The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31
BUCKET-SHOP METHODS
Upon What the Advice Given to Gus
toners in One Case Rested.

The Traveller had a libel suit on its
hands last week, brought by one Of
these embryotic kings Of finance. who
got vexcd because We showed him up as
bucket. shopper, His suit was not
successful, but III connection with the
trial, il developed that this gentleman
had established as one Of the branches
of his personal activity, the selling of
stock market tips 10 prospective invcs-
tors, at the reasonable figure of $5 a
month. Upon cross examination he tes-
titled that the information that he Of
fercd to supply was largely to be deter
mined by reading tho moon and stars,
the theory being that because of the
Influence of the moon and the stars on
men minds, the stock market was
necessarily Influenced.
The persons paying So month for
market advice probably had no concep-
tion that they were taking a primary
course IN astrology, but the fools are
not all dead, and some might still have
invested had they known the facts.
Any person who will claim tomorrow
that he IS able to refine gold, paint the
lily, perfume the violet or add another
hue TO the rainbow, if he or she goes
about it properly, will find regiments
Of eager and active militant supporters.
Our friend who advised investments in!
'Sucker Creek common and ''Easyj
Mark preferred" by star and moon;
chart, is only 400 or 500 years behind
his time. Charles V, and Francis L.
both bid for the friendship of the in,
famous Aretin, and both engaged as
trologists TO fight battles for them.
Montaigne tells US that about this time
at Rome, large sums Of money were
lost on the exchange by the predictions,
of the astrologists. The influence of the
Mcdici made astrology popular mi
vi p;,h al, Ji1
| despise astrology as an engine Of gov-i
crnment,
Mr.. Lawrence. who tried to sell stock
market information al $5 a month, ifj
he had known about it, might have
| justified his astrological stock market
! touting by claiming that at last one of
! the remarkable astrological predictions
Of the past had been fulfilled To be,
| true. 1t is 400 years after the time pre-
dicted, but what is little thing like
400 years, more or less, TO the stock
ticker or the astrologerf
Stoffler, a renowned astrologer, who
| lived in the fourteenth century, predict
ed that in 1924 universal deluge and
cataclysm that would make Noah S per-
sonally-conducted excursion look like q
| dolar.a- day fishing party, would sweep
! over the earth. The aspects of the
heavens told him that IN that year
three planets would meet IN the aque
ous sign of Pisces. AS it happened,
| that year was remarkable for very
great drought, VIII III burned up the
vegetation and brought about food
! famine.
Unless there is something wrong with
our conclusions, the prediction of Stof-
! fer is the only decent explanation to
account for the extraordinary amount
! Of water in railroad and other stocks,
as evidenced by the Hartman investi-
cation, The three planets or stars, com
ing together. are Hartman, Hill and
/ Standard Oil Rogers, who unite in the
sign of Pisces. or tine fish, which every
| one knows is another name for sucker,
! and thus perhaps Stoffler S prediction is
| fulfilled.
The incident corroborates strongly
what the Traveller has been imprcssing
on the public for more than a year.
! When you scratch n man engaged IN the
/ bucket-shop business, You expose get
rich.ouick artist who will separate the
people from their money on any old
! prejcxt that happens to occur 10 him
at the moment.-Boston Traveller,