The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-30


Work with the PIOw-some Useful
Pointers A Budget of Valuable
Recipes.
Every day the papers contain ac-
counts Of some swindling scheme prac-
ticed upon the farmers by smooth fell
lows with plausible stories. A farmer
loses the earnings of a lifetime within
a few hours. or a few hundred farmers
contribute a fortune to a stranger whose
oily tongue is his chief capital. Nearly
all papers make a point of exposing
new schemes as they arise, and this
does good; but if ever a stop is put to
the movement of money from pockets
of rural folk into those of schemers, it
will come from a recognition Of a prin-
ciple that seems to escape the compre-
hension of very many who are credited
with good hard sense in the manage
ment of everyday affairs
The principle simply stated is this:
Something cannot be gotten for nothing.
Easy ways for making money are not
being given away to any one. There are
no soft snap hunting takers in this
country. Any good scheme can COM
mand millions of money for it's promo
ton without going outside of such CEN
tiers of wealth as our big cities. Bust
ness men are ready to advance big
sums Of money to back any legitimate
invention or discovery that is worthy.
When investors are willing to put mill
ions of dollars into any safe concern
that will pay per cent. interest an
nually, only schemers have to travel
Far.a try IL TO End faI
Another point: Country people, no
matter how shrewd, cannot beat a man
. at his own game. What folly is such
thought, and yet what community
cannot point to from one to ten pretty
hard-headed farmers, as judged in COM
mon business transactions, who at some
time in their lives have not imagined
that they were not outwitting the stran-
ger who left the city with a game to
harvest their dollars. Or. IL may be-
! they only accept the idea that the stran-
ger is too green, or too busy. or too
| generous to take all the profits. and
have picked upon them to share in
them. The. man who has a good thing
is not racing over the country seeking
partners, and the sleek gentleman with
a game understands himself perfectly.
| The farmer has the right to think he
has the ability to be president of his
| country. but his conceit is astounding
when he imagines that he can come
| out ahead when fooling with any stran-
| gers little arrangement to transfer
farmers dollars from their pockets into
his own
1t is very human to want something
without earning II. The desire is back
of all attempts of farmers TO avail
| themselves Of the supposed opportunities
offered by swindlers 1t is merely akin
TO dishonesty, but I conjure you, my
| reader, who want to get others money
without earning II, to pick out some
one greener than you are for a. victim
and that one never is the fellow who is
| living off his own wits and others CAPT.
| tai.
| of methods by which town sharpers are
| fleeing country folk but OF what avail
! Is this? We must go deeper. New
| schemes are invented as fast as old
ones are exposed. The harvest is a
| rich one and experts are doing the reap
ing where they have not sown. We
! should not want unearned money, but,
| if we do we should know that il can
not be gotten from the gentry of whom
we speak. They are not in the bust
ness for their health. They play the
farmers for fools. and their persist
ency proves that their faith is not mis-
| placed
The easiest, safest and surest way Of
late of getting hard-earned money lies
! in inviting small contributions from the
/ MASSES rather Inan IN SWlDdllng one
man out of a little fortune. The dol
lar town lot in a western desert or Flor
| ida swamp, the big prize for guessing
a riddle that any ten-year-old child can
unravel, the mixture of cheap drugs
that will double the yield of butter in
a dairy, make hens lay every day, pro-
duce luXuriant growth of hair on a
bald mans head and cure consumption
the scheme To get 81 each from 10 900
rather than $4,000 from one man is the
most popular one today. The adver-
tisements are sllilfully worded. Not in
frequently they consist only of contri-
buttons to the press of what appear to
be genuine letters from A, b or c.,
living here or there. Recently there ap-
peared in the papers a letter from Mrs.
-, telling the people how black pepsin
doubled the yield of butter for her. or
course the papers cannot always detect
the fraudulent nature of such letters, but
the reader has plenty Of time TO think
the matter over and see that if any
drug would double the yield of good but
ter, company would corner the article
within three days, and the scientists
would fill the papers with their dis
cussions of the extraordinary discovery.
All these offers Of big salaries and
expenses paid for agents-what roti
Who does not know that there is
hitch somewhere? Thousands of men in
the cities are passing those offices, anX-
ious for work on terms just half as
good as those offered. Why not use
our judgement? No man is appealing
for a chance to give us a nice position
at good pay. Meager wages will draw
double the workers needed IN any bust
ness. The good watch for 80 cents,
the chance to get a hundred dollars for
dime, the offer 70 get anything below
the actual value, all these are merely
caution signals TO any one who stops
TO think, and who has a thinking APP
paratus within his anatomy.
The stranger who has patent right
to sell to farmers, the one who wants
farmers to sign contracts to receive
profits without labor, the one who ex-
poets farmers to believe that his promise
or written obligation is worth 1 cent