Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-11
N N. Y.
BY HASAIN
Daily Letter by Frederic J. Haskin

to advertise and sell it. One of these
concern recently advertised for
home workers" who were later cir
cularized in the following manners:
If a man puts an ad in the paper
Xxx the n mentioned above, and
the people rush to his home and buy
him out just because they believe
he Is really selling some of his per-
sonal apparel or furnishings, and
they think they are getting a won
derful bargain, the party selling the
goods is justified and you cannot
blame him If he is going to adver-
tise k that right along and build
up a big bank account because he
knows how to take advantage of
the ordinary peoples %credulity. To
make big money in this world you
have to study human nature and
take advantage Of what you learn.
We are writing to you just as plain
ly as though we were talking to you
face to face.
I'VE buy up large jobs of goods
from bankrupt concerns, from es-
tates which are being settled, from
the biggest jobbers in the country.
What we buy we buy at such ridic-
ulously low prices that you would
not believe it. We have bought
goods under the hammer in some of
the big auction houses of New York
at such low prices that the owner
of the goods who was forced to sell
because he needed the cash, and
who happened to be standing by
watching the sale Of his goods. ac-
tually had tears in his eyes. But this
is business. If we didn't buy, some
one else would. This merchandise
we ship to our clients who advertise
in their daily papers just as we ad-
wise them. We coach them. We
train them. We practically lead
them by the hand. We show them
for the first time in their lives how
and, what is more, they do not have
to give up their employment, be-
cause they can either have people
come to them in the evening, OF else
there Is always some one at home
during the day to take care of
them"
Fraud Laws Evaded
This is only a part of the letter,
but it is enough to show that the
men who wrote are wholly aware
that they r urging the perpetra-
ton of a fraud. But by their very i'm
pudence in thus acknowledging it,
they place themselves beyond the
reach of the law. At the United
States district attorneys Office. to
which a copy OF the letter was re-
Gently submitted, it was asserted
that the concern could not be reach
ed through the postal regulations,
because it was merely suggesting
fraud to others and was perfectly
candid concerning its own methods.
Anyone who entered into negotia-
tons with it could not possibly be
deceived as to the unscrupulousness
of its character.
In the case Of these who accepted
the contract and who actually did
misrepresent their merchandise to
the public, it was said, there might
be ground for criminal action. They
could probably be prosecuted both
for fraudulent advertising and for
using the mails to defraud.
i But how is this to be brought
about? The newspapers cannot in
vestigate the character and real in
tentions of every person who places
a small, thirty-cent ad in their col
umns. In some cases, where the
same kind of ads are printed by
the same person for a considerable
length of time, it is true, their sus-
picions may become aroused and In
some New York dailies such ads
:. the title Dealers" yet the chances
\ Of discovery are obviously slight.
AS for the public, it has seldom
any reason to complain, because 1t
does not know it has been deceived.
The people who are taken in by
schemes of this kind rarely discover
their own gullibility. They are the
) same people who buy factory-made
antiques: who purchase neckties
from street peddlers at prices dou-
BILE those prevailing in the stores,
and who buy oil wells in h Cobb
Desert. New York is full of them.
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and mall 1t to Foley & Co., 1885
lShefield avenue, Chicago, ILL.,, writ
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