The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-23
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"Auother Head on the Hydra"
1T is time attention was drawn to a
form of alcoholic traffic that seems to
have been overlooked by those on
gagged in the crusade against the rum
power. If, as is believed and taught,
alcohol is most dangerous when it
fights in ambush, II il is most dreaded
when it finds its ilrst 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 a system prepar-
ed by weakness to easily surrender to
the assault In many
PATENT MEDICINES
which are largely consumed through
out the country by all classes of peo-
pie, there is a percentage OF alcohol
which puts them on level with beer,
rum and whiskey as intoxicants. 1t is
the smallness only of the dose pre-
scribed which prevents "a prompt rec
ognition of the intoxicating effects of
these so.called medicines by those
who use them.
1T 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
scribed to- this class of medicines
wholly TO the stimulative effect of the
alcohol they contain. They are used
largely by persons not iii the habit of
! drinking liquors and the little dose
| taken three or four times II day is as
stimulating to these people as his reg
| ular finger" of "bitters' is to the
regular liquor -drinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
What ought to be done at least is
TO compel every patent t-medicine man
ufacturer to put on the wrapper of his
| bottle the quantity of alcohol it con-
| tains. That would at least leave peo-
| Pile to exercise their own judgments.
| More than that, no paper truly inter-
ested in temperance reform should
print the advertise mont of any alco-
| holic medicine. 1t should be the duty
| of every temperance organization and
! branch in the country to look into this
! question, agitate it, and deal with the
!
| estly as other facts have been dealt
| with"
| Approaching the gravity of the is
| sue raised by the strong statement of
| facts made in the foregoing article, we
wish to call general attention TO the
fact that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
| Discovery and DR.. Pierce's Tavorite
| Prescription contain
| NO ALCOHOL, NO WHISKEY, NO
INTOXICANT OF ANY KIND.
There medicines are equally free from
opium and other narcotics.
They are in the strictest meaning
of the words, temperance medicines.
OF no other medicine. put up espec-
tally for woman's use can it be truth
! fully affirmed, as of DR.. Pierce's Fav-
orite Prescription, that it contains
neither alcohol nor opium or other
narcotic in ally form.
While the negative features of DR..
| Pierces medicines may only interest
some of the readers Of this article, the
! positive features of these medicines
must be of interest to every one. The
great value of Golden Medical Dis
covery" in the cure of diseased or de-
|
digestive and nutritive organs is tes-
titled to by tens of thousands who
have found health and healing in this
great remedy. The Discovery in
creases the action of the blood max
ing glands, and by curing the diseases
which corrupt and cripple the stomach
| and digestive and nutritivc organs, IL
enables a full and pure supply of blood
| ~. y,F h.
WOMEN KNOW ITS WORTH.
Women who are always appreciative
| of benefits, have been especially ap-
| preCiatiVc Of the benefits following
the use Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
| sCriptlon. Its wonderful cures of ir-
rCgularities, innammations, ulcera-
| tiOns, and female troubles have caused
women to name it, that God-send to
women 1t is entitled to wear the
blue ribbon" of merit as we'll as the
blue ribbon of temperance.
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