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THE RURAL, Dxl B:W-vcWKER 
January 4, 
PUBLISHER'S DESK 
We have an inquiry from C. S. about 
a manufacturing house which we are 
unable to answer because the subscriber 
fails to give his address. Make sure 
during 1913 to sign full name and ad¬ 
dress to any communication sent to this 
department. 
A New Year Resolution: 
Resolved,. That during the year 1913 
I will not send money, produce or 
commodity of value to any person, firm 
or corporation until I have carefully 
looked into the responsibility and hon¬ 
esty of the individual or concern solicit¬ 
ing the remittance or shipment. 
Five years ago Publisher’s Desk be¬ 
gan to caution its readers against the 
Sterling Debenture Corporation of New 
York City and the paper certificates 
that it was giving people in exchange 
for their money. These concerns were 
the following: 
Capital. 
Oxford Linen Mills. $2,000,000 
Telepost Company . 18,000,000 
Oxford Linen Mattress Co... 200,000 
American Telegraphone Co. 5,000,000 
National Dictograph Co. 2,000,000 
Bartica Rubber Co. 2,000,000 
This latter with a bond issue of $300,- 
000 , and eight other corporations with 
a combined capital of $500,000. 
Last week the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment caused the arrest of the officers 
of the Debenture Corporation for al¬ 
leged fraudulent use of the mails in 
the sale of these certificates. These 
corporations have a total capitalization 
of $33,150,000, and it is estimated by 
the Department that the Sterling De¬ 
benture Corporation management has 
collected $10,000,000 from the American 
people on these paper certificates. The 
concern is said to have the best sucker 
list in existence, and that the literature 
sent out by this concern was so illusive 
and enticing that it became the envy of 
other promoters along the same line. 
It is said that some of their circulars 
and letters were actually copied by 
other promoters. The Department es¬ 
timates that 15,000 persons subscribed 
to stocks in the Oxford Linen Mills 
concern, and 150,000 persons in all have 
invested at one time and another in 
the promotion of the concern. 
The Telepost Company has received 
considerable discussion in the public 
press. The advertising of it was very 
adroit, and at one time an attempt was 
made to give it the appearance of do¬ 
ing some business. It has recently 
gone through a re-organization and the 
president of the company is reported 
now as saying that he is no longer con¬ 
nected with the Debenture Corpora¬ 
tion. The Post Office inspector is 
authority, however, for the statement 
that the president of the Sterling De¬ 
benture Corporation, now under arrest, 
is personally acting as the financial agent 
of the Telepost Company. 
As intimated above The R. N.-Y. 
readers have been warned about these 
concerns, but it is too much to hope 
that they have all escaped the al¬ 
lurements offered by the circulars and 
advertising of the concern. Indeed, as 
is usual in such cases, we had some 
people write us complaining of our 
criticism of what they considered a very 
worthy and promising enterprise. The 
Government may and may not succeed 
in convicting the officials of this com¬ 
pany on the charges which they have 
preferred of fraudulent use of the mail, 
but it is safe to say that the ten mil¬ 
lions invested by the people is lost to 
them in any event. It was lost to them 
the minute they parted with it, because 
they never got anything of value in 
exchange for it. The story is only a 
repetition of many others that are com¬ 
ing to us from time to time. The bad 
feature of it is that the Post Office 
Department, experienced investors and 
publishers have known from the start 
that this enterprise promised nothmg 
but loss to the investors, but there was 
no law by which the traffic could be 
stopped until the inspectors succeeded 
in getting evidence which they believe 
to be sufficient to convict the promoters, 
and this they did not succeed in doing 
until the promoters had got away with 
their $10,000,000. Experience of this 
kind is what led the Kansas Legisla¬ 
ture to pass the “Blue Sky Law” for¬ 
bidding the sale of such stocks in 
Kansas until the promoters have re¬ 
ceived a certificate from the State 
authorizing them to make the sales. We 
evidently need “Blue Sky” laws in New 
York and the New England States. 
