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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 7, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Several times I have been asked to 
reprint Publisher’s Desk in book form. 
Last Spring I started to rewrite it with 
the purpose of complying with the re¬ 
quest. I soon found that I must aban¬ 
don the attempt because of the danger 
of putting in permanent form a criticism 
of some person or house, that might in 
some way do them an injustice. The 
circumstance might have been correctly 
reported months or years back, but the 
repetition of it at this time might not 
be warranted or justified. One such in¬ 
stance would destroy the purpose of the 
book. So the reprint was abandoned. 
But I am going to publish a book that 
will be of greater value. It has grown 
out of the same purpose. I want our 
friends to help. This book will tell 
how tricks, fakes and frauds are worked 
on people to get money from them. I 
am going to tell it in the plainest and 
simplest words possible. I want every 
instance to show just how the trick 
was turned so that the reader will know 
how to avoid the allurements of these 
crooks. Have you any personal experi¬ 
ence or personal knowledge of such 
tricks or swindles? If so, write them 
out, and send to Publisher’s Desk. Tell 
only what you know of your personal 
knowledge or experience. If you send 
something I can use in the book, I will 
send you a cloth-bound copy of the 
book as soon as it is published. 
I learned of one case where an old couple 
in Hutchinson had been induced to invest 
practically all of their savings in one of 
Lewis’ schemes and as a result lost every 
dollar they invested. The old gentleman 
died, leaving his widow, as I understand, 
almost in want. They had been hard-work¬ 
ing people who had lived on a farm before 
coming to Hutchinson. They sold the farm 
and _ invested, as I recollect. .$6,000 with 
Lewis.—Editor, Farm Mail and Breeze, To¬ 
peka, Kans. 
The readers of the Breeze are for¬ 
tunate if only one such case has de¬ 
veloped among them. We can refer the 
editor to dozens of cases of the kind, 
and to hundreds of complaints of such 
losses from people who suffered from 
the Lewis swindles, though not to the 
extreme extent of the above case. Now 
that the Breeze has opened the case, 
we predict that the editor will hear 
from many more Lewis victims. 
Will people ever learn? 
Three years ago the Jared Flagg 
Company opened offices at 105 West 
40th street, New York City. It was 
ostensibly a broker’s office, but turns 
out to have been a get-rich-quick con¬ 
cern. The so-called brokers were to 
trade in Wall Street stocks. Their cus¬ 
tomers—dupes—were to furnish the 
cash, and they were to be paid one per 
cent a week—52 per cent a year. The 
money came pouring in to Flagg and 
Company, and, of course, the one per 
cent a week went back, and that 
brought more cash from the first inves- 
ters and their confidential friends. You 
see the one per cent a week could be 
paid back for nearly two years before 
the original investment was all re¬ 
turned ; and in the meantime money in 
increasing volume would and did come 
in from people who heard of the great 
profits. It was coming recently at the 
rate of $200,000 per month. In all $2,- 
000,000 has been received. But last 
week the postal inspectors turned in 
their reports; a warrant was issued, 
and Mr. Flagg with seven of his asso¬ 
ciates spent a night in the Tombs. 
They have. since been indicted by 
the Federal Grand Jury, charged 
with fraudulent use of the mails, 
and held under heavy bail. The 
scheme seems to have been patterned 
somewhat after the 520 per cent Miller 
swindle of some years back. But, like 
Lewis, it is said he used women to 
further the scheme. Just as Lewis paid, 
or promised to pay, a commission to 
women who would induce other women 
of their neighborhood to join his 
schemes and send him their money, so 
Flagg paid a commission to those who 
would induce their friends to send 
money to Flagg. And in further com¬ 
parison, just as Lewis raised a howl of 
abuse of the postal officials, and set 
himself up as a martyr to the cause of 
the people, so Flagg and his associates 
rage at the Federal authorities, and 
threaten exposure of official misdoings. 
What sins may be due to postal offi¬ 
cials I don’t know. I suppose they 
have their faults like other mortals. 
But I have been watching these swind¬ 
ling games for 25 years, and during 
that time the postal officials never did 
as good work as they are doing at the 
present time; and the people ought to 
support them and encourage them in 
the good work. Nothing has done the 
Taft administration more credit than 
the rounding up of notorious crooks. 
I am willing to pay the freight on a 
dean, honest farm paper. It has saved me 
and my employer dollar after dollar every 
year in live stock. Let alone frauds and 
fakes of all kinds and descriptions, espe¬ 
cially in that Globe Association. When I 
told their agent I saw in your columns that 
they were a fake, he never asked another 
question, but picked up his hat and left. 
Virginia. J. w. r. 
Fakers do not lose much time with 
subjects who are well advised. They 
meet better success with people who are 
not well informed as to their schemes. 
I am writing to thank you for the effort 
you have made to collect for the case of 
eggs lost in transit last September. The 
United States Express Company settled 
with me through their agent here, paying 
me $7.41, which they claim was what the 
case sold for on October 10, 1910, 14 days 
after shipment. I feel sure that 1 am $7.41 
better off than I would have been but for 
you. I wish to thank you again for stick¬ 
ing right to the express company until they 
were glad to settle. e. a. s. 
New York. 
The express company would tire us 
out just as it does shippers, if experi¬ 
ence gave them any hope in that direc¬ 
tion. But we don't tire. 
Excuse neglect in sending in subscription. 
Don’t ever stop until notified by me, as I 
consider the paper worth more than the 
price, in publishing frauds. 1 came near 
getting stuck with Lewis’ schemes, but 
went to the president of bank and asked 
his opinion as an investment, and he said, 
‘•Let it alone.” I only wish all the others 
had done the same. Then Lewis would 
have gone to work and got his money by 
the sweat of his brow like the rest of us. 
The great trouble with us farmers is that 
when we read such schemes we want to 
make some money easy, and so lose what 
little we have saved. My wish is that you 
keep up the instructions. G. G. t. 
New York. 
There is a wise man. The banker 
would go to you if he wanted informa¬ 
tion about the farm. Go to him for in¬ 
formation about investments. It is his 
business. It is true that some of the 
bankers got fooled on the Lewis bank 
schemes, simply because they reasoned 
that he would have to comply with the 
law as they do themselves; but they 
did not know that his energies have 
been devoted to avoiding laws; nor 
that he would impudently defy them. 
Any of us will miss calculations now 
and then; but the safest course is to ask 
information of a doctor, if you are sick, 
and the same holds good of other 
things. Ask the man whose business it 
is to know. j. j. d. 
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October 26—November 4, 1911 
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