| Show TELEGRAM EMPLOYS ATTORNEYS I TO PROTECT VICTIMS OF THE S LOAN SHARKS FROM EXTORTION LEGAL ADVICE WILLBE WILL WILLBE WILLI WILLS S I BE GIVEN FREE TO TOS S ALL WHO SEEK ITI IT I Many Unfortunate Borrowers Are Forced to Pay From to Per Cent Interest and Get So Hopelessly in Debt Through Outrageous Oppression Oppression Oppression Op Op- They Never Catch Up The Up-The The Telegram Will Help Them Secure e Freedom From Their Wrongs S S 5 5 Investigations of QI salary loan agencies and aid pawn pa shops in Salt Lake have Lave shown ho wn that many lel persons SOns caught in unfortunate circumstances and nd forced to too borrow are being charged nearly per cent interest on their I loans S A S Most l 5 i ai fj if a workings k of I the law They really beli believe v that the wolves who vho entice them to sign j papers pers binding them to the yoke of poverty for years can force them to pay the these e rates To protect those who vho because misfortune has cone come to them have fallen into the of these greedy gleedy money lenders THE EVENING TELEGRAM I has employed attorneys I This paper will vill be glad to furnish f free S ec legal advice advie e eto to any and all victims of loan sharks and the pawn brokers brokers brokers brok brok- ers who are demanding outrageous payments in return for the loans they make All who are in their toils and wish advice can secure it by calling on tho the editor of THE TELEGRAM who will make an appointment for them with attorneys attorneys at at- tornes especially employed by this paper poper for this purpose THE TELEGRAM has made these arrangements because the investigations investigations a of conditions hero here showed that the tho worst sort of oppression has hos been going on and antl tho the count county attorney so far has hos failed to take action against again t the lawbreakers Progressive o citi cities elsewhere have havo banished banished ban ban- this shameful system Tho The federal government recognizing the awful wr wrong ng done clone by these an a cious agencies has taken action and sent some of tho the leaders to prison Not Molested Here But in Salt Lako Lake they seem to have hae immunity from prosecution One Ono attorney today tolls told THE TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELE TELE- GRAM of a case that illustrates tho the workings of tho the merciless and greedy loan oan shark A bookkeeper for one ono of the tho largest department stores of tho the city was waa forced to seek seck a loan when his wife became very ill Hor Her life depended upon the best of treatment and medi medicine cine cino and his earnings could not meet the tho quick demand naud for cash After ho Lie had paid about twice as ns much mitch as ho he had borrowed ho felt that the loan Joan agent had been boen bountifully rewarded but hut the latter couldn't agree with nth hint him The Tho loan a agent kept after him bim con con- lly Jui nagged gerl him and antl threatened to expose him to bIB hiu employer anti and cause him to lose Jose his position if he failed to meet tb the payments that tuat were continually con con- demanded In desperation tho the bookkeeper sought advice of counsel Ho lIe was wa told to toj j ignore noro the loan agents agent's and browbeating and antl tell him flatly that h he would never nevor pay him another penny penn When the the agent It called l again the he book boo I keeper told nun him ne he hail had employed au an attorney and would 1 light fight ht any more annoyance That was tho tim last call caB the tho loan shark mado made on tho the bookkeeper His bluff hal hail been called and he bo had to quit It rt is l through h tho the dread Mead of f exposure that these heartless men hold hoM their I power over their victims The borrower borrow borrow- er or fears tho loss of his position if beis he ho heis hois is exposed as one who cant can't meet a aL debt L THE rILE TELEGRAM GRAM believes that one of tho the first duties of a n newspaper as aswell aswell aswell well as public is to protect the tho weak against the tho wrongs of oC the tho unscrupulous un en- scrupulous 18 and antl it will do 10 all aU in its ita Power to break up an evil that is itS causing causing caus caus- ing sorrow and suffering here hare besides s absolutely destroying the peace of mind and efficiency o of or otherwise useful men and women through tho the wor worry S y it Causes caused Believing that reform as IS well a as 05 charity should bl begin in at home THE TELEGRAM line has cleaned it its columns of advertisements that he help hep p lure luro unfortunates tun int into tho snares of or the tho money lenders 6 a |
