Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-02
HIGH GRADE GRAFTERS
Many Ways Of Making Money With
out Working for II.
GULLIBLERS Are EASY TO find
One Man In Washington Sold News
paper Good Will to consressmen-
Haskin Writes Of Smooth Tricks
That are Worked.
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

That are Worked.
BY Frederic j. Haskin.
Washington, d. C.,-There are
many ways Of making money without
working for it and without giving any
thing real for the money received.
There are the tirle worn gold brick
schemes and ether hoary old tricks of
the past of which, however, the public
generally never appears to become
aware, because they go on and on
turing in rich harvests of gold to
the crooked promoters and manipu-
lators.
Washington, rather than New York,
probably furnishes the best field for
this kind OF dishonest work of a high
grade-if that term can rightly be ap-
piled to it. In the unpublished his
tory of Washington for the past 80
or 40 years, if it could be written, are
some amazing and often amusing in
cidents of this sort.
One source of revenue has sprung
from the fact that often these come
to congressman of wealth who have
little else to commend them. One of
these men-and he did not come from
she backwcods, but from very close to
Broadway and Forty second street
was so gullible that he paid a good
round sum to INSCRIPTIONS men he
met to buy" the influence and good
will of certain Washington newspa-
pers. Needless to say, the newspapers
did not know that their friendship
was being sold on the streets of
Washington, and if they exhibited any
good will toward this particular man,
IT, was by saying nothing about him.
Another-and in this one members
of congress figure as WELLS to Sc
cure the introduction of some resolu-
ton or bill proposing drastic actions
or laws of some kind. Then the
alarm is sounded, and money often
rolls into the Golfers Of the origina-
tor of the scheme, who organizes
society to fend off the awful threat
contained in the piece OF proposed
LEGISLATION. 1t can be assumed that the
CONGRESS- is innocent of duplicity In
this matter. Memberships in the So
cietv are sold, probably at doiiar
apiece.
Tbere is another case of consld-
crable amount of money being Hlaue
ont of a diplomatic appointment
When this occurred this particular
din,omatic post was going begging
No one seemed to want it. There was
n general impression that because ol
conditions existing then, no one coulo
acouit himself with much credit ana
glory in the position.
Sure Thing Gambling.
In this situation, the man VINO uitl-
r,ote,v made money out Of the deal
suggested to the wife of a certain
wealthy man that he seek the appoint
ment. Then the manipulation gave
careful direction how to proceed
Dinners must be given, with care
fuI,v selected guest list. No mention
must be made of the vacant post III
the diplomatic corps. All of this was
done. In the meantime, TINS mahl-
pulator, who really did have certain
standing and influence here, had as
contained beyond doubt that the post
would 60 to anyone who so much as
intimated that he would accept It,
Naturally, the dinners mean no'h-
ing That was just to make the thins
look hard, and rs if influences were at
worI, under the surface TO obtain the
Job. At the proper time the appoint
mont was made. BY prior arrange
mcnt-not with the man appoihleo'
h,.t with his wife-the manipulator
Of this thing was paid sum rumored
70 be no less than $4,000.
All of these things-most of them
vi any ratG-are quite within the law
No criminal statute is fractured py
the, operations. 1t is just "slick' WORK.
There Is the VI "
cvcnt that was to occur in q Latin
American country in which the Amer
lean government has been forced TO
take o sort of elder -brotherly inter-
cst. Disorders were feared. 1t was
felt that only the United States could
e.rard against this. One faction of the
politicians in this country had pri-
vatc representative in Washington.
He sought out an obscure but sup
pcscdly influential man 10 help him.
This man did have q wide acquain-
tance. and was able to ascertain
quickly that the American govern
ment had made up its mind months
before to take the desired action. This
man had to make the job look hard,
of course. and make daily reports OF
fancied developments to the represen-
tative of the Latin American country
In tire fullness of time, the thing for
which he had been engaged naturally
transpired. and he collected his fee
that is, he got half of it. Some hitch
developed. and it was his frenzied eff
forts TO get the rest that brought the
transaction to the attention of few
people, at least.