Show AGAINST THE PUBLIC INTEREST overzealous reformers work for law against proprietary medicines schemes to diminish or destroy the sale ot proprietary medicines are constantly being devised by interested parties every now and then some zealous reformer comes to the front with the demand for a law to require every package ot proprietary ineal cine to be labeled with a printed statement of the formula showing lust bow it Is manufactured the mil lions ot people who use proprietary medicines seem to be satisfied but the man with a mania tor regulating the affairs of other people or who has some personal interest to serve la the one who agitates the proposition tv a person who has never taken 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 manufacture ers to auf their trade throughout the entire country at the mercy ol 01 every commercial pirate who might choose to flood the market with imitations of their goods under such conditions the ancen alve for the original manufacturer to advertise his goods would be cally destroyed for the money spent on advertising would inure mainly to the benefit of the pirates and illta tors without advertising the public would receive little information in regard to the medicine and all future bales would be greatly impaired it not wholly destroyed it Is mainly by ludicrous ludi clous advertising that the knowl edge of proprietary medicines is brought to the public nothing Is more certain than that millions of peo pie have found relief at a campara small expense by the use of some remedy first called to their notice through ne advertising why then sho ild the manufacturer of a meritorious proprietary remedy be compelled by law to practically destroy his business as a condition of being allowed to carr it ona yet that Is exactly stat these formula bills mean Ex chise most cruel of roman em derors built a bridge of boats three miles long at balac and celebrated its opening by throwing many of his guests into the sea |