Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-06
The New Issue in Temperance.
"WHISKY MEDICINES"
TEIB VOICE,
The Leading Temperance Paper, Sounds
the Call to New Crusade in
the Following Article.
g ANOTHER HEAD ON THE HYDRA

" 1t is time attention was drawn TO
form of alcoholic traffic that seems to
have been overlooked by those engaged
in the crusade against the rum power.
If, Us is believed and taught, alcohol is
most dangerous when it fights i'll ambush,
if it is most to be dreaded when it finds
its first entrance to the system i'll the
pleasant sauces and dishes of the home,
then the form of alcoholic traffic in ques-
ton is doubly dangerous, for it comes i'll
the guise OF medicine and attacks a sys-
TEN prepared by weakness to easily sur
render to the assault. III many
PATENT MEDICINES
which are largely consumed throughout
the country, by all classes of people,
there is a percentage of alcohol which
puts them on level with beer, rum and
whisky as intoxicants. 1t is the small
ness only of the dose prescribed which
prevents 4 prompt recognition of the i'll
toxicating effects of these so-called medi-
cines by those who use them.
at 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
W.
this class of medicines wholly to the
stimu!ative effect of the alcohol they
contain They are used largely by per-
SOUS not in the habit of drinking liquors,
and the little dose taken three or four
lime day is as stimulating to these
people as his regular " finger" of Bit
ters" is to the regular liquor-drinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
"What ought to be done at least is to
combei e5eJ-y pateNt-medictRe maHNfdCt- |
Hyrr to bnt on the 7Vyabbey 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 i'll temperance
reform should print the advertisement
of any alcoholic medicine. 1t should be
the duty of every temperance organiza-
ton and branch i'll the country to look
into this question, agitate it, and deal
with the facts just as earnestly and as
honestly as other facts have been dealt
with. "
Approaching the gravity of the issue
raised by the strong statement of facts
made i'll the foregoing article, we wish
to call general attention to the fact that
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
contain
NO ALCOHOL, NO WHISKY, NO INToXI-
CANT OF ANY KIND.
These medicines are equally free from
opium and other narcotics.
They are in the strictest meaning of
he words, temperance medicines OF no
other medicine, put up especially for
woman S use can it be t,NthfhlLVd8iyUe4, |
IS of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
hat IL contains neither alcohol nor opium
" other narcotic ia any form.
While the negative features of Doctor
Pierce's medicines may only interest
some of the readers of this article, the
positive features of these medicines must
De of interest to every one. The great
lalue of Golden Medical Discovery"
II the cure of diseased or deranged con-
litions of the stomach and digestive and
lutritive organs is testified to by tens of
thousands who have found health and
lealing in this great remedy. Tie " Dis
,overy" increases the action of the blood
making glands and by curing the dis
Eases which corrupt and cripple the
stomach aud digestive and nutritive Or
yans, it enables a full and pure supply of
blood to be sent to every part of the body.
WOMEN KNOW ITS WORTH.
Women who are always appreciative /
If benefits, have been especially appre-
,iative of the benefits following the use
If DR.. Pierce's Favorits Prescription. Its
wonderful cures of irregularities, infiam- {
nations, alterations and female troubles,
lave caused women to name it. that
Sod-send to women" 1t is entitled to
wear the "blue ribbon of merit as well
Is the blue ribbon of tenIpersace.