Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-03-13
PATTED ON The BACK BY
UNCLE SAM.
His Organization was Four
Years Ahead of the Pure
Food Law.
Mr.. Moore was Actively Identified
Makers of Rexali Remedies, which
Has Been More Than Complying
With the New Law, Even Before it
Was Thought of in Congress.

The widespread interest in the Pure Food
Law, which went into effect January 1,
has reached apparently every class in the
community. The grocers, the butchers,
even the candlestick makers, are compelled
now by Uncle Sam to take the people into
their confidence and tell them just what
they are selling. Uncle Sam has left very
little to chance. The strong arm OF the
! Washington Government has compelled
manufacturers to state plainly on their
labels what adulterants have been used in
! preparing the package.
Perhaps no other class of manufacturers
has been more deeply stirred than the
makers of "patent medicines. They are
now compelled by law to state on their
| labels the names of dangerous drugs used
in the preparation Of their remedies. Like
all laws that work for the benefit of the
public, the Pure Food Law has made some
manufacturers do some lively squirming;
while it has brought joy to the hearts of
those who were giving the people a square
deal.
Mr.. Moore, the well-known druggist, in
discussing this point with our reporter,
made some comments SO interesting that
they are reproduced here for the benefit Of
our readers.
''There's good deal of satisfaction in
| knowing you've done right" said Mr.
Moore, "but there's much more in having
that fact RECOGNIZED.
"Four years ago. were one OF the
| thousand leading druggists who met to-
gether to discuss the patent medicine stu
alton. All of us expressed dissatisfaction
at having to sell remedies whose formulas
were unknown to us. As servants Of the
| public, OF course, we sold whatever our
trade called for. But We wanted to be a BILE
| to sell our customers at least ONE line OF
| patent medicines whose formulas we
KNEW, and THEY knew-remedies whose
reliability and efficiency we could back
up with our own names and regulations.
/ 1.-THE Rexall Remedies were the outcome
| OF that meeting, and our cooperative
| company, the United Drug Company, was
formed to manufacture them.
No Cure-alls in Rexall Plan.
mo 'cure-alls,' no secret formulas-but
800 remedies, each the most successful and
safest cure known to the medical world
for specific human ill, and every formula
known to every Rexall druggist and his
4 customers THAT was the Rexall plan
from the beginning!
"The great success of Rexall Remedies
has been no surprise to us. They are the
SQUAREST way. Every Rexall Remedy
is sold with the understanding that the
customer, II dissatisfied, will get the pur-
chase money back by simply returning
the empty package or bottle-and we have
always lived up to this guaranteed
"The agitation against secret formula
patent medicines during the past two
years has never affected Rexall Remedies
in the least, because their formulas were
NEVER Secondhand everybody knew
it!
Uncle Sam Adopts the Rexall Plan.
''The United States Government has Mt
last come around to our way of thinking.
and passed Pure Food and Drug Law
But we didn't need the Government to
push us to tell what is in our remedies
we thought people ought to know that
four years agol
"Even the Pure Food Law does not COM
pei other patent medicine manufacturers
to tell you as much about their prepare
/ tlons "a we voluntarily tell YOU abOut
hexaH Remedies, and always have. Only
the dangerous drugs in other patent medi-
cines are revealed-the rest Of their in
You know EVERYTHING that goes into n,
Eexal Remedies-their COMPLETES
the public. -
7 I'VE, like all the other Rexall druggists
have always had the formulas OF the 3Od
Rexall Remedies in our possession. and
have given them to thousands Of our cns-
toners. S1s
"Don't you think we have reason to he
proud OF our connection with RexaI]
Remedies? Don't you think YOU have
reason to put faith in them?"-Advt.