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'  (     October,  1908. 
Pharmacy  Facing  a  Crisis. 
By  Harry  B.  Mason. 
In  an  exhaustive  paper  the  author  considered:  (a)  the  scope  and 
success  of  the  temperance  movement;  (&)  the  secret  of  its  strength 
and  permanence;  (c)  the  danger  to  pharmacy;  (d)  the  remedies; 
and  (e)  legislative  measures.  The  whole  sum  and  substance  of 
Air.  Mason's  paper  was  a  plea  that  pharmacists  should  realize  the 
danger  which  confronts  them  understand  that  it  points  to  the  neces- 
sity of  prompt  and  vigorous  measures,  that  it  is  clearly  their  duty 
to  take  absolute  control  of  the  situation  as  it  affects  their  own  calling, 
and  that  only  by  such  methods  can  they  avoid  public  disgrace  and 
dishonor  besmirching  the  entire  profession  and  dragging  its  stand- 
ards in  the  dust. 
The  following  resolution  was  passed  and  received  the  endorse- 
ment of  the  Association  at  the  general  session  on  Saturday : 
Whereas,  a  great  tidal  wave  of  temperance  legislation  and  reform 
is  sweeping  over  our  own  and  several  foreign  lands,  and  nearly 
half  the  entire  population  of  the  United  States,  occupying  two-thirds 
of  the  geographical  area  of  the  country,  has  already  outlawed  the 
saloon  in  no  uncertain  manner ;  and 
Whereas,  a  small  minority  of  druggists  are  taking  illegal  and 
dishonorable  advantage  of  the  situation  to  do  a  general  business 
in  the  sale  of  liquor,  while  non-druggists,  seizing  upon  the  oppor- 
tunity, are  employing  registered  men,  opening  nominal  drug  stores, 
and  really  conducting  saloons  under  the  protecting  cloak  of  phar- 
macy; and 
Whereas,  this  condition  of  things  presents  pharmacy  with  a 
grave  and  threatening  danger,  is  already  bringing  odium  and 
calumny  upon  the  whole  profession,  and  calls  for  prompt  and 
courageous  measures  if  we  are  to  save  the  honor  and  integrity  of 
the  calling ;  therefore  be  it 
Resolved,  by  the  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, that  we  discountenance  the  sale  of  liquor  in  drug  stores  for 
other  than  legitimate  medicinal  purposes  ;  that  any  pharmacist  or 
pseudo-pharmacist  who  strives  to  take  advantage  of  temperance 
legislation  for  personal  profit  is  a  disgrace  to  the  profession  and 
should  be  ostracized  by  it ;  and  that  as  members  of  an  upright  and 
conscientious  calling  we  should  ourselves  undertake  the  discovery 
and  punishment  of  those  within  our  ranks  who  bring  us  all  into 
dishonor.    Be  it  further 
