The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

GAZETTE 70, a7a
! correspondence" and feeced and bullied both men
and women without mercy.
T. And upon each and every one of these points,
let me say. can specify" and give you in
stances II you want them.
| And yet. this is not ALL It might be bad
enough II the patent medicine victims were con-
fined to the mature and the old. You may say
that all such old enough to know what to
take, and ye alas! they often feel as one said to
me only this winter: II saw 1t advertised in my
church paper. and thought it ought to be all
right" 1t might be bad enough, 1 say, IL the
quacks and fakfrs victimized only the adults IL
they were content merely to rob the grown-up per-
son whose fault or misfortune-God pity him!-e
is that he is ignorant and II they were content
merely to take the last hard-earned savings of
aged men and women as they languish on their
death-beds. This might be enough to make Chris
tian papers refuse alliance with them, but my tale
Is not yet told The list of crimes Is not complete
until we recall that those who can not speak for
themselves must also be sacrificed to this Moloch
of money-lust. that not even helpless infanthood
and prattling babyhood escape the clutches Of
the fends who make merchandise Of human suf-
fering Three hours after your letter came to me
| there came copy of the of1cial warning of the
United States Department Of Agriculture concern
Ing another class Of patent medicines that
have not yet mentioned, this oficial statement de-
claring that not only morphine but even cocaine
has been found in soothing syrups" and other
connections offered for the cure Of infant diseases
and that many tiny coffin has repaid the trust
in mixtures advertised as perfectly harmless" IA
i Mrs. w. N. HUT In address before the M
tional Farmers Congress In Raleigh last Noven-
beg, quoted an eminent scientist as saying that
la million infants have been killed BY these sooth-
ling syFups, etc.. in the United States alone SIM
a nQd nof}v "a &vwaa
tshbulds bel will, II you wish. let It 20 e ton
9 um&e too large.-And even then you would have
II .huAured thousand baby graves, hundred thou
q sand empty cradles and hushed homes the vail
LOT hundred thousand mothers monrning Tor he'd
dead-you would have all this o. - H6Gsuo ~
Cain, and worse that falls upon but one sino1o
branch of the miserable trafnc you have bocs .
Iunwfsely defending, trahlc IN many ways moFo
damnable than the whiskey trade that pulls down
the strong man in his strength. ea
Is not the call to you and to every church paper
In America. Come out from among them ana -
I've separate? aa 8aa as3as al
Yours sincerely and respectfully, q
t-ess sss CLARENCE POE,
For The Progressive Farmer and Gazette
i P. s. MONDAY. THE foregoing letter written
Saturday afternoon was left over till to-day n
i order that some stenographer's errors might be
corrected and meanwhile. have received the en-
closed letter from DR.. H. w. Wiley. who speaks
j for the United States Government IN answer to
my inquiry as to whether you were right in say-
ing that under the Pure Food and DRUGS Act
such thing as patent medicine fakir can not
exist" II should follow the spirit Of your let
ter might use his reply to accuse you Of absolute
laisenood but prefer rather to use It as proof
OF how shamefully these patent medicine fakirs
have deceived and discredited you And IN that
case appeal to your manhood and your sense Of
decency to seize this moments am sure many
church paper in the South IL going to seize tt
to repudiate the whole miserable aggregation who
nave m1sled you. once and forever This viii
prove your sincerity fhia VIII xindiaa&a 10,