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THE ALLIANCE HERALD. TUESDAY, AVVAL 10. 1021
INVESTMENTS IN
.WILDCAT STOCK
1 HIT BANKROLLS
.MUCH GOOD ADVICE FELL ON
DARREN SOIL
("Glittering Promises Held Out by Sales
r men Caused Many to Tart
; Vith Liberty Bonds
- " j .1 Va ...n. tiling
louring ine pvi ium i ai
a new "millionaire was oemfc macie
'every clay, attention was often called
to the flood of questionable stock e--Mii-itiea
that wtrp bein? thrown on the
niaili This was esneciallv true with i
reference to the constant solicitation j
-of fanners by agents oi various pro
motion schemes who declared that they
had the backing of the state securities
board and offered to take in payment
:for their stock what liberty bonds the
. farmer might possess. The banks also
ian advertisements warning the people
not to part with their securities for
ethers of questionable value. Accord
ing to a recent report however, most
of this good advice apparently' fell on
barren ground, as would be indicated
ly the following interesting data from
the Nebraska State Journal:
The receivers of failed Nebraska
- corporations are getting an insight
into the methods employed by the
: stock sellers during the period of blue
. sky floatation which the state has just
passed through. They received letters
.and visits from the buyers of these
-worthless stocks, and some of the con
fidences entrusted to them are heart
"ibreaking. The sum of the wisdom ac
quired by the receivers appears to be
that the stock salesmen were able to
leap their tremendous harvest because
they offered to trade liberty bonds at
par. They told their victims that they
could double returns by turning in 4',i
per cent liberties for stock that would
yield about twice as much, and with
equal security. Is our stock good?"
they would repeat with astonishment.
"Why, we have the state of Nebraska
behind us. Here is the guarantee of
the state bureau of securities." Then
they would show a permit to do busi
ness, and the rest was easy.
People who had no bonds were sub
jected to a different kind of approach.
They were told of the huge profits
made bv the packing companies, the
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insurance concerns anu me oig noieis.
ee the number of men in big cities
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who uu mil worn uui line 111 auiuiim-
hiles and live well and sit in mahogany
chairs in front of fine desks. "You
- can do the same thing K you have the
.ense to put your savings in these
profitable stocks, instead of being sat
isfied with 5 and 6 per 'cent.' The
IMPERIAL
SATURDAY, APR. 30
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Read them as an investment.
Head them because they save you
money.
Read them because they introduce
you to the newest styles the
latest comforts for the home
1 the best of the world's in
ventions. Read them as a matter of educa
tion. Read them to keep abreast of
progress.
Read them regularly!
The Alliance Herald
siren song had dozens of variations
but every one appealed to the cupidity
of the victim. x
The success of some of the promot
ers in getting names on the dotted line
was astonishing. In a few years, when
all of the broken companies have
passed through the courts, it will be
possible to make a list of the victims.
It will be amazing, both in its length
and in the amounts some of the farm
ers in eastern Nebraska ami Iowa have
Contributed. There is a farmer in Ne
braska who now owns between $250,
000 and $.'500,000 in stock for which he
will not receive more than ?.riQ,000 in
the opinion of receivers who have
looked over his holdings. Any num
ber can be found who have put in all
the way from $10,000 to $50,000.
The man who dropped about a quar
ter of a million dollars worth of good
Nebraska land into thin rat hole was
asked by one of the receiver why he
had made all of these purchases. His
answer was that he could not with
stand the smooth talk of the sales
man. They overbore him with argu
ment. When he was unable to answer
an appeal or an argument he felt un
der obligation to accept the man's
proposition. The curious thing about
this case was that the farmer knew
he was on dangerous ground, but did
not have the moral courage to take 1
pitchfork and chase the agents off the
premises.
NEBRASKA WOMAN
FASTED FOR DAYS
Went Without Food Rather Than Un
dergo Pangs of Indigestion,
Says Mrs. Hill.
"I have a good reason for praising
Tanlac, for I think it's enough to make
anyone rejoice to be in such splendid
health as I am since taking it," de
clared Mrs. Virginia Hill, of 504 South
Eighteenth St., Omaha, Neb.
"1 suffer 3d for many years from
stomach trouble and asthma so bad
that I had to give up doing my house
work and became so weak and badly
run down I could hardly get around.
