The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-09-05
Saltwater, Mimi, Thursday, Sept. 8, 1889.

any more than it would be business tact to
hire clerks to rob customers outright. or to
keep counterfeit money on hand to make
change with,
People are deceived by such advertise
ments. and give up legitimate pursuits in
the hope of making more money by this
machine" process But they find to their
sorrow that considerable portion of the
world is anything but what it appears. You
say it is only the unwary that fall into
such snares? If that is the case it is all
the more necessary that the true inwardness
of the deception should be disclosed. Is it
to- be wondered that boys long to leave the
quiet life on the farm. when they have
such attractive offers placed before them
each week? Why should they remain
drudgeS on farm, when good, moral
paper informs them weekly that they can
earn from $55 to ST week without soil
ing their hands, and no special ability re-
quired? Why should they work at hard la
Dor when the same reliable source tells
them they can become bookkeepers, stem
Ographers, typewriters or telegraphers in
four weeks. by taking lessons from the Gel
ebrated Professor NJ. Piric. 1t is the old.
old story, Dollars and cents, cents and
dollars" and shucks for the moral aspect
of the means used to procure them.
There is an innumerable host of young
men and women caught every year by these
alluring advertisements. They come to
the cities with high hopes of the brilliant
future these advertisements open for them.
They have not sense or judgment enough
to see that if bookkeeping. etc., were so
easily learned they would pay no better than
the commonest labor. They are so eager
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not stop to consider how foolish it would
already in the large cities working for
small wages, to continue at their respective
employments if they could earn double the
amount of money with the same ability.
Being conscious of their own honor and
good intentions, they do not imagine that
Others-mOre especially alleged business
men-will wilfully deceive them. But
they soon learn that sharp practices are at
premium in certain lines of money get
ting. and as they have given up good, hon
est toll for more ''genteel' occupations,
they are loath to return to their former
emplOyments. and the result is-well. go
to the prisons. concert halls. and gay
palaces of sin in any large city and you
will see the results far better than pen can
portray them for you.
1G WOulu Uo JuSC aS we'll 10 go TO WORK at
once and start school for the development
of the burglars art. as to allow men to
6aunt deceptive. lying advertisements be-
fore the unwary. For however unsOphis-
ticated these ''unwary" folks may be at
the start, the fact of their having been
duped will bring their wits into play. and
in the attempt to balance accounts with
the world they oftimes become MASTER
hands at entrapping others. and thus per-
petuate the line of impOstors and human
leecheS who make it a business to draw
young men and women from the honorable
pursuits of life and start them on an air.
line for the penitentiary or something
worse.
It. a question as to who is to blame for
such advertisements appearing in print
The idea naturally suggests itself that the
newspapers are greatly in fault for giving
respectable newspapers insert such matter
for the gain that is to be derived from it. it
they are aware of its true character. There
is too much at stake and too little to be
gained to make it tempting to the most
guileful newspaper man. IT the newspa-
pers are in any way to blame they can
clear themselves by being the first to
start the good work of squelching the
''snap" advertisers; and sure decline in
the exodus of young men and women
from rural life will be their reward
RONDA.
Some very creditable fancy work of
novel character has been executed by the
prisoners at the WinOna county jail. It