FONG WAN - Library

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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