Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-05
TO THE PUBLIC.

The following appeared in the AUd'
tanche yesterday
Editor AUGldHche-A part of the follow
ing article, taken from the AUGIGHchs
of yesterday, we consider does us great
injustice, to say the least
1.-The gift enterprise business is happily
illustrated in the Hamilton Opera House
drawing, in which Peter Schwsb, and
Peters wife, the of the property,
drew everything. The dear public got
blanks. Peter drew the money prize Of
twenty thousand dollars, paid in by un-
sUspecting purchasers of tickets, and
Peters wife drew the opera building. 1t
is 80 strongly believed that the tickets
which drew the prizes had never been
sold that it became necessary for Peter
and his wife to have afidavits made to
prove their sale and purchase by distin-
guished disinterested individuals. Peter
and Peters wife have got the fruits to
start another drawing. Nothing like gc-
cess. Even successful fraud unconvicted
is always initiated. The guIlibility of the
public is as deep as their pockets, and
though they cry humbug, humbug wins.
The gift business has been on several &C.
CssiOns advocated in Memphis. The
Southern Asylum was founded in this
way, you know, and now it is proposed
to give away whole blocks of real estate
in Memphis for five dOllsrs-turn over to
SOME uuEClhl genius al ms OnlEhbEluk
pianos in the city, and all the gold and
silver watches for the sun of five dollars,
provided 100000 tickets are sold and $780,
600 are first put in, in order, you see, that
it may be put out again. Now you see it,
and now you don't.
In the above you throw out to the pub
lie at large the idea that the "DIstri-
button" we are rapidly perIecting, and
whereby between four and I'VE hundred
thousand dollars will be brought to this
city and circulated here, will terminate
like many other enterprises, q fraud.
Upon what do you base the unhandsome
insinuatiOn so boldly set forth? Do you,
of your own knowledge, know of any act
upon the part of them managers that would
even cast q shadow upOn their integrityin
this e~nterprise2 If so, let the public know
nectiOn with this matter is, that you
should have advertised, or even permitted
to be advertised, in your columns the
"Real Estate DistributiOn"-that you in
sinuate will be a fraud-fOr nearly thirty
days, thereby aiding IN the 'gulhbility
of the public" if you knew of anything
wrong in he premises, and that you
should receive in payment the sum of
Sl57 IS, without any cOmpunctiOn. We
think 1t time enough to be assaulted in
such q manner, upon the proof Of frsudu-
lent pos being established against
Until then we claim from o that
courtesy and respect which is due from
gentlemen to each other. Our Office is
open to gentlemen seeking information
regarding the distribution during bust
ness hours, and we court Investigation.
PASSMORE d RUFFIN.
To this the AUoIdncHe made no response.
It's editors did not, any of them, have the
manHness either to make such amende as
Wss due, by acknowledging the iDius-
ice it has done us, or stand up to the
words maliciously conceived and falsely
stated. But since the AVuIGnche has be-
come virtuous as to real estate distribu-
ions, perhaps it will be good enough to
20 a step farther, and tell the public what
las become of the fund contributed by
he people Of Memphis for the purpose of
building q monument owe the COnfeder-
lte dead at ElmW God, and which it has
lad the use of for so many years. We
lope it will be able to make an exhibit in
ime for c-OmmemOration day, and that we
will be able to see the monument in the
,emetery on that day. A concern out Of
iebt, with, as it claims, $500 circula-
ion per day, and alesding Journal at that, :
IhOuld be able by this time to pay back Z
he money of the sacred dead. Until it Z
ioes, it should hang its head. But, per-
il cannot, and so, in kicking up a
lust about other and houester folk, is
to hide its OWE defalcstion. We
egagd this attack upon a firm whose
nembers confidently refsr to all and any
f our citizens Of Memphis as indecent as
is sneakinR and base.
PAssMoRE & RUFFIN.
READ Walker Brothers & Co.'S New +