The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-06-14
Sending Truth After q Lie.

John Graham, in letter '.from a self-mad
merchant to his son." says: Sending tn
truth after lie that has got running star
is like trying to round up stampeded here
OF steers while the scare is on them. Lies ar,
great travellers and welcome visitors in 6
good many homes, and no questions asked
Truth travels slowly, has to prove its identi
ty, and then lot of people hesitate to turn
out an agreeable stranger to make room
for it,"
A cafe in point was the sIanderous and H.
| belous article published by the Ladies' Home
journal in May. 1904, wherein it was
| claimed that DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip.
| ton contained alcohol and other harmful in
gradients: DR.. Pierce promptly brought suit
against the Curtis P Publishing Company, pub
suit was for $4,000 90 damages. DR..
Pierce alleg' that Mr.. Box the editor, ma
liciousiy published the article containing such
| false and defamatory matter with the intent
| OF lnluring his business; furthermore, that no
| alcohol. or other injurious or habit forming
drugs are, or ever were, contained in his
Favorite Prescri ption;" that said medicine
| is of purely vegetable composition, being
made from native medicinal roots and con-
talns no harmful ingredients whatever, and
| that Mr.. BOk's malicious statements were
wholly and absolutely false
retraction was printed by said Journal
but not until two months after the ibelous
| article appeared. They had to acknowledge
that they had obtained analyses of Favor
lite Prescription" made by eminent chemists.
all OF whom certified that it did not contain
alcohol or any of the alleged harmful drugs!
But the business of DR.. Pierce was greatly
injured from the effect of the publication of
the original libel with it's great display head
lngs, while hundreds of thousands who read
the original wickedly defamatory article
never saw the humble, groveling retraction,
set IN small type and made as inconspicuous
as possible. The matter was, however,
brought before jury in the Supreme Court
OF New York State, which promptly rendered
a verdict in the doctors favor. Thus his ira
ducers came to grief. Their base ISLANDERS
were refuted and they were obliged to ''eat
humble pie"
During the trial of the libel suit DR.. Lee H.
Smith, vice-president of the Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association. stated under GA tn
that the ingredients of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
PRESCRIPTION were extracted from the follow
ing native roots: Golden Seal, Blue Cohosh,
Lady's Slipper, Black Cohosh and Unicorn,
by means OF pure glycerine. He was asked
now he knew, as physician and experienced
medical man, that the 'Favorite Prescrip-
ton was cure for the diseases peculiar to
women, and he stated that he knew such was
the TACT because of his professional experience
ana the many thousands of women whose
Ills had been cured by this 'Prescription"
inns experience was corroborated by the
hoatu Heulcdl authorizes OF the several
schools OF medicine endorsing the various in
gradients in the strongest terms Dr. Smith
being asked to name these authorities, read
from the standard works, such as the United
states Dispensatory; the American DISPENSE
tory; Organic Medicines by Grover Coe, MD;
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, by Prof
FINLEY Ellingwood, of the Bennett Medical
College OF Chicago: "New Remedies" by Prof
Edwin NJ. Hale, M. D.; Textbook of Thera-
Peutlcs, by DR.. Hobart A. Hare, professor in
University OF Pennsylvania; Laurence John |
son, M; D., professor in University of New |
York; Prof. John King, author of woman |
and Her Diseases" VIM. Paine, M D., author |
OF New School Practice of Medicine:'' Prof.
ohm N. Scudder, NJ. D.. author of a treatise |
The Diseases OF Women" Horatio C. Wood.
N. D., author of Therapeutics" Roberts |
A. NJ, NJ D., professor of Materia |
Medica, Jefferson Medical College of Phila- |
delphia.