New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-28
FROM TENS TO BILLIONS.

NO REASON WHY EVERYBODY SHOULD Nol
BE BURIED IN HIS OWN GOLD.
The New-Yorker always declines to buy gold
brick when II is offered to him; he hears with
pity and contempt, which amount almost 70 III
credulity of a man from the interior buying one
he wonders IL the world will never grow one DIT
wiser and he chuckles-if he is not already tred
OF chuckling-at the perspicacty that seems so
simple a thing in himself and yet so hard for
others which makes 1t impossible that anybody
should ever get an inch ahead Of him In any man.
clal operation. The next minute his eye tals on
an advertisement in a paper In wmch the aa'er-
tser SAYS: GIVE me 500 and in six months Will
hand you back independent fortune Ihis Is
no gold brick This is business. because IL talks
about percentages and the New-Yorker goes to
the advertiser, finds that he has hired desk FOR
a month in big office building, and is thereby
proyed to be a business man of solidty ana stand
ing and he thereupon begs him TO accept MS slVO
as any investor In his senses would. Inc only
reason why everybody does not do II Is that every
body does not see the advertisement II trustful-
ness is a virtue heaven ought TO come TO New
York for it would be easier than moving all New
York to heaven.
1t might be supposed that the exposure of the
Franklin Syndicate would lead persons who nave
from $40 to 500 hand to be a little more care
full OF It; but the managers of such investment
shops do not seem to think Since the exposure
ments of such things have been no less filed with
them than usual Eight such advertisements are
before the writer at the present moment. The
most interesting OF them says that s25 deposited
with the advertiser will amount in three months to
1881 49, in six months to S734 TO- and in a year to
s2.l74 go
1t is usually supposed that proportionately
can be done with n large sum than with a small
sum- but that is not the case with this concern.
For it will be noted that In the first three months
IN which sum of money is left on deposit. 1t
amounts to than thirteen times Itself that
in the next three months 1t only little more than
doubles, and that in the next six months II does
quite double. 1t Will occur 10 anybody who Is
acute enough 10 invest his money In that way that
the iudicious Is to draw II all out after
deposit Thus the sum will be multiplied by thlr-
teen every three months, and a little calculation
will assure anybody as to about how long II will
take him at that rate to own the earth literally
such large sums he will have on his hands, so 1t
might be better for the investor TO expect little
doubles only once in three months after the first
year. That would be a pitful sort OF investment.
with the s2i7} - which the advertisement promises
at the end OF the first year after Ave years more
the investor OF the original So would have some
estimate and is well under the mark, but the
reader, when he gets this will have many times
as large fortune anybody ever had In the
world. he surely will not be particular about the
few odd million dollars and cents.
tertaining In their way this one but this is the
most explicit. Along at the end comes trailing an
advertisement OF somebody who SAYS that YOU can
SOS day for the rest OF your life. But why should
you bother with that? When you get your s2,097. :
ordinary way at about per cent 10 your brain
from being overwhelmed by your own wealth, You
n week and why should YOU Work at a trade ali
your life for the sake OF adding $25 day TO that