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TH ED RURAL NEW-VORKEIv 
March 21, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
There is some intimation in Albany 
that the Assembly will defeat the Land 
Bank bill and the Market bill on the 
ground that the Democratic administra¬ 
tion would get too much credit for put¬ 
ting it through. I do not believe it. I 
think the suggestion comes from 
misinformed people. My belief is founded 
on the conviction that leaders of the 
Assembly are neither knaves nor fools. 
Farmers have been trying to develop a 
system of credits and markets for many 
years. The systems we had, or more 
correctly speaking, the lack of any sys¬ 
tem at all, has been a constant source of 
discussion and dissatisfaction. To be 
frank about it, none of us knew just what 
kind of system we could propose to give 
relief. What we propose now has been 
a development of years. It is the crys¬ 
tallized judgment of the best producers 
and altruistic thinkers of the State. It 
happens to materialize at a time when 
the Assembly is controlled by the Re¬ 
publicans and the Senate by the Dem¬ 
ocrats with quite an important element 
of Bull Moose representatives in both 
branches. But all three of the parties 
have indorsed the principles of these 
measures both in National and State 
platforms. The farmers want these 
measures now. They have waited long 
enough, and in the words of a distin¬ 
guished naval officer, there will be glory 
enough for all concerned. If the meas¬ 
ures should fail, those responsible for 
the failure would have trouble in making 
a satisfactory explanation. But I do 
not think they will fail. The intimations 
of opposition in the Assembly are persist¬ 
ent ; but I had the pleasure of an inter¬ 
view with Speaker Sweet on the subject, 
and after due consideration he approved 
and recommended the cooperative Land 
Bank bill. I have seldom had a 
more satisfactory interview on legisla¬ 
tive matters, and I have never been 
treated with greater consideration and 
courtesy in any committee room any¬ 
where. Chairman Adler of the Banking 
Committee also gave us every assurance 
of sympathy for the measure as we ex¬ 
plained it, and every assurance that he 
would give it fair consideration. There 
is absolutely no expense to the State in 
the Land Bank measure, and none worth 
considering in the Food and Market 
measure, and there is no good reason why 
they should not pass at this session. The 
time is now short and lest there should 
be any oversight or doubt as to the de¬ 
mand for these bills we would suggest 
that farmers write a brief note at once 
to lion. Thaddeus C. Sweet, Chairman of 
the Assembly, Albany, N. Y., simply say¬ 
ing you are in favor of the Savings and 
Loan Land Bank bill and the Food and 
Markets bill and requesting him to use 
his good offices to secure their passage at 
this session of the Legislature. 
Members of the Andrews Methodist 
Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, who in¬ 
vested about $12,000 in the hope of re¬ 
ceiving dividends of at least twelve per 
cent, do not mistrust Frank T. Harrison, 
their fellow communicant and pillar of 
the church, but they would like to get 
their money back. Mr. Harrison, a trus¬ 
tee of the church, alleged in his volun¬ 
tary petition in bankruptcy that he had 
been deceived by R. A. Silk and E. E. 
Ford. They told him that they could as¬ 
sure him a return of twenty-four per 
cent, a month, on every cent he could in¬ 
vest in a certain speculation they were 
managing. It looked so good to Mr. Har¬ 
rison that he mortgaged his home at 
No. 470 Chestnut street, Cypress Hills, 
for $3,500 and gave that money to Silk 
and Ford, he states. But they suggested 
that more was required, and if he could 
get his fellow church members to sub¬ 
scribe it would be fine. Mr. Harrison, 
whose probity was never doubted, and is 
not doubted now, interested the other 
men in the church with the result that 
he says nearly $12,000 was turned over 
to Silk and Ford. This interest was paid 
for several months, according to the 
bankruptcy petition and then nothing 
more was heard of Silk and Ford.—Lo¬ 
cal Paper. 
Men who want to see their money re¬ 
turned had better not invest it in any 
scheme that promises two per cent, a 
month. 
Frank E. Winchcll, who was at one 
time President of the Oxford Linen Mills 
and has pleaded guilty to using the 
mails to defraud in the Sterling De¬ 
benture Corporation, took the stand yes¬ 
terday in the Federal District Court be¬ 
fore Judge Anderson at the trial of 
Benjamin C. Mudge and six others con¬ 
nected with the corporation. The Ox¬ 
ford Linen Mills were supposed to have 
been using the method of preparing flax 
invented by Mudge. 
