As Dr. Smith is, on the face of his own statements, a self-branded swindler and rascal, you run no risk in assuming that the Rev. C.H.  Forney, D.D., L.L.D., in acting as his journalistic supporter for pay, is just such another as himself!

And again: 

Will the editor of the “Baptist Watchman” of Boston explain by what phenomenon of logic or elasticity of ethics he accepts the lucubrations of Dr. Bye, of Oren Oneal, of Liquozone, of Actina, that marvelous two-ended mechanical appliance which “cures” deafness at one terminus and blindness at the other, and all with a little oil of mustard?

And again: 

The “Christian Observer” of Louisville replied to a protesting subscriber, suggesting that the “Collier” articles were written in a spirit of revenge, because “Collier’s” could not get patent medicine advertising.  When I asked the Rev. F. Bartlett Converse for his foundation for the charge, he said that one of the typewriters must have written the letter!  Doubtless also the same highly responsible typewriter imitated the signature with startling fidelity to Dr. Converse’s handwriting!

And here is—­would you think it possible?—­our “Church of Good Society”!  It has an organ in Chicago called the “Living Church”, most dignified and decorous.  You have to study quite a while to ascertain what denomination it belongs to; it will not tell you directly, for the Anglician pose is that it is #the# church

  Elect from every nation,
    Yet one o’er all the earth,
  Her charter of salvation,
    One Lord, one Faith, one Birth;
  One holy name she blesses,
    Partakes one holy food,
  And toward one Hope she presses,
    With every grace endued.

And this one holy institution was found setting at its peak the black flag of the trader, the “Jolly Roger” of the modern commercial pirate—­“Caveat emptor!” To quote the precise words: 

     The editors and publishers of the “Living Church” assume no
     responsibility for the assertions of advertisers.

And so it threw open its columns to the claims of America’s champion labor-baiter, the late C.W.  Post, that his “Grapenuts” would prevent appendicitis, and obviate the need of operations in such cases!

And here is the “Christian Endeavor World”, organ of one of the most powerful non-sectarian religious bodies in the country.  Some one wrote complaining of its medical advertising, and the answer was: 

To the best of our knowledge and belief, we are not publishing any fraudulent or unworthy medical advertising....  Trusting that you will be able to understand that we are acting according to our best and sincerest judgment, I remain, yours very truly, The Golden Rule Company, George W. Coleman, Business Manager.

Whereupon the historian of “The Great American Fraud” remarks: