Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — WE DON’T WANT THEIR AD. [ARTICLE]

WE DON’T WANT THEIR AD.

We have received from a firm in Chicago, a request for rockbotfcom prices for the insertion of an advertisement of which the following, with one or two slight changes, is a copy: ,

MARGIN No matter what booklet on T RAD INO sceculation yoa may have read EXPLAINED, seed for ours, which Is NEW and COMPLETE. It clearly explains margin trading and DEFINES ALL MARKET EXPRESSIONS. It’s free and will teaeh you something. FLABBERGAST & Co.. ?i Robbers’ Building, Chicago. The actual name of the firm is not quite Flabbergast, but pretty near it; and the name of their building is not Robbers’ Building, but it ought to be.

Now we don’t want this advertisement, at any price. While we make no claims to excessive virtue, we do have too much regard for the welfare of our readers to advertise these Chicago Bucket-shops and “curb stone brokers.” The trading in margins business, at the best, is generally gambling, and when it isn’t gambling it is out and out robbery. In this case we don’t think it is gambling. It is a discreditable and in its essence a dishonest thing, for any newspaper to soli such firms the use of their advertising columns, and it is straDge that any reputable iaper should do no. In the particular case of this Flabbeigast & Cos, of Robbers’ Roost, we have a special reason for declining to aid their bucketshop business in this locality. We happen to know that the .real parties ambushed behind “Flabbergast & C 0.,” are the fel-

lows who unloaded a vast quanity of rotten Mexican mining stock on iheir old neighbors, friends and relatives, in this vicinity, a number of years ago. Avaunt! Flabbergast & Co. of Robbers’ Roost! We don’t wan’t your ad, nor anything to do with you.