The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-21


| thy. l am sorry for them, but 1 am
/ amazed at their stupidity and credulity.
| Now here are two clever, needy women
| in this community who sent $25 each to
| one of these fakirs and each sent him
| Est Of twenty-five names--not subscribers
| but names. The women knew very we'll
| that nobody here wanted the paper and
| so they begged or borrowed or made some
| sacrifice to get the money and went dill
| lgentfy to work writing letters and send
| ing circulars to other women at other
| places urging them to join the scheme
| and set years employment at 500 a
| month And these last women sent so
| each and got to work writing to a third
! set of women. and so it goes on ana on
| in an endless chain, growing longer and
| longer and widening and branching out
| as It goes until if it keeps on, it will en-
| brace the continent and then cross the
| ocean aud chain up all EuroDe That il
| the principle on which all these endless
! chain schemes are based. Of course the
| chain will break sooner or later and
| am pleased to learn that one of them
| says he Will have to surrender but that
| nc vii! protect his agents. He cannot do
| It His last circular tells his agents 10
| stop working in North Carolina Sou b
! Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama
! for lie has pretty we'll covered these Statet;
/ with agencies and now they must work
| up the western and northwestern States
| And SO | continue to receive letters from
! Arkansas and Texas almost oyery day
/ asking about the scheme. A poor woman
| writes me from Colorado, Texas that her
! little children picked cotton to raise the
| s25 for her invalid sister who wanted to
!
| sent the money and list Of names, for
! she could not get a single subscriber
| and the fallir sent her a dollar and that
| is all she has ever received, and she asks
| rs it possible that any human being is
/ mean enough to rob a starving woman
anC her children? Is it possible that
| Elll Arp would raise up. boy like
| that No. he cannot protect his agents.
| II would take Aladdn's lamp to comply
| with his promises. He got $50 from these
| two women in this town. l don't know
! how many al Kingstown and Adairsville
| He has promised SITS to each which
| makes $3.50 for one town. No doubt he
/ has 900 agents IN Georgia and it will take
| over $4,000 to pay them. Then multiply
| that by four other states that he says hc
| has already covered. OF course he can't
/ lay his agents But he pays enough to
/
| me from Milledgevile and defends him
| and says he has paid her so far and she
| believes he is ar honest man Another
| writes from tho same county and says he
Won pay ner anything ard will not an
| SWer her letters. It is 70 be hoped. how
| ever. that he will refund the SIS to each
| agent. But take another view CT this
| Wonderful scheme There are fifty OF his
parers received here at this office and
! not onc Of them represents q subscriber
! Our people took them out for a while
/ thinking they were some OF these sample
| copies that flood the country But they
| have found cut better and refuse to take
| them out. fer they do not wantathem and
! they fear that somebody will be calling
| for the money. Now if our county is an
| average there has been sent from the
J, state to that one town from eight to ton
| thousand dollars and got back nothing
j that anybody in Georgia wants
! Another paper writes me very tartiy
| about its scheme and advises me TO let
things alone that | do not understand.
| The publisher sends to me copies of his
! circulars and asserts that it is nothing
like tho other plan. Well it is more
| liberal, for it SKIS only $40 10 gct ten sub
| stri5erS and an agency and start the
| chain and promises s24 month for every
| five agents secured in month. Ny Tie
:; Tad all eady received two letters urging
| her to take an agency and make So a
| month so easy. OF course she declined,
| for she didn't care TO beg any one to
! take paper he didn't want nor would
| she send hor own money and a list of
! E&mos and write to other women to come
| in the scheme.
| | will not say it is a fraud, for have
| reason TO believe that tho publisher is
honest and conscientious. but the scheme
| is delusion and q snare and is in very
! lad company. The agents cant get gen
i zine subscribers and will send their own
money ard list OF names.
/ And here comos another scheme from
! another Georgia town. 1t says: Send Us
! S2o and VIC will employ you al SO a month
| for twelve months 10 write FIVE letters
! DAY and get agents to work for US and
! will pay - extra for each agent over five
in month. Some of our agents get from
ter 10 fifty Hc.y agents monthly nd make
from $40 TO $1iO month IT Will take
] only q few minutes every day to write
The letters" That beats tho original. !
j reckon they must have a thousand agents
} in Georgia getting $50 a month. That
takes $40 900 year to pay them. Docs
anybody believe that? Aud yet this in
vcstmemt company does not seem to have
anything to sell, but will Set YOU n son
in,- machine. gold watch a bike Of
gun. They refer YOU 10 a long array OF
references.
But here is ono from North Caroline.
whore the ehcri-y trees EroH: "Greatost
money making plan Of the twentieth
century.
50 per dav made At hcr,e niliitrG cir
cu!ars. II breaks al, records and the
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lead lines or tkG oi,er Tho body Of ;E9
circular is 100 IoEG and too f3 3scnatiEe
ccpv. II might injure At!au5a'S she"
trade 70 spread this kind OF Dcvs IN tour
columns. a lady writing 10 ne from
Thoms&N;l1e says her n"ighh0r. = good.
sensible lady, Was induced by this cir