According to a report recently issued 
by Postmaster General Hitchcock, $120, - 
000,000 was stolen from the American 
people by swindlers from June 30, 1911, 
tc June 30, 1912. This is $50,000,000 
over the estimated stealings of the year 
before. The Post Office inspectors have 
arrested 1.063 persons, and during the 
year 452 persons were convicted and 
571 are awaiting trial. 
Archie L. Wisner and some of his as¬ 
sociates in the promotion of Western 
mining and oil companies are on trial 
charged with fraudulent use of the mails. 
The record being made is for the most 
part the familiar one of representations 
of big promises, of great profits for; 
those who buy the worthless stocks and 
bonds and the payment of prompt divi¬ 
dends out of enterprises that never 
earned a dollar for the evident purpose 
of influencing more sales. The divi¬ 
dends in such cases are paid, of course, 
out of the moneys turned in for the 
stock. There was only one unusual fea¬ 
ture in this promotion scheme. The pro¬ 
moters bought up the control of a west¬ 
ern bank, concealing their identity with 
it, and then referred investors to this 
bank for reference to themselves. The 
inquiries came to the promoters, and 
when important the replies were dictated 
by themselves. From such testimony 
you learn the tricks of those w r ho set 
out to get your savings through prom¬ 
ises to make you rich. 
Last week I read in the city papers 
an account of the trial of Julian Haw¬ 
thorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
charged by the Government with fraud¬ 
ulent use of the mails in the sale of 
worthless mining stocks to confiding and 
inexperienced investors. 
In the next column of the same page 
of that paper I read the account of the 
dedication of St. Rose’s Home, which 
has been established by Nathaniel Haw¬ 
thorne’s daughter, now Mother Al- 
phonsa, for the care of dependent and 
incurable cancer patients. This home is 
located at 71 Jackson street, in the city 
of New York. Two conditions qualify 
a patient for entrance. He or she must 
have an incurable cancer. The other is 
that the sufferers have no money and no 
friends to care for them. Here we have 
the contrasts of human endeavor. The 
son of a noted family devoting his tal¬ 
ents to exploiting the savings of the 
poor for his personal benefit, the daugh¬ 
ter of the same family consecrating her 
life to the care of the afflicted poor. 
I herewith enclose you tracer showing 
that I shipped one case of eggs of SO 
dozen to Western Poultry & Egg Co., 175 
Chambers street, N. Y., on October 7. It 
shows that the eggs were received by them, 
and in the meantime I have written them 
asking for the pay for same, and each time 
the letters have been returned to me un¬ 
claimed. I have been advised to write you 
stating the case, thinking you might give 
me some information in the matter. I had 
sent them one or two cases before, which 
they paid for all right, but it looks as 
though they intend to beat me out of this 
lot. Thanking you in advance for any in¬ 
formation you may be able to give me. 
New York. i. a. w. 
We warned our subscribers regarding 
the methods of this Western Poultry & 
Egg Co. in our issue of July 13. At 
that time several of our subscribers 
forwarded us letters from this concern 
in which they proposed handling egg 
shipments on a commission of 15 cents 
per case. This offer is one of the dis¬ 
tinct earmarks of a fraudulent commis¬ 
sion house, and it was not long before 
the evidence reached us that egg ship¬ 
pers were being deliberately defrauded 
by the concern. The proprietor was one 
II. Kahn, and our present information 
is that the Western Poultry & Egg Co., 
has gone out of business, and Mr. Kahn 
neglected to leave his present address 
at his old location. He will no doubt 
bob up again in some new locality under 
a new name and invent some new and 
plausible scheme for getting shipments 
from farmers. It is deals of this kind 
in the commission business that make 
it imperative that the incoming Legis¬ 
lature enacts a proper law to protect 
shippers. The responsible commission 
houses should be as anxious as the ship¬ 
pers to have this unreliable and dis¬ 
honest class of commission merchants 
eliminated from the trade. 
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