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Our Press Gang; Or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers.

Lambert A. Wilmer

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. ... a free use of the most dangerous drugs in the composition of nostrums, which are administered, without any possibility of discrimination, to patients widely differing in the state of their health, and in their constitutional peculiarities? Consider how much of this perilous physic must be sold when many of the manufacturers of it become Millionaires; and supposing that only five per cent, of the patent-medicine takers are drugged to death by the merciless empirics, (which is a very moderate calculation I think,) the annual destruction of human life must be immense., THE THIRTEENTH CHARGE. In this Charge it is asserted that "the newspaper press of America is accessory to thousands of murders every year by assisting quack doctors, or patent-medicine-men, to make extensive sales of their pernicious compounds." According to a rule laid down in another part of this work, "we can have no better evidence than the voluntary confessions of the criminal, or of his confederates." In this case, the quack doctors are the accused parties, and the journalists (as we shall see presently) are their self-accused confederates. I am about to offer you the testimony, or confession, of the "New York Journalist" who wrote the Life of J. G. Bennett, and who appears to be thoroughly acquainted with all the shady recesses and tortuous pathways of journalism. Says this faithful "The press is Extensively used, and, horribile dictu, it is used Editorially, in some cases, by the proprietors of patent medicines, until the evil is about to be checked by a resort to legislation. Certainly the people suffer severely from heartless imposition, where they rely upon the valuable properties of some of these popular compounds; and the sooner the evil is abated the better it will be...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Press Gang; Or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers.. To get started finding Our Press Gang; Or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. ... a free use of the most dangerous drugs in the composition of nostrums, which are administered, without any possibility of discrimination, to patients widely differing in the state of their health, and in their constitutional peculiarities? Consider how much of this perilous physic must be sold when many of the manufacturers of it become Millionaires; and supposing that only five per cent, of the patent-medicine takers are drugged to death by the merciless empirics, (which is a very moderate calculation I think,) the annual destruction of human life must be immense., THE THIRTEENTH CHARGE. In this Charge it is asserted that "the newspaper press of America is accessory to thousands of murders every year by assisting quack doctors, or patent-medicine-men, to make extensive sales of their pernicious compounds." According to a rule laid down in another part of this work, "we can have no better evidence than the voluntary confessions of the criminal, or of his confederates." In this case, the quack doctors are the accused parties, and the journalists (as we shall see presently) are their self-accused confederates. I am about to offer you the testimony, or confession, of the "New York Journalist" who wrote the Life of J. G. Bennett, and who appears to be thoroughly acquainted with all the shady recesses and tortuous pathways of journalism. Says this faithful "The press is Extensively used, and, horribile dictu, it is used Editorially, in some cases, by the proprietors of patent medicines, until the evil is about to be checked by a resort to legislation. Certainly the people suffer severely from heartless imposition, where they rely upon the valuable properties of some of these popular compounds; and the sooner the evil is abated the better it will be...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Press Gang; Or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers.. To get started finding Our Press Gang; Or, a Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of the American Newspapers., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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