1911 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
211 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Hid Behind a Squeal. 
“No rogue e'er felt the halter draw 
With good opirnon of the law." 
The galled jade winces. E. G. Lewis 
begins to feel the lash of outraged de¬ 
cency. Cringing from an examination 
by the Grand Jury of the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment of his many schemes to gather 
money from country people, he issues a 
daily whine about new conspiracies to 
interfere with his special privilege of 
gathering in the money of inexperi¬ 
enced country people on fake schemes. 
Realizing that he cannot continue to col¬ 
lect more money while the record of his 
past ventures is being told, and with¬ 
out showing definite assets for new bor¬ 
rowings, he has now impudently set out 
to scare The R. N.-Y. and intimidate 
the National Government. He scarcely 
realizes his job. Here are his instruc¬ 
tions to his readers: 
Then take the marked copy of Tub 
Rural New-Yorker sent you, pick out 
several of the principal advertisers in it, 
and write these advertisers direct eaeli a 
little note stating that as they patronize 
a paper which has for a year been trying 
to injure or destroy the League, and pre¬ 
vent your securing a Chapter House in 
your town, you will make it YOUIt busi¬ 
ness to see that they do not get any busi¬ 
ness from you or your friends. Then 
write one more letter direct to President 
Taft and ask him if it is in accordance 
with “an orderly conduct of the Post Office 
Department” for any of its officials to con¬ 
spire with a publisher to send out tens of 
thousands of copies of his paper to non¬ 
subscribers with marked articles vilifying 
your organization in order to get revenge 
or prevent an open, fair hearing of our 
indemnity bill? 
If Mr. Lewis thinks that kind of talk 
will scare off The R. N.-Y., lie was 
never more mistaken in his life. We 
want to know what became of the money 
our subscribers sent him, and why he 
does not pay it back. The more times 
his friends write President Taft the bet¬ 
ter we will like it. It will give us that 
many more opportunities to ask Mr. 
Taft to see if he can find out what be¬ 
came of the $25,000 our subscribers 
sent Lewis. We would like help to get 
it. Since Mr. Lewis learned that the 
Federal Grand Jury is again investigat¬ 
ing his schemes he has* renewed his 
bad opinion of Federal law. Why 
should a man who borrowed money 
from country people continuously for 
10 years, and who admits his inability 
to pay it back, be annoyed by a Grand 
Jury when he wants to borrow more? 
Is it anybody’s business what he does 
with money borrowed from working 
girls and washerwomen? Flow could 
Mr. Lewis be expected to think well of 
a law or of Federal officers who ap¬ 
plied law to interfere with his precious 
privileges? 
Mr. Lewis also wants his readers to 
ask the Postmaster General to inquire 
; nto the “claims” we have for collection, 
and what became of the money. We in¬ 
vite that inquiry too. We have nearly 
70 claims against Mr. Lewis. We 
would like the Postmaster General to 
inspect them. As to the collections, 
there is only one that we are bound 
not tc publish. If Mr. Lewis will re¬ 
lease the bond of secrecy we will print 
it 
Mr. Lewis sued The R. N.-Y. for an 
alleged libel by serving the papers .on 
an advertising agent in St. Louis. The 
State court says the service holds, so 
The R. N.-Y. must answer and defend 
in his State. Mr. Eewis has given 
ample space to this news, but he has 
not trusted his readers with the infor¬ 
mation that the Federal Grand Jury has 
been investigating his schemes; nor 
that a suit of $250,000 had been filed 
against him for slander; nor that he was 
sued for $94,000 for services of an 
architect; nor that a suit from New 
York City is on the docket for $ 5 , 000 ; 
nor that numerous accounts are in the 
hands of attorneys for collection 
against him and his numerous enter¬ 
prises. He does not take the women 
into his confidence on these subjects. 
No blame to him. The news would 
hardly encourage remittances to him as 
further loans. 
The experience of Thomas Beverly 
White, Stockport, Ohio, is characteris- 
tfc of Lewis. Mr. White sent him $500 
for stock in the now defunct bank. 
When the bank was closed Lewis per¬ 
suaded him to assign the stock to him 
in exchange for a three-year five per 
cent note. It was dated September 1 , 
1905. Default was made in interest 
and principal; and after numerous un¬ 
successful attempts to collect it, Mr. 
