Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-07
APERsoNAL CARD.
A matter In Which the Public Should

To the readers of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Why does the government spend so much money and risk so many lives in trying to capture one counterfeitera
 s'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 desperadoes were let go unwhipped of jus tice.
 It is only the valuable thing that is coun- forfeited; it is only in the light of purity and virtue that impurity and vice can be known. No one in these days would counterfeit 8 Confederate 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 re- spectability to vice.
 Let US explain: Seven or eight years ago, so we have been informed many times in public prints, a New York State gentleman was pronounced, as many millions have been pronounced before, incurably sick of an ex- believed were providential he was led to the use of preparation which had been for sev- eral years employed by select few physicians in New York city and one or two other prom inent 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 irrevocably, he determined to devote portion of his accumulated 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 pur- poses to erect laboratory and warehouse containing four and quarter acres of floor ing and filled with the most approved chemi- cal and manufacturing devices. Probably there never was remedy that has won such a meritorious name, such extraordinary sales and has accomplished so much good for the race.
 Unprincipled parties who flourish only upon the ruins of others saw in this reputa- tion and sale an opportunity to reap golden harvest (not legitimately, not honorably), for which purpose they have made limitations and substitutions of it in every section of the country and many druggists, who can make a larger profit on these imitation goods, often compromise their, honor by forcing sale upon the unposted customer.
 Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers could not afford to ignore such instances of fraud so far as the effect upon them selves is concerned, for their remedies have 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 coun- tenances their sale alone suffer in mind, body and estate therefor.
 The authors of some of these fraudulent practices have been prosecuted and sent to prison for their crimes, but there IS anoth- CT class who claim to know the for mula of this remedy and one Sun day school journal, we are told, shas pros tituted it's high and holy calling so far as l,o4 fo- Erro Guo will send all new subscribers 8 transcript of the Warner formula! This formula, by the way, must be a wonderfully kaleido- scopic 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 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 it), but even if every man, woman and child in the United States were as familiar with this formula as with their A B C's they could not com pound the remedy. The method of manu- factu1e is a secret. It is impossible to ob tain the results that are wrought by this remedy if one does not have the perfect skill acquired only by years of practice for compounding and assimilating the simple elements which enter into it's composition.
 The learned Dr. Foster, the honored head of Clifton Springs sanitarium, once said that having roughly analysed this remedy, he rec ognized that the elements that compose it were simple, but he attributed the secret of it's power to the method of it's compound ing, and this method no one knows except the manufacturers and no one can acquire it.
 Our advice to our readers, therefore, can not be too strongly emphasized. As you would prefer virtue to vice, gold to dross, physical happiness to physical misery, slata-i the imitator and refuse thereby to lend your, aid financially to those who seek to get, by trading upon another's reputation and homes ty, sale for wares and goods which on their merits are fit only to rejected as the ver- jest refuse. You can neither afford to pa tronize such people nor can yon afford to take their injurious compounds into your system When you call for Warmers Safe Cure see that the wrapper is black with white letters and that the wrapper and label bear an imprint of an iron safe, the trade mark, and that safe is blown in the back of the bottle and that a perfect one cent promisso- " note stamp is over the cork. You can't be imposed on if you observe these cautions
 We have the highest respect for the reme- dy we have mentioned and the highest re- gard for the manufacturers, and we cannot too highly commend their dignifed and con siderate tone in relation to those who would traduce their fair name and ruin the best in terest of the public in such matters.