My appetite was extremely poor and
many a day I went without eating
rather than suffer the awful pains in
my stomach. I would bloat up dread
fully sometimes, and at night felt so
choked up that I was almost afraid
to lie down. I was also troubled with
frequent spells of dizziness and head
aches. "One day I saw in the papers where
Tanlac had helped a woman from Kan
sas City who was suffering like I was
and decided to try it myself. And now
Tanlac has restoml my health, my
appetite is splendid and my food di
gests' properly. I am free from those
headaches and dizzy spells and am not
troubled with shortness of breath like
I was before. I sleep soundly and
fefcl so fine I recommend this medicine
with all my heart."
Statistics show that an average of
about one in every 100,000,000 Ameri
cans pays a tax on an income more
than $5,000,000 a year.
When your watch is out or
order bring it to Thiele's. 41
If love scenes are barred from high
school plays, think what a ninestim
"ble loss the American stage will suf
fer. NOTICE
Regular teachers' examination will
be held at the court house April 23,
1921.
. OPAL RUSSELL,
39-42 Ctunty Supt
France, in perfecting a gun that
shoots 200 miles, .is trying to offset
the long bow Germany draws in her
poverty stories.
COMMENT & DISCOMMENT
Once a month we clear the editorial
desk, whether it needs it or not. Ordi
narily it does need a clean-up cam
paign. We came upon a communica
tion, unsigned, from a Herald subscrib- j
er which had been put aside for future I
consideration whenever there was time
to do it properly. This letter was
written us about the time we published
a stirring editorial to the effect that
the imposition of heavy penalties was
a pretty fair sort of a crime deterrent.
Our correspondent seems to have a
grudge against F. A. High of the anti
saloon league. Now, we do not con
sider Mr. High the highest lype of citi
zen, mentally or otherwise, but we do
not feel like declaring an open season
on the gentleman and letting any man
take a poke at him whenever he likes
on general principles, especially if he
doesn't sign his name. The idea is
that the editor of a newspaper is re
sponsible for any unsigned communi
cations appearing therein, and the lilwl
law in this state is fairly strict.
Despite the fact that Mr. High's
name is taken in vain entirely too
often in this letter, it is interesting,
I and parts of it are worth reprinting.
' It has been so long since we were
j privileged to read one of those ar
ticles that give all the old arguments
of the Personal Liberty league, with
several new twists, such as might be
expected in the days of the Volstead
act and rampant bootleggers. F'rinst
ance: "There is an awful big expense in J
keeping up a city of four or five thou
sand, therefore fine should be two or
three time. the amount they were
thirty years ago. Until five years ago,
the saloons did a big portion toward
keeping up the city, whereas it is up
to the single victim, or bootlegger, to
foot the bills now. Let us reason:
What has prohibition accomplished in
the U. S." A.? Has it made less crim
inals? Has it done away with the
penitentiary, or has it stopped women
from shooting men, or men from
shooting women, or murdering one an- ,
other? I have followed up this pro
! hibition for years and have come to
I the conclusion that prohibition ' has
made more criminals and more lives
are lost than in the day of the saloon.
"We have men just as smart as
F. A. High, or Judge Munger, or Judge
Landis, who look at prohibition from
a different point of view. The mayor
of Charleon, S. C. announced that
his state has been dry for the last
thirty ears, but inoonshining has al
ways teen in bloom. Those who form
orlv drank beer and wine, now when
j favorable drink poor whisky; if un
favorable, they drink wood alcohol ,
mixed with variations of bitters, shoe 1
nolish. hair tonic or shellac. Prohibi-!
tion is a failure and cannot be put
through becau.-e it is against people's
nature.
"Here we call ourselves free a free
nation. I say we are the worst bound
natinn tmiinil Vi:inil and foot on the
i Klobe of the earth. Oh, what a free
nation we are! we nave given so
much away, and the reformers have
taken the rest, so that there is very
little left but law. I can see the
time coming when myself and wife
will be tottering along the road to
church the law will be prohibiting
me from hitching up Old Dobbin.
"The Lord, at the wedding at Cana,
changed water into wine. Man 'has
taken the liberty to change wine into
water. I say, whatsoever God has
given us in this world is there for the
benefit of the people, no matter what
it may be."
