1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
383 
PUBLISHERS DESK. 
Following is the essential part of a let¬ 
ter just received from an Iowa farmer: 
I am very much attached to Wallace’s 
Farmer, and they have referred me to you for 
Information about the Society of Equity and 
the Third Power by Everett. Wallace’s Farm¬ 
er does not consider It worthy of the support 
of the farmers of the West, but gives no 
details. Some of our neighbors are fascin¬ 
ated with the Third Power. Will you point 
out the fallacy of it. or tell us if it is what, 
it purports to be? We would be very grate¬ 
ful to you to help in this matter. If it is 
worthy we would like to help it along. If it 
is a fleecing scheme we would be glad to let 
It alone. T. t. f. 
_Iowa. 
Following is another from a southern 
State on the same subject: 
Are you opposed to the American Society of 
Equity and why? Answer fully; I ask for 
information. Keply will be greatly appreci¬ 
ated. j. L. G. 
Kentucky. 
Here is the substance of a somewhat 
personal letter from a northwestern 
farmer: 
I am renewing my subscription to your 
most estimable paper. The farmers of this 
young State are up against that unbusiness¬ 
like proposition engineered by Everett of In¬ 
dianapolis. He is represented nere by one 
Tberon Fisk. He is a loud one, and has in¬ 
duced many of our Dakota farmers to hand 
him over their good dollars for his low-priced 
paper and “his pledge.’’ I should like to have 
your opinion of this glaring scheme. Mr. 
Fisk says if he can get two million farmers 
to join him the scheme must succeed. I 
wonder what the other 20 millions will be do¬ 
ing with their products while less than 10 per 
cent are holding off the market for his prom¬ 
ised boom prices. He admitted to me that of 
the $1 he collected from each farmer here, 
he keeps 75 cents and sends 25 cents to 
Everett. A. s. f. 
South Dakota. 
We may as well have the plain facts 
of this subject. Mr. Everett began his 
business career some years ago in a small 
Pennsylvania town. He took up the seed 
business, and promptly began to fake his 
neighbors. His trade was local. His 
methods passed from mouth to mouth and 
his business there came to an early end. 
He then went to Indianapolis and started 
a paper there to boom his seed trade. He 
did not comply with the postal laws, and 
the Government threw his paper out of 
the mail. He now sold seeds and farm 
implements through the mails, and his 
customers being scattered could not ad¬ 
vise one another as they did in his na¬ 
tive town, so that when he faked one 
farmer he had only to find a new victim 
for his. next sale. Farmers have always 
complained that his seeds and implements 
were not what he represented them to be, 
and they could never get any satisfaction 
or even reply to their complaints. We 
are informed that his s6ed business re¬ 
cently failed and that he is now going 
through the bankrupt courts, which means 
that the people who trusted him will not 
get their money. During the last 20 years 
we have repeatedly refused his advertis¬ 
ing; and we do not know of a reputable 
farm paper that would have accepted it 
of recent years. 
Such is Mr. Everett’s record. He has 
been faking farmers during his whole 
business career. He is faking them still. 
His society has no marks of sincerity 
about it. Like his other schemes, it is a 
fake. Its sole purpose is to induce farm¬ 
ers to send him money that they would 
not part with on a straight business prop¬ 
osition. It also seems that he makes the 
farmer pay his canvassers or promoters. 
Our South Dakota correspondent reports 
him collecting $1, of which he sends 
Lverett 25 cents. It does not matter to 
Everett how much the farmer pays so 
long as he himself gets a share of the 
loot. He tells farmers that he can make 
their products bring bigger prices. All 
they need do is to send him 50 cents, 
more or less, and promise not to sell 
goods for less than the price he names. 
I he promise is not important; but the 
cash is essential. He claims that he has 
100,000 farmers so pledged. We doubt it; 
but assume that he has. There are over 
20,000,000 farmers in the country. Sup¬ 
pose one out of every 200 held his prod¬ 
ucts. what effect would it have on the 
markets? Besides, in any given number 
of farmers there are some who are so 
situated that they cannot hold if they 
would. They are often better off not to 
do so; and there is nothing in the prom¬ 
ise or pledge that would keep any man 
irom selling when he felt that it was to 
his best interest to do so. The scheme 
could not work if it were proposed and 
organized in good faith. Mr. Everett’s 
only interest in it is the cash membership 
fee which goes to him. 
