The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-21
HYPNOTIC FINANC1BRING.
lust Catch Jay Gould and Exercise
Your VIII Power.
nom lie NeIv York Sun.

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There was a meeting last evening at S
Union square of the Aryan TheOsophical
! Society. Sixty men and women were there.
/ Miss Caroline Hillard read paper on
dreams, which led to a discussion of both
| that subject and hvpnotism.
| President,W. =. Ju igs was rather severe
/ in his criticisms of recent experiments by
French and other Investigators in hypnot-
| ism. The so-called science was nothing
more, he said. than old-fashioued mesmer-
ism rehabilitated in a new and higa-sound-
ing name. Old works on the subject go
much deeper into the matter, and offer
much better explanations than do the mod
ern inveStig atOrs whose experiments are
attracting SO much attention. Old musty.
but thoroughly reliable books on the sub
ject are ignored by the modern discoveries
or experimenters who seem TO think they
are dealing with something new. The
development of the hypnotic power he
regarded as something OF ominous import,
for in wicked hands it threatened dreadful
consequences. The speaker emphasized
this remark with a few quite startling state
ments.
THE adopts in theosophy :" he said, ''tell
US they have the power to hypnotizs all Ed
rope if they WILL and to thus compel pop
ular acceptance of and belief in theosophy
But it would be very unwise thing TO
accomplish by unnatural means what will
eventually be gained by education. IL such
a result was reached by hypnotism, the
effect would disappear at the end of seventy
years, and then we should have made no
real progress. Many people ignorantly
possess the hypnotic power in a remarkable
degree. They can, if they will, hypnotize
person across the street Think of what
power will be in the hands of evil persons
when it comes to be understood. Think of
the danger to capitalists | know many
men who if they knew how to use the power
would hypnotic Jay Gould. Oae of them
would compel him to come to his Office, lay
before him q scheme which was really
fraud. make him believe it was wonderful
enterprise, and induce him to put his money
into it. That sort of thing would be done
right and left
Don't you believe Jay Gould himself
possesses the power~ seriously interrupted
an old gentleman in the audience.
''No, DON'T" replied Mr.. Judge "Mr.
Gould shuts himself up in his office aud
don't see anybody, and then he is most
dangerous. lie doesn't have chance to
hypnotiZe anybody when he is at the end of
telegraph wire and engineering one of his
big deals. But | can tell you a real instance
of how the process works aud can vouch
for the truth of the incident. The son of q
friend of mine possesses the power and
sometimes he experiments with it. He
asked his father one day if he would like to
go to the opera. The old gentleman replied
that he couldn't afford it. The young man
had money enough to buy one admission
ticket, and he told his father he would take
him in without any trouble. The two went
to the box office. The young man looked
hard for a moment at the man behind the
window, threw down the price of one ad-
mission ticket, and said sharply: Give me
two good tickets The clerk passed his
hand in an uncertain way over his fore
head, and then passed out two tickets for
orchestra seats.
Now, that was wrong" continued Mr..
Judge. IF a man can do that, why can't
he go to bank, hypnotic teller and com
pei him to certify a check for large
amount when there is no cash to meet its'
Don't you think the ad mission that such
power exists strikes away the whole foun-
dation of security in an independent will
and in individual responsibility" inquired
gentleman who was addressed as DR..
| Fullerton.
We'll, sir, 1 know of my own knowl-
edge" was the startling reply, that hypnot-
| ism exercised a most important part in the
recent wrecking of the Sixth National
Bank. know one of the men who was,
perhaps, the master mind in carrying out
that whole scheme. He is one of the strong
est hyp1otizers of my acquaintance He
said to his associates, DO this and DO
that and he compelled them by this
hypnotic influence to do things at which
they at first demurred. | don'T say that it
was an intentional exercise of this wonder
full faculty, but hypnotism was what real
carried out the plans.n