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What Sulphur Does
For the Human Body in Health and
Disease.
Tho. mention, of sulphur will recall
to many of ub the early days when
our mothers and grandmothors gave
us our daily doso of sulphur and mo
lasses every spring and fall.
It Wjtts the universal spring and. fall
"blood purifier," tonic and cure-all,
and mind you, this old-fashioned rem
edy was not without merit.
The idea was good, but the remedy
was crude and unpalatable, and a largo
quantity had to bo taken to get any
offoct.
Nowadays wo get all the beneficial
offects of sulphur in a palatable, con
centrated form, so that a single grain
is far more offective than a table
spoonful of the crude sulphur.
In recent years, research and exper
iment have proven that tho best sul
phur for medical use is that obtained
from Calcium (Calcium Sulphide) and
sold in drug stores under tho name of
Stuart's Calcium Wafers. They are
gmall chocolate coated pellets and con
tain the active medicinal principle of
sulphur in; a highly concentrated, ef
fective form.
Few peoplo are aware of tho value
of this form of sulphur in restoring
and maintaining bodily vigor and
health; sulphur acts directly on the
liver, and excretory organs and puri
fies and enriches the blood by the
prompt elimination of waste material.
Our grandmothors knew this when
they dosed us with sulphur and mo
lasses every spring, and- fall, but tho
crudity and impurity of ordinary flow
ers of sulphur were often worse than
the disease, and can not compare with
the modern concentrated preparations been goaded to madness by hardships,
nf aiilnliuiv rt -nrhlnh CHin-nP a nininm I hrufrn Hflon nrmrAQsdrmn "wViin.h human
are censored, just as books are cen
sored for tho Carnegie libraries.
Right to Life and Liberty
Upon this subject, Mr. Jefferson said
that "tho God who gave us life gave
us liberty at tho same time." Ho also
announced, as a principle, that "The
earth is given as a common fctock. ior
man to labor and live on. If, for tho
encouragement of industry, w allow
it to be appropriated, we must take
care that other employment be pro
vided to thoso excluded from the ap
propriation. If we do not, tho funda
mental right to labor the earth re
turns to tho unemployed."
To this doctrine I "heartily subscribe,
I can not bring myself to believe that
it was over God's intention, or that it
was ever just, for any portion of tho
human race to deprive other portions
of that race of tho opportunity "toja
bor tho earth" or in lieu thorcofto
be provided with other liberty to work.
Idle land which no man is permitted
to work, idle hands wJiich are not al
lowed to work', form an indictment
against any ruling class which, will
result in a verdict of guilty "before any
impartial jury of intelligent thinkers'.
Mr. Jefferson further said, ""The
earth belongs in usufruct to the liv
ing; the dead have neither Tight nor
dominion over it" s
One of tho evils of our system Is
that tho living can transmit a monop
oly to their descendants, airti thus the
grip of the dead is never loosened.
Labor Question
In considering the labor question, wo
should not lose sight of tho fact that
our working classes have had much to
endure. Those who know something
of the horror of their condition in the
Pennsylvania coal fields, for example,
as shown in congressional' investiga
tions, can well understand. tht.ir point
of view. In. many cases they have
of sulphur, of which Stuart's Calcium
Wafers is undoubtedly thevbest and
most widely used.
They are the natural antidote for
liver and kidney troubles and cure
constipation and purify tho blood in
a way that often surprises patient and
physician alike.
Dr. R. M. Wilklns while experiment
ing with sulphur remedies soon found
that tho sulphur from Calcium Wau su
perior to any other form. He says;
"For liver, kidney and "blood troubles,
especially when resulting from consti
pation or malaria, I have been sur
prised, at the results obtained from
Stuart's Calcium Wafers. In patients
suffering from boils and pimples and
oven deep-seated carbuncles, I have
repeatedly seen them dry up and dis
appear in four or five days, leaving the
skin clear and smooth. Although Stu
art's Calcium Wafer is a proprietary
article, -and sold by druggists, and for
that reason tabooed by many physi
cians, yet I know of nothing so safe
and' reliable for constipation, liver and
kidney troubles and especially In all
brutalities, oppressions, which human
nature can not always stand. The vir
cual slavery which exists in many a
mine Is no secret. The despotic con
trol which employers exert over em
ployes in many fields of labor deprives
the laborer of any real political free
dom, and amounts to a systematic
rerfdom. These men have been mocked
by many a pledge and promise. Many
a politician has ridden into office as
their especial representative and advo
cate, only to bring disappointment and
despair to those who trusted him. Time
and again national platforms have
promised abolition of sweatshops and
unreasonable hours of labor Sweat
shops have not be"en abolished and un
reasonable lioura. of .labor are: much too
common. In spite of all this talk of
general prosperity, I deny that it ex
ists. The mass of the people have no
surplus money. All our large cities
are crowded with human driftwood, the
floating wrecks beaten to pieces in the
great storm of life. Into noisome tene
ments they are huddled in such con
ditions that morality becomes an. im-
forms of skin disease as this remedy." possibility. The .evil influence of these
At any rate people" who. are tired of
pills, cathartics and so-called blood
"purifiers," will find in Stuart's Cal
cium Wafers, a far safer, mcc palat
able and effective preparation, .
Letter of Thomeus E. Watson
(Continued from page 11.)
believe It to bo a part of man's natural Lnot eveiJ wear a mask '
liberty and equality to labor for him-
dens of filth and. vice drifts, not confine
itself to the immediate occupants of the
tenement. Such places are nothing
less than cancers, eating their way into
the very life of the nation.