It is true that trusts control certain 
products, and in that way dictate their 
prices; but they never attempt to do it by 
mere promises. They organize legal 
companies, which represent large cash 
capital, with a set of central officers who 
control the whole business. Even then 
they succeed only with certain lines of 
business. When the industries are not 
\Inl a< ^ a P* e< l to trust control they fail. 
Who would conceive the idea of forming 
all the farms of this country under one 
corporation ?. How many farmers would 
g've up their title and control of their 
tarms if it were seriously proposed? 
We realize that we are giving this sub¬ 
ject more attention than it deserves. The 
whole scheme is got up to throw dust 
into the farmers’ eyes while a notorious 
faker picks 50 cents from their pockets. 
It is not a pleasant task to expose these 
humbugs, but our people look to us for 
the information and it is our plain duty 
to furnish it. It is not our first experi¬ 
ence. Woodruff had a similar scheme 
when his American Farm Company of 
Buffalo was to buy everything the farmer 
sold at high prices, and sell him every¬ 
thing he wanted at low prices. But the 
farmer had to put up some cash first. The 
Chicago creamery sharks were to make 
the farmer rich too, but these dairymen 
had to put up cash first. The fakers who 
organized the New England milk pro¬ 
ducers some years ago were to make them 
rich, but these milkmen had to put up 
cash first. We could multiply instances 
of the kind, but few farmers are without 
experience of some kind with such rogues. 
Now Everett is to make farmers rich 
with wind, but the farmer as usual must 
put up the money first, and like the other 
fakers, Everett gets it. 
The most contemptible faker is the one 
who takes advantage of the people’s diffi¬ 
culties or misfortunes for his own selfish 
gain. A child is crippled and needy. The 
faker promises her work at home at 
good pay. She sends money for mate¬ 
rial. There it ends. The man is deaf. 
The faker will cure him. He gets the 
money but the deaf hears not. The can¬ 
cer is eating its certain and deadly way 
into the patient’s flesh. The faker prom¬ 
ises a certain cure. He will intensify the 
agony and increase the suffering with 
his burning caustics. He knows that he 
is inflicting cruel and useless suffering. 
The money paid him would bring needed 
comforts. He is making a terrible afflic¬ 
tion doubly cruel, but he will continue the 
agony as long as he is able to squeeze 
a dollar from the sufferer or her 
friends. Everett belongs to this class of 
fakers. He sees farmers suffering from 
certain hardships and conditions. They 
are not getting their just share of what 
the consumer pays for their products. The 
speculator and middleman get too much. 
For the most part they sell at wholesale 
at lowest prices and buy at retail, which 
means the highest prices. Their exploiter 
has made no study of these conditions. 
He is interested only in making a plausi¬ 
ble argument. He wants to make farmers 
think that he has a patent remedy for all 
their ills, just as the quack doctor im¬ 
poses on those sick with bodily ills. He 
may not cause any physical pain; but his 
methods are the same. He uses their 
difficulties' to extract money from them 
without giving them any return. 
We have a wholesome distrust for the 
shrewd schemer who, through the cold 
processes of business, succeeds in legally 
appropriating to himself the property of 
others; but the full measure of our con¬ 
tempt and loathing is reserved for the 
sordid hypocrite who, by feigned friend¬ 
ship and counterfeited sympathy, worms 
himself into the confidence of the unsus¬ 
pecting only to betray their trust at the 
opportune time for his own personal glory 
and profit. 
We are not opposed to any genuine 
farmers’ organization. We are in favor 
of them, and will do all we can to sup¬ 
port and help them. Farmers should al¬ 
ways organize for their own protection 
and improvement, and use their organiza¬ 
tions for any good and legitimate end, 
business, social or political. They should, 
however, organize themselves, and run 
the organization for their own benefit. We 
believe in organizations of farmers by 
farmers for farmers. We are opposed to 
the organization of farmers by fakers for 
fakers. 
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