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

eases vi gastric ulcer In young women and
! in most cases have ELECTED the fact that they
i had been dosing themselves with one or other s.
| OF the most advertised indigestion cures the
sole potent ingredient Of which is aloes
| One case ended fatally; the life might have
been saved by early diagnosis and scien-
t1fc treatment. could fill pages of your
space with similar illustrations and more
pages with reports of inquests fully est ish-
ing my statements" A Haiaa aqrg]
But you say that we once accepted patent medi-
cine advertising in The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette. We did, I have no inclination to deny
the charge you hurl at me- but send it back with
the statement that just soon as the facts about
the whole miserable fraud came to my knowledge
through exposures in magazines and other ways
stopped every line of the advertising regardless
OF the loss-stopped business that you were send
Ing us in spite of your protests-and I would do
1t to-day If had to grub stumps for living Can
you say as much? sssss'3 .-lttf +, 4
1t is with beautiful grace indeed that you taunt
us now for carrying these few ads for you-you
who persuaded us to carry some Of them against
our better Judgment until we learned the facts
and refused to become knowingly party to a
fraud on the public. But as for returning the few
paltry dollars we had from you. here is an offer
Tor you: II you Will agree never to place another
line OF patent medicine advertising, l will donate
to the Anti-Tuberclosis Society every penny Of
the money that you paid us for patent medicine
advertising after assumed control of the paper.
II you will not do this. then feel that the
money can be used vastly better in spreading the
circulation Of our paper for the exposure of these
fakirs than by returning 1t to you to assist IN
helping you to md new victims.
Moreover. It IS my understandings thai stle
United States Government wearying at The mis-;
representation OF the Pure Food and Drugs Act
~ vuhf -
have sought to delude the public, has ofacia1as
warned the people against such claims and an
already making efforts to get explicit information
on this point, fortunately without even having Il
wait upon your delightfully."- sarcastic ofer to fur
nish me the address Of the United States Govern
| ment Meanwhile, l have only to say that IL the
United States Government really processes that It
has put all fakirs out of business, andy lets
such fakirs as have mentioned go uncaught, then
1t is as miserable failure in promoting Justice
as your agency is in promoting religion sna
The people will not be deceived much longer.
The day OF the fakir is almost over Some OF
them, as you suggest, have been such outrageous
frauds that even the United States Government
has taken hand against them Moreover, the
whole aggregation is becoming so foul and ILL.,
smelling that the religious press Is fast unyoking
Itself from partnership with them But little
while ago my estimate that Hundreds and hun
iouS VI tnem were guilty would certainly have
been literally true. and believe 1t is to-day but
at any rate. can rejoice that only fifty religious
papers In the South will run line of such ad-
vertising. Fifty is fifty too many, and while 1
am glad that there are not so many as I thought,
yet II only dozen were in partnership with these
scoundrels, the fact would still be disgrace to
the Church of God and to the intelligence of
Southern church members There are few good
patent medicines. may grant, but so are there
rev good and honest men in the penitentiary
The proportion In one class is not larger than in
the other. and not until one is willing to trust
Istriped-clothed convict with his money drawer,
should ne be willing to trust the average patent
medicine with his health. Your headache cures
have killed foolish men and women by running
the heart: your stomach remedies have aggravated