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The Great American Fraud

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Department, reproduced on the following page, the kernel of which is this: [014]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

Washington, D. C., August 10, 1905.

To Indian Agents and School Superintendents in charge of Agencies:

The attention of the Office has been called to the fact that many licensed traders are very negligent as to the way in which their stores are kept. Some lack of order might he condoned, but it is reported that many stores are dirty even to filthiness. Such a condition of affairs need not be tolerated, and improvement in that respect must be insisted on.

The Office is not so inexperienced as to suppose that traders open stores among Indians from philanthropic motive's. Nevertheless a trader has a great influence among the Indians with whom he has constant dealings a. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Although aspects of this compilation of the Collier' s Weekly are not necessarily relevant today many aspects are pertinent to modern quack medicine. From criticism of claims, testimonials, advertising techniques and on the reader learns that many things haven't changed in the past century. As a pri

Considering it is well over a century old, this holds up remarkably well. Adams is a terrific investigative journalist, and there isn't much philosophical difference between nostrums where no active ingredient is allowed to be known to homeopathic "remedies" where no active ingredient is allowed, fu

A culturally important book that on one level is quite dated and on another still has important things to say to our over medicated society.
Quite interesting in parts, the whole use of alcohol in drugs by people promoting temperance was both enlightening and amusing.

a nonfiction book that will shock you with the knowledge that many of the world's modern problems are actually over 100 years old. Some facts will shock you. Then the attitudes of the people interviewed are still relatable and will make you laugh.

I'm not really sure why I read this. It was definitely a unique read, but I can't say that I recommend it