The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-29

we'll aware that / am dealing with
the big suckers, fat ones, whom con-
ditions placed where they got the
best feeding, and what they got Is not
fair gauge of what came to smaller
fry--in shallower streams-the kind
that make up the general run of small
investors. These diunr get left, how
ever. at least not those of the true
sucker breed. Since the beginning
of this new century a lot of these
swan in to the Tonopah Mining
stream-or scheme. according to who
is telling it--and they pulled out o.
100 per cent. profit on their little
dips of help in development. Tonopah
Extension gave its batch 1909 per
cent. Floreuce handed out $4,000
per cent Gold Coin $1,000 per cent
Camp Bird $4,000 per cent. Elkton
(Col.) 10000 per cent. and Cold
field Mining at its best. 174,000. and
there are hundreds upon hundreds OF
others just as good. where the little
fellows-minnow size-got theirs.
It's only since learned of the great
sucker prosperity that / have dared
approach anybody for money. Now
/ am going to thesuckers, for these
commiserated people seem to be the
gold mining is the one royal road to
wealth. The wise man and the
smart Alecks devote their time to dis
crediting the business, although not
half of them half of the time believe
what they say themselves. They
knock and knock again. and in the
very midst of their worst hammering.
they stop, agape to point out some
passer, and tell you with awe in their
voices that he is something in the
Four Metals Company, or the son of
the smelter trust man, as If nothing
could give him greater eclat than
identification with the very business
they are deprecating. That's the kind
OF stuff knockers are made Of
The gold mine "knocker" has two
quotations depreciating mines that de-
light his soul; the one about the
liar with a hole in the ground" and
All that glitters is not gold - or
course every gold mine is-per neces-
sity-a hole in the ground, and al
though all that glitters is not gold,
the fact that 1t glitters at all proves,
at least, that II can't be mud.
IF gold mining were not good
business IL wouldn't be discredited
Ours bark at elephants: stones and
sticks are thrown only at trees that
bear fruit.
Boom mining in office buildings,
with advertisements for tools has no
more to do with the real business OF
mining than did Simple Simon's fish,
ing In his mothers water bucket for
whale have to do with the real
whale fishery of the North Seas.
Conditions entirely foreign to the
business are responsible for all the
knockers, of whom I regret TO say
the woods are full. Not all of them
are malicious, however; some of them
little pin head fellows. taking their
cues from others think what they
say sounds smart and say II for that
reason only. Then there's the funny
man in the papers, he has to do II
to live. We have no hard feelings
against him, it's his bread and butter.
To this latter class we extend sour
sympathy, apprecisting the extrem-
ity of their necessities. But the kind
of knocker that makes us tired is
the flock of squawking, flapping ducks
crippled in the collapse OF the boom:
they holler and holler, with a persist
ence that knows no let up, day or
night, and go round. tears in their
eyes, telling everybody what a terri
BILE robber the gold mine promoter is:
how they have been skinned in gold
mining; what an awful fraud the bus
ines Is, and a lot of tommy-rot that
Is enough to make a dead promoter
giad ne died. And the aggravating
part of 1t is that they never had a
cent invested in mining know moth
ing In the world about mining, and in
n ha oil e
II was what these wildcatters and fax
ers told them-that they were to get
million dollars a minute and ex-
penses paid.
Gold mining is the cleanest business
in the world, and every dollar taken
from the earth increases the per cap
ita wealth of every living human be-
ing What's more. il pays the, man
who puts shis little money into gold
mine development better than any
thing else can pay him, as a money
Investment; and though mining men
and mining investors have all the
wealth, they keep mum. The mine
promoter, with new property to
open, is the only one who is inter-
ested in educating the coming crop
of moneyed men, and to him alone
falls the task of supplying the edu-
.cational matter.
OF course all this information is
disputed. Tell the plain facts to the
wise man and he denies everything
and says the true profit for saved up
money Is in the 3 1-2 to 4 per cent.
interest and that gold mining is a
fraud
Excepting natural born cranks
there Is never a knoclser for mines
who hasn't his own little private
Crouch or AK to grind, That you can
bet on.
Gold, you know, does not grow on
trees, but must be dug out of the
ground but when out il is money
no having TO hunt a market TO sell