Winchell said that in 1907 he was em¬ 
ployed in the Sterling Debenture Cor¬ 
poration at $25 a week to receive 
visitors. Then he was made President of 
the Oxford Linen Mills at a salary of 
$5,000 a year and received a bonus of 
$5,000 of that concern’s stock. He at¬ 
tributed this promotion to the fact that 
his brother, B. H. Winchell, was then on 
the board of the Rock Island system, 
and he had suggested that he might be¬ 
come a director of the Linen Mills. 
From the Fall of 1907, the witness 
said, the literature sent out by the Sterl¬ 
ing Debenture Corporation told of the 
use by the Linen Mills of the Mudge flax 
process, but as a matter of fact in April 
of the following year there was still no 
machinery in the mills except that which 
was there when the factory had been 
bought, and there was absolutely nothing 
by which the secret process could have 
been carried on. 
At this time the Sterling Debenture 
Corporation, said the witness, was rep¬ 
resenting to investors that the Mudge 
process was a success commercially, and 
that the Oxford Linen Mills had $1,880,- 
000 of stock in its treasury.—City Paper. 
This about closes our chapter on the 
Oxford Linen Mills. We have now fol¬ 
lowed it for some years. From the very 
first inquiry we branded it as a promo¬ 
tion scheme and the stock as a gold brick. 
We doubt if any of our people contri¬ 
buted to the $30,000,000 said to be in¬ 
vested in it by the susceptible members 
of the Sterling Debenture “sucker list” 
of a million names. 
I received a letter and my returns from 
the commission house to whom I sent 
my turkeys. I guess he sold part for 21 
and part for 25 cents per pound—beat 
me out of several pounds, but it is all 
right. He has his last from me. I would 
not ship him a dead eat, so let me know 
how much I owe you. I am many times 
obliged to you for your kindness until 
you are paid. s. j. w. 
Maryland. 
This is a letter from a subscriber who 
did not get what he felt he should have 
had for a shipment of turkeys. The 
market conditions are so varied we do 
not know whether the commission house 
secured as much for the turkeys as they 
were worth; but the dissatisfaction of 
the shipper was increased, by the fact 
that he made three inquiries as to wheth¬ 
er the goods had been received and why 
he did not get his check without eliciting 
any response whatever from the house. 
It seemed the check had been misdirected, 
but a better feeling would have been 
engendered if the situation had been ex¬ 
plained and the letters acknowledged. 
Five years ago I purchased 100 shares 
of Old Dominion Copper Company stock 
on the Boston curb. Later this company 
reorganized. My first knowledge of this 
was reading it in the Boston papers. I 
wrote the secretary asking him to ex¬ 
change my old stock, but he replied that 
I Was too late. I still hold certificate 
of old stock. Can a company close its 
books in this way and defraud me out 
of my stock in the new company? This 
is a good dividend paying stock, and is 
sold on Boston Exchange under name of 
Old Dominion. w. L. 8. 
Vermont. 
Our advice is that this stock was Do¬ 
minion Copper Co., Ltd., which was 
worth 10 cents a share at time of pur¬ 
chase, and is an altogether different stock 
from the Old Dominion Company. Re¬ 
garding the Dominion Company, Ltd., 
we learn that it was thrown into re¬ 
ceivership in 1908 and property sold un¬ 
der foreclosure. It was reorganized as the 
New Dominion Copper Company, Ltd. 
The old shareholders fared badly in the 
reorganization. Efforts were made hy 
dissenting shareholders to discharge the 
liquidator, setting aside the sale and 
bring suit in the State of New York, but 
all these attempts were unsuccessful. 
This is evidently a case of an irresponsi¬ 
ble company trading on the name of a 
responsible company if our information 
is correct. j. j. D . 
It was a country village, and Fat 
Casey was making preparations for a 
“flitting”—the fourth removal in about 12 
months. The parish priest happened to 
be passing, and remarked: “What! Mov¬ 
ing again, Pat?” “Yes, your reverence,” 
replied Pat. “You are taking your poul¬ 
try, too, I see. I think they will be get¬ 
ting tired of being moved about.” “Get¬ 
ting tired?” said Pat, “why, sir, they’re 
that used to it that every time they see 
a furniture van they run into the yard 
and lie on their backs with their legs in 
the air waitin’ to have ’em tied.—Pitts¬ 
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. 
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