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THE RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Once more we must advise that no 
attention can be given to communica¬ 
tions that do not contain full name and 
address. You waste your time and 
postage and encumber our waste basket. 
I sent M. Susskind & Company, real estate 
agents of 192 Bowery, corner of Spring 
street, New York City, $40 to advertise a 
property; but have been unable to get any 
results or satisfaction for the money. Can 
you help me get an accounting or the return 
of my money? R. w. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have been unable to get anything 
satisfactory. Mr. Susskind sent us a cou¬ 
ple of clippings apparently from local 
papers, and promised others, but we 
have not been able to get them. It seems 
to be the usual result from advance 
fees to real estate agents. If you want 
to advertise real estate, better do it 
yourself, or through a responsible adver¬ 
tising agent. When real estate agents 
get advance fees they usually lose in¬ 
terest in the property, and we have 
never known of any of the fees to be 
returned. 
I have a farm in the State of Maine. 
Recently I hired a superintendent, Harry 
L. McCauley, and put him in charge. He 
came through an employment agency and 
gave as reference, Mrs. C. E. Howland, 
Walden, N. Y., and Sarah E. Lockwood, 
Hempstead, N. Y.; the latter is his mother. 
After being in charge some time he quit 
without any notice, and left the stock on 
the place without care or food. The neigh¬ 
bors had to feed them until I got notice of 
affairs and went there. Then I found he 
had sold cows and horses and other things 
to the value of several hundred dollars, and 
ran away with the proceeds. I have been 
unable to locate him, but I want to express 
a word of warning to others who may have 
an opportunity to repeat my experience. 
New York City. M. m. 
Such experiences discourage the back 
to the farm movement. That such things 
can happen is a loss to agriculture, and 
it is the duty of everyone interested in 
the farm to discourage such things, and 
to help apprehend the offender. 
Unless something is done to alleviate the 
present conditions of unrest in the nation 
mob rule will come. The sentiment of un¬ 
rest and abhorrence comes, I think, from 
the overcapitalizing of great industries; the 
selling of watered stock; promotion of 
worthless laud schemes; extortions of the 
express, telephone and telegraph systems; 
drainage of billions of money into the 
cities for life insurance—a considerable part 
of which never returns to the beneficiaries— 
and dozens of other schemes for deceiving 
and defrauding the people. I would add 
to this list the selling of worthless reme¬ 
dies under the guise of “cure-alls.” It is 
the duty of educated women to assist edu¬ 
cated men in the extermination of all these 
schemes of getting money for nothing.— 
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. 
Thoughtful students of our present 
conditions realize that our present 
methods of robbing the poor and frugal 
must stop if we are to preserve our in¬ 
stitutions. No country can endure in¬ 
definitely on injustice. But education 
alone will not accomplish the result. 
One of the western penitentiaries has 
19 college and university men in con¬ 
finement, and we find educated and pro¬ 
fessional men and women among the 
dupes of our worst swindlers. Common 
sense and strong moral stamina are as 
important as education. It must, how¬ 
ever, be admitted that information is 
important. No person can form a cor¬ 
rect judgment without correct informa¬ 
tion, and this is the kind of education 
to which Dr. Wiley rightly refers. 
I Invested some money with W. M. Os¬ 
trander for Dunlap Carpet Company stock 
under his representations of great value 
and big dividends, which he paid for 
awhile. I have not been able to get any 
dividends for a long time nor my money 
back. Why doesn’t the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment stop Ostrander’s schemes? He Is 
working the others yet. E. b. b. 
New York. 
Like all the schemers, Ostrander paid 
dividends while he was selling the stocks; 
that is, if you sent him a dollar, he 
could well afford to send you back six 
cents. When the money stopped coming 
for stocks, like all the rest of them, 
the dividends stopped, too. The scheme 
he is working now is to trade these 
worthless certificates for lots in New 
Jersey, promising to accept the certifi¬ 
cates in payment of the stock, but in 
every case you are obliged to pay more 
extra cash than the lots are worth. The 
Post Office Department cannot prevent 
anyone from taking money for worth¬ 
less stocks; nor can they prevent a man 
from selling you a lo£ for ten times 
what it is worth. If false representa¬ 
tions and fraud are resorted to in these 
transactions, and the Government can 
get the proof of it, they can prosecute 
them for fraudulent use of the mails. 
That is as far as they can go. But some 
of these promoters are very shrewd. 
They know what the law is. They em¬ 
ploy the most skillful attorneys to help 
them get up the papers and correspond¬ 
ence without technically violating the 
law. There is just one sign by which 
you may know them all—big promises 
of profits and wealth. If you avoid this 
bait, your name on the sucker list will 
be of little value to the promoters. 
Under the plan adopted every stockholder 
of the Columbian-Sterling Publishing Com¬ 
pany who had paid cash for his stock into 
the treasury of that or a subsidiary company 
was entitled to subscribe a sum equal to 
10% of the amount so paid to the new 
company, and receive in the securities of 
reorganized company a 6% debenture bond 
for the amount so paid, and an equal amount 
in 4% cumulative preferred stock and 
50% of the amount of his holdings in com¬ 
mon stock in the reorganized company. It 
was considered that this would make the 
new holdings more valuable than the hold¬ 
ings in the old companies, as the amount 
of the capital stock has been reduced from 
$4,000,000 to $1,000,000. 
The above is the sort of dope that 
has been sent out to the old victims of 
the Columbian and Hampton Magazine 
Companies. Experience has shown that 
inexperienced people pay an assessment 
on these bankrupt concerns in which 
they have lost their money, in the hope 
that they can recover what is already 
lost, but the result is always more loss. 
The scheme will probably be worked as 
long as the dupes respond. 
Promoters of fraudulent schemes who had 
obtained $77,000,000 from the public were 
put out of business during the fiscal year 
ended on June 30 last, according to the 
annual report of Robert S. Sharp, chief in¬ 
spector of the Postoffice Department. This 
showing is the most remarkable in the his¬ 
tory of the department. During the fiscal 
year 529 individuals were indicted on the 
charge of using the mails in schemes to 
defraud. Of this number 196 were tried 
and 184 convicted. The schemes investi¬ 
gated were of endless variety, varying, as 
the report indicates, “from the simplest 
business transaction to a gigantic project 
Involving the sale of worthless stock in 
fake mining companies and imaginary and 
fictitious institutions existing only on paper 
or in the minds of the promoters.” Mr. 
Sharp, the chief inspector, suggests that 
“it is essential for the protection of the 
public that additional legislation be enacted 
which will prevent swindlers from carrying 
on their operations in the borderland be¬ 
tween legitimate undertakings and criminal 
schemes.”—Daily Paper. 
One does not realize the importance 
of this work from a mere reading of the 
report. To get the real significance of 
it one must know the condition of the 
people who are robbed by these swin¬ 
dlers, and the awful despair of an old 
man or woman on learning that they 
have been swindled out of the savings 
of a lifetime. The Government can do 
no better work than to protect its frugal 
subjects from the unscrupulous avarice 
of the swindler, and those who disguise 
their operation under the cloak of busi¬ 
ness undertaking are the most danger¬ 
ous of all Che rogues, because they are 
the hardest to detect and most difficult 
to convict. J. J. d. 
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