The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-02
"ONCE MORE THE INSIDIOUS pERUNA'


orial clipped from the New Orleans
States. issue of March IS:
"A few days ago the States published
an editorial containing comments more
or less lightsome on the rude invasion
which the exhilarating beverage known
as Peruna has made in the prohibition
districts of Mississippi and North
Louisiana, where failure to attend
church with punctilious regularity is
crime, and to be discovered with a
flask of Pixies Magnolia in your clothes
means Punishment from the community.
We are gratifed to note that the edit
orial referred to has produced an echo
in the form of the following letter from
very frank and truthful minister Of
the gospel who in some way has man
aged to get "a straight line on Peruna
and who is we'll acquainted, evidently,
with its ingredients and its potency.
The minister says:
"a friend having called my attention
to your recent editorial, entitled "The
Perunaic Curse" | wish to express my
qualification at the stand which you,
together with the Lafayette Gazette
and Ruston Leader, have taken to ex-
pose this disguised intoxicant. | have
been fighting this form of liquor for
some time, both in public discourse and
private endeavor, The saddest feature
to me is the endorsement given to Pc
runa and kindred remedies" by promi-
nent men, especially ministers of the
gospel, who are thus, unconsciously
perhaps, aiding the infamous liquor
traffic And contributing to the great tide
of irten1perance. H.. =
"'Peruna contains from 90 to Is per
cent of alcohol, and is far more intoxi-
eating than wine, beer or whiskey So
it is with all the so-called '.tonics."
They are composed chiefly of alcohol,
and the unsuspecting victim, allured By
the recommendation of ministers and
the religious press which advertises
these intoxicants, acquires the alcohol
habit before he is aware of it. | have
been told by druggist that women buy
these TONES because of their stimulat-
ing effects. 1t is so much more respect
able to get tipsy. on Peruna than on
plain old Bourbon or rye! ...-,..
Just here let me also utter a warn
ing against narcotics like Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup" which is COM
posed principally of opium. Helpless
infants and children are dosed with
these vile deeoctions, and thus are
trained up to become alcohol and drug
hends. What an awful responsibility
rests upon those who, by example and
precept, are thus aiding the devil in
hisdirty work!
did not expect the secular press
to cry out against this evil, and hence
| am all the more gratifed that it has
the courage to do so.
We quite agree with our correspond
er1t that it is most reprehensible for
ministers of the gospel and the reli-
gious press to recommend to their
brother and sister mortals such DOW
erful reproducing extract as Peruna,
and claim that it is nerve tonic and
sire cure for catarrh. How MANY
quiet 'nips, of Peruna have been taken
In the sanctun of religious week1ies we
can not say, but we do know that many
an humble follower of the Lamb likes
it very much and that it has caused |
thousands of them to wander far from
the fold and entirely out of hearing of
the bell wether. We weep eopious1v
when we think how ministers, presiding
elders and deacons have tasted if only
to be refreshed and to taste it again.
he sons of temperance are a unit in
favor of Peruna, because it does not
conflict with their lodge obligations
and at the same time fills in a most sat
isfactory manner a long-felt want.
There is not q prohibition state in the
country in which Peruna can not be
found in all the drug stores, and where
the demand for it is very large and
constantly growing. This is due to the
fact that it cures the deep purple thirst
more speedily than it does the catarri1,
and more people seem to be afflicted
with the thirst ailn1ent than the catarrh.
Again, there are a great many people
living in dry towns who, by reason Of
the dryness, suffer from weak nerves, !
and Peruna is the only remedy which
the druggist Is able to recommend that
will afford the desired relief AMI u.a