The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-12-01
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The Fight is in tarnes'.

nqfpnt medicines dl inc lHetIiilS
u the Board of Health tonight
They are going to force the
oroprietors of certain dopey cure
ans 10 adorn their benevolent
Iottles with signs OF "Strych
nine' Poisonr Failing to do
"a they will be arrested.
The roar TO come can be i'm
agined. 1t will be the beginning
Of a battle royal.
To decorate some of these rem
edies of the freside and home
NTH dreadful 'pizen" signs
would be equivalent TO forcing
them out Of the market.
Many millions of dollars will
he involved in the fight 1t will
be waged with special bitterness
because it is the first definite
movement in the national cam
paign evidently abont to start.
Many national publications
have taken Up the fight against
these poison-satured liquor-base
medicines. any legislation begun
would probably be spreading. "
Hence the Board of Health will
bring down an avalanche upon
itself tonight, while probably
starting a campaign that shall
reach afar.
Impetus to the local movement
has been given by the resolutions
adopted a day or so ago at the
w. c. T. L. national convention,
also By the death of a young man
al one of the hospitals of delir-
lum tremens induced by drinking
a patent so-called medicine for
|catarrh.
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Health the physicians
|who compose it expressed them
selves unanimously and bitterly
AGAINST the sale of these medi-
|cnes. So there is no doubt of a
campaign being started.
Ii will be carried on under the
provisions of a law already on
the statute books. This has
never been enforced, but requires
the sellers of proprietary medi-
|cines to label their bottles with
whichever brand of poison the
Pstuff in them happens to contain.
The board will instruct the city
Chemist to report an analysis OF
the principal patent medicines on
the market.
The owners of such medicines
las contain dope" will be notified
| to properly label them. Failing
TO do 50 within a reasonable time,
terminal proceedings will be in
I |Stituted.
AT this point. war;
In most cases the analysis is a
mere formality. II is known
that several of the 'tonics" on
the market contain more alcohol
than any brand of liquor on the
market.
Some of the soothing syrups
land cough medicines are filled
| with opium.
This is a "dopey" old world.
anyway, when you look at the
bottles in it. Los Angels Times.
Making Profit
In Joliet. ILL.,. on November
18th, the new brewery sent the
Rmgh school boys an invitation to
F. free dinner at their establish
ment. one block from the school.
with the result that the boys got
drunk and puked all over the
school housel At Lyons, N. Y ,
y the same day. the tobacco
crust, looking to extend its pro-
It's, had two boys give every boy
N the school little package of
Iooscco, with the result that the
school had to close for the day to
s,are for the sick and clean up the
noorS, These are just simple
news items in the daily papers
q the l4thl Awful, did you say!
eS, but it's your fault. Yon
vote for having the industries in
gDnIyate hands for private profit.
these free dinners and free to-
oacco are the efforts of the capi-
alsts to create new customers
and your children were de-
based in consequence What dc
people do business for if not to
RaEs all the money they cam
ana wasn't that just what the
Sser and tobacco trusts were
uolng. = Advertising for future
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