CHAPTER E 



UNPARALLELED SUCCESS OF FONG WAN 

 HERBALIST 



For 20 years Fong Wan has conducted a 100 per cent honest herb 

 business in Oakland. 



He is not only able to detect the numerous causes of various ail- 

 ments of the human system, but he has also been able to discover and 

 to bring- to naught the machinations of various jealous enemies, as is 

 evidenced by the following: 



1. POLICE COURT: Since the establishment of his Herb Business 

 in Oakland in 1915, he has won more than 20 Medical Cases in the 

 Police Court. 



2. SUPERIOR COURT: In 1924-1925, some lawyers and Chinese 

 women combined to sue him for $25,000 in a trumped-up slander suit 

 (that had been predicted in his horoscope at the time of his birth). He 

 won this case in both the Appellate and the State Supreme courts. This 

 suit cost the plaintiffs at least $3000. 



3. STATE ASSEMBLY: In 1925, the Anti-Herb Bill was intro- 

 duced. An investigation by the State Assembly at Sacramento was 

 started. It cost the State of California no less than $6000 and showed 

 many indications that it was a bill of graft. 



4. FEDERAL COURT: For more than 20 years, Fong Wan has 

 realized that the medicos, after having failed in their attempts to put 

 the chiropractors and healers of other schools out of business, would 

 center their attention on the Chinese herbalists. Being the most re- 

 nowned herbalist in America, Fong Wan also suspected that he would 

 be the target. He also foresaw that the agent of the medicos would 

 use the postal authorities as their instruments in persecuting the Chi- 

 nese herbalists. 



Having been careful in all his correspondence with regard to the 

 statements and promises made, Fong Wan cannot be legally convicted. 

 The decoy letters written by the postal inspector, together with the re- 



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