Upon the ono hand, we have the
young men and young women of the
excessively rich, giving their lh-es to
pleasure, to a sensualism which does
self and not for a master, and that the
laws should be so framed that there
should bo no monopoly of tho land for
either the living or the dead. Re
cently we have heard the insiduous
voice of those who tell us that "Man
is not born free, but must eariT his
freedom." This pernicious and false
statement comes from ono oi those
millionaire colleges where opinions
Upon the other hand, we navo the
boys and girls of the excessively poor,
growing up under conditions whi:h
make unblushing immorality a matter
ot course. The rapid increase ol this.
class is appalling. What is to be done
about it? Does such a problem en
list no Interest from those who frame
laws and direct the government? Can
there be any problem more important?
Bad Government the Cause
The vast majority of tho human
wreckage which cumbers tho cities re-'
shits from bad laws, bad government.
As a rule, these men and these women
at -some time in their lives made
earnest, honest efforts to sustain
themselves by work. As a rule, they
voro simply knocked down anrt
knocked out by stronger men and
stronger women in the fierce battle of
existence. Hard work, small wages,
a spell of sickness then ruin! How
often is that tho life-story in the short
and, simple annals of tho poor. Tons
of thousands of these wretches aro the
victims of swindling stock issues,
worthless paper which they bought be
cause J. P. Morgan and H. H. Rogers;
or some other king of finance, was
Known to be engineering the deal.
Other thousands are the frozen-out
weaklings of some railroad reorgan
ization, or some manipulation of
stocks and bonds by the majority
holders. Other thousands are men who
labored for bare subsistence. until old
age came and then were turned out to
shift for themselves. Man's Inhuman
lty to man is at tho bottom of most
of tho trouble, and the law Itself has
wrought much of this havoc by -arming
favored Individuals arid corpora
tions with special powers which be
come resistless weapons-in their hands
against their fellow man.
Lt was the power of special privilege,
given to the national bankers by con
gress, which had put them in posi
tion to create tbe panic of 1893. If
a history could bo written of the In
ception of that convulsion, the base
motives of those who brought it about
and the awful cruelty with which t
smote its victims, the world would
shudder at the revelation. It was u
cold-blooded premeditated crime; it
darkened many hom6s; it, wrecked
taahy a life; ana it was the legiti
mate offspring- of class-legislation.
Not long ago an entire family de
stroyed itself because it had no money.
The parents put their little ones to.
neath, ana aiea with them, rather than
sink into the hell of vice and crime
and misery which yawns for the man
or woman who can get no work; This
ease was but one of a thousand. Does
it deserve no attention troT rulers and
law-makers? Is it benear! the notice
of the great? . G id for old! I will
incur all the odium whici may come
to me from making the star .ment that
a social and political system under
which such awful tragedies are of
constant occurrence Is profoundly un
righteous, is infernally wrong.
No Reason Against Reform
There is absolutely no reason why
our laws should, not be 3o reformed
as. to bring:.aboutymare equitable.. dL
tribution, of the good things of life,
no reason why tho individual man or
woman, able to work and willing co
work, should- not always iind it, at a
fair wage; no reason under the sun
why the reign of privilege may not
be brought to an end.
Almost? every ill which now afflicts,
the body politic .can be traced p it&
source to vicious legislation. Govern
ment, instituted for public purposes,,
has been prostituted to private pur
poses; and that is the trio secret of
most of our troubles.
It is today more appa-ent than it
ever was -before that combined capital
has deliberately come to the conclu
sion that union labor mus4- be crushed.
The very spirit now actuates tho Pull
man Car company, the Ha"veater Trust
companies, and similar confederations
of capital, which moved the British
parliament centuries ago, when It pun
ished a combination of workmen as a
crime. Not only did the capitalism ot
that day deny laborers tho right to
form unions, but a low scale of wages
was prescribed, and the workman who
refused -to work at the qtated nrlca
was punishable by law a3 a criminal..
Having thus enacted legislation which
created poverty, there was only one
more gtep to taKe. and hv ,. ,.
thoy made poverty a crime. SZ
luuiivyivew man- wno could not nav hl
dlbt Ju0ttta 1U prIson' K
man yhto'begged for somhthing to 5
v?TSrhwS'UrIng,th0 roign of Henry
V $ Sousand Englishmen wero
put to Heath, each year, 'or the S
2im(L0f boing so Persistently poor
that the? repeated' the offense of bee
ging three times. It was penal to bee
at all; it was death to do it thren
times. Tho English king, under whom
these hQrrors occurred, was at tho
head 'of the church of Christ, was of
ficial t'Defonder of tho Kaitk," and
was aa constant in attendance upon
divine service as the Baers. Pullmans
Rockefellers and Armours of our own
day. He had -known Erasmus, had
written a book against Luther had
reveled with Francis I on the field of
the cloth of gold, and had for confi
dential ministers cardinals of tho
church of God. In other words, he con
formed to all the outward forms of
Christianity and ranked as equal
among tho great men of his own timp,
yet he put to death an average of two
thousand paupers every year of his
rejgn for no other crime than of giv
ing cry to the pangs ot hunger, tho
peculiarly atrocious feature of which
barbarity, being that the law had pro
duced much of the poverty which it
punished. , .
Same Spirit Now Manifest
In .our own land there are many in
dications that capitalism Is being in
stigated by the same spirit as tlu
which lived in the aicien- code. !f
labor unions can bo crushed by capital
ism which has formed its rust, liberty
will be gone, not only from the in li -
and tVIiInkey ITablfa
cured' at home without
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