Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-08-28
The New Issue in Temperance.
" WHISKY MEDICINES" :"
TEIE VOICE,
The Leading Temperance Paper, Sounds
the Call to a New Crusade In
the Following Article.
g ANOTHER HEAD ON THE HYDRA.V

" II 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 in 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 i'll ques-
ton is doubly dangerous, for it comes in
the guise Of medicine and attacks 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 prompt recognition OF the in
toxicating effects of these so-called ned1-
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 a 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,
aid the little dose taken three or four
time a day is as stimulating to these
people as his regular finger" of Z" Bit
ters is to the regular liquor-drinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
"What ought to be done at least is to
compel eycJ.y bateNt-medicine maNHfact-
EJej- TO put on the 7Uyapbey Of his bottle
the 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-
tion 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 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
the words, temperance medicines. Of no
other medicine, put up especially for
woman suse can it be t,Hfltfnliyd6fyMed, |
as of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
that IL contains neither alcohol nor Opium
or other narcotic IN 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
be of interest to every one. The great
value of Golden Medical Discover"
in the cure of diseased or deranged con-
dihons of the stomach and digestive and
nutritive organs is testified to by tens of
thousands who have found health and
healing in this great remedy. The Dis
covery" increases the action of the blood
making glands, and by curing the dis
eases which corrupt and cripple the
stomach and digestive and nutritive or
gans, it enables full and pure supply of
blood to be sent to every part Of the body.
WOMEN KNOW ITS WORTH.
Women who are always appreciative
of benefits, have been especially appre-
ciative Of the benefits following the use
of d.. Pierces Favorite Prescription. Its
wonderful cures of irregularities, infam-
nations ulcerations and female troubles,
have caused women TO name It, that
God-send to women" Il is entitled to
wear the "blue ribbon " Of merit as vel
IS the blue ribbon Of temperance.