Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-11-24
The New Issue in Temperance.
N''WHlSKEY MEDICINES"
THE VOICE,
The Leading Temperance Paper, Sounds
the Call to New Crusade in
the Following Article.
ANOTHER HEAD ON THE HYDRA"

ut Is time attention was drawn to q
form of alcoholic traffic that seems to
have been overlooked by those engaged
in the crusade against the rum power.
IT, as is believed and taught, alcohol is
most dangerous when it fights in am
bush, II it Is most to be dreaded when 1t
finds It's first entrance to the system in
the pleasant sauces and dishes of the
home, then the form of alcoholic traiiic
in question is doubly dangerous, for 1t
comes in the guise of medicine and at
lacks 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 q level with beer, rum,
and whiskey as intoxicants. 1t is the
smallness only of the dose prescribed
which prevents prompt recognition of
tho Intoxicating effects of these so-called
medicines by those who use them.
ut Is safe to affirm that they are
MEDICINES IN NAME ONLY.
Their chief value lies in their alcoholic
effect as stimulant. In fact, those who
know attribute the benefits ascribed to
this class of medicines wholly to the
stinulauve effect of the alcohol they
contain. They arc used largely by per-
sons not in the habit of drinking liquors,
and tho little dose taken three or four
times u day is as stimulating to these
people as is his regular finger of bit
ters' to the regular liquor drinker
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
What ought to be done at least is to
compel every patent-medicine manufact-
urer to put on the wrapper of his bottle
the quantity of alcohol it contains. That
would at least leave people to exercise
their own judgments. More than that, no
paper truly interested in temperance re-
form should print the advertisement of
any alcoholic medicine. 1t should be the
duty or every temperance organization
and branch in the country to look into
this question, agitate it, and deal with
the facts Just as earnestly and as honest
~ as other facts have been dealt with"
Approaching the gravity of the issue
raised by tho 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.. Pierca's Favorite Prescription contain
NO ALCOHOL. NO WHISKEY, NO IN
ToNICANT OF ANY KIND.
These medicines are equally free from
opium and other narcotics.
They are in the strictest meaning of the
words, temperance medicines. OF no 9TH
ans use can 1t be truthfuly affirmed, as
of Or. Pierces Favorlte Prescription, that
1t contains neither alcohol nor opium or
other narcotic in any form.
Nhilc 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 every one. The great value of
Golden Medical Discovery" in the cure
of diseased or dpranPal conditions pf ha
stomach and digestive and nutritive or
gLns is testified to by tens of thousands
who have found health and healing in this
great remedy. The Discovery" increas es
the action of the blood making glands,
and by curing the diseases which corrupt
and cripple the stomach and digestive and
nutritive organs, 1t enables a full and
pure supply of blood to be sent to every
Fart OF the body.
WOMEN KNOW IT'S WORTH.
Women who are always appreciative OF
benefits, have been especially appreciative
of the benefits following the use of Dr.
Pierce's Favoritc Prescription. Its Won
derful cures of irreg Ilarities, infiamma-
tions, alterations, and female troubles
have caused women to name 1t, that
God-send to women" 1t is entitled to
wear the blue ribbon" of merit as wei
as the blue ribbon of temperance.
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Perhaps no greater gift was ever offered
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Adviser. 1t contains lUvS pages, and has
over 100 illustrations, and is the life work
of its author, Dr. II. V. Pierce, chief con.
sulting physician to the Invalids Hote
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, n. Y
This book has been we'll called THE Bi
bic of the Body."lt is to the body what
tho Bible is to the soul. " a lamp unto the
feet and a light unto the path" 1t deals
with the great questions of physical lif,
SO simply that all may understand anC
so purely that it Is essentially the on,
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