Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-19
By REV. CHARLES F. AKED, d. d., LII. D.

cupied when Washington tried to
silence him and the White House
was supine. Month by month
this clear sighted man looks into
the ragged and tattered souls OF
takers, quacks, charlatans and the
whole tribe of humbugs who prey
upon the millions of our popula
ton that are gullible still. 1t is
consoling to think that a sensible
reduction in the ranks of the tribe
called gullible must take place
every time Good Houseke
appears!
fraud Is Exposed.
In the February issue DR.. Wilev
exposed a fraud which recalls the
incident of my schoolboy DAYS.
have not the heart to traverse the
entire ground covered by DR.. Wi
ley. feel myself growing angry
again when I read a story-here
in America in February. nineteen
hundred and fourteen-which
runs line for line like that one of
more than 40 years ago. The lies
have the same ring in them. The
promises are couched in language
all but identical. Even the prices
are singularly like those eaxcted
by the British swindlers. And the
hope deferred makes the heart
still sick
Twenty-six dollars DR.. Wiley
paid for the fake instrument
twenty five, as a matter of fact
for the electric affair that was to
work miracles of healing. and an
extra dollar for medicine. Repre-
senting himself to be anaemie and
suffering from malaria and very
thin, he entered into correspond
ence with humbug and then
gazed into the fake with the see
ing eye of genius. He classifies
what he calls degrees in fakery."
And he says:
There is the simple panscea
made of sugar or starch. There
is the active and yet mostly harm
less drug whose properties are OF
the mildest character. Then there
is the active and often dangerous
drug which should be used only
under the most careful personal
supervision of the physician over
and above thes,, there is the uni
versal effort to frighten the vic
Tins into the belief that they are
i'll, followed by assurance of GER
tain cure"
This electric swindle, however,
falls into none of these classes.
1T is superlatively above and be
yond the domain of common IA
kerry"
And lie adds:
"The curious thing about such
dreadful and deceptive articles is
that apparently there is no law to
punish the defrauders The des
perate mother who takes a loaf
of bread to keep alive a starving
child is sent to the penitentiary
but the man who robs you of $50
with the promise of a cure for al
your ills not only goes scot-free
but is permitted to use the United
States mails to make as nearly
universal as possible the ravages
of his greed. 1t is time to destroy
utterly and forever the prestige
of such a fraud"
Not For Scoundrels.
1t is all very well to say that
persons who are 80 silly as to be-
lieve that for $40 they can buy an
SiCNLIlS OCll VI CiCNAAI1 Soi w.
electric anything else that will
cure every disease under the sun
from a wooden leg to chronic i'm
pecuniosity deserve to be swim
died That is a brutal way oil
looking at life. No good comes to
a community which becomes Gym
ical any more than good comes 10
an individual from his cynicism-
The United States mails, the
blessings Of cheap printing aHa
the organization of modern so
ciety are not to be placed at the
service of scoundrels for the plum
der of decent men and women
even if these men and women 90
not possess the reasoning power
of Plato and the financial genius
of John D. Rockefeller.
Now it is a hair wash-sellins
for a. dollar. costing cents, ruin
ing the hair of the woman VINO
uses it; now 1t is an aliese"
.food-medicine; now it is drug
Month by month DR. Wiley ses
his keen eye upon them, and
take my hat off to COCO