Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-04

MEarns PHARMACY.
lol4 STREET.
some PLAIN TALK oNA
POPULAR TOPIC
FOR the last few days our city has been
Hospitality entertaining the National Whole
sale Druggists Association. We have been
considerably interested in the proceedings
Of this organization, and especially in that
part Of the proceedings embed ying the re-
port touchi nR the subject Of selling goods at
reduced or popular prices. This section Of
the report ELECTED great deal of discussion
and induced some Of the d elegates to make
rather peculiar and illogical remarks, when
such remark are judged BY the laws Of sup
ply and demand. -=-.
From some Of the published reports In the
local papers the impression given is mis-
leading one. in that it suggests that any
druggist. selling at OF her than the "old
time" prices, was dispensing inferior or i'm
pure drugs and medicines
WELL. impressions are not arguments and
auc Iou,c in moor lot-,c IN das;pp ,to - cbar;-
tably; and when body of intelligent manu-
facturers and merchants allow themselves
to be argued or driven into passing such
peculiarly unmercantile resolutions as some
of the resolutions offered by the committee.
1t is about time to speak and call things and
acts by their right names. Let US condense
these resolutions aud examine their force
and influence. Number one provides for ap-
pointment Of committee and is all right.
Numbers two three aud four provide for the
prompt and Exemplary punishment Of any
manufacturer and wholesale dealer not selling
medicines according to a certain irOn-clad,
arbitrary plan, Uh ch denies any right Of
judgment or discrimination ,cltdtso, uer in the
transaction. Number tico Is refrestinglv sug-
0estire IN its references to the character OF the
wholesale trade, lcien IL refers to them as
",cilDut,y, deliberately and automatically.
eren though secretly and indirectly, violating
contracts" Number five Is all right If any
Of them are right.
BUT read No. 9. or rather reach its mean
ing from this condensation: Any druggist
daring or prcsunin0 TO sell the goods (of
certa n manufacturer. tchich goods he has
bought and paid for, at prices TO please him
seD and especially pleasing and satisfactory
TO his customers. must be denied the pripi-
le0e and opportunity # buyin0 any more Of
said goods ''ercept al long prices" In other
words, it has passed along the limo to ''c,a
the cutter" Well. the cutters" have s2ood
the ordeal in the years that have passed and
will stand 1t still. No. provides that all'
manufacturers who behave like good little
boys" and who will only sell to the faithful
"old timers" of high prices and wind spent
progress shall have their goods placed on
certain little list. SO they shall
NOW, then, in the name Of all that il mer-
camille and manly. we protest against the
hedging in of any business by any set of
men or by any set Of rules or. in other words.
creating q monopoly, especially in medi-
cine. II the business Is honorable and right
ha ;ufl
according TO his own ideas and plans: il it
be an nlegitmate pursuit close the business
by legal enactment. For five years we have
conducted the drug business to suit our
selves and to please a custom which has
grown to be the largest and most desirable
of any In Washington. and we intend to con-
duct it right along that line-associations
and conventions to the contrary notwith-
standing. When we entered business for
ourselves we found the prevailing method
to be ''Slowest sales at highest profits" We
determined to change things by inducing
rapid sales because Of lowest profits con-
sistent with best service.
HOW we'll we have accomplished our pur-
pose We leave to the general public TO de-
eide. We have always sold the best drugs.
medicines, family requisites and proprietary
specialties at the bottom prices. and We will
pay handsome reward to any one who can
justly claim that we ever sold them anything
other than what We exactly represented.
part Of our fixed and inflexible rule is
Never to buy. no matter what the advantages
offered may be, anything but the freshest,
choicest and lest to be had-and then put it
before the pubic, from the Newsboy to the
Senator. at one price and that the lowest at
which any one can sell it.
BECAUSE our sales justify purchases 80
large that others Of the trade cannot COM
pete. which purchases insure concessions
which the ''old timers" cannot claim or OBJ
tain. manufacturers would cut us of from
selling their products! In fact. the populaf-
price druggists the country over are to be
shut out from supplies! Wonder IL tho wise
committeeman ever read Of the "farIner who
killed the goose that laid the golden egg"
We are in business to do business and not
for fun. We want and get. remember, our
share Of whatever you spend with us; but
we don't render life burden by calling on
you to divide your salary or income with
US every time you have a prescription COM
pounded; nor do we make you solicitous or
anxious when you come to buy Of us. And
because We have popularized prices We have
popularized our methods US we'll and have
secured tie support and confidence Of the
public.
AS pioneers of popular prices--'cut rates."
II you rlease-we feel no slight degree Of
satisfaction in seeing the rapid development
OF business which hos. without exception,
given full equivalent for value received. As
purveyors of the best drugs. medicines, per-
fumeries and druggist sundries We offer, as
we have already said, an extensive aud
splendidly selected stock from the mos:
prominent manufacturers and chemists Of
the country at very lowest prices. We do
business on . cash basis, and because our
immense ssles enable the multiplied turn
ing Of money We offer from smallest to lar
rest ounntities at unvaryin1ly right pr;ces