New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
BENEFIT TING ALL MANKIND.
Andrew J.. Eckstein Gives Strong
Ethical Reasons.

Places High Moral Purpose in
Business of Pharmacy.
Able Paper Attracts Attention of
Druggists Organization.
In the last issue of the Northwestern
Druggist there appears an article
from the pen Of Andrew j. Eckstein OF
this city, which has attracted consid-
cradle attention and aside from the
interest it is to pharmacists it is OF
interest to general readers and the
members OF all organizations, for the
high moral tone it bears and the con-
else statement of facts which it pre-
sents. The Review produces in part
the letter as published in the organ OF
the druggists:
i Pharmacy is just as much seall-
/ ing'' as is the ministry. We have as
our basic principle the good of man.
We aim towards purity, towards hon
esty, towards progress. We seek to
correct evils regarding drugs and the
manner in which they are dispensed.
We work sometimes into the night
over a problem involving not our sell
fish interests but something broader
i and better-something that concerns
1 the entire human race.
/ So far as I am concerned [ could
shut myself off from every other phar-
macist on earth and still make money.
| could crawl SO far back into my
shell that no one could find me except
the man who came to settle a BILL
might refuse to contribute one solitary
penny toward the "cause:'' I could
exist. I could have a larger bank ac-
count than might otherwise have.
But and right at that knotty "but'' ]
find the stumbling block.
To whom am I indebted for the
drugs sell? Who found out what
they were good for? Who told me how
to read the queer little signs which
4 signify or indicate that some dying
man has a hope in the drugs [ dis
pense? Who taught me how to use
care and Judgment in the preparation
of some remedy that may keep a
mothers infant from the grave?
Do owe nothing to society? DO
owe nothing to that branch Of human
progress that we call s'pAarmacy?''
..Am I my brothers. keeper?'' cried
Cain. And through the silence of the
night a still, small voice answers
| ives" That voice speaks to every
one of US. Pharmacists have mis-
sion. But do they always heed, that
voice? Do they always pay attention
| to that?
I am indebted to someone, some
Supreme Cause for life. Had my for
bears seen nothing ethical to live
Tor I might today be a cave-man with
low brow: with no knowledge of civil
ization; with only lurking desire to
kill and devastate. But my ances-
tors, our ancestors, recognized this
obligation that bound them to each
other and out of chaos came order:
out of darkness came light; out of con-
fusion came method
AS combine the drugs which, if
combined in the right proportions,
make medicine for the cure of human
| ills, there comes before me a picture
and it stays with me until my work is
accomplished. It is the picture of a
patient old man bending over his
tubes and bottles in his laboratory.
The light of his night lamp fickers
and [ can see that the hours are far
advanced. watch this old man with
his high brow, his purposeful eye,
struggling on--for an ethical purpose.
He is solving a problem that will as
slst suffering humanity for ages to
icome-that will aid in the solution of
problems by far too complex to fore
cast at present. That picture tells me
that am living not for myself alone,
but for a cause.
Had the soldiers of the colonies
seen nothing ethical to fight for we
would still be a colony. But they
saw; they understood; they acted. Il
IS not enough that we admit a princi-
pie. we must investigate and active
must live it. In parmacy nothing
represents the ethical principle more
fully than the American Pharmaceuti-
tical Association.
Coleman Digs Up Coin.
Last Thursday Thomas j. Coleman
/ a private detectiYe Of Minneanolis