The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-11
DosING AND NAUsnATrxa THE
 PUBLIC.

DOSING AND NAUsBATING THE
 PUBLIC.
 During the past three or four years the public has been informed that there was only one great 'cure-all" for all the ills which afflicted the body polite of Alabama; that Corners proposed rail- road legislation could do anything that was wanted with the railroad situa- Ition; that it made the most violent. malignant corporation act as a lamb like and dutifuI child of the State; that all others were base limitations and there vas none genuine without the signature of B. B. c. That he knew all about the disease which af- flicted our commonwealth; that his remedy was perfect and complete; that the patient had been in the hands of amateurs and tyros who had disorgan- ized it's system. but that put B. B. c. in charge of the case, and with his absolutely certain. infallible and com PAcSo AohicOys AoSVNSfy Wouiu ue Napiu, positive and complete. He had the only reliable panacea and no one else. except him and his troupe of vaude- vile performers could turn the trick.
 The public as usual evinced the great American propensity. They wore charmed and lulIed by the broad as- sertions of the leaders. and captivated by the performances of the clever ar- lists who accompanied the Great Doc tor" on his tour of education, He was given full and complete charge of the patient, who, as is so often the case with patients, really showed very lit- tie signs of illness. but gave. in fact, great signs of health and prosperity until wooed into the belief by the Great Doctors symptoms. that fatal maiady was gnswing at his vitaIs.
 The doctors control was complete. For four years he had been before the public. exploiting his remedy claiming that there was no phase of the disease with which he was not familiar and for which he had not provided the propeN cure. That he knew 8 all and that nobody else did. For over year he worked 0R the now sick body, as- sisted by his high priced performers. The diet and exercise allowed to be given the patient by the doctors as- sistants the Legislature, was pre- scribed exclusively by B. B. C., and followed completely by his servants. Everything that he asked was done, his remedy was adopted fully and in It's entirety. They worked on the poor, sick public for a year, having special consultations with Doctors sel- heimer, White and Company. and final ly announced that their labors were done; that the Big Medicine had been administered, and that the public's con- dition would soon be normal again. But. alasl alas! for quackery. the dope sat i'll on the patients stomach. vio- lent disorders followed the adfhinistra- ton of the measures, conditions went from bad to worse. grave fears and panics agitAted the patient, and alarm was felt for his safety. He longed again for the good. old days before he had tasted the doctors dope.
 And then came the alarming discov- cry and announcement on the part of the eminent physicians that they had administered the wrong preparationi They had got hold of the wrong bot tie and had been giving him insuf- hcient dope. From the pains in his industrial organization, the patient thought the dope had been sufficient, but he is now assured that there was another remedy of which the great Doctor Know-An knew nothing; that during his years ministrations he had not even heard of it or had not thought well of 1t, but that without 1t, the pa- tient cannot recover. Some wonderful soothing syrup prepared by the great Doctor Quack of North Carolina will make the patient we'll and happy again. There Is still a faint breath of life emanating from his bosom, and this new, wonderful. infallible, com plete and aIl-curing railroad juice will fan it into a flame again.
 Barnum was perhaps right in his diagnosis of the great American pub lie. They have shown a particular in- clination to prove his wisdom in the matter of cure-alls. But we decline to believe that, after having been beaten and bruised and dosed for over a year by men who claimed to know it all | and then left the patient breathless on his bed of pain, they will give these men another chance to work on their broken industrial constitution. but, that, turning from what has proved to be a failure and is self-confessed ig- norance and incompetency, political quackery. they will return to the man ner of living and government which brought Alabama from an undeveloped | and financially weak State to a condi- ton of prosperity and influence. We