The herald., 1896-01-21
Can Newspaper Tell the Truth ?==Glaring Exal
of Journalistic MendaCity
How Petty Newspaper Lbes Residents of Los AngeIes-An
the Flowery Kingdom Herb Remedy
Company


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fakir. as here employed, can mean moth
ing more than n fraud, an imposter, ont
who gives nothing for something, WHIT
imposes upon the creduality of the pub
lie, who hypnotizes people OF aid whicl
is not per formed. II is sweeping state
ment TO make of any man, whethe
licensed or unlicensed. whether ap
proved by medical faculties and cit,
authorities or frowned upon by all of th'
powers that be. The painful conclusion
is forced upon us that il some OF The
money which we arc alleged 10 have
spent in 'clever Advertising" had gon,
into the depleted Golfers of the totterin!
and impecunious Record, editorial revi
sion would very likely have pruned som,
of the exuberant extravsgsnces of the re
porter who concocted this little screed
So far as we know the Record has neye
taken the pains to look Us up in spiri
OF fairness, to interview the persons who
have been cured through the use of oul
herbs. at "a moderate price, for those
whom we have helped upon the road tt
health without any compensation what
ever. The highest charge that we have
ever made for our remedies is reasonable
com pared with the charges Of some CT
| the numerous "specialists," who often
demand hundreds sometimes thousands o1
| dollars for the treatment of a sinlge case
or for az single surgical operation. The
price of our remedies is always plainly
stated, an opinion is given as TO the
NUM- Der Of packages which will probably
be required to benefit any particular case,
and the length of time that will be re-
quired in their use. We never promise
what we do not expect to perform, and
we believe that among those who know
US our word is as good as our tond. II
i. difficult to detect the arts of the
'fakir" in these methods, which are
purely and simply business dealings.
We free our transactions as much as pos
sible from an air of professional pretense,
and we advertise DR.. Foo for just what
he is, the best educated and the most
skiliful Chinese physician that has ever
come to America, the bearer of the high
est credentials from hi. Emperor and the
reci pient of honor and consideration
among his own people.
But we feel that argument is useless in
this case--at least as far as the Record
is concerned. 1t is like expostulating
with the puppy that bites at your heels
in the street, an undignifed, ungraceful
and improbable proceeding and waste
of effort as lesson in politeness. We
bear in mind too, the frantic efforts of
this little journalistic foundling to
keep its head above the.water, the desper-
ate straits to which its lack of AZ vertising
patronage brings it, and the hurry and
worry of its scanty and poorly equipped
editorial force in its efforts to supply tho
citizens of Los Angeles with trifling
thing that they don't want, a rag OF the
press that will soon be laid to rest in the
graveyard of defunct journals. Farewell,
Record, we will bother with you no
longer.
But for fear that some may think us
less in earnest than we are we desire to
reproduce as has been our custom here,
tofore some OF the opinions of our friends,
people who have had the indep psndence
70 investigate for themselves ana to make
up their own minds as to the merits OF
the remedies which we offer regardless of
the opinions Of others.
NJ. H. Grice of East Thirty fourth
street, temporary resident OF Los An
geles, whose home is in Newark. N. j.,
says:
LOS ANGELES, CAL, Jan. IS, 1895.
DIR. T. Foo Yuen-Dear Sir: Recent
malicious attacks on you and your meth
ods call for protest from your patients,
to my mind the best judges OF the merits
of your treatment. You not only cor
rectly diagnosed my case but have given
me relief from suffering either of which
our modern school of physicians utterly
failed to do. Other patients with whom
l have conversed tell the same tory.
Merit must ever meet with opposition
from envious contem poraries.
Believing l am on the road to recovery.
| / am, sincerely, M. Ii. GR1CE.
G. w. Davis, resident for twenty five
years of Los Angeles, and well-known
| business man. with an Office in the
Workman block, South Spring street,
says:
LOS ANGELES. Cal, Jan. II, 1896.
DR.. Foo is not frauI or a takir, and
Chinese medicine is not a nun pug.
Thirty years ago, in San Francisco. DR..
Ii Po Tai uncle of Or. Foo, cured me o.
case of inafmmatory rheumatism after
1 had been abandoned by about all the
white physicians in the city. or had
abandoned them because I could get nc
relief from their remedies. have had
a great res pect for Chinese medicine evel
since. / also lived in China for severa
years and learned something ABOUT this
system in its own home.
l am now 70 years of age, and am still
following my profession as an architect
Some months ago 1 found myself in {
very precarious condition. complica
| tion of troubles producing results from
which, according to the theories of ou
home doctors, there was no relief, excep
through a surgical operation. L was to
tally incapacitated for labor. l went tt
Dr. Foo, who diagnosed my case clearly
and thoroughly. After six weeks treat
ment l was SO much better that my worl
was again easy for me. but l have con
tinued taking the herbal remedies 70
nearly three months. to prevent any pos
sible recurrence OF my difficulties and t,
perfect my cure.
would pit DR.. Foo against the sci
entific world for correctness in diagnosi
and for skill in the employment of rem
edies. CHAS. w. DAVIS.
Another gentleman of experience will
doctors and medicines. says:
LOS ANGELES, CAL. Jan. IA, 1896.
After having been given up to die b,
one of the most popular physicians il
Southern California, i investigated DR.
: Foo's methods by interviewing the peo
pie who were cured by him two or thre
years ago. feel confident that DR.. Fo
accom- plishes all that he promises apd
the very opposite 10 . fckir in character