The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-27
Buchu and It's Dupes-Ma udiin Sym.
patty for Exposed Quacks.

pathy for Exposed Quacks.
There is one peculiar quality about buchu
remedies-that while they are arrant humbugs
they have their believers and worshippers,
who, in the face of all proof to the contrary,
insist upon regarding them as genuines specifics.
Everybody is familiar with the long list Of
endorsements which follow buchu advertising.
mony that he was troubled for fifteen years
with sciatica, and that, after trying every pro-
fessed remedy and consulting the most emil
nent medical talent, without deriving any
lasting benefit therefrom, he was induced to
buy bottle Of DR.. Charlatan Cookies buchu.
Astonished at the effect of the first bottle he
purchased another, and the result is that he
is entirely free from the disease and as active
and healthy as he was previous to his first
attack. Mrs. Amanda Brown bids God bless
DIR. Quackem Clews for inventing his famous
buchu plaster. Having been troubled for years
with failing sight, she applied one of these
plasters to the back of her neck. and can now see
to thread q needle without the aid of her spec
tacles. Colonel Bluffwell, of Alabama, deems
it his duty to bear testimony to the efficacy of
DIR. Empiric jays universal buchu remedy,
which in case ofbroken leg gave the Colonel
instant relief and obviated the use of a crutch.
Many Of these endorsements are, of course. man
ufaotured by the enterprising professor of
buchu, and some of them are furnished for q
small consideration in currency. But others
are genuine expressions Of confidence for
every impostor has his followers. Fools can
be found who have faith in the divine mission
of Joseph Smith, and who religiously believe
that the spirit-rapping, table-moving and
Anticipating jugglers, who rove about the
country pickirg up vagabon0 living, are
supernaturally gifted What wonder, then,
that dupes should fly into the net Of buchu-
ism, whether it be spread open for them in
the form of physic or fnance2
The genuineness of the gulibility of these
victims of buchu is evinced in the fact that
after the imposition has been exposed. after
an analysis has proved the worthlessness of
the constituents which make up the quack
compound. ths old women Of both sexes Yho,
have pinned their faith to its efficacy turn
their eyes heavenward, heave sympathizing
signs and declare their belief that the pro-
lessor of buchu is a much injured man. Poor,
dear Dr. Quackem Clewsl Why did not the
many friends who have benefited by his buchu
come to his aid in the hour of his trouble,
when they knew that the qualities of his nos
trum were about to be tested, and pour into
his bottle some strong mixture which would
have given coloring and strength to its con-
tents? Unfortunate DR.. Charlatan Cooke !
How ungenerous it was in his principal patient
to refuse to testify in his favor and do honor
to his draughts when the day of tribulation
arrived!
The sorrows of buchu banking are great.
There remains for it no more enthusiastic puff
ferry from the John Smiths, Amanda Browns
and Colonel Blufwells, who are always ready
to laud it's quack remedies; no more full
faced-type notoriety; no more mamnon wor-
ship; NO more political homage; no more
public dinners; no more fulsome speech
making at lunches or leagues. Stripped to
the skin, it must in future walk about among
financiers in its true character of an ignorant
impostor- charlatan which impudently set
itself up for an expert in difficult and
delicate business, at which it was only
bunsling tyro It must even scrape off it's
gliding, and suffer the world to see that what
has been mistaken for golden ball is nothing
more than . gilded mushroom. Nevertheless,
like all other buddhism, buchu banking has
its dupes and devotees who, in its hour of dis
aster, utter maudlin regrets at its fall. We
are told Of the ingratitude Of those genuine
banks which, having received favors. from the
buchu bankers failed to return them when
they were So sorely needed. From the whin-
ings of the buchu sympathizers, one would
suppose that the great financial operations of
our banking houses were mere extensions Of
accommodations one to the other, for the pur-
pose of keeping themselves aAoat, and not
well considered transactions for the benefit and
protection of the commercial community.
Because an upstart, clumsily managed fnan-
cinl adventure tumbles to the ground, the
banking ability of the country is to make it it's
business to prop. up thequack concern These
buchu bankers have been damage to the
general banking interests of the nation, and
while pulled into notoriety on the Rretence-
that they have upheld or improved the ma
tional credit, they have in reality done it moro
injury than good 1t is disgrace to the.
Republic that buchu banks should be recog--
nized as its agents at home or abroad; and it .
is well that some of them, at least, have found
the level of chArlatanism and incapacity.
They are doomed to tumble down one after
the other, and the day is not far distant when
buchu banking will be regarded as sort Of
physic which everybody should be glad to,
throw to the dogs.