The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01

liable medical men use less and less
opium and less and less Of every form
Of narcotic drug, yet the disease grows.
The Federal Department of Agriculture
Issues bulletins of exceptional value.
as for example, Farmers Bulletin 1913 !;
the Department piles up figures, warns,
seeks to educate, Is instrumental in
passing laws. yet the strange disease
grows. Temperance organizations. in
which thousands Of men and women
give their lives TO the work, publish
pamphlets and leaflets at great cx-
pense. furnish public speakers and pub
lish instruction, yet the disease grows.
Here is the pestilence that walketh
In darkness and the destruction that
wasteth at MONDAY
One Of the strangest things about
this destruction is the apparent mot
reaD innocence of its methods for de-
stroying; the baby has pain. give
II something. the factory was hot. so
at MONDAY have something at the soda
water fountain you caught a cold.
take something. What shall we give
the baby? Paregoric or some sooth-
ing syrup-say. paregorc.
We use Blanks extracts for our pud-
dings-Blank has very fine reputa
ton for vanilla and lemon favorng.
The lemon meringuc pie was fine. so
his paregoric must be equally fine. We
send to the grocer's-no, no, We don't
need to take the trouble to go to the
drug store. for in America people can
get opium in any place at any time
except in three or four fortunate States
Of the Cnion-and we buy bottle OF
Blanks paregoric, compounded in the
prohibition State Of Maine
BY this time the baby is making
good deal Of noice-no doubt the noon
lunch Of doughnuts did not agree with
it-and we gaze anxiously at the wrap.
per and read:
BLANKS
PURE
PAREGoRIc
Contains Pc Opium gr
81 per cent Alcohol to OF
4 sovereign Remedy to quiet Pain and
produce Sleep. Infants and Children
rhqa. &c. 1t is highly recommended
Prepared by
- BLANK RLANK Co,
Manufacturing Chemists.
Portland Me
Of the leading Hotels ana Cafes in the
country from whom they have the high
est recommendations.
Then We shake the bottle up, pour
out a liberal dose Of opium and alcohol
for baby and baby stops, Give baby
the whole bottle and it might stop for
ever. But when baby wakes up from
its drugged sleep it begins to cry. Baby
wants more of the Incompatible flavor
tng extract 1t follows, therefore that
baby must have more. Now, when the
baby is i'll 1t is very intelligent to dose
Il with opium, which makes a slave ou;
Of a Chinaman and a degenerate addict
out Of the average North American,
1t has been hot in the factory or the
Office and at MONDAY we will go out and
have something at the fountain. So W.
90 gayly trooping TO that pleasant place
and there we take our daily rousing
dose of caffeine in one compound or ou'
cocaine in another, enough in either
case to kill an animal outright il tn"
caffeine or the cocaine We're injected
directly into the blood. or We ask for
q headache powder and an acetanilid is
mixed up in a glass of soda and we
drink it.
1t Is an admirable drug store run by
Q capital druggist who doesn't lead n
double life because he doesn't have to.
He doesn't have to because he has the
whole drug supply under his control
He has been taking morphine for eigh-
teen years. am giving an actual and
not even an exceptional instance-and
he u now taking twenty grains Of NOR
phine a day. His Is a big business and
he IL a good business man. He might
be called an ethical druggist =. and in
his own heart no doubt he thinks OF
himself as such. At least he is near
ethical; that Is. compounds his pre-.
scriptions carefully. owes no man any.
thing and does not greatly overcharge
He does most OF the delicate prescrip-
ton work himself. The public has nc
occasion to think Of his addiction. H.
has never deceived because he has never
had to. and not because opium does not
make liars out OF men and women. He
has the confidence Of the public which
goes to his pharmacy and does moi
know that he is an addict. Also 1t does
not know that he. like Lord Hardinge
looks upon the Juice Of the poppy as q
positive benefactor Of the human race
and that he literally includes other mar.
cotics as we'll as the one he himself
takes In the general benefaction.
b BY that method OF reasoning of which
1&wgexbody y guilty In some form oil
-3ooeoas out from the Inner