The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-26
flames Wanted.

judging from the ADVERTISEMENTS NlliCl
peep out here and there in some ot the
newspapers there Is to be repeated this
season the old oft repeated dodge Of name
getting, an artificc which has been cxposel
in the ReD0yfer ana elsewhere, but seem
inrly with the usual non effect upon thf
foolish people. The remark has been natt
before that the FOOLS are not all dead.
No, they live to become the natural food
Of the sharper.; a the poreie and mos
bunker Of historic BookIyn live to become
the natural food of the blue fish US they
swim like gudgeon to the tempting food Of
the shores of Long Island,
it is IA curious fact in connection with
this matter Of names wanted or uames
for SALE that IN spite Of the exposure and
condemnation Of respectable newspapers,
the advertisements appear W0rded precise
" the same as before; the sharpcrs have
net taken the trouble Of changing so much
as IA syllable Acre is a recent example:
"FoR sALE-A list of 5000 names that have been
obtained by advertising All are genuine, aud the
letters will be sold with them. Address -----'
Weat are these names? They are sim
ply such ms have been obtained from conn
trymen in all parts of the United States by
parties who have advertised counterfeit
money, patent medicine of dubious char
acter, advantage playing cards and things
Of the sort. These are not only the names |
Of greenhorns, but of low and vicious green |
horns The dealer in such names will get |
a good price for them as soon as he can sat |
isfy his customer that they are what they |
purport to be. 1t is on y necessary to show
that the names are genuine and are an
swered to by so NANNY corrupt fools; and |
it is to prove this, that the letters as
runs the advertisement will be sold with |
them
4 gentleman once asked a man engaged /
in one Of the many swindles how he oh I
tanned the names of the parties 10 whom he |
sent his circulars.
That is the great troullei he replied /
We can get names enough out Of the di |
rectOries but they are not such as we want |
We buy lists sometimes from the publish /
crS of certain class OF weekly papers, but /
they are not very good, as the people who !
read most any paper get after while too I
intelligent for us We send to p0stmasters. |
but they are stupid and give Us the names /
Of the most prominent men instead of the /
obscure ones which we want, Sometimes /
we hire men to go around through the |
country places and collect names under |
various pretences, but this costs great
deal of money, as man must stay some
time IN village or country town before he
can get at the names The best lists are
those made up by copying every name
written on the walls Of railway stations and
the buildings that surround them. and in
the country stores. \ man who writes his
name in public place is pretty sure to be
an idiot, or 50 near one that he is pretty
sure TO bite at a glitteriug bait.
Is it not pleasing picture? There are
said TO be in New York at present two or
three hundred men who live by preying in
these ways on the credulity Of countrymen,
They are seldom brought to justice from
the fact that men cannot prosecute
them without confessing to the fact that
they wanted 70 swindle some one.
Why will not the country new spapers
put a stop to the profits of BUSINESS which
must in some degree iniure honest adyer-
Using, by fully exposing the matter in their
journals?-RorelFs american Ntrspopc,
Reporter.