The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-01-31
DENOUNCES. FRAUDS.
Bill Arp Hits Certain Advertising
Schemes Hard.
Abuse of the EndIess-Chninf Letter
Plan by Publish ers--S0me of the
Distressing Cases That
Have Come to Light.

Bill Arp has been having trouble
over the advertising schemes of
certain newspaper publisher in Flori. /,
da who seems to have been present
ing himself as son Of Arp FOR the
purpose of getting few more dol
lars into his own pocket. Bits pro-
tests have evidently gone lnheeded,
for now he writes as follows:
The cry is still they come" and
the victims continue to write me for
sympathy. l am sorry for them, but
| 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 list of IS names
not subscribers, but names. The
women knew Very well that nobody
here wanted the paper and SO they
begged or borrowed or made some
sacrifice to get the money and went
| diligently to work writing letters and
sending circulars to other women at
other places urging them to join the
scheme and get years employment
en- sent $25 each and go to work writ
| ing to third set of women, and so
| it goes ON and 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 and chain up all Europe.
That is 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 he will
| protect his agents. He cannot do
it. His last circular tells his agents
to stop working in North Carolina,
! South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
sabama, for he has pretty well COW
these states with agencies and
lnaH they must work up the western
Haa northwestern states. And so |
AZ ne TO receive letters from Ar
sllsa aud Texas almost every day
M about the scheme. A poor
woaNts, writes n2e from. Colorado,
Tex. that her little Children picked
cotton to raise the SIS IQr her Invalid
sister who wanted TO wcrk and TO
get the monthly salary. She sent the
money and list of names. for she
could not get 81 single subscriber, ans
| the fakir sent her q dollar and that
is all she has ever received, and she
asks: as it possible that any human
being is mean enough to rob stary-
ing woman and her little children?
Is it possible that Bill Arp would
raise up boy like that?' No, he
cannot protect his agents 1t would
take Aladdin's lamp to comply with
his promises. He got $50 from these
two women in this town. | don't
know how many at Kingston and
Adairsville He has promised SIS
to each, which makes $3.50 for one
town. No doubt he has 800 agents
in Georgia and it will take over $780,
600 to pay them. Then multiply that
by four other states that he says he
has already covered. OF course he
can't pay, his agents. But he pays
enough to get few credentials. One
lady writes me from Milledgeville and
defends him and says he has paid
her so far and she believes he is an
honest man. Another writes from
the same county and says he won't
pay.her anything and will not answer
her letters. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that he will refund the $25 to
U@n1 H-inN
of this wonderful scheme. There are
so of his papers received here at this
office and not one of them represents
subscriber. Our people took them
out for awhile, thinking they were
some of these sample copies that
flood the country. But they have
found out better and refuse to take
them out, for they do not want them
and they fear that somebody will be
calling for the money, Now if our
county is an average there has been
sent from the state TO that one town
from $4,000 to $4,000 and, got back
nothing that anybody in Georgia
wants. t..n ,tt,
Another paper writes me very tart
lv about its scheme and advises me
to let things alone that [ do not I'M
derstand. The publisher sends TO me
COPIES of his circulars and asserts
that it is nothing like the-o other plan.
Well it. is more yiberal, for 1T asks
only ten dollars to get ten stibscrib-
ers and an agency and start the chain
and promises S24 month for every
five agents secured in a month. My
wife had already received two letters
urging her to take an agency and