Show WILDCAT WI INVESTMENTS Hint the tho Oct Get Aro tro Arow l w Victims Are Aro Caught Now that railway ties are uro hard herd Io to toll sail and Attn great pro pros aro are suspending Im m far t r lack hack of at money or o hoe bore borrowing rowing at nt high lg rates writes write tha the Hall way Wll Ate A lu o ai as a in result of the tho dIstrust ut ot yv which of og opinion larva havo fostered it would bo ho strange If It the tho promoters rs of ot quick schemes did dial not experience a do de ditto In the demand l for tor their dubious securities Within the past t year many millions mIllion of ot and Ind dollars dollor have havo been handed Into the tho pos poe possession session Ion of ot strangers solely on tho the strength ot of advertisements promising fabulous returns Almost t Invariably the stocks thus alluringly offered have havo been bee 11 by tangible security representing only tIme the capitalization C of or nn an Idea In tt n vory very tow few Instances these blind speculations may have brought u n profit pro lit which Is pretty prellY sure stile to be lost In lii tho the next venture In iii many cases tho the dividends nc which allure to tp II further In Investment vestment wore weN obtained front from tho the money lactic mone of fresh victims butt but In the tho great grant majority of et cases caces el principal timid interest have havo gono gone altogether Tho The pro promoters motors kept tho th cash aunt and tho the Investors aCQuired the tho experience Generally tho tIme of o stock sell sellIng Ing log advertisements widely scattered without organization their loss losses es cat s und and kept still however they thoy attempt to organize and get legal leant redress This was the ease case of ot tho the confiding people In Inthis Inthis this natal othar countries who arc said sl ld to hold stock toek In on rum nl airline electric roll rail scheme schema that for tor a year or lius been proposing to bring Michigan within 10 hours of ot tho ALlan tic ilc Tho The original advertisement prom sed Iscil that tho first section ot of miles would be le lelli In operation within a year ear and figured that tho earnings cartilage would then pay at nt least cent on 01 the tho Investment while later latel on oar 30 0 per cent cont would probably be ba tho the minimum re rut return return turn to tho the fortunato Investor Other inducements wore offered ns mis that the stock bought at aLt 25 a ft share would wealth sell at nt that the tho stock would be bo re ro received nt art n par for transportation over tho the entire length of tho th line lino and that the ho shareholders would be the favored elections for the tho or more peal positions positions which time tho service ot of the tho great road read would require None of ot these expectations has hns been barOn realized The rood roud tho tIme divi dividends dl the tIme delightful journ s at lit 75 7 miles per por hour and the tho lucrative POi positions alt all are aro only things hoped for ter Bo Sn somo some 30 3 O of oC the stockholders have havo started suit for tor a n receivership which while not riot likely to profit tho the existing Investors will probably have havo havethe the tho effect of ot making some somo other oth r peo poo people plo pIe cautious about aboul buying tock stock In news newspaper any enterprise based wholly on paper apel promises and 1111 tho the promoters en enthusiastic expectations It is n a 1 sign elgut of ot returning financial sanity that the tho paje anti and whole page of ot stock com corn companies companies panics for tor the promotion of ot rubber plantations ns coffee groves goCI mining schemes unappreciated patented do de deIces Ices and arid stupendous electric railways that are to revolutionize the tho science of ot transportation which HO so long Ion enrIched tho the Sunday newspapers aro are now few tew and growing fewer fervor The Tho rich field whore where the nervy promoter and attn skit skilful ful tul advertisement writer powerfully aided by tho the tacit endorsement of tho thu great newspapers ne labored so success tully Cully for tor a 0 year or two seems to bo be begettIng getting worked worl out People tho plain people to whom theto thello promo prompters tars ers appeal aro learning that enter enterprises enterprIses promising enormous profits which shrewd capitalists decline to undertake do clo not hot safe uto invest investments Investments investments ments for the savings of ot the poor With Witla tho the source ot or supplies tho money mony ot of the uninformed and redu ouo stopped by this discovery tho the o JI such enterprises Is mont Inevitable able Credit i for tor the suppression slon of ot somo more open schemes achemes Is due to tho tIre department but buat some sonio that ought to have been sup suppressed suppressed pressed l continue to victImize the tho Ig III Ignorant n and n May It not bo be pos peat possible sible that In Its lIs eager prosecutions ot of lr admittedly rind and useful ul though ht ugh perhaps erring corporations our cur government has somewhat neg nag neglected the tho duty to protect KB ts citizens from schemes whose de deceptive tl character was evident and whoso operations have brought loss los to tl multitudes for tor the tho enrichment of It the tho row feW V |