The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Passes out a Fev Remarks on Charity Con Game
Lcopgrzha las bz central \ sr.- and Pres. E.eaaassl

sticks by the wayside as long as the
other fifty is used in a scientific man
ner. Salaries has to be paid, don't
theyy What's more they don't take
your dollar for nothin'. They give
you a ticket. That's something, amt
lt2 Very well, then, if you want to
give anythin' away you give away
the ticket. You can pass out your
blessin with it, too, if you like; the
charity bunch don't care. After
you've bought the ticket they're
through with you for the time bein'.
It's the guy you give it to that they're
layin for. He's entitled to work one
day. There's where the games
rounded up nice. No man that really
wants charity will be ashamed to
work. An after he's worked he gets
what's comm to him. He gets what's
comm to him while he's workin',
too. That's why he's give the ticket
instead of the dough.
The show rings up as soon as the
boy shows up with the pastebOard.
They We got wood yard for him.
After he's sawed a half a cart load
Of wood he can have his breakfast.
He can take as long as ne likes to
do it. There amt no Simon Legree
business or no fellow standin' over
him with whip. He can get his
breakfast after he gets through.
There amt nOthin' to prevent his
waitin'. The breakfast can wait just
as long as he can. An there won't
be word said, An he amt throwd
ont on the street after he's had his
breakfast, either. He can saw an
other half load of wood if he likes.
Then he'll get his dinner. The ticket
allows him to work all day if he likes.
OF course, if he Welshes an don't
get no dinner, it amt nobody's fault
but his own. The fellow that bought
the ticket paid for it. an it's there
for him If 10 fo A IA 17o
don't like to saw he can chop. There's
every opportunity offered to him.
OF course because the man that give
him the ticket paid for the dinner
amt no sign he's gom' to get it.
That's up to him. He can saw enough
wood to get his breakfast in four or
five hours an then he can start in
for his dinner. After that he can sail
in to get his supper an a bed, an
when he gets through he can spend
his spare time loolzin' for some reg
ular form of employment. You see
under this system Tiers amt no
chance OF bein' imposed on by giVin'
away coin to some fellow that amt
willin to do his bit. OF course, they
don't handle no women in the wood
yard They have a laundry for them.
There amt no corner on the priv
ilege- The women is allowed to work
just as we'll as the men,
OF course when the woods chopped
they take it back to the guy who
bought the ticket, an he buys it off
EN- at lower rate than he can get
it from anyone else. Amt he encour-
agin the charity Of course. 1t amt
his fault if his buyin this wood puts
the fellow that's irwin to sell other
wood round the corner out of business
If the worst comes to the worst you
can give him a ticket, too. 1t don't do
nothin more than change his occupa-
ton. Instead of sellin' wood, he starts
in chopin.
If YOU figure this game out you can
see where it's great. First you buy q
ticket for three meals, an hand EN-
over to the victim. Then he works
for eighteen meals. an gets three.
After he gets through. what he's
worked for is sold back to you, an
you part again. You see YOU pay
twice, an the victim works once, but
it don't make no difference to YOU.
The difference goes to help the game
along What's more you have the adj
vantage of KNOWN that there amt no
mistakes made There amt cog
slipped nowhere. WHAT'S more there
amt any dough slipped except what
you slip to the bunch.
Another good thing is the system
they've got for lookin' after the dough
If any of these fellows that saws hap
pens to get hold of five or ten cents
on the SIDE there ain't no necessity
for 'em to sQuander it on debauchery
& y
waitin' for them. What's more there
amt no red tape business about it.
You don't have to start in with no
swell deposit. They'll take anythin
you've got. If it's five cents it's FIVE
cents, if it's two it's two. NO questions
is asked They just hand in the coin
an let it go at that. When you get it
up to a quarter or SO you can draw il
out if you want. OF course, there ain
no interest paid. It would cost too
much for bookeepin' Again the
amounts would be so small they
couldn't pay EN-. OF course, when
you figure up that they carry about
half a million dollars on deposit in
/ different places. it amt bad graft
when they don't have to pay no in
/ terest, but that amt anybody's bust
ness. The bank is there to encourage
the small saver. If there's any other
results they've got to be considered as
side lines, an all banks has side lines.
Ask Jimmy Stillman. He knows.