Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-05-30

we have found il hard to follow. We
need your help. We ask you TO help
us pass laws that will protect the
unsuspecting from the designing
the green goods shark
of a disgrace to noble calling. We
want you 10 help us to unseat The
Rider With the Pale Horse, that goes
about in the person of a dirty, un-
scrupulous, drunken debauch. You
may think that your drunken doctor
is smart when sober; ! am here to
tell you that the brain befuddled by
liquor or drugs today is not 1T for
decent work tomorrow nor the next
day, nor the next. The doctor who
associates with vice and lies in the
gutter of social slime is not fit to
look at your sweet girl daughter,
much less to feel her pulse. IL she
knew what she ought about him, her
cheeks would burn with shame rather
than fever and her pulse would pal
plate with fear rather than disease,
when he walks into her presence.
We are not preaching vaccination
for our own protection. We could
vaccinate ourselves and let the con-
tagion spread until the public were
at our mercy. We are not advocat-
ing pure food laws to protec. our
selves. We know better than to eat
some of the things that are offered.
Sealed in can and covered by a
three color wrapper, who can tell
without careful analysis how much
poison product contains!
If You need drugs they. should be
pure, should have stable qualities
and uniform strength. The necessity
for putting poison labels and the per-
centage of alcohol in a preparation
ON the bottle which contains the stuff
has driven more than half of the
medicine from the drug shelves. My
druggist says he would not sell rs
many nostrums if his competitor on
the next corner did not. | guess
YOURS is the same sort of n philan-
thropist. A sixty cent profit on the
dollar man, with nothing to lose and
a guarantee that enables him to re-
turn all the unsold bottles when the
suckers quit biting. Did you ever
know a druggist TO take the stuff he
offers for sale' lie does not beg
YOU to buy but displays in conspicu'
Gus places on his shelves and runs
an ad in your paper. Well, if You
do know such druggist he is what
is politely known as u drug habitu,
and is commonly known rs dop,
iiend.
We are not quarantlning contagi'
ous diseases for the benefit of tn,
doctors. We could make n great dea
more money by turning ii loose. ID,
you know that contagious disease di,
kill more of the Crusaders than wer,
killed in battle; that the plague wa'
more to be feared than weapons. Blu
for the armor Of preventative medi
cine, forged from the lives of de
voted honest doctors, plaques woul,
be vet more dangerous than our mod
ern armament. Have You eve
stopped to consider that the water
mains Of your cities are arteries tina
furnish the life giving fluid and tina
your sewers are the veins that carr
away the poisons that would becko
The Rider With the Pale Horse {
, your presence' You can thank III
medical profession for both, \ fam
! ished man does not stop to conside
, whether the pool is polluted. A starv
, ing man will take poison in his fooc
, Some one must keep the screen be
fore the open fire of danger or III
children of men will be burned. W,
your servants the doctors. stan
I ready to hold the screen. Will Va
: help us with your consent and "a
p operationi
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