The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-16

once II you wish TO take advantage Of
this handsome advance"
I'VE need only a limited amount for
immediate development work and in
order to secure the requisite sum
without delay, We are making the con,
fidential offer of a bonus of one
share of preferred stock for every ten
shares of the common, which you can
secure at 80 cents on the par value
If you respond ct once. Just us soon
as our neads for development ex.
penditures are met by subscriptions
on this liberal basis, II will be impos-
sible for you to secure the common. as
it will be withheld from the market
except on offerings of so cents or
better"
You are taking no risk, for our
guarantee is behind every share of
our stock. The Silver and Gold In.
vestment and Surety company is back
OF our securities and the Searchlight
Investigation and Expert Engineering
Association has made a detailed exam
ination and analysis of our properties
and stands sponsor to the world for
them. In the first three months of
operation of our properties, we have
been able to pay our stockholders
dividend of IL per cent, and the splen-
did ore bodies now in sight warrant us
in assuring our stockholders that this
dividend will be substantially in.
creased in the next three months, ow-
ing to the increased facilities of pro-
duction made possible by great addi'
tions to our working equipment"
These are only q few of the most
glaring statements contained in the
confidential circulars and letters,
displayed in advertisements, and made
by solicitors, to draw money from the
pockets of the wage earners. There
are scores of other and more subtle
and clever bats in every mode of ex-
preston, but they all spell one word,
and that is B.U.N-C-O.
How do know it? How do dare
make so broad statement? Because
we have had times of unprecedented
prosperity for so long that millions of
dollars belonging to capitalists are ly-
ing idle or drawing only small inter
est. AS a result, the sound securities
and the solid investments are snap
ped up by men who understand values.
These men command large sums, and
in order to secure all the money re-
quired for solid and honest enter
prise, it is only necessary for men
having real investment "opportuni-
ties" to go to them and convince them
of the merit of their propositions.
They will not permit to slip past them
any chance to make 33 1-3 per cent.
or even 10 per cent, provided the risk
involved is not too great. Which is
only another way of saying that when
a concern must go forth with blare OF
trumpets to secure money from the
wage workers, the proposition it has
to offer is not only not worth consider
alton, but it should be left severely
alone. If it were sound to the core
idle capital would he put into 1t be
fore the confidential" letters to PROS
pective wage Garner investors coult
be printed
And this feature of the matter
stands out in it's true light when some
| thing of the cost of selling stocks by
an appeal to the common people" is
understood. Not long ago a Chicago
concern which had gone to the "peo
pie" for its support went into the
| hands of receiver Wage Garner!
and people working for small salarie!
had put 100000 into the enterprise
When the receiver began his examina
tion of the affairs of the company IL
order to determine how much those a
| the head of it had diverted into thei
own pockets, he was amazed to dis
cover that the entire 100000 had beer
| spent in getting the great publicity
campaign started" They had com
mitted the error of making some
particularly flagrant misrepresenta
tions and this put a period to thei
| pllllo NY SGHulllS IISul W the pCUIIGQ
tiary before they were quite ready t.
do the actual looting
There is Just one thing for the sen
sible workman suffering from an at
tack of the investment fever to do
and that is to go to solid man O
financial experience, a Trustworthy
man. and ask him to ascertain for hin
who are the men behind this wonder
full opportunity" offered to him finC
out what their records have been il
the past, and what they are puttins
his money into, as we'll as wha
| there is and who there is behind thei
guarantees" and "guarantors." Wher
| you have done this you will find. il
all probability. that your fever to ge
rich Aquick has cooled to the freezinS
| point.
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles)