Mr Clements Explains
♦ Many .people have expressed surprise ~ that CtiM ! ENTß'ToNic^h'as met with such ~ wonderful' and" unprecedented success in «uch-ar f 'short -timoj 'The explanation is aimpterTiTiß'QESUiNß.- I- saw the thousands of^worjthless ,hogs- will, American nostrjim'sfSooding the Australian market r year tjT year,, month -by month, 1 *! ay ~by day, and, -knew 4h>t a great, amount of xnoneyllef^' the'se^shorea'annually'in r< - turn tor these" rubbishy 0 articles, all of which, made _t he country so much the poorer^ Xalso knew that' the /exigencies «f Hfp^in jhiSv. country and, the, climate "necessitated use of arti ficial J>loodmaker to' J restore" ''the' normul condition and vital -forces which " .were so enervated' by climatic and Vth'er influences'.^ X also''saw the' thin/ pale, -delicate, "and attenuated men and women -"of Australian -cities,- and studied-' the' ■causes and ways and means of remedy-, ing tKe.~evilr;~l 'saw-that it. was impos* . vible'tp .bring the article required into " popular 'favour 'except 'in the form of a' patent^mtdicine^- 1-kaow-of the'thou' 1 sands, 'of pounds spent; by'the public an» nuallj> -in (purchasing inert- and ■ sometimes Jiarmful concocions of worthless, .ingredients, and asked myself— ; Why '-can't -we- manufacture -the article' the mateit of genuine *. -and best material?; and -give ;an article which? will do, the, good which other, i makers '"only ' claim" th'aV theirs will doP J^ew :that_ such a remedy could' .. ._iouade,,§nd that unless;it met with'pablic .-.. approval great # ioss f musiresult. How -ever, IjHetirmihecTtd Venture on its mtro-'-ductibbVandthua C£ei<ents tonic camp "to be niade,.and.in_t he. short space* of two' .jearffjit has, apread^o,yer, ythe whole face of thia x .contiuent. jit is r sold in every -•tore ia' Australia Vs/freelyaein Sydney; r -and the mere 1 fact of its^eriormous sale in this city la proof_ positive' of its virtuse," for no. article can cpmmandt a creat sale -at the ' home of its birth' unless^ it is 1 -—absolutely andconclusively proved to be, - jjenuiber Clements Tonic has replaced * <veryCdther article offered, and- has the Jargt'Stcconsumptioh tenfold of any other Australian medicine; and this is, not .- toythe advertising' expenditure of its proprietor, but to its pure, undisputed -„ Jnejit; : iTelloWi Australians, Iwe don't ->» ants.thea: Yankee quacfc ito dump his : - blii]>-loads of clap trap < fooleries and, , -*ure alls- on our Australian shores, and -- -"fo- 1 arl<on-wi?fi' his smooth tongue and - /plausible! humbug ; neither do' we want iim to suck thefV^tality and marrow out, r -of our people 'with his consignments of -ehamical slops, which' ~ with specious .plausibility, he guarantees to cure every-, ihing^Tjrom epilepsy" to' impecuniosity. „, .^e-wiqt a genuine article, made'in our . ->nswn land-, 0 by our own people, bought -"with pur own money ; then 'the money t -remai&s^in' our own country, and the .^sonntry, is so much the richer thereby csnd we' all have a chance of handling it -again,] whereas, if it once gets into the rrapae'ipu8 r raaw of the Yankee quack, rf»Te#ell ! it is gone for ever. I know : my article is genuine, and that it con~~tains?tnVmaterial to' make it cure disease . ' where; disease is curable: You may de« t > tpend r^pon, it that if /Clements Tonic fails all 'others must fail. lean produce = of proofs of the truth of my - -statements and the virtues' of,ray remedy -F. M/dlements/Ne'wtown^ N.S W.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 143, 26 May 1891, Page 4
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529Mr Clements Explains Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 143, 26 May 1891, Page 4
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