PROMOTERS AND PROMOTING 



in the new company is selling fast; but, as 

 we wish to favor you, a block or two will 

 be specially reserved for you till early next 

 week. If you cannot possibly raise the 

 money meantime by mortgaging your home, 

 pray let us know at once, as so many are 

 walking the floor to get your chance. 



The ease with which money can be raised 

 on such representations would be comical if 

 it were not tragical, and tragical if it were 

 not comical. "A minister or a physician has 

 a few thousands laid by, a woman has either 

 saved or inherited a small amount, a work- 

 man or a farmer has managed to scrape to- 

 gether something for a rainy day. Such 

 people are found by the thousands in every 

 part of the country. From their accumula- 

 tions they draw a small rate of return, often 

 so small that they are constrained to add it 

 to the principal, and do not venture to apply 

 it to expenditure. Four or five per cent 

 clear gain is about all that can be expected. 

 Their lives are hard, monotonous and bar- 

 ren. Before their-eyes is constantly flaunted 

 the luxurious extravagance of the wealthy, 



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