Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — GETTING IN ITS WORK. [ARTICLE]

GETTING IN ITS WORK.

Report Says Several Rensselaerites Have Dropped Their Wads On the “Board of Trade.” Report has it that several Rensselaer citizens of the sporty order who have been patrons of the local “Boards of Trade” have been on the wrong side of the market for a good many thousand dollars during the time these shops have been in operation here, and that Rensselaer has been found such rich picking is the reason the second shop was started here. According to these rumors the amount of money lost by these amatuer speculators is away up in the thousands, and some say $100,OCX) would not near cover the total amount sunk. It is said that this business is not illegal, that is, there is no law in Indiana to prevent them doing business here. While this is perhaps true, yet public sentirrient is against the business, and

there ought to be a law to protect the families of these wouldbe Patton’s from blowing their money in this way. The business is looked upon by the general public as gambling, pure and simple. We have laws against other forms of gambling, and why not against this, if gambling it is? Some of these days the shorn ones will put up a holler that can be heard from Dan to Bersheba, and then the people will sit up and take notice. In the meantime, if you have any desire for sudden riches, don’t speculate on the “board of trade.”