Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-07-18
A Word With You.

There are evolutions in crime Just H.
there are Announcements in business. and
evil often keeps pace with the good.
Were the census enumerators OF the
United States TO compile II list Of the
sucker" public, the gnllible ONES would
aggregate tens If millions. / do not be-
lieve there is Il town in this great nation
that does not contain its portion OF ron
filling persons who are ready to believe
anything from the rankest catch-penny
advertisement to a f~allacy in theological
dogma. For every step of progress made
by the ordinary individual, the cracks
man has found Il new measure to offset
or attack the improvement made. The
simple key-lock strong box was amenable
to powder-the elegant iire-proof, bur
glar-proof, waterproof, cross sectioned
safe Of today shrivels before nitro-glycer-
inc.
This principle applies to fake cheap
money l%oaners; the Equitable Loan K
Investment Co. in particular, and f,r
whom this article is written. While tin y
have been driven from place to place,
and last from Denver to Dallas where
their cleverness is still bringing to them
the workmans savings, 10y selling So ale |
coupon contracts which looks quite plain
and inviting to the party wishing to in
vest or borrow money, but are so mis-
leading that the company can pocket the
money and tell you, there is nothing
coming. They meet new conditions with
new cleverness-thereiore the victims o
the Equitable Loan and Investment
Company We may well ask, ''what
guarantee have | that | will not be biz
again?' These people should he put out
business by the postal authorities
arrested, fined and put t. work the same
rs the International Mercantile Co., amt
the international Investment Co. OF La
Sale St. raide,i and closed.
The Equitable Finance Co. and the
Equitable Real Estate and Loan Co., OF
which PERFORMER was its principal ''com-
pany, president, secretary-trea,urer
and general manager. This company
was incorporated in Dakota Tor S25, 900.
1t sold contracts (same as the Equitable
Loan x Investment Co. do and claimed
to make loans to contract holders for the
purpose of assisting them in the pur-
chase of homes.
The contracts were said to he issued i'm
consecutive numbers and the borrower
had to continue payments until the num-
Der of his contract was reached before
he was entitled to a loan. The Com
pany was arranged so it would 90 ont OF
business before the contracts matnred.
(It does not make any difference with
the Equitable Loan Il Investment Co.
If the contracts are paid up and matured
they ignore you and even forget to make
any further promises.) Perbohner vic
timized one hundred and fifty people in
one town in Illinois. Warrants were Sc
cured by several victims; he was finally
arrested and to escape punishment COM
suicide.
Not quite so bad with us AS our town
is small. Only seven or eight of us here
jerome got set back from 800 to $3.50
each and in Oakley | have been inform
there are sixteen counts again them.
There is II solid rock of safety, and
one. The high ideal OF perfect
banking institutions is the model recog-
nized by those authorities wno are ap-
solely to sift out the bad from
good and leave in the measure of
pure gold.
O. w. DouGHERrY.