Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-01

tune him to become their tenant. The
telegraph and telephone companies
furnish him with every facility to
thrive by theft. Regular exchanges
seldom punish members who maintain
underground connection with the
thieves Of the bucket-shop class. And
as though the immunity they enjoy
were not otherwise broad enough, the
United States affords to the bucket
shopping thieves freest use Of the
mails, albeit investigation by postal
inspectors would invariably show up
the fact that such use Of the mails is
fraudulent"
In the following paragraph Mr.
league gives some very definite infor-
nation as to the character Of the firms
which are doing such financial ruin
throughout the whole country:
A great syndicate Of bucket shops
Is operated under the name Of M. ].
Sage & Co. This concern has recently
~xtended its system of privately leased
wires, furnished by regular telegraph
companies to include 200 branch Offices
il the southern states, where specula-
ton in cotton runs riot. M. ]. Sage.
ike Broadman, is stool-pigeon. The
moneyed member of the firm is 'AP
Adams, the ex-policy king Of the me-
tropolis; the man who never made an
honest dollar in his life who was de-
nounced by the judge that sentenced
him to serve a year in Sing Sing as
the meanest man in New York. and
whose millions were fieeced from the
the ignorant poor Of New York by the
unspeakable cruel and shameless pol
ICY game. One who deals with one of
M. ]. Sage & Co.'s bucket-shops, or
with a bucket-shop which classes it
self as a correspondent of NJ. ]. Sage
& Co., is dealing with Al Adams"
The concluding paragraph of this
article contains a suggestion that
would put these thieves under the ban
of the law and that would put them
behind the bars for the carrying on of
their nefarious practices. North Car
olina has already taken this forward
step in the protection Of her citizens, a
similar law passed the house only to
be defeated in the senate at the last
session of the general assembly Of
South Carolina, and there is now pend
ing in congress a bill for the suppress
sion Of these institutions for fleeing
the lambs:
"Bucket-shopping should be sup
pressed, or placed at par with the pool
room and the poker or crap Joint be-
fore the law of every state in the I'm
ion. The bucket-shop keeper should
be hunted by police, secret service and
county officers with the same relent-
lessness which Is shown In the chase
of the professional card-sharper, the
green-g goods operator, the bunco-steer-
er, the confidence man, the pool-room
proprietor and manager, the pick
pocket, the safe cracker and the
porch climber UP to the bucket
shopper rolls on every business day a
dollar burdened tide Of tragedy out Of
which he steals incalculable sums Of
money belonging to the unsophisti-
Gated. On its ebb and tide carries a
burden of dollarless misery. and its
burden is spread among all the homes
Of the land. That this tide should flow
and ebb at the beckoning Of the mean
est, most INSCRIPTIONS and most dan
gerous class Of thieves In America Is
a stain on government. Law pur-
ports to protect the public against the
thief, yet law lies supine before the
fact; "the 'bucket-shop' is a thief"