Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-12
Counterfeit, Fraud. Substitute.

Tue country OF substituting spurious art-
Giles for preparations Of known merit and
reputation, and thus imposing upon cred.
ui0us purchasers, has become so great an
injustice as 10 call for some united action
on the part of the press of the country.
The manufacturers OF proprietary medi.
elneS, after having thoroughly tested aud
ascertalned their value as remedies. invest
large sums OF money in making their
merits known TO the public through the
newspapers and by other means. In this
way 10y the continuous expenditure Of
large amounts, the goods acquire large
sales, which keep on increasing as the pub.
lie has tested them and become familiar
with their values The preparations are
sold mainly through the retail druggists
OF the country and in the great general
stores of our large cities. 1t is nothing
unusual for manufacturer of a uroprie-
tary medicine to spend $500 600 a year
advertising 1t In the newspapers alone.
and as much more IN other kinds of al.
Nertlslng. No sensible man would spend
such enormous sums advertising a worth.
less remedy. As soon as the preparation
thus pushed acquires large sales the drug
gists undertake to practice systematic
-aception upon the people who nave read.
OF tue merits of the remedy in the news.
papers 10y trying TO substitute cheap and
worthless article which they claim 10 have
put up themselves, for tie preparation adj
verused, when called for. In this way "a
double fraud is perpetrated; urst
upon the person calling for remedy Of
merit and who has been iuyeigled into
taking a cheap, worthless nostrum, ana
secondly upon the manufacturer of the
genuine article, whose efforts and money
spent IN the newspapers brought notice OF
It's merits and value before tho ewes OF the
party calling for II at the druggist. u is
Indeed hard to conceive OF more disre-
pu able and daring attempt ut downright
fraud aud imposition than this, and vet il
Is practlced on a large scale 10y class oi
business men claiming 10 be honorable
IN the committee where they hive.
Accessory tc the fraud practiCed by re-
tail druggists Is a class OF mercenary and
unprlnclpled manufacturing chemists"
who put up the spurious goods for the re-
taiIers. The principle headquarters for
this class of pirates seem 20 be In Detroit,
Michigan, and Decatur, Illinois. These
so-called manufacturing chemists" put
up TUG AtuhANlltAA anu SUBSTITUTE hNhNl lnlh
and sell them 10y the dozen. The COM
merciAl morality of these chemist" may
be judged from the fact that orders from a
county druggist for dozen bottles each TO
be substituted for Hoods Sarsaparilla, Dr..
Plerce's Fayorite Prescription, California
Syrup of Figs, Ayers Sarsapari liza,
Warmers Safe Cure, Green's August
Flower, Halls Catarrh Cure, S. s. S.,
Harter's Iron Tonic, Railways Ready Re-.
lef, Lydia Pinkham's Compound, Schenck b
Sawed Tonic, Simmons Liver Repula tor
and Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery are
all filed out of one and the same tankl
Pains are taken, of course, TO get bottleI
and labels as near like the genuine as pos
sibe land not become liable to the law
for intringment), so as TO make it rs easy
as possible for the retailer TO pawn them
off upon his deluded victims. In addition
TO the preparations already mentioned
great frauds are perperated by subsuiu-
tiou and counterfeit upon Scott : Emul.
sion, Hostetter's Bitters, Ely Cream
Balm, Beecham's Pills, Piso s Consump-
tiun Cure, Pears Soap, TUFTS Pills,
Carriers Little Liver Pills, Castoria,
ShiIoh's Consumption Cure, kemp's Bal
sam, st. jacobs OH, Bosches Ger
man Syrup and many other preparations
too numerous to mention. These manu-
featuring chemists are so audaclous IN
their preparation of fraud as to actually 80
into court and try to defend their practices
of deception 1t was but a short tlme ago
at Louisville, Ky, III suit instituted by
the California Fig Syrap Co., against
one of these manufacturing chemists "
for making and putting upon the market
a bogus Fig Syrup, intended to be suOsti-
tuted by the wholesale for the genuine and
reap the benefit Of the money spent In adj
vertising it, that plea OF defense was
actually made The manufacturers OF the
spurious article openly and unblushngly
came into court with CONSUL 10 defend
their scheme, which was little short Of an
attempt at wholesale robbery.
There should be no confidence placed in
a druggist or dealer who stoops To this
1isreputabe practice Of defrading lie
will not stop at cheating in other lines OF
his trade as we'll as in this branch. As
was very aptly stated few days ago in one
Of the New York papers by Mr. Lyman p.
Morse. manager Of J. H. Bates Agency
when calling attention TO this system Of
fraud, the druggist who would substitute
a spurious and worthless proprietary arti-
Gle for the genuine would not hesitate to
deceive and cheat In the ingredients that
20 into physicians prescription. 5yeh
men are not worthy of confidence. In his
address before he editorial convention at
st. Paul few weeks ago, Mr.. A. +. Rich
ardson, Of New York, called attention to
the system Of imposition in a clear and
forceful manner. Now that the subject is
opened the press Of de country should not
let up on it until the entire system Of
counterfeiting P1d substituting Is abol-
ished and the fraudulent manufacturing
chemists" driven root and branch from
their unworthy occupation.
"a HAED.sAw IS a good thing, but not to
shave with 1t Is no falseh0Od TO cay OF
common washing soaps That they are not
Intended for house cleaning Use sAPO-
lIO.
K. Z. Barber, Of Joliet H., was was elect
ed president Of the Ola settlers association
of vii county.
w. II. GRIFFIN, Jackson, Michigan,
writes. suffered with CatarTh for fifteen
years, Halls Catarrh Cure cured me Sold
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