Show AGAINST THE PUBLIC INTEREST Overzealous Reformers Work for Law Against Proprietary Medicine Schemes to diminish or destroy tho sale of proprietary medicines am constantly being devised by Interested parties Every now and then some zealous reformer comes to tho front I with the demand for a law to require every package of proprietary medicine medi-cine to be labeled with a printed statement of the formula showln Just how it Is manufactured The millions mil-lions of people who use proprletar medicines seem to be satisfied bu < I the man with a mania for regulating I tho affairs of other people or who bts some personal interest to servo la tho ono who agitates the proposition TV u person who has never taftei time to consider it such a proposition may seem reasonable enough yet it Is In fact nothing more nor less than a scheme to compel the manufacturers manufactur-ers to put their trade throughout tho entire country at the mercy of r > vry commercial pirate who might choose to flood the market with Imltatloas I ol their goods Under such condition the incentive Incen-tive for the original mannfarturr to advertise his goods would be practically practi-cally destroyed for the money spent on advertising would inure mainly 10 the benefit of the pirates and Imitators Imita-tors Without advertising the nubile would receive little information in regard to the medicine and all future sales would be greatly impaired If not wholly destroyed It is mainly by Judicious advertising that the knowledge knowl-edge of proprietary medicines Is I brought to the public Nothing a15 more certain than that millions of people peo-ple have found relief at a comparatively compara-tively small expense by tho use of some remedy first called to theIr notice through newspaper advertising Why then should tho manufacturer of a meritorious proprietary romedy bo compelled by law to prjotically destroy his business as a condition of being allowed to carry it 0117 Yet that is exactly what thebe formula I bills meanExch oe |