Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-10-09
The New Issue in Temperance.
"wHusKY MEDICINES"
TFIE VOICE,
The Leading Temperance Paper, Sounds
the Call to New Crusade iD
the Following Article.
ANOTHER HEAD ON THE HYDRA"

| 90 ANOTHER HEAD ON THE HYDRA"
/" It 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 it fights i'll ambush,
| if it is most to be dreaded when it finds
its first entrance to the systein in the
pleasant sauces and dishes of the home,
then the form of alcoholic traffic in ques-
tion is doubly dangerous, for it comes in
the guise of medicine and attacks sys-
tenn prepared by weakness to easily sur
render to the assault. In many
PATENT MEDICINES
which are largely consumed throughout
the country by all classes of people,
there is a percentage of alcohol which
puts theip on a level with beer, rum and
whisky as intoxicants. 1t is the small
ness only of the dose prescribed which
prevents prompt recognition of the in
toxicating effects of these so-called lnedi-
cines by those who use them.
Z" 1t 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
stimulative effect of the alcohol they
contain. They are used largely by per-
SONS not in the habit Of drinking liquors,
and the little dose taken three or four
time a 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 |
COMPEL every bateNt-mediciNe MdHWtact-
neT to put on the aUya6ber Of his bottle |
tie quantity Of alcohol IL contains. That |
would at least leave people to exercise |
their own judgments More than that, |
no paper truly interested in temperance |
reform should print the advertisement
of any alcoholic medicine. 1t should be
the duty of every temperance organiza-
ton and branch in 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 in the foregoing article, we wish
to call general attention to the fact that
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and Dr. Pierce's FavOrite Prescription
contain
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
use can it be tt'RthfBliy affirmed,
Is of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
hat IL contains neither alcohol nor opium
" other narcotic in any fern.
While the negative features of Doctor
oierce's medicines may only interest
some of the readers of this article, the
positive features of these medicines must
,e of interest to every one. The great /
1alue of "Golden Medical Discovery" J
n the cure of diseased or deranged con- {
litions of the stomach and digestive and
lutritive organs is testified to by tens of i
thousands who have found health and I
iealing in this great remedy. The Dis
,overy" increases the action of the blood I
making glands, and by curing the dis q
.ases which corrupt and cripple the ! !
stomach and digestive and nutritive or
yans, it enables full and pure supply of
blood to be sent to every part of the body. .
WOMEN KNOW ITS WORTH. 6
Women who are always appreciative
# benefits, have been especially appre- c
:iative of the benefits following the use
# DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Its
wonderful cures of Irregularities, infiam-
nations, alterations and female troubles,
lave caused women to name it, "that
Sod-send to women" II is entitled to
vear the "blue ribbon " of merit as well 4
= the blue ribbon of temperance.