The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-11-05
TowNLEY's AMAZING SCHEME.

A. c. Townley, head OF the noilpart1za1
league, who is now going through bank
ruptcy in North Dakota, with liabilities
of more than 100000, is invading the
state Of Idaho, not only i'll political
but in financial way. Townley has
organized a system of stores i'll North
Dakota with money furnished by the
farmers of that state, and is said to be
doing an enormous business The amaz-
ing thing is that farmers Of intelligence
will give this man their money to con-
duct stores and permit him to absorb
10 per cent of it year. Ordinarily when
people let others have money they expect
to get interest on it, but Mr. Townley's
dupes pay him 10 per cent year for
using their money.
If the farmers will just stop to think
they need not go to North Dakota, to a
stranger, who has been arrested many
times for various crimes and IS now
going through bankruptcy to get some
one to take their money. The Star
Mirror will venture the assertion that
such well known and highly responsible
men as Arnold S. Lyon, George Sievers
and others of the Farmers Union store,
who have lived here and conducted bust
ness in an honorable way for many
years George Creighton, F. A. David
& Sons, or any of the merchants OF
Moscow who are known to be reliable
and honest and trustworthy will take
the farmers money if they want to get
rid of it, and put it into reliable mer-
camille business and charge the farmers
nothing for taking it. Why send to |
North Dakota and get man with the
reputation of Townley to take your
money and give him 10 per cent for using |
it when local men, men you know, will |
nothing?
Elsewhere in this issue we publish
copy of the agreement that Townley
is getting farmers of Idaho to sign. Read
it over carefully See if you can find
any return to you for the use of your
money in that agreement. other than the4
privilege of trading with your own store
Read this agreement carefully. Note
that Townley prepares for another bank
ruptcy case by making you agree, when
you loan Ono, give) him your money to
open and operate store, that in case of
failure you are only to have your pro-
rata of the assets less $40 per year for
each year the store has been III opera ,
ton Townley makes you agree to give
him all the profits of the store operated
on your money and 10 per cent Of your :
money for taking it. Thus, with cap
tal stock Of $4,000 per year, Townley i
gets 10 per cent profit on his goods and
10 per cent of your capital stock, or :
1900 for each store SO operated If he
1as 10 stores in Idaho he will get e
$4,000 per year If he has 100 stores
1e will get 100000 per year and he has 2
not a cent invested.
1t seems incredible that farmers, the u
lard-headed farmers, the men upon =
,ends, should fall for such scheme as l.
his, yet they are doing it in North iDa Z
,ota and are getting ready to do it III ~
IDAHO. a
Kaiser Bill is said to spend his time b
eading the bible and praying. The :,
reatest blasphemer the world has pro. s
uced, the man who heralded that he
vas in partnership with God, who in
ulted the Deity by claiming himself in
PRED and announcing Gods sanction of >
he atrocities in Belgium, France and :
'erbia, and the sinking of the Lusitania, r
coming face to face with that Deity ii
nd he is quaking with fear. Secretly he K
dmits his own impotence and his fear p
+ the fate that waits him has driven him y
, seclusion. As the condemned muir &C
erer, when he faces the scaffold turns
-om everything earthly to the one Gl
PURGE of help, SO this, the greatest and
lest Of all murderers, is spending what 70
e world hopes are his last days in silent LEI
with the God he has in De
Ilted so openly Who NJ tell the ;n
oughts that go through ffis warped lal
ID depraved mind as he sits in great a
adquarters" reading his bible or pray - -
g that the fate he deserves may not tIe
visited upon him? 1t would excite go
y were he not entirely undeserving Al
pity or any human feeling.
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While it is believed the end of the war n,
near, we need not expect the boys syr
return to America at once. We may