Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 223, 20 June 1909 — Page 6

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How Swindlers use the Mails By Frederick J. Haskin

It Is a very old theory that the public likes to be humbugged. Confidence games began in America when the first traders gave a handful of glass htnrii tn the Indians In exchancre for

-valuable furs. The Indians seem to have liked it. The ordinary methods of sending u information ( about his schemes from place to place by word of mouth, or by a demonstrator, soon grew too slow for the American confidence man, and long before the '70's he was working the mails for all they were worth in pushing his ideas.

There was no law against it. becauae such a contingency had not been foreseen, and soon there appeared in papers and in circulars sent through the mails most astounding offers by which the ambitious might amass a fortune by the expenditure of only a few cents. Lotteries made use of the mails for ending out their circulars and for gathering in the cash that spendthrift souls sent their way. Wonderful offers to heal - far-away patients by means of magnetism, hypnotism, mind control, or by simple medicines hitherto unknown, crowded the mail bags end called for an Increase in the post office forces. Astrologers and phrenologists solicited patronage in printed letters that were rich in mystical lore and overflowing with queer rhetorical combinations. Bond Investments, banking schemes, turf enterprises, nines, great tropical plantations and dozens of get-rich-quick schemes found voice in circulars, cards and letters. The unsophisticated country woman was told, in a surprisingly friendly letter, how she could find a most remunerative life at home by doing sewing or embroidering, or soliciting, and her equally unsophisticated husband became initiated in blind pool schemes for speculating in stocks. , ' Then the government awoke to the realization that the. people were being swindled; that its own postal service was the quickest means of doing the swindling, and that it was being used for all it was worth. In 1872 swindling by mail had grown so noticeable that the attention of congress was drawn to It. and a law was enacted making it punishable by fine to mail through any post office letters or circulars concerning "Illegal lotteries" or schemes devised to deceive and defraud the public. In 1 $76 the term "illegal" was stricken from the law, and all lotteries came under the ban. An older law, dating back to 186S. had also prohibited the sending of lottery tuff by mail, but the makers of the bill had overlooked the attaching of any kind of penalty to it, so it was necessarily of little use. In 1890 the law was made to apply not only to lotteries as they are generally known, but to all "so-called gift concerns and similar enterprises offering prises dependent upon lot or chance." Year by year the law has - tightened its grip on the malls and any scheme that saVors of fraud is brought promptly under the notice of the post office authorities and sifted down to the bottom.' All offers of work, or of commodities, or of prises for guessing contests are given" the respectful and cartful attention of the postal authorities, and if there Is any

suspicious air about it the promoter of the scheme is promptly brought before the bar of justice and given an opportunity to prove the truth of bis

offers. Prom the passage of the act

ef 1890 to the end of the last fiscal year J.409 "fraud orders"; were Issued by the poet office department, and if the persons against whom they were Issued did not comply at one with the

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law, suits, fines and other unpleasant things followed. The average swindler who uses the mails is a wily fellow. He has learned the art of wording his offers so they attract the remote and Indifferently educated, and so plausible do his statements sound that he finds easy and ready victims. One is frankly amazed at the credulity of the human race. A typewriter company of New York induced persons to send $2.50 as a guaranty of good faith in a "copying at home" scheme, in which the pur

chaser was to have a typewriter and 500 sheets of paper and copy letters at $2.50 a thousand. The typewriter proved to be a toy. affair that was useless for the work. The purchaser is out about $2. and the firm in that much. One clever New York firm bought up a lot of letters from an agency to get addresses, then wrote each person that he or she had won a prize, which would be sent on receipt of $1.37. to "cover cost of . boxing and packing charges." Each delighted person invariably sent the amount, and received a piece of cheap jewelry worth a few cents. A bluing company offered a "new automatic tension sewing machine" to persons selling thirty packages of wash blue at 10 cents pmece. The machine proved to be a toy affair and the letter in answer to a woman's

