The Daily Tombstone., 1885-11-30
| PERSONAL CARD.
A Matter i'm Which the Public. should Have a Deal of
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lOABSIONE.
 Why does the government spend 90 much money and risk co many lives in trying to capture the counterfeiter?
 Suppose he does counterfeit gov srnment bond. and notes, surely the government is rich enough to stand any loss his act may confer."
 But the individual citizens could i'll afford to be put to continual financial loss if such dssperadoss were let go unwhipped of justice.
 It is only the valuable thing that is counterfeited it is only in the light of purity and virtue that inpurity and vice can be known. No one in these days would counterfeit a Confederate bond or note.
 People who commit fraud always do it by stimulating the highest virtue i; by proving on the cleanest reputation, by employing the fair name of virtue with which to give responsibility to vice
 Let us explain: Seven or eight years ago, 90 we have been informed many times in public prints, New York state gentleman was pronounced, as many millions have been pro- nouncea before, incurahlv sick of an extreme disorder. By suggestions winch he believed ver. providental he Was led to the use ol q preparation which had been for several years em- ployed by select fsw physicians in New York city and one or two other prominent places. The result was that he was cured, he whom doctors without number and of conceded abil- ity said was incurable. Having s.- cured possession of the formula, "ab- solutely and irrsvocably," he deter mined to devote portion of his accu- mulated wealth to the manufa cture and sale Of this remedy for the benefit of the many who euffer as he suffered. in apparent hopelessncss. In less than three ysars, so tremendous became the demand for this remed. and so exalted tho reputation, that he wa. obliged for his purposes to erect q laboratory and warehouse containing four and d quarter acres of flooring and filled with the most approved chemical and manufacturing devices. Probably there never was a remedy that has won such meritorious name. such extraordinary sales and ha. accomplished so much good for the race.
 Cnprincipled Parties, ''who flourish only upon the ruin of others" saw in this reputation and sale an opportun- ity to reap a golden harvest, (not lsgitimately, not honorably) for which purpose they have made limitations and substitutions of 1t in every sec tion of the country, and many drug gists, who can make larger profit on these imitation goods, often eompro- mise their honor by forcing sale upon the unposted customer.
 Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers could well afford to ignore such in stances of fraud 90 far as the effect upon "thsmselvss" is concerned. for their remedies have q constant and unremitting safe, but they feel it to be "their duty to warn the public" against such limitations and substitution.. non secret and otherwise. The individual who buys them and the public who countenances their sale alone suffer in mind, body and estate therefor.
 The authors of some of these fraudulent practices have been prose- cuted and sent to prison for their crimes, but there is another class who claim to know the formula of thi. remedy and ore Sunday school jour- nal, We are told, has prostituted its high and holy calling so far as to ad- vertise that for twenty-five cents it will send all new subscribers tran script of the Warner formula, This formula, by the way, must be won derfully kaleidoscopic affair, for there is hardly a month passes when some paper is not issued which pretends to give the only correct formula
 The manufacturers inform us that they would be perfectly willing that the public should know what the true formula of Warmers safe cure is. (none that have been published are anything like iD, but even if every man, woman and child in the United States were as familiar with this form ulA as with their A B C's they could not compound the remedy" The method of manufacture is a secret. Ii Is impossible to obtain the results that are wrought by this remedy if one does not have the perfect skill ac- quired only by years of practice for compromising and assimilating the simple clements which enter into its composition.
 The learned Dr. Foster, the honored head of Clifton Springs sanitarium, once said that having roughly an alyzsd this remedy inc recognized that that the elements that composed it were simple, but Inc attributed the secret of its power to the method of its compromising, and this method no one knows except the manufacturers and no one can acquire 1t.
 Our advice to our readers, therefore, cannot be too strongly emphasized.