MR CLEMENTS EXPLAINS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9093, 18 April 1891, Page 4

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 genuine. I saw the thousands of worthless hog-swill American nostrums flooding the Australian market year by year, month by month, day by day, and knew that a great amount of money left these shores annually in return for these rubbishy articles, all of which made the country so much the poorer. I also knew that the exigencies of life in this country, and the climate, necessitated the use of an artificial bloodmaker

to restore the normal condition and vital forces which were so enervated by climatic and other influences. I also saw the thin, pale, delicate, and attenuated men and women of Australian cities, and studied the causes and ways and means of remedying the evil; I Baw that it was impossible to bring the article required into popular favour except in the form of ft patent medicine. I know oE the thousands of pounds spent by the public annually in purchasing inert, and sometimes harmful, concoctions of worthless ingredients, and asked myself—Why can't we manufacture the article the public require, and make it of genuine and heat materials, and givean article which will do the good which other makers only claim that theirs will do ? I knew that such a remedy could be made, and that unless it met with public approval, great loss mubfc result. However, I determined to venture on its introduction, and thus Clements Tonic •came to be made, and in the short space of two years it has ppread over the whole face of this continent. It is sold in every store in Australasia as freely as in Sydney; and the mere fact of its enormous sale in this city is proof positive of its virtues, for no article can command a great sale at the home of its birth unless it is absolutely and conclusively proved to be genuine. Clements Tonic has replaced every other article offered, and has the largest consumption tenfold of any other Australian mtdicine; and this is not due to the advertising expenditure of its proprietor, bnt to its pure, undisputed merit. Fellow Australians, we don't want the Yankee quack to dump his shiploads of clap-trap fooleries and care alls on our Australian shores* and fool us with his Bmooth tongue and plausiblehumbug; neither do we^want him to suck thevitality and marrow out of our people with his. consignments of chemical slopß, which, with specious plausibility, he guarantees to cure everything from epilepsy to impecuniosity. We want a genuine article, made in our own land, by our own people, bought with out own money ; then the money remains in onr own country, and the country is so muoh the richer thereby, and we all have a chance of handling it again; whereas, if it once gets into the 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 oE proofs of the truth of my statements and the virtues of my remedy.—F. M. Clements, Newtown, N.S.W.