Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1889 — HONESTY AND INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

HONESTY AND INTELLIGENCE.

It pays to be honest, you say. Granted. Yet how many are dishonest through ignorance, expediency, or intentionally. One can be dishonest and yet say nothing. ■ • A clerk who lets a customer buy a damaged piece of goods, a witness who holds back the truth which would clear a prisoner, a medical practitfoneF who takes his patient’s money when knows he is doing him no good,—all are culpablydishonest. Speaking of the dishonesty of medical men reminds us that only the past week there has come under our personal observation a form of dishonesty which is almost too mean for narration.

It is generally known that doctor bind themselves by codes, resolutions and oaths not to use any advertised medicines. Now, there is a medicine on the market which, for the past ten years, has accomplished a marvelous amount of good in the cure of Kidney and Liver diseases, and diseases arising from the derangement of these great organs,—we refer to Warner’s Safe Cure. So widespread are the merits of this medicine that the majority of the doctors of this country know from actual evidence that it will cure Advanced Kidney Disease, which is but another name for Bright's Disease. ■

The medical profession have put themselves on record as admitting that there is no cure for this terrible malady, yet there are physicians base enough to procure Warner’s Safe Cure in a surreptitious manner, put the same into plain, fourouneo vials, and charge their patientsl2.oo per vial, when a sixtaenounce bottle of the remedy, ip. its original package, can be bought at any drug store in the world for $1.25. Perhaps the doctor argues that the cure of the patient justifies his dishonesty, yet he will boldly stand up at the next county medical meeting and denounce Warner’s Safe Cure as a patent medicine, and one w'lish he cannot and will not use. The fact is that the people are waking up to the truth that the medical profession is far from honest, and that it does not pos ess a-monopoly of wisdom in the curing of disease, doctoring tne many symptoms of kidney disease, instead of striking at the seat of disease—the kidneys themselves, —allowing patients to die rather than use a remedy known tobe a specific, simply because it has been advertised, and when patients are dead from Advanced Kidney Disease, still practicing deception by giving the cause of death in their certificate as pneumonia, dropsy, heart disease, or some other accompanying effect of Bright’s Disease. All this is prlma facie evidence of incompetency, bigotry and dishonesty. We speak but the truth when we say that Messrs. H. H. Warner & Co., have done a most philanthropic work for the past ten years in educating the people up to the knowledge they now enjoy, especially of maladies growing out of diseases of the Kidneys and Liver, and are deserving of all praise for their honesty and straightforwardness in expesing shams and dishonesty of all kinds. The barber who shaves boys would make a good city editor. He learns to cut dowiL