Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-11-13
The New Issue in Temperance.
"wnIsKY MEDICINES"
TEIE VOICE,
The Leading Temperance Paper, Sounds
the Call to a New Crusade in
the Following Article.
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, Us 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 III ques-
ton 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 them OIL level with beer, rum and
whisky as intoxicants. 1t is the small
ness only of the dose prescribed which
prevents prompt recognition of the i'll
toxicating effects of these so-called medi-
cines by those who use them.
1t is safe to affirm that they are
MEDICINES IN NAME ONLY.
Their chief value lies In their alcoholic
effect as stilnulant. 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 I" Bit
ters is to the regular liquor-drinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
"What ought to be done at least is to
o0mbeL e0eIy bateHt-mediciNe MaHMfact-
nJeT 10 put on the zOyabbcy Of his bottle
the quantity Of alcohol ii 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 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. "
Appreciating 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
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and DIR. Pierces 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 i'll the strictest meaning OF
Il. l.,
other medicine, put up especially for
woman S use can it be fJWtkfHkLY affirmed,
as of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
that ii contains neither alcohol nor 0piHm
or other narcotic fH 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 Discovery"
in the cure of diseased or derlnged COM
ditions 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 DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Its
wonderful cures of irregularities, infam-
nations, ulceratons and female troubles,
have caused women to name il, that
God-send to women" 1t is entitled to
wear the "blue ribbon " of meyi; as well
ss the blue ribbon Of Temperance.