Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-28
A PERSONAL CARD.
A Matter in Which the Public Should
Have Deal of Interest.
To the readers of the standard:

so much money and risk so many |
lives in trying to capture the counter
feiter?
"Suppose he does counterfeit gov
eminent bonds and notes, surely the
government is rich enough to stand |
any loss his act may confer"
But the individual citizen could ill
afford to be put to continual financial
loss if such desperadOes were let go
unwhipped of justice.
1t is only the valuable thing that is
counterfeited; it is only in the light
of purity and virtue that impurity
and vice can be known. No one in
these days would counterfeit a Con-
federate bond or note.
People who commit fraud always
do it by Stimulating the highest vir-
tue by preying on the cleanejt repu-
tation, by employing the fair name
of virtue with which to give respecta-
Dlllty 10 vice.
Let us explain: Seven or eight
years ago, SO we have been informed
many times in public prints, New
York State gentleman was pronounc-
ed, as many millions have been pro-
nounced before, incurably sick of an
extreme disorder. BY suggestions
which he believed were providential,
he was led to the use of preparation
which had been for several years en-
ployed by select few 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
ability said was incurable. Having
secured possession of the formula, a6-
SOlHeiy and iTerOkabiy, he deter
mined to devote portion of his accu-
mulated wealth to the manufacture
and sale of this remedy for the benefit
of the many who suffer as he suffered,
in apparent hopelessness. In less
than three years, so tremendous be-
came the demand for this remedy
and so exalted the reputation, that he
was obliged for his purposes to erect
a labratory and warehouse contain
ing four and quarter acres of floor
: ing and filled with the mostapprOved
:, chemical and manufacturing devices.
! Probably there never was remedy
: that has won such a meritorious
: name, such extraordinary sales, and
has accomplished so much good fol-
the race.
Unprincipled parties ,chO flourish
IS only upon the ruins of others, saw in
+. this reputation and sale an opportu.
n nifty to reap a golden harvest, (not
e legitimately, not honestly,) for which
d purpose they have made limitations
i and substitutiOns of it in every sec
i ton of the country, and many drug
IS gists, who can make larger profit
d on these imitation goods, often com
l. promise their honor by forcing sale
l. upon the unposted customer
o Yes, undoubtedly the manufactur
ers could well afford to ignore such
a instances of fraud so far as the effec
a upon themselves is concerned, for theil
If remedies have constant and unre
? hitting sale, but they feel it to be
d their duty to tcdrn the public agains
If such limitations and substitutions
l. non secret and otherwise. The indi
a vidual who buys them and the public
d who countenances their sale alone
s. suffer in mind, body and estate there
for.
Is The authors of some of these fraud
e ulent practices have been prosecuted
it and sent to prison for their crimes
le but there is another class who claim
IL 10 hIlOW lIlC lOl llluleb vi llllS ICIllSuN
IS and one Sunday-schOol journal, w,
If are told, has prostituted its high anC
Y holy calling so far as to advertise tina
if for twenty-five cents it will send al
d new subscribers transcript of tn,
ir Warner formula! This formula, by
lie the way, must be q wonderful,
n kaleidoscopicaffair, for there is hardly
1t month passes when some paper il
l. not issued which pretends to give tn,
N only correct formula
h The manufacturers inform us tina
'e they would be perfectly willing tina
1t the public should know what the tru,
h formula of Warmers safe cure is
it (none that have been published ar,
n anything like it) but even if every
1t man, woman and child in the United
1t States were as familiar with this for
+, mula as with their A B C's they cOuJC
e. not compound the remedy. The meth
n cd of manufacture is secret. It's i'm