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Show TWO SUCKERS BORN EVERY MINUTE. Quito recently W. S. Hansen, the big farmer of Dear River valley, has contributed articles to the Box Elder News in which he suggests that lubber and banana stock Is not what it is cracked up to be; also that In the organization of horse companies It is not uncommon for the agent to buy with a share or two of stock the Influence of prominent men, who enable him to dispose of a comparatively worthiest horse for a good .sum of money. Some time ago we discussed these matters with Mr. Hansen, know that he Is fortified with faots and that his conclusions con-clusions and publlo representations aie worth their faco .value but, his exposure is likely to prove fruitless except in the matter of making enemies for himself. Mr. Hansen Is a strong enough man to care llttlo or nothing about cnomles made in pursuit of wliat he considers duty, but wherein comes the good? It is tho experience of Tns Uei-uulican that to save a man from one grafter is to save him FOR the next fellow with a scheme or an ulluilng Investment. On Inquiry about any given proposition, any man In possession of facts calculated to save another from a sharper should feel it a duty to give thoe facts to his inquisitor, but It is not worth while for any man or newspaper to make a business of trying to save all the people from all the men with doubtful opportunities for Investment tho trick cannot be turned, nor will any great number num-ber bo saved by any warning given. The offer of 60 or 100 per -cent profit in a year, or two years will catch some men at any time, though it Is a fake on Its face. There's a sucker born every minute, tls said, but we believe the number has Increased to two In recent years. Tiik Rbi'udlican would lay down one general gen-eral rule and have it apply to all. No man in debt can afford to buy rubber, banana, mining or any other kind;of stock; not one man out of a hundred, however shrewd, can afford to BORROW BOR-ROW money to invest in ANY stock; and no man but a criminal fool will MORTGAGE his property to purchase any stock, no matter who Offers it or what the Inducements may be. The man who has his debts paid, carries Insurance on his life, or owns good property, can afford to use surplus money in dabbling with stocks, but even he is a fool to blto at an offer of 50 per cent in a year or two. Big men do not offer little men opportunities of that kind. |