Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — Fake Servian Solicitors Secure Funds at Chesterton. [ARTICLE]

Fake Servian Solicitors Secure Funds at Chesterton.

months ago two Servians to ministerial garb canvassed in Rensselaer for funds which they Slid would go to the aid of sufferin the Servian army. The Republican It that time expressed the >|Mdlef thllt they were fakirs, as they ftifused to submit to auy sort of —interview; Recently two men, possibly the same ones, solicited funds tot Chesterton and a good lady Who; Bd them and .then gave them fSioney became suspicious of their iptions and wrote to The Chicago Sribune about Ahem. The Tribune maintains a department of investigation and tdmid the query over tip that department and they carped it so far ps to, communicate Bjth the Ims£r!l Russian Consul, Mho at once pronounced the men ■rafters and said that there were mveral hundred of these men workpg in the United States. They go H> far as to secure official looking Midoreements, bearing great seals Wk the home church, but the conMil says, unless these have the endorsement of the bishop of the disflridt in the United States in which Mie solicitor is working the credentials are false and are being used |tor grafting purposes. ||The Tribune truthfully say's: “It » one thing to be charitably inMined and open the purse to every |mll for funds for some worthy muse. It is another thing to have fpour charitable impulses made the |meanjs of enriching the purse of a :<flfct of clever swindlers.” MThlse men work through the Ipountry And the country churches ||B well as in the towns and no ffaoney should be distributed until wivestigation has been made and it f« shown that the purpose of the men is backed by proper credentials. The Republican believes that s|he place for able-bodied men is at llfome productive occupation and '"Pot as mendicants and a positive declination to be worked will soon —rpbut these pseudo-righteous men out yes their faking business. The board I local charities is qualified to s upon the worthiness of solicis from foreign fields and the son approached can refuse to i until this endorsement is proed. It is not the loss of the ney to the giver so much as the oursgement of a class of lazy, tthless beggars who procure ds that should have gone to•d some worthy charity.