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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
September 24, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Here is something for the women who 
are asked to loan $3,000,000 to E. G. 
Lewis for 10 years on the note of a straw 
man to consider: Lewis claims that he 
has received nearly $3,000,000 already 
/from these women in membership dues. 
He claims that practically these same 
women turned over $1,500,000 to him of 
their claim in the defunct U. S. Bank, 
making $4,500,000 in all so far besides 
the amounts borrowed on notes of va¬ 
rious kinds and for sale of stocks. Now 
Lewis wants the women to lend him 
$3,000,000 more on the notes of a straw 
man. No audit of the accounts has been 
made as he promised. 
March 22 last I wrote you about the 
Deen Realty aud Improvement Co., Way- 
cross, Georgia, selling lands in the vicinity 
of Waycross, Southeast Georgia, for .$25 
per acre; $1 per acre down and 50 cents 
per acre per month until paid. Herewith 
I hand you a clipping taken from last Sun¬ 
day’s Post Dispatch showing lands being 
sold in the same district, Southeastern 
Geoi’gia, at $3 per acre. No doubt even $3 
per acre is a very high price. The Okefino- 
kee Swamp is in Southeast Georgia. 
Missouri. SUBSCKIBBB. 
The advertisement referred to as clip¬ 
ping claims that an investment in the 
lands will double in value in a year. That 
in itself is enough to convict the writer 
of it of insincerity. Who would seil 
property at $3 an acre, now, if he knew 
it would be worth $d this time next 
year? We repeat; beware of land 
schemers. 
One of the women has asked him the 
following questions: 
Exactly how much money has been 
paid in by League members? 
How much of it has been spent and 
exactly what has it been expended for? 
How much in hand now belonging to 
the League? 
Advertisements have been sent to me 
about the Aremu Gold Mine and Rubber 
Co.; 30 per cent dividends are promised 
in three months and 300 per cent later on. 
The promoter of the mine is Wilshire, a 
socialist. Do you know anything about 
this? Lots of farmers, I hear, have in¬ 
vested because they believe Wilshire would 
not make false claims. Would you consider 
an investment like this good? r. s. 
New York. 
Exactly what property has the League, 
and where is it? 
Lewis has refused to answer. He ad¬ 
mits, even boasts, that he got the money. 
Why should he refuse to tell what he 
did with it? Again we repeat that the 
League is simply a Lewis scheme to 
make subscription agents of a lot of 
women under the disguise of a co-opera¬ 
tive association; and that the object of 
the subscriptions and of the League and 
of the papers is to induce women to send 
him money for his fake schemes. His 
“debenture” scheme is in keeping with 
this policy and his past record, and fully 
justifies all that we have claimed from 
the start. 
E. G. Lewis has a form of logic quite 
as peculiar to himself as his financial 
stunts. He can make deductions favor¬ 
able to himself from comparison of 
things entirely dissimilar. Some years 
ago he persuaded working girls, and 
women who earned their wage over the 
washtub to invest money with him, and 
refused to return it. We told the story. 
Later he organized a League for the pur- 
•pose of collecting money from women 
generally. We told that story also. 
Forthwith he represented that we called 
all the members of his League servant 
girls and washerwomen. On this pro¬ 
cess of logic a man is a shoemaker; then 
according to his formula, all men would 
be shoemakers. You will find these 
/false contentions from comparison of 
dissimilar premises running all through 
his arguments, and the pitiable thing 
about it is that inexperienced people, un¬ 
familiar with the trick, accept it all as 
♦ logic, and repeat it as a fact. Trained 
minds soon see the false premises; but 
for the most part Lewis appeals to peo¬ 
ple unfamiliar with the subtleties of 
false logic. He will need to give a good 
many correspondence lessons to over¬ 
come the bad effect “d Itis tricks of argu¬ 
ment. 
The Brown grape I received from you is 
bearing and ripe with abundance of lus¬ 
cious grapes. It is a thing of beauty and 
a joy forever. Wish I had more. 
Kentucky. G. u. 
We are glad to hear the grape is do¬ 
ing well in Kentucky, There is no stock 
of this of any account at least in ex¬ 
istence except the plants we distributed. 
They were all distributed and there were 
not quite enough to go around at that. 
I sec your success in collecting Dills for 
other people. I send the bill of C. W. Bow¬ 
man, 520 Lobiuger avenue, Braddock, Pa. 
