1911. 
310 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Poorly Covered with a Bluff. 
If insanity is egotism gone to seed, 
as some people claim, E. G. Lewis 
ought to be classed as a raving maniac. 
He thinks himself too big and too im¬ 
portant to have his get-rich-quick 
schemes investigated by grand juries. 
He probably thinks their activities ought 
to be limited to chicken thieves and 
safe breakers. Denouncing the Assist¬ 
ant District Attorney, who had charge 
of the investigation some years ago 
which resulted in the issue of “fraud 
orders" against him, Lewis says: 
Too cowardly to again attack us openly, 
according to the publisher of The Rural 
New Yorker, he has used him and his 
paper as an assassin’s means of revenge. 
We ask only to openly face this man and 
those behind him before Congress. We 
know that the terrible machinery of a great 
government is in his hands to drive us to 
ruin and, if possible, even to railroad me 
to the penitentiary. 
Why does Goodwin and his department 
fear and so desperately light against our 
having an open hearing before Congress? 
He and those with him do not dare to ask 
for such an investiagtion. 
We wondered long why the publisher of 
this Rural New-Yorker was permitted to 
violate every Atal law with impunity' and 
mail tens of fcv<ftands of marked copies of 
his lying attacks to people who have never 
subscribed for his paper, not even marking 
them samples, until one day there fell into 
our hands one of his letters boasting that 
Goodwin and his associates, whom we were 
suing for conspiracy and libel in the for¬ 
mer assault on us, were “back of him.” 
Of course, the intimation in refer¬ 
ence to The R. N.-Y. and the claim 
that any such letter fell into his hands 
is just straight common lying, but, 
probably, not quite as despicable a 
brand as that used by Lewis for the 
last 10 years to allure money from 
poor country people. The publisher of 
The R. N.-Y. does not know Judge 
Goodwin, never saw him, never spoke a 
word to him, and never conferred with 
him in any way directly or indirectly in 
reference to this investigation of the 
Lewis schemes. Nor have we in any 
way directly or indirectly mentioned 
Judge Goodwin’s name in connection 
with it. We make this statement only 
to show what a reckless and irrespon¬ 
sible character this man Lewis really is. 
His anticipation of railroad travel is 
probably suggested by his personal 
knowledge of what a thorough investi¬ 
gation of his schemes would reveal. 
We commend Lewis for egotism and 
impudence. Quiet orderly processes of 
law do not suit him. He wants some¬ 
thing more spectacular. He does not 
like indictments by grand juries. They 
are too commonplace. Indictments 
sometimes—not always—result in rail-, 
roading to the penitentiary. That’s all 
good enough for a chicken thief or an 
ordinary petty swindler, but the schemer 
who has his privilege of alluring money 
from poor country people interfered 
with by Federal officials, must be spared 
from such an ordinary and humiliating 
procedure. Surely the President and 
Congress should devote a week to the 
intricacies of the “Interim Receipt.” To 
be sure they would not get far into the 
Lewis schemes in a week; but surely far 
enough to discover such a labyrinth of 
fakes as they never dreamed of before. 
For our part we here and now petition 
President Taft and Congress to inves¬ 
tigate the Lewis get-rich-quick fakes. 
We would rather have them doing that 
than voting on a law to increase the 
cost of postage. And when they get 
through perhaps they will pass a law to 
indemnify all thieves for losses sus¬ 
tained through restraining processes of 
the law. Why should a house breaker 
or a pickpocket be deprived of his‘ 
means of making a living in his own 
way? If such an outrage is perpetrated 
by officious district attorneys,' why 
shouldn’t the President and Congress 
recompense the outraged culpric for his 
losses, both real and prospective 0 As a 
further inducement, it might be made 
a condition that he promise to restore 
some of the plunder—he could make an 
excuse afterward to keep it all. 
What a feeling of security and com¬ 
fort it would be to all crooks to have 
grand juries abolished and district at¬ 
torneys discharged ! Promoters who go 
meekly to jail, are back numbers. Ellis 
and Graves were clumsy novices. There 
are ways of robbing people without be¬ 
ing caught with the goods on them, as 
the saying is. Anyway, the modern way 
is to raise a howl against everyone who 
tries to enforce the law. Lie about 
them, call them tyrants and conspirators 
and blackmailers, amd assassins! It 
can’t dc any harm; and it may scare 
them off. Don't pickpockets call “stop 
thief,” and incendiaries cry “fire”? The 
deception isn’t new, to be sure, but 
what difference if it works? These at- 
attempts to shirk responsibility may be 
amusing to people only indirectly inter¬ 
ested ; but to the Lewis victims it must 
be read with a feeling akin to disgust 
and contempt. 
A WISCONSIN GARDEN. 
Our garden contains four acres; half 
of it is planted in fruit trees and berries. 
On the rest we grow all kinds of vege¬ 
tables, selling them in the city of Wau¬ 
kesha. We sell at wholesale, and the 
stores take all we raise. The freeze on 
April 23 last knocked us out on the 
fruit line, but our vegetables were good, 
some very good. Here is a list of what 
we raised, also the amount of cash re¬ 
ceived for each: Asparagus, $10.50; cab¬ 
bage, 65; carrots, $40; beets ,$35; cauli¬ 
flower, $85.60; celery, $29.50 ; cucumbers 
$31.60; endive, $11.50; sweet corn 
$14.60; egg plant, $8; onions, $108.20 
lettuce, $104.50; peas, $26; parsnips 
$9.50; rhubarb, $47.75; spinach, $37.55 
peppers, $49.20; tomatoes, $170.50; prizes 
at State fairs, $104. Our best and most 
profitable crop was tomatoes. The re¬ 
turns from 300 plants on 30 square rods 
of ground were $170.50 cash. We 
started the seed on March 10 in green¬ 
house, using flat boxes about 18 inches 
square with about three inches of good 
soil, sowing the seed not too thick half 
an inch deep. April 15 transplanted in 
other boxes, setting plants about three 
inches each way. Again on first of 
May plants were set in a cold frame, 
givng each plant about a foot of room. 
1 kept them growing slowly by giving 
plenty of air, and finally by taking off 
the glass entirely. By the last of May 
they were hardy and strong and we 
transplanted them in open ground. We 
used one-half pound of potato fertilizer 
in each hill. The plants never wilted, 
and on July 4 we had the first ripe to¬ 
matoes. A week later we had enough 
to take to market and received five cents 
per pound for them. We sold $85 worth 
at this price, when they dropped to 75 
cents per bushel, but soon advanced 
again to $2 per bushel. The last lot we 
sold on November 15. The variety is 
Burpee’s Earliest Pink. John grape. 
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