Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-06
FAITH,
Once Honestly Won
Can Never be
Removed.
Notable Illustrations Of the Truth.


IL Is not an easy thing 10 win pubic conn
dence; and sometimes when won it is more
speedily lost, because obtained through fraud
or deception. But once the popular faith has
attached itself to a person. principle or enter
prise because Of true worth proven by the
slow but sure test Of experience, it cannot be
dislodged. This il a matter of common OBJ
servation, and illustrations Of it will suggest
themselves to every intelligent person. In
deed, this fact is SO universally accepted that
INSCRIPTIONS men at once attempt to utilize
the object of popular faith to heir own gain,
and thus every grand success in the line Of
letters, mechanism, medicine, and all human
endcavor Is speedily followed by a host of
imitstors, hoping to profit by imposing upon
the credulous. This, though annoying some
lines, is Of course one of
The Best Possible Proofs
Of merit and excellence in the person or thing
initiated. An amusing instance Of this is in
the constant advertisement of Caution"
The law VIII be enforced against counter
feiters," etc. to create the impression that
there is imitation, when in ninety nine out of
one hundred cases nobody ever dreamed Of
such thing. But limitations and counter
feits Of objects in popular demand not only
Spring up, but do 80 very numerously. Any
ordinary observer has noticed in the papers
number of advertised remedies manifestly
seeking to reap advantage from the popularity
OF the famous 5. S. S. medicine, either by
claims of similarity in character or effects.
10 fact, there are numbers of these limitations
all over the country, some Of these, among
other methods, use the ALTERATION Of letters,
and some even adopt the shape and general
appearance Of the S. S. S. bottle to deceive
theunwary. These limitations may be divided
Into Two Glasses,
those that effect similarity of ingredients with
the s. S. S., and those that claim similarity of
effects. A moments reelection will readily
furnish the reasons of our assertion at the
outset that justly established popular favor
cannot be supplanted. Especially is this so
with great medicine, for the additional
reason that human life ia
Too Precious to be Experimental with.
Now for moments consideration OF the
second class above mentioned. These pretend
mostly to obtain similar results with the S. s..
s., by the use Of powerful drugs. But the
most distinguished physicians, it is well
known, never use such drug except in ex-
IRENE cases. because they frequently, as in
the case Of opiates, potash, mercury, leave
mind and body IN permanent disability If not
total wreck. We have frequently heard the
ablest-generally so considered-physician in
Atlanta say, II prefer not to use that medi-
cine yet awhile. 1 hope we can reach the
trouble without it," No sensible man will
take an experimenting drug remedy with its
dangerous potency and possibly fatal conse-
quences in preference to remedy that dis
cards drugs, and whose efficacy is absolutely
established.
The first class of limitations, claiming SINH
lar Ingredients, VIII not sell for the double
reason that the public do not know the truth
Of the claim. and any man with sense enough
to be put out Of an asylum Will take an estab-
,ished remedy before rlskng health or failure
with an imitation claiming at best to be only
as good as the former. No one but a fool ex-
perments with his own life or constitution.