The Daily Tombstone., 1885-12-02
A PERSONAL CARD.
A Matter i'm Which the Public Should Have a Deal of
 Interest.

HlucH HiOiicy anu FISK so IldnN itNes in trying to capture the counterfeiter?
 Suppose he does counterfeit gov ernment bonds and notes, surely the government is rich enough to stand any loss his act may conferw
 But the individual citizens could i'll afford to be put to continual financial loss if such desperadoes 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 impurity and vice can be known. No one in these days would counterfeit Confederate bond or note.
 People who commit fraud always do it by stimulating the highest virtue; 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, so we have been informed many times in public prints, New York state gentleman was pronounced, as many millions have been pro- nOunced before, incurably sick of an extreme disorder. By suggestions winch he believed were providental, he was led to the use of preparation which had been for several years em- 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 abil- ity said was incurable. Having se- cured possession of the formula, "ab solutely and irrevocably," 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 became the demand for this remedy and so exalted the reputation, that he Was obliged for his purposes to erect q laboratory and warehouse containing four and quarter acres of flooring and filled with the most approved chemical and manufacturing devices Probably there never was remedy that has won such meritorious name, such extraordinary sales and has accomplished so much good for the race.
 Unprincipled Parties, "who flourish only upon tEe ruin of others" saw in this reputation and sale an opportun- ity to reap a golden harvest, (not legitimately, not honorably) for which purpose they have made limitations and substitutions of it in every sec ton of the country, and many drug gists, who can make a larger profit on these imitation goods, often compro- mise their honor by forcing a sale upon the unposted customer.
 Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers could well afford to ignore such in- stances of fraud so far as the effect upon themselves" is concerned, for their remedies have a constant and unremitting sale, but they feel it to be "their duty to warn the public" against such limitations and substitutions, 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 thes, fraudulent practices have been prose cuted and sent to prison for theil crimes, but there is another class who claim to know the formula of thi. remedy and one Sunday school jour nal, we are told, has prostituted it. high and holy calling so far as to ad vertise that for twenty-five cents i will send all new subscribers tran script of the Warner formula, Thi
 formula, by the way, must be won derfully kaleidoscopic affair, for there Is hardly month passes when som,
 paper is not issued which pretends tt give the only correct formula!
 The manufacturers inform us tha
 they would be perfectly willing tha the public should know what the tru
 formula of Warmers safe cure is (none that have been published arr anything like iD, but even if ever, man, woman and child in the Unite, States were as familiar with this form
 ula as with their A B C's "they coul, not compound the remedy" Tn method of manufacture Is a secret. , is impossible to obtain the results tha are wrought by this remedy if on
 does not have the perfect skill ac
 quired only by years of practice fo compromising and assimilating tn simple clements which enter into it
 composition.
 The learned Dr. Foster, the honore' } head of Clifton Springs sanitarium
 once said that having roughly an alyzed this remedy he recognized tha that the clements that composed 3 were simple, but he attributed tn secret of its power to the method c its compromising, and this method n one knows except the manufacturer 3 and no one can acquire 1t.
 Our advice to our readers, therefore cannot be too strongly emphasized 7 As you would prefer virtue to vice