New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-08

ME|tH.t. NAHLEN
With the board. Secrecy being the life
Of trade with the nostrums, the repre-
sentstives Of various allied industries.
retail and wholesale druggists. patent
medicine manufacturers. handlers Of
crooked advertising, proprietors of not
ioo-parucular journals. lawyers aad
aaacks focEod 20 the place in such
rsmbers that che big room couldn't
bold all Of them.
They shouted approval when their
wokesmen denounced the wicked
medical trust" which is trying to keep
he benefcent dopes and booze-medi-
-e from doing SO much good in secret;
sty wildly cheered the quack doctor
rho seized tho occasion 20 give a little
iivertis'ps 20 his own fake consump-
ION cure; and they hissed. booed and
looted the presiding officer, DR.. Gold
vs,er when he attempted TO stem the
aie Of general dcuunciation and get
down 70 specific data.
Quachs Have a Day.
j was distinctly and exclusively
their day. Only opposition 20 the
MEASURE was iu order the only re-
aricton being that legal points were
10, permitted. The foices Of secrecy
"a medicine were marshalled by Dr.
William G. Anderson. who, to do him
lgcc, did his best against heavy odds
10 keep his uuuly followers i'm order.
He opened The meeting for the oppo-
rents OF the bin by stating his i'm
rrshsb.e conviction that there were
iissdy al the patent medicine laws
o. tho books that the public could
end TO which sentiment the embat-
lsi druggis,s ON the benches respond
aviih howls of appreciation. He then
1'Todueed Albert Plaut. Of Lehn &
ius Wholesale drag firm.
w. Plau, was a perfect Cassandra
q calamity. u the Board Of Health
agalation ws- enforced he declared,
,ght out o. the twelve great drug
ioases in the city would have to move
Jersey or elsewhere. DR.. Goldwater.
raose disposition 70 gel al the bottom
matters proved embarrassing If not
''iHally painful TO various Of the
peakers in The course Of the proceed
rss, asked why the other four should
Nay. After some hesitancy Mr.. Plaut
a'coed that 10 would be because their
''cs vas largely local There was no
''aer form OF business, he declared,
s'fs open and above board than the
'snness OF selling drugs.
\ 7 that ig the case Queried the
s'nnissiores. why do you insist on
srrecy@'
4 owhich ttc speaker hadn't found a
'by si time Of going TO press.
Hoot at Goldwater.
VI J. II. Rehfuss, Of the New York
Arnsceutical Association. reused the
rt'e't Of the board to such an extent
al they asked him several questions
'aAhent TO the line Of his remarks.
''A vas holly resented by the en-
sued druggists, who yelled, hooted,
II 'sc and warned DR.. Goldwster that
was IN the United States, where he
Wont put any Russian business
ess
"aen the disorder was quieted, Mr.
P K Strong, representing the phar-
"ea'ieal press, took the floor 10
Aeiate the noble principle. with
{" gesticulatory emphasis, that h6
H Anglo-Saxon blood and nobody
s lake away from him the right 10
III % what he wished. Nobody being
'e who wanted 20, he made a some
mixed impression upon his hear
y telling them that he knew th'
Trade well. and that he didn't
III /" Out what a large proportion OF
present we're unprincipled. Tc
III soe, he produced the old bogie Of
n eal trust conspiracy" One in
ii hg point which he neglected t'
n Va was that that portion Of The
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