An Oversight | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 14, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 49.

An Oversight.

Speaking of the various “congresses” convened at the St. Louis Exposition for the discussion of prominent industries, Prof. Edgar L. Larkin says: “There is one glaring oversight in the Exposition. No world’s congress was called to crush out the world-wide curse of patent ‘medicines.’ The exploitation of secret nostrums has assumed the dimensions of a national plague here in our own country and in Europe. In many cases the ‘medicine’ in the bottle costs less than the empty bottle and labels. The demon alcohol lurks within many of them.” There is, perhaps, nothing that is doing so much to encourage the alcohol habit as the patent medicine fad.