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Show Love Dope People Eat It As they Do Candy. Goodwin's Weekly lias such a delightful de-lightful way of looking at the bright sldo of everything that Its keenest darts hae their lighter side and Its clouds a. silver lining. The Weekly has noted Collier's crusade against the patent medicine tralllc and In the following comes near hitting the nail on the head. It says: "We are not sure about the Justice of that persecution, because there l a certain class of patients that would not be happy If they really knew they were In good physical health, and who prefer to believe they arc always ill and make it their dally business to test all the various nostrums that arc advertised as cure-alls. Abate the patent ir cdlcinc business and these people would get well and have to go wotk, and that would be a hardship unspeakable. The pioposltlon to make all patent medicine vendors have the Ingredients used in their medicines printed on the bottle, we think, would cure the evil. For Instance, In-stance, if it could be shown that the basis or Peruna was simply drug store whiskey, or that Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup was grounded In laudanum, lauda-num, etc., It would disillusionize patent medicines. Still, we do not know what the would-be sick would do, because the discovery of a new patent medicine brings the same joy that the discovery of a. gold mine does to a prospector The miner gets ono assay that goes $:t" 05 In gold There may not be another pleco that will assay that much In the whole mine, hut for the time being ho is Just as happy as though that was the general average, and while the illusion lasts his joy continues. It Is the same way with the patent medicine llcnd. Every new remedy is a bonan.a to him for a day, and why break tho spell?" |