The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-03-12

he listens to this argument-and gen.
orally he does-he feels a new sense
Of self-importance and of independence
and corresponding disinclination to
listen to the advice of those whose !
familiarity with business and finance |
would enable him to steer clear of the |
rocks of disaster. His judgment is
pitted against theirs and he is aroused |
to a determination to "show them"
that his opinion is better than theirs.
This antagonism against the recep-
ton of advice from men of experience
is the one thing which the investment
sharper most desires to awaken In the
prospective victim, for it will prevent
him not only from seeking sound adj
vice but from acting upon it when 1t
IS put in his way.
The schemers who have learned
how irresistibly hc argument of man
age for yourself" appeals to the man
who has never had chance to try
his hand at managing business have
not stopped at this point; they have
also learned that men in the humber
walks Of life are clannish and inclined
to think and act together. Along with
this they have realized that it is
easier and cheaper to hunt their game
| in flocks and droves than singly When
| the sportsman wishes to get big bag
of game and get it quickly he goes
after the birds which travel in flocks.
So with these gunners who are adopts
in the use of decoys and calls" They
arrange their hunts in line with this
! idea of clannishness, of mass move
ment, and use the ammunition of "act
for yourself so that every shot will be
pot shot
| Here is an example of how this kind
of financial craftsmanship is prosecut-
ed: Some time ago an inventor
brought out machine for the making
of print paper from the pith of corn
| stalks. So far as making an impress
sive. scientific demonstration was con-
| cerncd, the device was admirable, but
when it came to its ability to compete
commercially with wood pulp mills
and their products, that was a prob
lem that did not greatly concern the
promoters with whom the inventor
and patentee became associated. So
long as the machine did It's demonstra-
ton work with convincing PLAUSIBLE
| ty their immediate purpose was fully
met. The paper production in which
they were most concerned was that
upon which the handsome stock certifi-
Gates OF the company were printed.
The corporation was capitalized at
several million dollars and the cam
paign of stock exploitation put in the
hands of man who was past master
in the particular line of appeal with
which this article is concerned.
He Immediately turned his guns
upon wage workers of the printing
and paper trades.
BY personal solicitation and printed
literature he piled the members OF
these trades with the argument:
Make this your own industry! Here
, is the opportunity for you to keep In
your own hands the thing which is
going to revolutionize the paper bust
ness just as the typesetting machine
has revolutionized the printers craft
, You can, by coming in now, with {
! small investment per man, place your
, selves in control of an industry which
I Will hold in its grip a product of mil
, lions OF dollars year-a produc
upon which the whole paper and print
ing world depends for its existence.
n This was an argument which ever.
!. man in the mechanical department 0
:. a newspaper or commercial printing
/. establishment, and every paper mil
O or paper company, could understand
:, 1t met him on his own ground and h
n began to see visions of himself as on
of the powers" in the very industr.
n in which he was an obscure wag
worker. What turning of the table
:, there would be when the worl
v awakened to the fact that this grea
d ''revolutionizing invention" was col
s trolled by the men at the type cas-
a and machines, the printing presses
!. the stereotyping tables, the pulp vat
o and the paper warerooms! Then tn
# last" would become first, the pape
It industry would be ruled by the me
@ from the bottom of business; tn
O journeyman would be the magnat
o and would know the feeling of 'powe
e and authority!
e BY scores and hundreds the wag
h workers In these trades rallied to thi
0. cry and the leaders among them wer
L. taken care of" in a way which mad
e. them feel that they had already com
N into their own. These bell-wethel
1t of the craft marshaled their follow
Is ings with a sincere confidence thu