Show FALLING FOR IT this if is tho the season of tho the year when the od id chautauqua graft ia is being worked and a lot of tho the editors of tho the state are falling for the bunk that they must advertise the attractions attraction ci 1 I 1 in their home town free or they are arp disloyal and not rot town bont bonders tho the same old bag gag is worked of gatting gitting a bunch of men responsible to guarantee a nice flit fat sura sum to the promoters but th the contract cou tract haa has in in it a clause whereby the cl qu qun outfit can substitute a ten dollar attraction for a one hun tired dred dollar one in tho the list promised and the town has no comeback A cheap outfit worked this gag on price a couple of times before the men who lost imaney on it woke up now i if a bunch of so called literary lite iary lights and en want to come in they can como come on their merits and when most of the chautauqua talent 1 bilte this thin part vt the ho country travels on its iner merit 1 it it will get got about a foot a month these people pay a pros 1 agent good money for writing their advertising matter they pay cosh cash to have it made up in i n plate form and alid they pay uncle bain cash tor for carrying it in the mails everything is is paid for until it reaches the editors desk and then he is told he must publish it free price papers quit this kind of work some years ago and when the last advance agent was told he would have to pay ten cents a line for all advertising matter and put up a guarantee that the bill would bo met promptly he w went e n t to the depot and bought a ticket for some sucker town toun he ile knew that the chauteau qua woul I not get cry far without R lot of advertising but ns as he lie wa was working for a bunch of graft ers he should wo aid not hot pay an all honest hont bill so far a atac the writer knows the outfits that used to try to put it over the business men of if iba t city now go away around |