The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17

deceived by them, what chance d.
YOU think a workingman-whose finan
cial experience is confined, usually 10
making the contents Of his pay enVei-
one cover the household bills-has 10
see through the mysteries of the prop
osiLion?
There are a few of these financial
semaphores, however which every
wage worker should know how TO
read and can know At first glance
they seem to show clear right-ot-
way, to give the signal to come on
at full speed, with your savings ac'
count in your hand; but wfAn you
know the rules of the road, you can
see a red light--a danger signal
swinging from every one of these SEM
aphore arms.
Here are some of the danger sig
nails of this sort which are very decep'
tive at first glance:
"This company is going to be kept In
the hands of the common people and
oub of the hands of the capitalists.
"The shares of this company have
increased so per cent, since our fiscal
agents put the first block of develop
ment stocks on the market, GO days
ago; they will be advanced 20 points
on the first day of next month and
you must act promptly and remit at
once if you wish to take advantage OF
tI,ig bondcpp,a advance"
1--WE need only limited amount for
Immediate development work and in
order to secure the requisite sum
without delay, we are making the con-
fidential offer Of 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 at once. Just as soon
as our needs for development ex-
penditures are met by subscriptions
on this liberal basis, it will be impos-
sible for you to secure the common, as
it will be withheld from the market
except on offerings of 60 cents or
better"
you are taking no risk, for our
guarantee is behind every share of
our stock. The Silver and Gold In
vestmeut 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 a
dividend of 12 per cent, and the SPLEEN
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-
tons 10 our working equipment"
These are only few of the most
glazing 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 a 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-
CURED for solid and honest enter
prise, 1t 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 SO 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 il 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 be put into If he
fore the "confldential' letters to pros.
pective wage Garner investors co,Id
be printed.
And this feature of the mattor
stands out in its true light when some.
thlng oil the cost Of selling stocks nv
an appeal to the common peopleo is
understood. Not long ago a Cbicago
concern which had gone to the "neo.
pie for its support went into M
hands OF a receiver. Wage earners
and people working for small salaries
had put 100000 into the enternrisa
When the receiver began his exan r,,too'
ton OF the affairs of the comnanv ~
order to determine how much tboro - -
the mead of it had diverted into tbai.
own pockets, he was amazed to dis
cover that the entire S1OO, 900 had beon
spent IN getting the great nublicitv
campaign started" They bad