Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-10
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The nefarious practice carried on by
many retail druggists in different parts OF
;he country of substituting spurious arti-
cies for preparations of known merit and
reputation, and thus imposing upon cred
C!01s purchasers, has Uecome so great an
injustice as to call for some united action
on the part Of the press OF the country.
he manufacturers of proprietary medi.
c.EeS, after having thorough tested and
ascertalned their value as remedies. invest
large sums OF money in making their
.nerlts known to the public through the
,.cwspapers and 10y other means. In this
Eay, by the continuous expenditure of
- ga amounts, the goods acquire large
safes, which keep on increasing as The pub.
- LIS tested them and become familiar
with their values. The preparations are
ii mainly through the retail druggists
Il the country and in the great general
torres of our large cities. 1t is nothing
d;ssIsu"l Tor a manufacturer of a proprie-
,arF medIcine 10 spend $500 600 a wear
.,d,rtuslHg it in III, newspapers alone.
ND ii nu>o more In other kinds Of al
ing. No sensible man would spend
,..tI enui nous sums advertising a worth
- T.m"oy. As soon as the preparation
- llIs Ded acquires large sales the drug
49, nHdertake 10 practice q systematic
.'..s upon the people vino nave read
< ia ritS or the remedy IN the news
-: o., l'y trying Ia su3S ltute d cheap ana
st ,r-> article, winch they claim to have
..: Il thomselV' :. for the " plr4tion adj
s'is'd, when called for. In this WAY a
o"'i fraud is D rretrae ed; 6rsC
:. -. the person Calling I1r Il remedy OF
II ii -, ul) has ben nv ;gied into
80 4 cheap, wnrthle nostrum, and
"&'y upon the manufacturer of the
~ uti:'' article. whose efforts and money
-. t.. II the newspapers brough hit notice OF
o. --. ,...s.d yalHa before Tic eyes OF the
: y Ling for it at the druggist. 1t is
I @rr,' D-rd to conceive of more dlsre-
, ..bie nd Gar ne attempt at downright
fr&1 a4u imposition tan his, and yet il
= E:&c;iccd on Il large scale by a class O.
ass men claiming to be honorable
ii the committee where they live.
Access CRY 10 is fraud practiced by re-
all druggists Is class OF mercenary and
r:.-~iic!pod manufacturing chemists
who put up the spurious goods for the re-
taiels. The principle headquarters for
rhls class Of pilates seem to be IN Detroit,
Michigan, aud Decatur, Illinois. THIS.
so-cailed manufacturing chemists" put
up the counterfeit and substitute nostruns
and sell them by the dozen. The COM
merclal morality Of THESE ''chemists" may
re Judged from tbe fact that orders from d
county druggist for dozen bottles each to
be substituted for Hoods SarsAparilla, DR..
Plerce's Favorite Prescription, California
Syrup of Figs, Ayers Sarsaparilla,
Warmers Sale Cure, Green's Angus
Flower, Rails Catarrh Cure, S. S. s.,
Harter's Iron Tonic, Railways Rerdy R
lef, Lydia Pinkham's Compound, Schenck's
S awted Tonic, Simmons Liver Resua ter
and Pierce Golden Medical Discovery are
all filled out of one and the same tank
Pains are taken, of course, to get bottles
and labels as near like the genuine as po,~
sible land not become liaOle 10 the l4w
for iniringment), so as to make it as easy
as possible fer the retailer to pawn them
IF upon his dt!uded victims. In addition
to the preparations already mentioned
great frauds are perpetrated by substitu
lion and counterfeit upon SCOTS EmuI-
sion, Hostetter's Bitters, Ely's Cream
Balm, Beecham's Pills, Piso' $ Consump-
ton Cure, Pears Soap, TUFTS Pills,
Carriers Little Liver Pills, Castoria,
Shiloh's Consumption Cure, Kemps Bal
sam, st. Jacobs Oh, Bosche's Ger.
man Syrup and many other preparations
too numerous to mention. These manu-
featuring chemists" are so audacious IN
their preparation of fcaud as to actually 60
into courg and try to defend their practices
of deception. 1t was but short time ago
at Louisville, KY, in a suit instituted by
the California Fig Syrup Co., against
one OF these manufacturing chemists
tor making ana putting upon the market
a bogus Fig Syrup, intended to be substl-
tuted by Tie wholesale for the genuine and
reap the benefit of the money spent Ia adj
ver:ising il, that a plea of defense was
actually made. Tie manufacturers of the
spurlous article openly and unblushlngIy
came into court with CONSUL TO 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 TINS
disreputable practice Of DEGRADING. He
will not stop at cheating in other Ines of
his trade as we'll as in this branch. AS
was very aptlv stated a few days age in one
Of the New York papers by Mr.. Lyman d.
Morse, manager of j. II. Bates Agency,
when calling attention to this system of
fraud, the druggist who would substitute
q spurious and worthless proprietary arti-
Gle for the genuine would not hesitate 10
deceive and cheat in the ingredients that
go into physicians prescription. Such
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 clear and
torceful manner. Now that the subject is
opened the press of the country should not
Ietu on it until the entire system of
counterfeitine and substituting is abol-
ished and the fraudulent manufacturing
chemists driven root and branch from
their unworthy occupation.