The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-04-14

q lot of Tow headed children roostIng on a
fence who shouted and waved as the cars
came up, and tiien. as il with common i'm
prise. every child leaped to the ground and
began race with the train. The race was of
short duration As the machine left the
painting little runners behind. this gray
haired onloo,icr smiling sadly remarked
Young America all over. Nothing too
swift for them 10 race acainst" = Yes, you
couldn't find n filter exemplifcatiOn of the
familiar saying The child is the father of
the man than in that group of children rlr-
ing against the train It's bnt preliminary
heat of the great race their parents are en-
gagged in As physician / realize as per-
haps YOU do not" he continued, the CHROME
Gus change that fifty years have made in orr
national life People point back TO grand
mothers and great-grandmothers and say
LOOK AT THEM!
Compare them with the women OF to-day !.
How straight they were and hoiy strong,
how hardy and how helpful they were, how
heartily they ate and how heartily they
laughed They didn't smoke cigarettes and
sip cordals AMI depend on choral for sleep.
They were a different race from tile blood
less, dragged out. narcoic-and -stimuant-
using women of to day. Now that's all true
in general and yet it misses the main point
by failing to consider the vast difference in
the conditions under which life is being lived
by the man and woman of to-day Our an
cestry sauntered through lile
Far from the madding crowds ignoblc strife
Their sober wishes never learned TO stray;
Along tn cool ScqileStcrcd vale OF life
They kept the even tenor of their way.
To-day, rs men and women, millions of
Us do in earnest what those children did Ill
play: we run a race daily against steam,
against electricity and all the modern appli
ances for speed is IL any wonder men and
women take to stimulans and narcotics !?
1t isn't deprayity. 1t iSl't because we are
less of women or less OF men than our an
ccstors. It's because we're keyed up to the
straining point all the time, and the nerves
won't stand the daily strains and drains
without protest. They call the eflervescent
bravery OF the man in liquor Dutch cour-
age You might rs well name the eiferves
cent strength gained by stimulants Dutch
strength. 1t i, not strength at ALL"
There is a ton OF solid fact to reflect on !,
suggested by the statement just quoted
W hat are we going to do? This is the age of
steam, the age of electricity. We must
keep up i'll
THE GREAT RACE.
But how long can we keep up when we are
depending on q false strength? No longer,
relatively, than the children kept up their
race VITA the train What we need IS more
Drawn and less brandy, more blood and
better blood. It's as impossible TO get
strength from sti,nulantS rs to hatch Il turtle
dove from the egg of "a mud turtle. Strength
OF body depends on pure and plentiful
blood current, for science has never advanced
a fact beyond the statement Of Moses that
"The Blood is The Life" But every genera
ton of investigation shows the statement to
be true i'll a wider, deeper, and broader sense
than was dreamed OF III the past. Bad blood
means bad morals. Foul blood and foul
living 90 together The faint in the blood
has an echo III salacious speech, q shadow in
corrupt condact. Side by side with physical
brcak-dOwns we see the moral break-,iowasi;
defaulting cashiers, dsiIonos; clerks, faithlcss
husbands, false wives. 1t all begins with
The blood. And any hope of reform Elgst
begin with the blood too. You can't divorce
the mental and moral from the physical.
There is no special food that feeds The IN
tellectnal man. no n2nna OF the mind. The
mind is fed or starved Us the body is fed or
starved. Thin blood and week nerves shake
the throne OF reason. Starvation OF the
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mental, moral, and physical destruction. 1t
is easy to understand in the light OF these
facts the reason for the enormous percentage
of cures effected by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t begins at the begin
ing with the blood. 1t cures practically "a
wide range OF diseases because many forms of
disease have their origin i'll the blood. 1t is
a scientific compound based, not upon theory
but upon the practical, common sense proof
that if you purify, enrich, and vitalize. the
blood you overcome disease in any organ.
The Golden Medical Discovery - heals dis
ease i'll just this way. 1t begins first of all
to strengthen the body through the blood and
every ounce of new blood and pure blood
counts against disease. It's like the case of
a beggar who may be the prey of parasites.
1t is no good to attack the vermin until you
have cleansed their victim. Make him clean
and the parasites leave him. So disease
germs cannot stay when the organs they lodge
IN are cleansed Of impurities, when liver and
lungs, heart and kidneys, are being fed every
moment by a pure stream of rich blood.
This is Oniy common sense. Few people
believe that consumption Is durable. It's no
use to argue the question. But here's Il man
who, at twenty-five, was coughing splitting
blood, sweating his strength away at night,
his face ruddy with the hectic tinge OF fever.
He thinks he has consumption. Ills friends
think SO. His doctor has as much as told
him so. And so they assume he cant't be
cured. He takes DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, loses his cough, stops splitting