threat to sue Jb filed away as a mark of genuine cleverness on the part of

the artful dodger who originated the scheme. Bogus detective agencies were thick in the land for a while. For a certain sum of money they would send a star, certificate of membership, credentials, etc., to the purchaser, and not until the astonished victim had been hauled up before unfeeling magistrates for ; carrying a weapon, or for impersonating an officer, did the luckless fellow realize that he had been the victim of a scoundrel. - r The south was wrought up considerably a few years since over the operations of "The National Industry Council," which extorted money from the negroes under the pretense of helping them get pension money. By request of the organization a bill was introduced into congress providing pensions for ex-slaves. This was used as a means of swindling: the trusting negro out of his hard earnings- It was declared that $100,000,000 was to be sent at once into the southern states, and under one pretext or another money was obtained from those who were expecting a large share of the pension. This and several like organizations were suppressed by fraud orders. Another set of enterprising folks who found the negro an easy prey followed on the heels of these. A Chillicothe, Ohio firm advertised a fluid that would turn the blackest skins white, and others offered liquids that would make kinky hair straight. Many of these were injurious preparations, and fraud orders hare put most of the firms out of business. A Dallas firm found a ready market for "mineral rods," which were supposed to discover gold and silver below the surface of the earth. In order to stimulate interest tn them the firm ofefred to buy up all old coins that might be revealed by this magic. Other schemes of this kind have had surprising success in the south, but they, too, have been suppressed by the government. - Nevada and Missouri sprang a wonderful school of magnetic healing on- the public The president of the institution guaranteed to devote a certain time each day to "absent treatment" of his patients for the sum of $5 a month, payable in : advance. Nobody appears to have been healed, became the president was

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busy dictating letters to other trusting souls at the time he should have had his mind on bis prepaid patients. It is a pity he came under the government's displeasure, for he guaranteed to cure poverty and give success in business at the rate of $1 a month per patient. A Florida woman got Into the same trouble by promising to devote fifteen minutes a day to each patient, when thoughts from her soul would enter theirs and renew them to better and higher life. She was a little cleverer than the Missouri man, having in some way given the government sufficient absent treatment to successfully evade the penalty of the law, though it has been on her heels for several years. "Physicians" with marvelous new remedies are thick in the land, and there is little that they find themselves unable to cure, to Judge from their-optimistic circulars. They raise the dead in their literature as expeditiously as they raise money from the pockets of the living in reality. Mining enterprises draw victims like a honey-pot draws ante, and the man at Baker City, Ore., who sold stock in the White Swan mine found a crowd of eager bidders. Tropical plantations have a romantic atmosphere that Is hard to resist when exploited on i paper above the name of some firm in Boston. Many people have grown wise through Uncle Sam's intervention in 'schemes of this kind, and they who drang a cheap brew coffee, believing it to be from the great plantations in which they had an Interest, learned that labels are easy to buy and certain grades of coffee easy to repack when no coffee exists on the wilderness they helped

to buy. Stock and bond purchasers are easy to find, if the tales that dis

appointed investors write are true.

and the government hears many of

these.

It took the endless chain enterprise

to fully awaken Uncle Sam's ire.

Churches were built that way, clothes sold, houses furnished, wine cellars stocked or would have been had the chain remained unbroken. This, too, was counted a gambling scheme, and by the time Uncle Sam had done a little figuring he decided it was too hard

fa proposition for his children. By

the time the sixteenth series of people had bought their tickets, and had persuaded three times their number to buy, it would have taken 387,398,619 persons to finish the chain, something like 300,000,000 more people than he had altogether. Courtesy of Postal Service Magazine.

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ELECTRIC ENERGY CAN BE SECURED

Mississippi River Can Furnish This at St. Paul, Experts State.

AT SMALL EXPENDITURE

IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THIS CAN

BE MADE POSSIBLE BY ONLY EXPENDING THE SUM OF ABOUT $250,000.

Tairm: Raised Mseuits from Gold Medal

St. Paul, Minn., June 19. An ex

haustive investigation just completed

by a commission of government en

gineers acting with local officers of the government engineer office, city officials of St. Paul and Minneapolis

and prominent business men has demonstrated that 15,000 horsepower of electrical energy can be developed at the lower of the two navigation locks on the Mississippi just above St.

