"IMITATION is tho ■ BINCEREBT FLATTERY." The articles most imitated are CLEMENTS TONIC and FLETCHER'S PILLS. ' WHY? BECAUSE they liavo the best reputation and are most in demand by tho public, consequently every dishonest trader tries to trade on their fame and renown. It is really wonderful that the Australian people ard so slow to see the truth as regards the unscrupulous quacks and charlatans who prey on the credulity of the Australian public. Scarcely a wees ever passes but what the press exposos the barefaced 'and shameful practices of some of these harpies, yet, in face of all, they seem to thrive, an the paper "who hounds them down most thrives fattest on their, advertisements and cracks champagne over each balance-sheet, 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. >'> '.*•«> . • s
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10319, 19 December 1896, Page 6
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