Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-18
CHATTER.
being the personal opinions of the
writer and for which no one else is
in any manner responsibility.

Well-KnOWn healtn magazine cOnLTlD-
uted an article en- the endorsement
of well-known alcoholic preparations
by eminent people. The facts set out
were startling, to say the least. Most
of the decoctions advertised extern
sively contain from II to 20 per cent
alcohol, the following being the three
leading alcoholic medicines: Greene's
Nervura, 17.2 per cent; Paine's Gel
cry Compound, 81 per cent; Peruna,
$3.50 per cent. Over fifty members
of the National House of Representa-
tives have endorsed these medicines
in the public prints, furnishing let
tiers and photographs. Twelve of the
august members of the United States
senate headed by that paragon of ex-
cellence, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew,
endorse Hoff's Malt Extract, Peruna
and Hayner's whisky. The last men
toned drunk producer was selected
by Hon. William M. Stewart of Ne
vada, who pronounced it exceptionally
fine for table and medicinal uses. But
these lawmakers are not the only ones
to subscribe their names and loan
their pictures for the purpose of adj
vertising booze. Actors and actresses,
including Julia NARROW, Marie Temp
est, Modjeska, Cecilia Lotus, Maxine
Elliott, Melva, Calve, Alice Nelson,
Olga Nethersole, Nordica, Dan Froh-
man. John Drew, Richard Mansfield
and scores more have testified to the
excellence of medicines composed
chiefly of alcohol. Admirals, includ-
ing our beloved Winfield Scott Schley;
Generals, of whom Joe Wheeler is one
and Longstreet another; Governors,
such as David II. Francis of Missouri
and Richard Yates of Illinois; vice
presidents like Carrot A. Hobart;
prominent women, such as Belva
Lockwood, Mary Ellen Lease, Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher, Clara Barton
and dozen or so more; educators,
like Booker T. Washington, Max
O'Rell, DR.. Cyrus Edison, Bernard Gil
liam, Benjamin B. Odell and lot
more have rushed into print telling
what good thing alcohol is when
disguised as a medicine. The mother
and brother Of Captain Gridley, who
commanded the Olympia at Manila,
niece of the late Senator Hanna and
a nephew of President Harrison, all
join in singing the praises of Peruna.
Six justices of state Supreme courts
add their testimony to the good pro-
duced by Nervura. Heads of labor
unions and police officers shout the
merits of Paine's Celery Compound.
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But to crown all the following list
caps the climax. First comes a tes-
timonial from the late De Witt Tai
mage for Greene's Nervura; a good
word for Paine's Celery Compound
and Hoff's Extract from Rev. Chas.
II. Parlhurst; strong endorsement
of Peruna, by G. l.. b. Poison some
time treasurer of the National Pro
hibition Voters League; letter from
Mrs Il. G. Smith, treasurer of the
w. G. II. U. of Kansas City, in rela-
ton to a well-known vegetable CD
compound for women; similar en-
dorsement from Mrs. Gertrude Will
lams, chaplain of the w. G. T. u;
a note of commentator for Peruna
from Joseph II. Ridgway, secretary of
the American Anti-Treat Society; a
letter setting forth the merits OF
Paine's Celery Compound from Fran
els Murphy, the apostle of temper
ance; a boost for Duffy's Malt Whis-
ky, by Rev. Mcleod, a temperance
worker Of the Detroit Presbytery; one
from James T. Jakeman, of the Nor