching the gravity of the issue
'aised by the strong statement of facts
made in the foregoing article, we wish
to. call general attention to the fact
hat DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
,overy and DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
;cription contain
NO ALCOHOL. NO WHISKY, NO IN
TOXICANT OF ANY KIND.
These medicines are equally free from
opium and other narcotics.
They are in the strietest meaning Of
he words, temperance medicines. OF
10 other medicine, put up especially for
use can it be truthfully af-
irmed, as of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
;cription, that it contains neither alcO
lol nor opium or other narcotic in any
'orm.
While the negative features of DR..
oierce's medicines may only interest
some of the readers of this article. the
positive features of these medicines
must be of interest to everX one. The
great value of Golden Medical Dis
,overy" in the cure of diseased or de-
'anged conditions of the stomach and
digestive and nutritive organs is testi-
led to by tens of thousands who have
'ound health and healing in this great
The Discovery increases
he action of the blood making glands,
md by curing the diseases which cor
,upt and cripple the stomach and di-
sestive and nutritive organs, it enables
4 full and pure supply of blood to be
sent to every part of the body.
WOMEN KNOW IT'S WORTH.
Women who are always appreciatIve
Of benefits, have been especially APP
oreciative of the benefits following the
use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
lion. Its wonderful cures of irregular
ties, infammations, alterations, and
female troubles, have caused women to
name it, that God-send to women"
It is entitled to wear the blue ribbon"
Of merit as we'll as the blue ribbon of
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Perhaps no greater gift was ever Of
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Medical Adviser. 1t contains 1908
pages, and has over 200 illustrations.
and is the life work of it's author. DR..
r. V. Pierce. chief consulting physi-
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Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. This book
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feet and a light unto the path 1t
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cal life so simply that all may under
stand and SO purely that it is essen
TALLY the one medical work for the
home library. The book is published
in two forms, one bound in paper
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