Paul, by the expenditure of an additional $250,000. The government makes the unusual proposition that it will perimt the use of the power at the lock provided that the two , cities or other Interests will bear the additional cost. That the power will be used

is already settled. Whether it will be used by a private power company or used jointly by the state of Minnesota and the two adjacent cities is a question which will be determined by a joint commission of three men, three by each of the two mayors. Complete One Lock. The government has completed one lock and dam and partially completed the second, or lower of the two. To develop the power the second dam must be raised fifteen feet,, utilizing present foundations and the work already completed. This will provide a thirty foot dam, raising a large head, of water and developing enormous power. The state is already Interested and wishes a portion of the power for use at the state university near by the state agricultural school, which to one of the largest in the United States, and the fair groundsThe government reeutres 1.000 horsepower, and the two cities or 8t Paul and Minetpolis hare need of the balance. The government's proposition, while It does not establish a precedent. Is unusual and the proposed improvement wtll be the first of the kind in the northwestern United States. The investigations prove that the power can be developed at exceptionally low coat. The moat important problems now to be faced are the division of th expenses and the division of the power to be developed as between the government, state and cities. The partnership In power while novel, has been proven feasible. Near Military Pest. The power plant when built will be only a short distance from Fort Snelllng, an immense military post, and convenient both to the state Institutions and to St, Paul and Minneapolis. The government was represented in the conferences by Maj. C S- Biche. in charge of upper Mississippi river improvement work. Maj. Shunk, the engineer who supervised the construction of the locks, and BaJ. Bromwell of Milwaukee, who had the assistance of Maj. 8. W. Miller, TJ. 8- A, and J. D. DuShane. John Wade sad O. W. Freeman, government engineers from the St. Paul office. Mayors Lawler of St. FaijL

Board of Censorship is Very Careful Now About Motion Films

New York, June 19. To date the Board of Censorship, composed of Civic Bodies and instituted by the Motion Picture Patents Company, which controls over five thousand motion picture theatres in the United States and 90 of the film product of the world, has examined 200.000 feet of film. After the film has been approved it is released to the hundred licensed film exchanges throughout the country who distribute it to the theatres. A reel of film averages about one thousand feet and includes one, two and sometimes three subjects. Eighteen new reels are released each

and Haynes of Minneapolis, together with officers of the city governments, council members and business men participated in the investigations. The report of the joint commission

will be made, to the board of engin

eers after which the project will be referred to Washington. Legislation will be required before St. Paul and Minneapolis will be able to participate in the cost

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week. At the average speed of operation, 14 aaparate pictures pass tho eye every second that the machine Is in motion. Thus the censors have seen about 4tt miles of film and at the rate of twenty minutes running time for each thousand feet, have looked upon 3,360,000,000 separate pictures. Are Condemned. Scenes depicting crime, brutality, depravity, sensuality or drunkenness are condemned and cut out. - At the last meeting only 24 feet out of 18,000 feet examined were discarded. The manufacturers study the discarded sections and do not repeat similar Mlllll Thw tl.wA - anl.V

realize the real demand and are eager to supply It. It will be a matter of but a few weeks when they will know exactly what is regarded as good and what bad, according to the high moral standard of the Censorship Board and will produce only such films, thus leering no further work for the Board tm do. , :

WAIITS GET APPLES English Dealer Will Make a Raid on the Washington State Crop.

WILL EXPORT 100 CARS

Spokane, Wash, June 19. Samuel Haines, buyer for several fruit importers in England, writes from London to Ren H. Rice, secretary and manager of the National Apple Show, Inc., that he will arrive In Spokane early In December to buy for export 100 can of apples grown in Eastern Washington and Or egon, north and Central Idaho", Western Montana and Southeastern British Columbia. This consignment will be made of 64,000 50-pound boxes or 12.800,000 apples of uniform size and color and will oost $125,000. It wiH be moved to New York and Boston in five special trains for trans-shipment to London and Liverpool. Mr. wi bought six cars of Washington apples In Spokane last winter, selling them in London at from $2.75 to 14.18 a box. Three cars of the fruit was exhibited in Covent Garden, where, according to London newspapers to hand the crowds were so large the . police bad to form the visitors into lines and more them through the building. . Orchardlsts la the Island Empire are also arranging to send Independent consignments to the English markets tho earning fall and winter. .

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