There is more of it, and all along
the same line, which shows that our
letter writer feels deeply upon the
subject of prohibition. There are un
doubtedly a number of others who feel
the same way or worse. For our
anonymous writer is not as one en
tirely without hope. There is a ray
of sunshine in his life that the most
of us do not have. Read his closing
sentence: "As 1 am getting miserably
dry and thnnk Ood, am able to
quench my thirst 1 will clone."
This letter, then, is written in a
spirit of true altruism. Our reader is
able to quench his own thirst, and pro-
l hibition holds no real terror for him,
so long as the supply in the cellar
holds out. On second thought, we will
not compare him with the Personal
Liberty league crowd, for they were
fighting for themselves. Their finances
came from the brewers and distillers,
who hated to give up a profitable game
their membership came from those
who wanted liberty to drink booze for
themselves. Our anonymous writer
has a supply of his 'own all he wants
is that others may have the same if
they desire.
Here we see another evil of the
anonymous letter. If this man had
signed his name, what would be more
natural, when we were assailed by the
pangs of a thirst that water only ag
gravates, than that we should seek out
the writer and grow friendly with him.
If his supply is as good as the quality
r.f lnttok cont i r it j 1 i i t
we believe we could be friendly with
mm upon mmiii nuuire. it, imni ue
that we would be willing to adopt him
into the family, temporarily. As it is,
he is safe, safe as a church, ami we
face the prospect of dry and sar.dy air
for the balance of our natural life.
Oh well, we always did f-ay that the
new.-pai.er game was filled with more
disappointments than any other.
The publication of his letter is, of
cour.-e, nothing more or less than u
sort of reminiscence. Prohibition,
whether our friend likes it or not, is
with us, ami there is little doubt that
it will stay. There will be some home
brewing, a little moonshining, or a lot
of it, depending on the vigilance of the
law enforcement officers. There will
be sotne drunkenness. There will bo
far too much expense for law enforce
ment, and perhaps less than one of
fender out of a dozen will be punished.
It is hard on the man who has
been used to having his morning's
morning and his nightcap with regu
larity. Worse still, It's going to be
harder, as stocks are depleted and as
the fines for bootleggers increase in
size. The next three or four years will
be nasty ones, 'and it may be that the
reformers will push their various
causes so hard that they will bring
nbout n change in public sentiment
that will overthrow prohibition. It is
to te hoped that this will not happen
that they will be content to make
haste in remaking mankind slowly, as
it should be done.
If everything gves as it should, some
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THi: SPEEDWACON
A. H. JONES CO.
Alliance, Nebraska
Be
First
of these days there will be no whisky
problem. Ihe appetite for hooch is an
acquired one, just as the appetite for
olives, and while it will be bard on the
drinkers of this generation to accus,
torn themselves to doinir without their
' booze, sotne day, in God's good time,
mere will grow a race of clean, manly
young men who do not know the taste
of whisky and will not have a craving
tor it. Men those who drink the
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stun win not conscientiously urge a
young man to begin the practice.
Mighty few drinkers want their sons
to sUirt the one surely losing game.
And somehow, we fancy that it will
be worth the effort on the part of
those who have to do without now.
Some day, if enough sleuths are put
on the' trail, bootlerging and hooch
making wMl be so precarious a means
of making a living that those claiming
to be men will not follow them, and
tut
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Generous With
Yourself
You have been "good" to your friends for a
long time. You have bqen a spender. No
one ever called you penurious, or close, or
tight. But what have you to show in re
turn? Why not be a "good fellow" to yourself, open
an account, with this bank and turn your
generosity to your own account and credit?
The results will show up in a short time,
and of a most satisfactory nature at that.
Be Good to Yourself. Begin Today.'
National
decent men will not protect them In
law breaking. This is a pretty picture
we hope it turns out tnat way.
Diana beads ate the latest at
Thicle's. 41
That wave of crime which Is inun
dating the world is probably nothing
but the recession of the tidal wave of
war.
The bolshevist movement has about
exhausted its intellectual ammunition.
It has been reduced to u collection of
exploded theories.
Many are in the hope that the bread
line that has been formed by unm
ployed sailors la not what is meant by
normalcy.
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