Show r interests LAWS OF PHARMACY the danger of saloons becoming druk stores same r good suggestions editor there ia no question as has already absen remarked in your but that the kicking of our aloon keepers for paying a much higher licenia than drue beores and some drug sterea paying none at all is a just one and unless our city council meets their demands by drawing lina between saloons and drug stores as regards the sale of liquor our people will be laid boen to a still greater evil than already exists among us if saloon keepers cannot have the redress asked for they and a good many others will think it a business to carry on a liquor traffic under the cloak of a drugstore this is certainly not what our law and the community at large want for we have too much of that element already in our it then the all important question of law to ward off such a dreaded evil the only successful means 0 doing this would be for the people and respectably respect abla druggist sto petition the legislature to pass laws gener aly known as pharmacy laws confining the practice of pharmacy to such persons duly as are qualified to perform gieir duties with satisfaction to the public afa impression is prevalent that pharmacy laws are designed especially ally for the benefit of persona engaged in tt e drue business no law of the kind was ever in austice enacted upon this theory lawmakers law makers lare bound to consult only the interests of the people and it is this principle alone which should dictate alie provisions of all pharmacy acts and which should exclude any clause not required for the protection of the public that pharmacy laws are essential to the public health and admits of no successful denial that incompetent persons should not be permitted to defeat that purpose of intelligent prescribe inc and bring death and sorrow to anxious homes is self evident and that every precaution should be taken to in eure the utmost skill knowledge experience peri ence mil be universally conceded but we are told if special laws are necessary in the case of drug alores why not in the case of grocery stores and other sources of food supplies aup plies Is not food as important as medicine and is not the public as able to take care for itself and to avoid unreliable places they ask the anaker is that as regaina aba ability of the public to there is little or no analogy between drug and food stores A little experience by a person ot average intelligence wilt usually assure a tolerably judgment of qualities of food and if an error be made it is very rarely of immediate and critical consequences but the drui store patron on the other hand may be presumed to know absolutely nothing respecting the nature qualities doses or compounding of drugs and if an error be made it is too often if not fatal in its results while a good law against adulterations adulte rations is therefore usually sufficient to protect alio public against lood nothing short of a law which hall reach the dealers in druss which shall exclude the and assure all possible skill and trusta illness in medical dispensing can t regarded aa adi quata reputable should concede the importance of legislation to pharmacy because pharmacy laws are not framed in th interests of pharmacists it must not be presumed however that they do not benefit the profession the protection though incidental is none the less valuable and important the discrimination against and quackery demanded by the public sv elfare is inevitably associated with discrimination in favor of tho educated the experienced and com betant it is for this reason that every responsible should a special personal inhere t in the embt I 1 ment and maintenance or pharmacy PAUL VON |