Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — Cowardly Assanlts. [ARTICLE]

Cowardly Assanlts.

When a candidate tor high office Is so well liked and so popular with foe masses as to make hla defeat difficult In a fair and honorable fight, mean and cowardly men are not wanting who delight in manufacturing lies and slandering hu good name. There are also those Whose selfishness prompt them to prostitute their honor, pervert truth, and ignore right, for the sake of Injuring a com-, petitor in business, Whose prosperity they envy, and with whose business sagacity they have not the talent to successfully compete In an honorable way. These thoughts are suggested by foe mean, cowardly attacks made upon me and my medicines, by those who imagine their pecuniary prospects injured by foe great popularity which my standard medicines have acquired, and the continued growth of my profesefonal praotl e©. Narrow-minded practitioners of medlcine, and manufacturers of preparations which do not possess sufficient merit to successfully compete for popular favor, have resorted to such cowardly strategy as to publish all sorts of ridiculous reports about the composition of my medicines. Almanacs, “Receipt Books,” and other pamphlets, are Issued and scattered broadcast over the land, wherein these contemptible knaves publish pretended analyses of my medicines, and receipts for making them. Some of these publications are given high-sounding names, pretend to be issued by respectable men of education and position, for the good of foe people—the more completely to blind the reader to foe real object in their circulation, which is to injure the sale of my medicines. “ The Popular Health Almanac” is the highsounding name of on#of these publications, Which contains bogus receipts, without a grain of truth in them. Not less devoid of truth are those which have been fmblished by one Dr. !>., of Detroit, n foe Michigan Parmer, and by other manufacturers of medicines, in several so-called journals of Pharmacy. They arc all prompted by jealousy and utterly fail in accomplishing the objcctof their authors, for, notwithstanding their free circulation, my medicines continue to sell more largely than any others manufactured In this country, and are constantly increasing in sale despite the base lies concocted and circulated by such knaves. The people find that these medicines possess genuine merit, accomplish what their manufacturer claims for them, and are not the vile, poisonous nostrums which jealous, narrow-minded physicians and sneaking compounders of competing medicines represent them to be. Among foe large number of pretended analyses published, it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike—conclusively proving the dishonesty of their authors. It is enough for the people to know that while thousands, yes, I may truthfully say millions, have taken my medicines and have been cured, no one has ever received injure from their use.

R. V. PIRRCE,

M.D.,

Proprietor of Dr. Pierce’s Medicines. World's Dispensary. Buffalo. N. Y.

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