Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1907-12-18

criticism, IL il because It's language was
inadequate rather than Incorporate.
u Will you say by your solemn
verdict that newspaper published in
your midst, trying to develop the coun-
try and protect and foster every hon.
orable enterprise, shall be punished be.
cause 1t was so watchful Of you and
yours as to snow up such rascslly op.
erations rs thcsei Is the Journal
Miner to be branded as a libeller be.
cause 1t dared to say that quacks and
swindlers would find no aid or comfort
in Yavapai countyf
But perhaps counsel will say that
Dinsdale did finally deed these claims
such as they wcrc-to the company.
Yes, but whcns Nearly n year after
sales Of stock had been commenced.
And at n time when the affairs Of the
company pointed to the receivcrsnip
proceedings that shortly afterward
were instituted by awakened and in.
dignant stockholders. May It not we'll
be that the gloom overwhelming the
strong arm Of the law, stretching forth
toward the self-conscious criminal, ex-
ercised a "vibratory" influence that
had something to do with the making
Of this dceds
Let me take up some Of the charges
Of libcllous language said by the plain
tiff to have been used by the Journal
Miner. We called his scheme "get.
rich quick" scheme. Was il not q get
rich quick scheme to put forth three
quarters Of million in stock on moth.
ing but 4 hole in the groundi Wasn't
IL getting rich quick to buy n group Of
claims for pretended services AS an eye
doctor and Immediately transform
them into a bonanza worth &750,0OOi
Isn't that "going. sonnet" He com.
plains that we charged him with wiring
ing from men and women Of the Cnris-
tian faith their little horde. He ad.
mits that much Of this stock was sold
on the installment plan. That means
that IL was sold TO men, women, and
possibly children who were too poor to
pay for il all at once, and so paid in
installments from month to month, as
their pitiful earnings came in. Could
anything short Of the Christian faith
encompass such shameless imposition
an thisf We said he was a "fake min.
ing promoter" We ought to have
said this with abjcct apologies--.to all
other fakirs. II the record Of his
manipulations do not cntitlc him TO the
exalted rank Of prince Of fakirs, then
we have erred in our conception Of mis-
conduct. He rcsents our charge that
he was looking for "easy money
Wasn't he looking for "easy money"
when he plycd the lady in Ohio with
love letters, poetry, proposals OF mar
riage and invitations TO invest money
In his "Little Brotherf" He docsn Z
like our charge that his scneme was
: "conscienceless." That Is fair criti'
cism of his actions, and no conclusion
can fairly be drawn that conscience
ever troubled him in these deals. Fol
aught we know, the persons to whom
he Graded" this stock may have bar
tered away the very homes in which
they lived for stock that was not
worth rs cents square mile. III
thinks we ought not to have said tina
he "got busy" Well, didn't he gel
|, busyi lie got busy enough to sci
CSC, 900 shares Of stock when he onl!
Q owned 100000 shares, and ne got bus,
= enough to put out 100000 shares o.
= stock in . company that only had $50,
' 900 shares altogether. And he didn
n have the common docency to sell tn
{ treasury stock first, 90 that there nigh
d be some money in the treasury for de
8 velopmcnt. No, ne sold what he wa
10 pleased to call his own "privst
o stock" and he pocketed the proceeds
! regardless Of whether the stockhold
It ers ever got run for their money o
,. not. Wss that "squars dealt" II
's complains that Barr sold grea
" deal Of this stock, but he seem
10 to forget he himself admitte
10 that he sent Barr out to do that yer
81 thing. And he, not Barr, was pres
q. dent Of the company. lie complain
N Of Barr because Barr deposited III
" money he took in for stock In the Pre-
II colt National bank. respect M
p. Barr for that, for two reasons. Firs
IN Barr was treasurer Of the compan
ID and had right TO the custody of II
ID money. He was paying on the 10
g. men who worked In the mines, and WI
o, apparently the only one who paid an
r. company bills. Secondly, Barr 10 G
r titled to everlasting gratitude for pla
v. | ing the money in the Prescott Nation