Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-07-21

mas the savings Oh over OV,VVV WoS0 |
earners on his shoulders, his personal
first impulse must be laid aside and
his lawyers consulted. With such le-
gal talent as Hon. John h. X. Scott
and Hon. Roger Sherman, President
oil the Chicago and also Illinois State
Bar Associations, Mr.. McCauley has
able and good counsel. Instead OF
cutting in half a libellous article ana
acting on half lawyer would insist !
on acting on all, and so evidently Mr.. :
Scott and Mr.. Sherman insisted upon |
Mr.. McCauley waiting until MIR. Bar
rod had shot his big guns before an
Swering. You, as a stakeholder, We're
no doubt no more nervous than Mr..
McCauley, but common sense is COM
mon sense. Then, Mr.. McCauley an
swered each charge separately, and,
70 us very satisfactorily, and from the
affidavit OF Harold Waterfall, it is
evident that Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Sher-
man have some more very powerful
ammunition for Mr.. Barfod, when
hey deem it proper to shoot it.
On the Goth OF June, the third day
Of the attacks the newspaper head
ines were: COOPER SWlNDLEkS,
BESEIGED BY DUPES, TOlTEIt-
ING TO CRASH" and Exposure by
thru lBluffing," and in the article he
mines at all, and had headline
END NEAR" and gave the six
pionts he claimed showed frauds But
the "end" did net come in the form
Of crash. and if selling 5000 per-
sons in June is any indication the
END" is not what he infers, but q
successful one. The same article
threatened that there would be lots OF
actions against the company before
the end Of that week. But, where art
all those suits? He would have her
aided them if there had been any.
With the MONEY in the Bank in
the name and right of Central Cop
per Company and with the NINE not
running off, the stockholders became
calm, and w" notice that the local Of
flee is still doing business, with many
persons coming in who would never
have heard or bought stock but for
Mr.. Barfod's articles; and that there
are springing up fighting friends who
would never otherwise have been at
tracted to the Company. But when
a mans or wornan's good name has
been besmirched by idle or vicious
gossip q plain proof that the basic
facts are false does not return the
good name as before, and this is SO
because we are prone to hear, see and
speak evil too quickly, and to gossip
more than to stand by or up for those
attacked. In this connection the
words of the late John Wanamaker,
appearing in the June 18th Evening
Public Ledger are applicable: He
said:
"IT HAS COME TO ME AS
A GOOD RULE NOT TO BE-
LIEVE ANYTHING AGAINST
/, ANOTHER UNLESS 1T IS CON-
FIRMED; and even when it is an
assured fact, my rule is not to y
repeat it
tonges, and it has taken me a
long time to get control Of my
own tongue. But 1T CAN BE
DONE and it is well worth
while!" II
q The tool Of the destroyer of repu-
tation is ridicule and satire and Mr..
Barfod has INDUCED in little else,
knowing well the limits he can go
and still stay within the libel law.
Ridiculc is what makes many an in
weston ashamed of his investment, or
many man ashamed Of any possess
sion to have it ridiculed, but ridicule
is usually without base and from base
or prejudiced. or ignorant minds. If
you have straight story to tell you
never employ ridicule Consider this.
Mr.. Barfod's powerful ridicule
and every tool Of his kind Of writer
cid not rush a mob to the offices Of
Central Copper Company, and did not
stop them from selling stock, and
has not stopped the thinking stock
holders from MAXIM payments, for
they, like Mr.. Wanamaker, want
something more than sneers, and
want real confirmation" before
changing their minds, which were
made up with real, cold facts to con-
slider when they bought.
Now, since it is the laboring man
and whose interests are being affect
to the INDEPENDENT Let's an
GlyLC lOA q IAOiIiCnI. AuC AiIAiS 10 oI'lI
there and the money is shown in the
bank, and the company is going along
nicely in spite Of Mr.. Barfod's attacks
in that newspaper. If you are paid
up stakeholder and have your trust
certificate, and lost your head and
sell if for nearly MOTH. without
any confirmation, and the company
makes big success. who acted wise
ly. who lost his head following false
god? If you have not paid up and
are in the position Of a man who buys
a piano. on the instalment plan, and
stop paying because a peddler said
the piano was no good, and later,
when Mr.. Barfod is forgotten. others
are receiv;~~ a nice little dividend
check quarterly because they paid up
and stood by their company, what
then? Who used his head? Who
listened to evil gossip, instead Of get
ting the facts? The office of the COM
pc ny. has the facts.
If the President of Central Copper