MR. CLEMENTS EXPLAINS.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 103, 2 May 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

MR. CLEMENTS EXPLAINS.

Many people have expressed surprise that Clements' Tonic has met with such wonderful and unprecedented success in such a short time. The explanation is simple— it is obnuinb. I saw the thousands of worthless hogswill American nostrums flooding the Australian market year by year, month by month, day by day, and knew that a groat amount of money left these shores annually in rpturn for these rubbishy articles, all of which iwje the country so much the poorer. X ftlso kn.ew that tho exigencies of life in this country and fho climate necessitated the use of an artificial btoodmaker to restore the normal condition and vital forces which were so enervated by climatic and other influenoes. I also saw tho thin, pa\e, delicate, and attenuated men and woman of Australian cities, ami studied the causes, ways apd means of remedying the evil ; I saw that it jjras impossible to bring the article required into gQP.nlar favour except in the form of a patent medi,cjue. I know of the thousands of pounds spent by the public annually in purchasing inert and sometimes harmful concoctions of worthless ingredients, and »«ked myself— why can't we manufacture the article the public require, and make it of genuine and bost materials, and give an article which yfUiu so the good which other makers only claim that theirs will dof I knew that such a remedy could be made, and that unless it met with public approval groat loss must result. However, I determined to venture on its introduction, and thus Clements' Tonio came to bo made, and in the short spaco of two years it has spread over the whole fape of this continent. It is sold iv ever/ sitoip jn Australasia as freely as in Sydney ; and the .mere fact of its enormous sale in this city is spoof positive of its virtues, for no article can command a great sale at the home of its birth unlets i-p is absolutely and conclusively proved to be genuine. Clements' Tonio has replaced every flfher article offered, and has the largest consumption tenfold of any other Australian medtfin£ j and this is not due to the advertising .expeijd^uip of its proprietor, but to its pure, undisputed merit. Fellow Australians, we don't want Jhe Yankee quack to dump his sbJp-fcads of clap-trap fooleries and cure- alii on our Australian shores, and fool us with his smooth tongue and plausible humbug; neither do we want him to suok the vitality »nd marjeow #jft of our people with his consignments of ,chenu«f} slops, which, with specious plausibility, he guarantees to cure everything from epilepsy ip imnoouni•sity. We want a genuine article, w^e *n our own land, by our own people, bought with our own money ; then the money remains in our own country, and the country is so much the richer thereby, and

we all have a chance of handling it again ; \ whereas, if it once gets into tho rapacious maw of the Yankee quack, farewell ! it is gone for ever. I know my article is genuine, and that it contains the material to make it cure disease -where disease is curable. You may depend upon it that if Clements' Tonic fails all others must fail. I can produce hundreds of proofs of the truth of my statements and the virtues of my remedy. F. M. Clements, Newtown, N.S.W.