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“THE F£UFtA-E> NEW-YORKER 
October 2, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Do you accept subscription certificates of 
the American Woman’s League, St. Louis, 
Mo., in payment for subscriptions? 
Illinois. o. w. F. 
The so-called American Woman’s 
League of St. Louis, Mo., or its pro¬ 
moter, Mr. E. G. Lewis, has no author¬ 
ity whatever to accept subscriptions for 
The Rural New-Yorker, and none of 
their coupons would be accepted under 
any circumstances whatever in whole 
or in part for subscriptions to this pa¬ 
per, and no subscriptions would be ac¬ 
cepted from them either directly or in¬ 
directly. In a recent issue of his paper 
Mr. Lewis stated that he had made ar¬ 
rangements by which his certificates 
would be accepted by any magazine or 
journal published in America. That was 
a deliberate misrepresentation. At the 
time of making the statement he knew 
that it was false and not true. Mr. 
Lewis’s principal stock in trade was the 
borrowed influence he appropriated 
by inducing some legitimate magazines 
to accept his advertising and to allow 
him to take subscriptions for them. 
But such publications as Collier’s Week¬ 
ly, Everybody’s Magazine and the De¬ 
lineator soon discovered the error they 
had made in allowing Mr. Lewis to use 
their names to promote his schemes; 
and they have withdrawn from the 
original arrangement which for the time 
being lent the color of responsibility to 
his colossal scheme to induce the women 
of America to send him $5,200,000 to 
control and do with practically as he 
pleased. To show conclusively that lie 
knew that his certificates would not be 
accepted by other publications, we sub¬ 
mit the following letter from the pub¬ 
lishers of the Ladies’ Home Journal 
and Saturday Evening Post: 
Sept. 17, 1909. 
Mu. John J. Dillon, 
409 Pearl Street, 
New York. 
Dear Sir: The plan to which your letter 
of the 15th instant refers was submitted to 
us by Mr. l/owis, of the Lewis Publishing 
Company, but was declined by us. The 
statement that the subscription certificates 
referred fo would be accepted in payment 
for subscriptions to any magazines published 
in America was made entirely without our 
sanction, and we have already written to 
the lewis Publishing Company formally 
slating that no subscriptions whatever to 
our magazines would be accepted, either di¬ 
rectly or indirectly from that firm. 
Very truly yours, 
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
P. S. COLLINS, 
Circulation Manager. 
We asked Mr. Lewis by what author¬ 
ity he assured the people, that his cer¬ 
tificates would be accepted by the The 
Rural New-Yorker. In reply he evades 
the question of misrepresentation, and 
contents himself by saying that in our 
case he would either substitute some 
other paper or send it through some 
subscription agency or return the mon¬ 
ey. To this we make the following 
reply: 
September 20, 1909. 
Mr. F. G. Lewis, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Dear Sir: I have yours of September 10, 
but I find nothing in your letter to Justify 
the publication in your issue of the Woman’s 
National Dally of August 2.’i that your cou¬ 
pons would be accepted for any publication 
In America. This was deliberate evidence of 
bad faith to The Rural New-Yokkeii and 
a deception to the people to whom you are 
appealing for funds for the promotion of 
your schemes. 
I note that you had in mind to call 
while in New York. I should be glad at 
any time to meet any publisher or any busi¬ 
ness man in the promotion of a legitimate 
proposition, but I want to say to you frankly 
now Hint T have no Interest In propositions 
that are promoted on bad faith and with 
deliberate intention of a deception. Fur¬ 
thermore, I have reasons to believe that 
the publication of the statement in the 
August 28th issue was a deliberate misrep¬ 
resentation from the fact that you were 
already advised by other responsible pul>- 
lishers that your coupons would not be 
acepted in payment of subscriptions, and 
that no subscription would he necepted 
through your agency directly or Indirectly. 
You have done me the courtesy of writ¬ 
ing me with some fulness and with some 
apparent frankness with regard to your 
scheme, and I am reciprocating the courtesy 
with equal frankness. If m.v conclusions are 
not justified I should l>o very glad to have 
you point out in what particulars I am in 
error. 
I now want to say to you, as I suppose 
you know before, that none of your certifi¬ 
cates will be accepted for subscriptions to 
The Rural New-Yorker; that yon and 
none of your associates have any authority 
to accept subscriptions for us. We request 
you not to do so, and no subscriptions would 
be accepted througli your agency directly or 
indirectly. To make our position all the 
more clear and emphatic,' this position is 
taken on the ground that we do not. want to 
lend the reputation of The Rural Nhw- 
Yoiikkr to any scheme in which we have no 
confidence. Very truly yours, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
This is a good deal of space to give 
Mr. Lewis, hut $5,200,000 is a good 
deal of money, and Mr. Lewis is work¬ 
ing many other devices to get money 
from country people. For several 
months he has made much of his ar¬ 
rangement with Collier’s, Everybody’s 
and Delineator, and Farm Journal, he 
has made no announcement that they 
have now withdrawn from the League 
scheme, and until he does so he will 
necessarily he working under deceptions 
to his members as to them. The whole 
scheme in our judgment is bound to 
tumble like a pack of cards; but when 
it goes, we would not like to have any 
money belonging to The R. N.-Y. fam¬ 
ily buried in the ruins . 
T. S. White, 111 South Fourth street, 
Columbus, Ohio. 
He has owed one of our subscribers 
$6 for three bushels of strawberries 
for over three years, and we have been 
unable to collect it. Ohio shippers will 
be interested. 
I see in Ibis week’s issue an account of 
Mr. Moses, of the United Tailors, Chicago, 
and tiis scheme of making money, and that 
you did not know of his whereabouts'. Now, 
I can tell you where he was yesterday, t he 
17th of September. lie went past my 
house and he was at my house the 16th 
inst. selling dress and waist patterns. So 
if the Chicago people look in New Y’ork 
State soon they will find him. Ills people 
live near here. d. e. n. 
New York. 
It is pretty hard for a defaulter or 
faker to get out of the range of The 
R. N.-Y. family. He is quite sure to 
find ond of them somewhere. Mr. 
Moses received $40 for a suit of clothes 
from one of our subscribers, but never 
sent the clothes. It is doubtful if any¬ 
thing could be got out of him, now 
even that he is located. 
What you said about the Seminole Land 
Company of Florida is absolutely true, and 
1 hough they have plenty of good land, they 
are giving deeds to lands in lakes and seven 
or eight miles from the railways. It Is 
pitiable to See the disappointment among 
the old heroes who expected to live close 
ns neighbors in the companionship of their 
old comrades. The Seminole people pur¬ 
chased only tin- land, hence an old soldier 
may get a deed for live acres of land and 
discover that the timber on that land lias 
been reserved by the Kissimmee Lumber 
Company for 10 years. The men promoting 
Die sales are strangers to Florida and have 
no interest other than the sale of their 
colony tract, pocket Die profits nud get 
out. 
The above comes to tis from a resi¬ 
dent of the section under discussion, 
and a man entirely familiar with the 
land operations there. It emphasizes 
our advice not to buy land in any col¬ 
ony or other place until after examina- 
tion, and you know just what you are I 
getting. j. j. a. 
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