Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-18

the seat of disease, so the PACK of
modern civilized life is subject to
these cancers. To understand the
almost infinite variety Of forms thai
they assume YOU must read DR..
Wiley's articles. The frauds affect
not only the quality of food and drink
and medicines, but weight and meas
ure, also. False scales and false
standards are found everywhere. FIRE.
quently you do not get what you
| pay for, either in quality or in
quantity. You are cheated on both
sides; you are cheated all around.
Another disquieting fact which
DR.. Wiley brings into prominence
is that hireling lawyers and writ
ers enable the fraudulent manufac-
turers and dealers not only to dodge
the law, but to turn it cunningly to-
their advantage. The most aston
ishing decisions and orders are some
times given by courts and officials
the effect of which is to nullify laws
intended for the peoples protection,
or turn them to derision.
DIR. Wiley relates an incident which
seems icredible. 1t is the story of L
white haired, benevolent looking old
gentleman, who was introduced to DR.,
Wiley while he was still the govern
ment chemist, by rear admiral of
the United States Navy Imagine
the doctors amazement when this
charitable parsonage proposed to hirl
that, for half the profits, he should |
lend his name to a preparation for |
the cure of appendicitis. The rem |
edy,' said the white haired. we'll |
dressed tempter, lis nothing but olive |
oil. but it is highly important that a |
of this kind, when once adj |
should be desired again |
by the party taking it, in order that !
the sales may continually increase as |
the habit grows. Your part |
will be to lend your name to this
remedy and to put into it a dope
which will be habit-forming. so that
when people once being to take it
they can't stop"
Needless to say, the rear admiral
knew nothing of the scheme of the
person he had been persuaded to
furnish with an introduction.
This incident casts a flood of light
upon the whole nefarious business.
Its practitioners are often persons of
high standing in their community
Their ill-acquired wealth alone suf-
fees to establish a quasi respectable
ity.' Moreover they are apt to be
popular citizens, noted for their good
humor, their hospitality, their gen.
erous ways of living and of enter
tanning their friends. They may be
noted for their charities; they may
be the heads of school boards and |
leaders in local improvements; they
may even be church members, in
good standing and of much JUNCTION,
They blind the eyes of their neigh
bors, AND THEIR OWN EYES. u
their moral obliquity.
THIS is the true cancer-moral |
blindness. Laws may cut it out.
but it will generally grow again.
Law, therefore, is not the final
for fraud. The laws against
it are necessary, and they should be
made more severe. and be strictly
But they do not suffice.
because they do not touch the root Of
the evil The only ultimate remedy
is MORAL EDUCATION Our whole |
social system is weakened by moral
ignorance. Society, from the bottom
70 the top, ieeuS " So " SCHooi, III q /
school that will teach, as the founda
ton of everything else, honesty. love
of truth, uprightness and righteous
ness in all things. Is there any
school now in existence that makes il
its business to teach such things
Are they thoroughly taught at home?
Are they effectively taught in the
churches? A great many people
make tremendous efforts to save
their souls by means of theological
devices. The only way that the soul
can be saved is to make it safe"
to begin with. When that is done
nobody need trouble himself about its
ultimate fate.
The world will be free from
'dopes" and poisonous foods. and
medicines, and unholy |
to cheat and deceive,
and to extort money when it has
reformed it's moral edu-
cation! and not a moment sooner