MR CLEMENTS EXPLAINS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1818, 5 August 1891, Page 4

MR CLEMENTS EXPLAINS.

Many people have expressed surprise that Clement's Tonic has met with such wonderful and unprecedented success in such a short time. The explanation is simple — it is genuine. I saw thousands of worthless hogswill 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. £ also saw the thin, pale, delicate, and attenuated men and women of Australian cities, and studied the causes and ways and meaus of remedying the evil ; I saw that it was impossible to bring the article required into popular favour except in the form of a patent medicine. I know of 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 best materials, and give an article which will , so 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 must 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 spread 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 larges. consumption tenfold of any other Australian medicine ; and this is not due to (he advertising expenditure of its proprietor, bnt to its pure, undisputed merit. Fellow Australians, we don't want the \ankee quack to dump his ship-loads of clap trap fooleries aud cure-alls on our Australian shores, and fool us with his smooth tongue and plausible humbug*; neither do we want him to suck the vitality and marrow out of our people with his consignments of chemical slops, which, with specious plausibility, he guarantees to cure everything from epilepsy to impecuniosity. We want a genuine article, made in our 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 ail have a chance of handling it again; whereas, if it, once gets into the rapacious maw of the Yankee quack, farewoll! 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.

Our idea of a strong-minded person is one who cau read the advertisement of a patent medicine and not have the disease.

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossom. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away useless and wasted upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision or be entirely dissipated by delay.

Mr Huddarfc has- opened an office in London, and is personally promoting the formation of a new company to engage in the New Zealand, Tasmanian, and Austra Han tarde. Several large, fast steamers have already been ordered. Huddart, Parker, and Co. will manage the new firm, whose head office will be in Australia. There will be a bord in London, and probably local dords in New Zealand.

H. E.

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