The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-11-26
A PERSONAL CARD.
A Matter in Which the Public Should Have De
OF Interest.

A matter IN WINCH Inc Pubic SnOui0 Have Be2l
OF Interest.
To the readers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Why does the Government spend 50 much
money and risk so many lives in trying to cap
ture the counterfeiter?
Suppose he does counterfeit Government
bonds and notes, surely the Government is
rich enough to stand any loss his act may
confer!"
But the individual citizen could i'll afford to
be put to continual financial loss if such deSper-
ADDE'S were let go unwhipped of justice.
1t is only the valuable thing that is counter
feited; it is only in the light of purity and vir-
tue that impurity and vice can be known. No
one in these days would counterfeit Confed-
crate bond or note.
People who commit fraud always do it by
Stimulating the highest virtue; by preying on
the cleanest reputation; by employing the fair
name of virtue with which to give respecta-
bility to vice.
Let us explain: Seven or eight years ago, 30
we have been informed many times in public
prints, New York State gentleman was pro-
nOunced, as many millions have been pro-
nounced before, incurably sick of an extreme
disorder. By suggestions which he believed
were provdential, he was led to the use of
preparation which had been for several years
employed 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 absolutely and irreuoca-
oily, he determined to devote portion of his ac-
cumulated 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 a laboratory and warehouse containing
four and a quarter acres Of flooring and filled
with the most approved chemical and manufac
turing devices Probably there never was
remedy that has won such meritorious name,
such extraordinary, sales and has accomplished
so much good for tho race.
Unprincipled Parties who flourish only upon
the ruins Of Others saw in this reputation and
sale an opportunity to reap golden harvest,
mot legitimately, not hOnorably,) for which
purpose they have made limitations and substi-
buttons of it in every section of the country,
and many druggists, who can make a larger
profit on these imitation goods, often compro-
mise their honor by forcing sale upon the
unposted customer.
Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers could
well afford to ignore such instances of fraud go
far as the effect upon themselves is concerned,
for their remedies have a constant and unre-
hitting SALE but they feel it to be their duty to
Tdrn the public against such limitations and sub
situations, n0n-secret and otherwise The in
dividual who buys them and the public who
countenances their sale alone suffer in mind,
body and estate therefor
p The authors of some of these fraudulent prac-
tices have been prosecuted and sent to prison
for their crimes, but there is another class who
claim to know the formula of this remedy, and
one Sunday-school journal, we are told, has
prostituted its high and holy calling so far
as to advertise that for twenty five cents it will
send all new subscribers q transcript Of the
Warner formula! This formula, by the way,
must be wonderfully Kaleidoscope affair. for
there is hardly month passes when some paper
is not issued which pretends to give the only
correct formula!
The manufacturers inform Us that they
would De perfectly willing that the public
should know what the true formula of War
ner's safe cure is, none that have been
published are anything like it, but even IL
every man, woman and child in the United
States were as familiar with this formula as
with their A Is C's they could not compound the
remedy. The method OF manufacture is q secret.
1t is impossible to obtain the results that are
wrought by this remedy if one does not have
the perfect skill acquired only by years Of prac-
tice for compromising and assmilating the SIM
pie elements which enter into its composition.
The learned DIR. Foster, the honored head of
Clifton Springs Sanitarium, once said that hav-
ing roughly analysed this remedy he recognized
but he 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 it.
Our advice to our readers therefore, cannot
be too strongly emphasized. As you would
prefer virtue to vice, gold to dross, physical
happiness to physical misery, shun the i'm
itator and refuse thereby to lend your aid
financially to those who seek to get, by trad
ing upon anothers reputation and honesty,
sale for wares and goods which on their
merits are fit only to be rejected as the
veriest refuse You can neither afford to
patronize such people, nor can you afford to
take their injurious compounds into your sys-
tenn. When you call for Warmers Safe Cure
see that the wrapper is black NTH white letters
and that the wrapper and label bear an imprint
of an iron safe, the trademark, and that safe
is bocn in the back of the bottle and that perfect
1c. promissory note stamp is over the cork. You
can't be imposed on if you observe these
cautions.
We have the highest respect for the remedy
we have mentioned and the highest regard for
the manufacturers, and we cannot too highly
commend their dignified and considerate tone
in relation to those who would traduce their
fair name and ruin the best interest of the