Show STUDY IN HUMAN Cb study in human nature is presented in the operations of the getrich get rich concerns tuc beguiling manipulators flourish under one title or another first in tin east and then in the west and the law is always being invoked but too late to put an end to the fraudulent transactions 1 the promise of pro fits beyond all reasonable expectations never yet has failed sodupe the credulous who are eagerly seeking an easy way by which to u wealth twenty per cent a month held out as a bait and though common sense clearly shows the impossibility of any legitimate enterprise ter prise or even form of gambling regularly yielding profits to as suro rate of interest ih terest ar beyond the line of which separated the legal from tho usurious yet there are hundreds of thousands yearly victimized by these dazzling offers the financial news hag been observing the of human kind in tins respect and says that from the daiy diy of john law counting time in the modern sense the world has been the willing dupe of the individual who dangled before its credulous noso warranted recipes for buick tran to the belf received scotchman who turned france upside down or inside out rath with his mississippi bubble ie given the doubtful compliment of first get rich quick honors but lie waa by no first nor waa he alie greatest in the history of tho world from the days of antiquity to tho present the get rich quick boomer has flourished in ancient aimee his methods were more direct and partook of military aspect but jhc thc inspiring motive was the same avent ta war because he wanted ainora territory more subject more power and money his nobler assisted him taking their chances for what tho king might leave io their consumption and thia assistance cam in the end from 15 miserable peasant working in tho field alie noble took the peasants produce and then he took the peasant the latter had no chance no hope of gain not even the excitement of gambling if we except ehfe great odda he assumed of losing his life at the conclusion of ho returned homo to hia poverty stricken family better off perhaps to ahn extent thai lie had been able to steal a few ahinga from bringe equally miserable with himself changed it no longer or to speak plainly profitable or safe to seize your neighbors goods by force in the race the predatory ron bih ft bandit abe potentate of the now even tha bandit 7 pirate as we once knew them are but the spirit or eol stepan nature which led men to scheme tor riches without effort to plan tor by short cut methods remained the get rich quick con cern chett the leveling process of time swept awa kingly prerogative und brought the prowling to the gal wealth became diffused the cluzen had more and more of it but there were about the it juat f j a much as in the old daye and the common citizen be it observed when the first great shock of being able to leold any money wore off developed the traits of his superior from each horizon ho a higher tain 0 affluence he also caught tie contagion of wealth the mail above him could not as before put him on the rack and wring gold out of him but ho could dazzle him by pictures 1 of imaginary riches and lie has been doing it ever since perhaps it is a gain to the world that the physical anguish of the loser has given way to mental regret perhaps it signifies advance that the common has money to lose but it docs not a well for his development eliat he is still u willing to lose it in other words that lie has learned eo little in time he may become cautious but human nature is human nature and is rather biard to change out in the west where people are more cosmopolitan than elsewhere and therefore know human nature better titan do the people of the east because their contact with human kind has been under more varied conditions and with greater freedom there should a poor field for the getrich get rich operators but even here in ogden eliere the general enlightenment lighten ment is above the average tho st louis turf found a fertile field the promises of unheard of profits were all too tempting tabe resisted and sensible men and women chrey away their hard earned savings while under the spell of the hypnotic power of the tempter |