"IMITATION Is the SINCEREST FLATTERY." The articles most imitated are CLEMENTS TONIC and FLETCHER'S PILLS. WHY? BECAUSE they have the best reputation and are most in demand by the public, consequently, every dishonest trader tries to trade on their fame and renown. It is really wonderful that the Australian people are so slow to see the truth as regards the unscrupulous quacks and charlatans who play on the credulity of the Australian public. Scarcely a week ever passes but what the press exposes the barefaced and shameful practices of some of those harpies, yet in face of all they seem to thrive, and the paper who bounds them down most thrives fattest on their advertisements and cracks </luunp;igne over each balancesheet. Clements Tonic and Fletcher's Pills have never yet stooped to
deception and misrepresentation. They are scientific therapeutical agents, and evidence as to their value can be found in every district, and such being the case it is unnecessary to further extol their virtues.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 206, 4 September 1897, Page 2
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