The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-23
A POLITICAL QUACK
DOCTOR THAT PRESCRlBES
For Social and Economic Ills Or
Any Kind of Local Feelings
That Feeds his Purse.
HE PAINTS AN AWFUL PICTURE TO LOOK
Upon and Many Gazc on the GhostIy Form
And Wonder What Ais the Patient And
What Remedy Will be Applied.
iE PAINTS AN AWFUL PICTURE TO LOOK


WRITTEN EY ". y. COREY.
Edward EggIc,ton i, the Charlie,
Dickcn, of American literature. And
Dickens, master artist that he was,
never pencilcd Il more unique character
that the "Granny Sanders" of "The
lIo),ier Schoo-master' who ably per-
formed the double duty Of intelligence
bureau and neighborhOOd physician in
the backwoOds Indiana settlement: who
retaied current GOSSIP and worked mi
rdculou, cure, with her ''yarba and
things with equal sat sfaction to her
self
Granny Sander, was a type of the
quack doctor. Passing wonderful were
the cures She effected and still more
marvellous were the remedies She APP
piled.
For patient who had Il "breakin
out" in his left size she prescribed the
blood of black cat: the same to be
poured warm ON the "owellin'."
For 'aire,ipilu,' nothing was 50
GOOD as the blood of an old black her =.
\ young pullct would do no better thu n
IL rooster or ",pecbled' fowl. The
hen must he old It, well a, black
And "ile" that had been RENDERED
from the carcass Of black dog that
had been killed in the dark of the moon
was an unfailing and quick cure for
"rhcumatiH.'
Granny Sanders had many contem-
poraries in her time and many proto-
types and a!tertNpcS II, well. The old
days had their blood-letting and witch
healing and the present day has its
mind or faith cure. The quack doctor
we have Away, had with lis in addition
to our other troubles.
And not only have our physical in
lirmitie, had their quAck doctors, but
our social and economic ills haYe also
had their quacks: each particular
economic "brcakilg out" having it,
especial quack.
The traffic in thos C things which kills
the body and debase the mind is one OF
the most hideous of the many ulcers
which allict the body polite, and the
quack in this come elton is the prohibit
ZIONIST. The Prohibtioni,t is the poll
tical quacll par excellence OF this day
and age. Iii, audible ''quacK' i, long
and loud and increasing.
Some of hi, quackings are true.
When he draws a terrible picture
none too tcrlible-of the disease and
it, widespread horrors. there are none
to say him may. This is tale OF woe
which i, all too true. 1t is only when
he comes to apply Ms remedy that his
essential character as a quack appears.
When he describes thc sickness and its
manifestations he is an orator: but
when he exhibits his samples and
beg in, to explain his ''patent' remedy,
he becomes II mere quack and very
crude one at that.
The public is more or less familiar
with the awful array OF facts that the
prohlbiton7tS is IN the habit Of laying
before his hearers and readers. lie
points to the vast army OF .2o,O0O men
engaged in the liquor business in the
United States 1889. He tells Us that
the religious organizations spent last
year 7J,JOO, coo IN home and foreign
missions, but that the American poop {
us whole spent Tl,O00.0OU. 600 toi
| liquor curing the same period AND
( the latter amount he says, Is mole than
/ the same people spent Tor beet pork
/ II Jur IN the same time. and hearty
equal, the money paid to American
factory employ Is IN lN99.
New York State, alone we are told,
consumed 5.Ojl 900 barrels of liqN or in
Isl
He admits that, in spite of bis own
or5anilcd and persistent OppU=it ,On,
the liquor traffic Is increasing at an
alarming rate. lie cite, the iiytu e..
/ He SAYS that the number Of gallons OF
spirituous liquors produced in the
| United States hu, Increased from 50.
432, lo6 in l,1s to sj,66s. III. in SHe:
and the production of termented Ii l.
Iors has Increased from lo,24 Al ba.
rels in ISIS to j1.5.9,o9J barrels Ia
/ lN9S. He says that there were 1,02 y
/ IL more Bushels Of grain USED III II
Manufacture OF distilled spirits alone Ia
-, than in u.s..
When he speak, of the government 5
connection with this nefariOu> business
ne grows righteou.ly indignant. lie
refers to our benevolent and Christian
/ government as dividing the rake off :
With the liquor dealers and receiving
vast sum, OF money as its share III
the shape OF internal revenue receipts.
Again he wives the exact figures. He
declares that the revenue receipts from
he sale of matted and spirtuo l.
liquors in the United States tor the