White sent the note to us for collec¬ 
tion. We demanded payment from 
Lewis. Fie replied, as he did to many 
similar demands, that he would pay the 
note if Mr. White was in distress. He 
had written the same thing about other 
claims, but when we showed that his 
creditors were in distress,, he did not 
pay even small claims. We therefore 
knew that the reply was his usual way 
of putting off payments. Besides, Mr. 
White was not in distress. We did not 
think he was, and refused to say so. 
We told Air. Lewis that Air. White was 
entitled to his money whether in dis¬ 
tress or not. It was a new excuse to 
us for refusal to pay a note past due. 
Lewis refused to pay the note, and we 
published a picture of it on Alay 14 
last. Later Lewis wrote Air. White ex¬ 
plaining how he had promised to pay 
the note; and inclosed a long statement 
for Air. White to sign and swear to, 
promising if he did so to pay the note 
in full. Of course Mr. White could not 
swear to the statement without commit¬ 
ting perjury. He very properly sent 
the statement to us. Lewis probably 
saved himself technically from a charge 
of attempting to procure perjury by a 
letter accompanying the prepared affi¬ 
davit, but he made payment of the note 
conditional on the delivery of an affi¬ 
davit to him. What the effect of the 
inducement might be on a weaker man 
than Mr. White is left to conjecture. 
Following is Air. White's version of the 
rest: 
Air. Dillon and 1 had a conversation in 
which I told him I would like to manage 
to got a payment on my note, as it would 
soon be outlawed if I did not, and as Mr. 
Lewis had said that if I would acknowl¬ 
edge that The R. N.-Y. had not notified me 
that he had offered to pay my note if I 
was in distress he would pay me, 1 asked 
.«r. Dillon if I could, and he replied: 
“Yes, do it.” Therefore it was with Mr. 
Dillon’s consent that i signed the follow¬ 
ing statement: “This is to certify that 
The Rural New-Yorker did not notify me 
that E. G. Lewis had made an offer to 
pay my note if I was in distress until long 
after.” The above was witnessed hut not 
sworn to. I have no copy hut take from 
memory. I sent my note to The R. N.-Y. 
for collection just the same as I would to 
a lawyer, expecting him to use his judg¬ 
ment as to the best method. After my 
note had been printed in The R. N.-Y. I 
received a letter from Mr. Lewis asking me 
if The It. N.-Y. had notified me that he 
had offered to pay my note if I was in dis¬ 
tress. I replied that i was not aware 
that he had made an offer, and then I 
forwarded his letter to Air. DiHon for him 
to explain why I had not been notified. 
He replied that he told Air. Lewis he would 
accept no apologies or delays or excuses; 
that he was already familiar with that 
form of payment, and that he had no con¬ 
fidence in them, leaving me to conclude 
that he did not consider it worth while to 
notify me. And as I had had some ex¬ 
perience with Air. Lewis’ promises I was 
satisfied he was right. I went to see Mr. 
Lewis on the afternoon of the 27th of 
January and asked him if he could not 
pay my note, lie claimed that he had no 
funds. I then asked him at least to pay 
the interest. lie replied : “I cannot do it, 
there are thousands of people asking for 
money,” but turned to the desk and wrote 
out a statement, and said, “If vou will 
sign this statement I will pay you $25 in¬ 
terest on your note.” Seeing 'i could do 
no better, and wishing to get a credit on 
the note, I signed it. T. r. white. 
Stockport, O. 
If Air. White cannot show that he is 
in distress, other of the Lewis creditors 
can. We have now about 70 claims 
against him. Some of these creditors 
are in real poverty and want. We do 
not think they would swear to any 
statements that would suit Air. Lewis; 
but he got their hard-earned savings 
years ago on his promises -to make them 
rich and independent. They would like 
now to get it back. Lewis says he 
promised to pay Mr. White in full with 
interest. Certainly. Promises are* his 
long suit. If his promises had a cash 
value all his victims would be rolling 
in wealth. But what a disgusting gall 
the man has to refer to the White mat¬ 
ter at all! Since when did it become a 
virtue to repudiate an honest debt? 
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