Show LAW URGED BY SELF real animus of f movement again remedies deservedly popular an adroit but plausible scheme IT which it Is hoped to prejudice tie the sole gale of proprietary medicines Is the proposition to prohibit the sale of any rem edy which contains poison uri unless lesla each package or battla to Is expressly la baled I 1 poison such bills are also well designed to impose upon men ft ho have no familiarity with the subject matter the pretense of protecting the public health put forth in rapport of sach bills Is generally the merest subterfuge and whenever you hear bear a demand for a law of this kind hind it originates with mith those who bo have a direct pecuniary interest to serve by destroying the sale of proprietary rem edles some of the best and most widely used remedies tn in the world orld contain some one ingredient which it if in sufficient quantities might bo be pot pol bonous and yet the preparation ration as a whole Is not poisonous at all opium for or instance lq iq used la in small email quantities in many of the best cures for coughs colic diarl bea etc in tooth ache drops and in almost all liniments to require such nea to be ww ly labeled poison would le merely a cunning delce to alarm the public and thus bring about the destruction of the sale of and in directly to compel people to procure the medicine they want by the more expensive method of con consulting gulting a phy and getting his prescription in other words it is an effort to prevent them from getting cheaply the reint dies which they and their fathers be fore them hai e used tor for many years medical exchange |