Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-04
TO SOUTHERN MERCHANTS
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

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CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
The whole country is flooded with Counterfeit
and Imitation Schnapps. The public should be
careful to purchase only the genuine article, man
ufactured and imported by Udolpho Wolfe, which
has the name of the manufacturer on the Bottle,
Cork and Label.
For sole by all the respectable Grocers and
Druggists.
Read the opinions of the New York Press.
UDOLPHO WOLFE,
% Beaver Street, New York.
From the New York Mercury.
FRAUDULENT INVITATIONS OF SUPERIOR COMMODITIES.
Among the many dshoncstics of trade which
the moral sense Of the community is called upon
to suppress, we would particularly notice most
pernicious and Infamous practice adopted by un-
scrupulous dealers Of initiating and counterfeiting
the exterior appearance and precautionary labels
Of popular drugs, med camenta, and other articles
Of personal consumption, and thus, by seizing up
on the well acquired reputation of On enterprising
trader, palming off most destructive and worthless
compounds, to 2he sore detriment not only OF the
consumer, but to the character of the man who
has expended thousands of dollars in bringing the
genuine article into esteem and demand. These
petty larceny thieves are the best of all honorable
dealers and traders, and the trade is as much high
way robbery as the violent appropriation Of their
neighbor's purse in fact they are beneath the
burglar and highwayman in dignity-for these
latter felons exhibit q bravery or recklcssness of
character in nowise Distinguishing the mercantile
assassin who stabs in the dark. And ought they
not be rewarded with punishment commensurate
with the cowardce Of their crime? We were led
to these remarks by accidentally observing spu-
rious counterfeit of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam
Schnapps. The labels were initiated perfectly,
with the slight addition of few letters to plead
technical avoidance Of the law against counterfeit
ting; the bottles were very similar, and every
thing carefully prepared to impose upon careless
purchaser. Now is not the man who perpetrated
this fraud, a fclon, q robber? Assuredly he is;
for, as Mr. Wolfe has expended large sums to bring
his genuine imported schnapps to:Hepular de-
mand, that demand may be justly considered q
part of his capital in trade, and fellow stealing
part of his reputation is as much of thief as If
he had stolen barrel of his schnapps in bulk
And to this crime he adds further one of defrau-
ding the community by giving them ruinous ar
ticle for tho money they intended to expend for O
commodity in which they had confidence. And,
further, every man who participates indirectly in
the fraud, by selling spurious articles is as much
of on offender as the principal who planned the
imposition. The remedy of Mr.. Wolfe should lie
in his holding all concerned up to the contempt Of
the community thus swindled by their operations,
and unconsciously imposed upon by their noxous
composition. We trust that Mr.. Wolfe will OBJ
tain names, not only of the concoct0rs Of these
counterfcits, but OF every man offering them for
sale aud then publish them to the world; for his
own reputation and the health of the community
demand that all parties should be nailed to the
pilory of popular exccration. Pc
From the New York Dispatch
AN INFAMOUS BUSINESS. an enterprising
man strikes out new business, to the establish
ment of which he gives his industry, time, talents
and pecuniary means, can anything be more con-
temptbe than to have another steal in, and, under
specious pretcxts hold out to the public an inferi-
or article, and end.ayor to obtain their patronage?
Pray, what difference is there, so far as the hon
csty of the thing is concerned, between purloin-
ing the business by which citizent hopes to make
his bread and stealing the bread itself? A COM
mon thief if lie takes without leave, however hun
cry, loaf of bread from bakers shop, is appre-
hended and condemned to the penitentiary for dar-
ing in surrcptitious manner to apease his appe-
tite; but put respectable looking coat on his
back and o few dollars in his pocket, and he may,
with impunity, nay, even with the applause of his
fellows, by knayery, forgery or other infamous
means, take the business Of on honest man from
him, and 20 unscathed of justice. All this is wrong.
Some years since gentleman of this city (Udol-
pho Wolfe) introduced to the United States medi-
Gated article Of gin, which was highly approved
by professional gentlemen as superior tonic and
deobstruent, and the knowledge of which he,
by advertisement and otherwise, disseminated
throughout the country. So soon as tricksters,
who pass in the business community rs homes,
men, saw that Mr.. Wolfe was likely to have hand
some returns for the time and money which he
had expended, they set about forging his labels
and palming off upon the people dctestable aud
poisonous compounds which they have the hardi-
hood to call "Schiedam schnapps." In some in
stances they have gone so far as to put Wolfe's
uame to their viainous liquids. AS this horde
orc growing bold in their rascaties, il is time the
public in town and country were put upon their
guard Consumers should be sure that they pur-
chase the genuine article, or else their health may
be irreparably injured by using the horrible stuff
that unscrupulous men, because they can buy ii
cheap, will offer as the genuine article. Pure
Schiedam Schnapps can only be obtained ut the
stores of respectable merchants and druggists, in
town and country, and at the establishment Of
Udolpho Wolfe, Nos 18, 20 and % Beaver Street,
in this city, where it is gotten up exclusively. We
think it o duty which Mr.. Wolfe owes to himself
and the community to publish, by name, the ras
calls who are thus attempting to defroud both him
and those who would be his customers. lie should
not permit his modesty to hold him back from
making so righteous an expose.
AGENTS IN CHARLEsToN.-Havand Harrall
Co., Kinck s. Wickenberg, Follin s. Fourgeaud
A. Won Dohlen, Henry Gerdts, B. Bollman, Op
penheim Brothers, Paul & Brown, John F. O'Ncill
| A. Biscboff, D. A. ANIME, G. F. Meldau, Bailey s
Douglas, H. Jessen, S. S. Farrar & Brothers
Werheim s. Fetjen.
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