This hill is for milk shipped to him August 
and September, 1908. The amount is 
$108.50. Mr. Bowman pays no attention to 
my inquiry; never lets on he hears from 
me. J. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Bowman had no rating, and after 
demanding payment without success we 
placed the account with our attorneys for 
collection. We got the following reply: 
“The claim is uncollectable. 1 find the 
debtor is considerably in debt and out of 
business. Collection by legal means is 
impossible.” Of course we can do noth¬ 
ing further in such a case. 
Could you please tell us if there is such 
a company as the Woodbury* Soap Co.? 
There was a man around here as agent for 
this company. Several of the people here 
gave him 50 orders, and we were one. He 
gave us a Woodbury receipt, and tiie goods 
were to be delivered on a stated date, but 
we have not seen anything of the goods 
or the man. M. e. d. 
New Y’ork. 
There is a company of that name in 
New York City, but they do not send 
out agents. Their products are sold 
through the druggist trade, and they 
claim this agent is a faker who takes ad¬ 
vantage of the reputation of the goods to 
swindle country people. We had a sim¬ 
ilar complaint some time ago. It is a 
bold and clever game; and people will 
do well to have a suspicion of all of his 
kind. It is time enough to pay for goods 
when you get them. 
Usually the bigger the swindle the 
larger the promises of gain. We know 
enough about such propositions to ad¬ 
vise our people to keep their money if 
they ever want to see it again or any re¬ 
turn for it. C. E. Ellis used to make 
claims like this through his papers, and 
is now under indictment by a Federal 
Grand Jury for alleged fraud. Don’t 
bite on baited hooks. 
I think “The Publisher’s Desk” is worth 
hundreds of times the price of the paper 
to any practical farmer, for if lie reads it 
aud heeds its warnings lie will save a good 
many times the price of ti.e paper by not 
patronizing the sharks exposed by The 
R. N.-Y. Let the good work go on. I al¬ 
ways read the “Publisher’s Desk" first, then 
I get a very great deal of valuable infor¬ 
mation from the other departments aud 
special articles. I shall continue to take 
The R. N.-Y. as long as I take any farm 
paper and can scrape up the dollar. 
New Y'ork. w. c. K. 
The sentiment of the above letter is 
expressed in various ways at different 
times. If we printed it all, we would 
have room for little else, and “Publish¬ 
er’s Desk” would be less valuable than 
we hope that it now is. We like to have 
these expressions, because they convince 
us that the work is appreciated and en¬ 
courage us to go on with it when other¬ 
wise we might give way to other dis¬ 
couragements and disappointments in 
connection with it. Then again we are 
human, and frankly like the approval just 
for itself. Those who believe in the work 
can help by bringing it to the" attention 
of their neighbors, and inducing them to 
send 10 cents for a 10-weeks’ subscrip¬ 
tion. Those who do so usually come in 
later as regular subscribers. j. j. d. 
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WESTERN CANADA’S 
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Wheat Yield In Many Dis¬ 
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Land sales and homestead entries 
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They Sent for Their Son 
Maidstone, Sask., Canada, August 5. 1910. 
My parents came here from Cedar Falls. Iowa, four 
years ago and were so well pleased with this country 
they sent to Coeur d’Alene for me. I have taken up 
a homestead near them, und am perfectly satisfied to 
stop here. LEONARD DOUGLAB. 
Wants Settlers’ Rate for His Stock 
Stettler, Alberta. July 31,1910. 
Well, I got up here from Forest City, Iowu, last 
spring in good shape with the stock and everything. 
Now, 1 have got two boys back in Iowa yet, and I am 
going back there now soon to get them and another 
car up here this fall. What I would like to know is, 
if there is any chance to get a cheap rate back again, 
and when we return to Canada I will call at your 
office for our certificates. 
Yours truly, H. A. WIK. 
Will Make His Home in Canada 
Brainerd, Minn., August 1, 1910. 
I am going to Cunada a week from today and in- 
tend to make my home there. My husband has been 
there Bix weeks and is well pleased with the country, 
so ho wants me to come as soon as possible. He filed 
on a claim near Landis, Sask., and by his description 
of it it must be a pretty place. My brother-in-law. 
Mr. Frank J. Zimmer, lives there and it was through 
him thut we decided to locate in Canada. 
Yours truly, 
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