The Forrest City times., 1905-10-13
1odern Finance and EooIishness

\ man was arrested in New York recently for selling q little machine Wlth which. apparently. blank pieces 9I paper could be readily converted lito Eve dollar bills simply hv turn IhE crank and running the blank sheets through two rollers. The tiing worked alright as long as fl Mas th the hands of the seller. but when the purchaser took il home and found that the paper he put in be tween the rollers cane out Us it went lii. 1t proved itself paipable SWindle and the judge before whom tbe case was brought into court smiled when he Sp decided, He smiled that any man should bt SD utterly cfedulouS K to believe that he could buy for few hundred dollars q machine which would print a~ rapidly as one would want them bank notes as good as any bank issues, and my readers. no doubt. "ltI smile when they read this brief report Of a true incident in the recent court annals of New York Civ.
 But the eredulity of the Wf0rtun- ale victim Qf this hunco game k not greater han Chat of the general pub lie ueed only call attention to the enormous sums of money sunk by the public in all kinds of wildcat schemes every year II seems only necessary for sWlndlers to have sufficient ingen- g4tt to tell smooth falSehood and To promise prndigiaus profits on small Investments To make the suckers bite. Recently q man i'll St. Louis succeed ed in coaXing out of the public be tween uue and two million on com hlned banking and publishing scheme which Was so rank that the postoflce department interiered and stopped his mail. Scarcely a day passes but that the poStullice authorities find similar work to do. Some of these sWindlers rau for a bong time the Storey t'ottou Company Tor instance. When the money begins to pour ill the sWlndlefS tioe part of it to pay big profits To some Of those who are ill. aud thus stimulate new business . fheH did this so successfully in the Storey Cotton Company that the con- cern ran for aHumber of years.
 had repeated inquiries from read CTS Who asked how il was possible for the Storey Cotton Company to pay from 50 To loo percent interest on deposits. Again and again replied that 1T there were such profits for outsiders that the Storey mana gers could make they would make it themselves, and that some day the smashap would come. And il did come, and the loss to the creditors of the storey company ran up into the millions. This is Il disreputablc sort of business. il seems it k done out Nlde the exchanges. II the stock market Receptions can he misled by utterly false statements, and bonds and stocks cau be toated in prodigi- oaS quantities at eXtravagant prices of prospect full of lies. and the men who am3Ss immense fortunes by these repfebeHsible methods. acting under the advice of lawyers. who are as unScrupulous as they are adroit, can manage skilfully to keep out of jail. Jasper, in Leslies Weekly.
 The same k not only true of the "get-rieh-quick' schemes, but also in other lines, and especially ill state politics. It has been thoroughly dem- onstrated i'll this state that he grosser the demagogue; the greater the insincerity of the man; the less he is worthy of high honors. or even the respect of decent citizens, the larger is his majority at the polls old man r. T. Barnum once said, "I'he American people like to be hum- bugged, and he humbugged them in response to popular demand. and made his millions. But there is an old and very true saying, that you may fool all the people some of the time. some of the people all of the time. but You can't fool all the peo- pie all the time. and they have about reached that stage where they can see through the llimsy pretenses and shallow methods of our aspiring gov