The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

AN Opcn Letter Exposing raklrS auO
Falsehoods.
Turn first to page 36S and read the attack
our position by the advertising agency handling
patent medicine advertisements, and then read
our reply herewith, in connection with the en-
phatic letter of DR.. Wiley page 377. We had
intended publishing the letter with names and adj
dresses, but the agency in question after getting
this reply fastened to announce that their letter
was not written for publication anyhow, conse-
Quently we omit all mention of their names, SIM
ply publishing the statements in their letter in
order that our readers may get their side of the
case.
Gentlemen:-I have your letter OF April 2sth,
the gist Of which is contained in single para
graph.
The Pure Food and Drugs Act passed
several years ago by Congress and now in OPP
GRAFTON, makes 1t utterly impossible for such
thing as patent medicine fakir to exist
If you will read the law. and II you will study
the workings Of the law, you will find this to
be the case Where. then. are the patent
medicine fakirs and the vicious quacks?
Can you not specify?"
Very we'll. shall take a great deal of pleasure
In specifying" l have just picked up q COPY of
my own church organ, dated March 2. 1910. edited
by man who is my friend and whom I admire
but whose advertising is chiefly furnished by you,
and two ads. in this issue will answer the purpose
OF specifying" might mention full page adj
at the back In which "Bodi-Tone" processes to
cure nearly all the Ills that flesh ia heir to. I
might call attention to an ad. of specialist" ex-
posed, believe. by q man from your own State a
rev weeks ago; might discuss disgusting ad
from Joliet. ILL.,. but will let all these pass and
Will take up two other specimen ads for the pur-
pose OF specifying" and you may read them for =
yourself. II you. can without blushing Here they
thoco I'D orr
Editor.l ~ paee
iou must nave seen these ads-most liks,as--
tney were furnished by your own agency.-and
yet you have the face to say that under the now
Pure Food and Drugs Act such a thing as = nat
ent medicine fakir can not exist" When scoun-
orei can prey on the naturally sanguine temper
ament OF pitiful consumptive can delude him
with false hopes for the filthy dollars that he may
wiring from the dying sufferer and when, more
over, ne can use the protested institutions of the
Living God to find his victims-in Heavens name
wnat need nave we OF any further witness? You
virtually start your letter by referring to an hon.
estly-expressed opinion of mine as "a false state
ment'; II were inclined to be no more resnect
iui' should have more reason for saying that
your assertion that patent medicine fakirs s,rn,v
can not exist is not only false but nitiah,e ,or ~.
very impotence and absurdity
-
~ happens that all over the United States to-
Jay q great organized movement against timer.
oulosls ID IN progress and noble men and women
are giving time and money in an effort to stamp
.nls great plague and one of the greatest diff
ncultes they have to encounter ia the Tendency -,
sic.ms 10 put trust In vicious uuacks and
laklrs who. as said in the statement to which
you OBJECT and said truly. rob the sick and dy-
ing, olten deluding the suffering with false homes
uhtii all chance Of recovery by proper medical
treatment is forever gone"
II happens moreover that in nv own ctv
tuberculosis Exhibition in charge Of d,stinrm;sh-
81 authorities on this subject has Just been omen
"a 10 the public. and in his opening address Drec-
lor f. j. Routzhan declared:
1t is truth that CONSUMPTION can he