ROBBING OF
PATRIOTIC
INVESTOR!
If there Is any one class of eitizei
who can say, "Thank Heaven for sen
ing us the war,” It is swindler
Whereas other professional men hat
found their field of activity narrows
by war conditions, the swindled hf
been endowed with a field of sue
breadth and thickness as never, in h
wildest moment, had he dreamed, 1
that field—as wide and deep as tl
United States itslef—has grown tt
enormous crop of Liberty bond ow:
ers. And they are all waiting an
anxious to be plucked.
The government has now for tw
months had under way a propagand
to arouse to their danger, these m
sophisticated amateurs in the field (
finance'. The New York sock exchang
and bond houses and banks ever;
where have been enlisted. Postei
have been put up warning Libert
bond owners not to trade off their go
eminent securities for get-rich-quic
shares. But the propaganda, alaB, ws
started too late for hundreds of thoi
sands of patriotic ciitzens.
Before the war there were bare!
300,000 bond buyers in the nation, ii
eluding the banks. Now there ai
probably 25,000,000. To the first Lil
erty loan there were 4,500,000 sul
scriptions. In the second campaig
9,000,000 subscriptions were taken. 1
the third loan there were 18,000,0C
and in the fourth 21,000,000. The nun
her of holders of public funds is no
the largest ever known in any corn
try, both relatively and actually.
Most of these people had neve
listened to a bond salesman’s tal
until the Liberty bond solicitor a;
proached them. They had not bee
included in any of the sucker list
They had never made inquiries in r<
gard to advertised Stocks and bond
and they were, in the main, not know
to have any funds that a city slacks
could talk out of them. Hence the
had not been hardened to the sale
talk of the bond sharper as they ha
to the sales talk of the life insuranc
agent.
They heart what the Liberty bon
man had to say, and they bought. Th
sale was easily made; patriotism, sel
interest and fear of public opiniqo,#
joined to make it so. The citizen the
first heard the word “bond” an
came to learn what it meant. Bond
were safe investments; everybod
I said so—everybody having in mind
Liberty bonds when everybody said
bond.
Ten close upon the heels of the
Liberty bond salesman came the "li
cense” bond salesman. Liberty in
America always, so it is said, degen
^ erates into license. The city slacker
L said: “A bond is a bond. Liberty bonds
J are good; all bonds are good. Some
pay more interest than others. Lib
erty bonds don’t buy much beefsteak
8 and pants because the government is
run by the Wall Street barons and
5- they have framed it up to cheat the
e common peepul. But here is some
thing else we are selling which, being
8 a bond, must be absolutely safe, and
h it returns you nine per cent interest
8 —besides which we give you as a
n premium this nice common stock that
e we guarantee will pay you 69 per cent
e within a year.”
*' Naturally, the investor, having
^ been told by the Liberty bond man
that bonds are a grand little invest
o ment, hastened to exchange his Lib
a erties to "licenses.” Now he is begin
l- ning to wake up, and the government
'f and the investment bankers of the
e country are also beginning to wake
up. But they have slumbered too long.
3 The harm has been very largely done,
y The extent of this thievery is appal
r- ling. Patriotic citizens have been
k robbed right and left with impunity
3 and never a hand was raised to pro
i- tect them.
The authorities have entered into a
y conspiracy of silence as to the sale
l- of Llbery bonds by original subscrib
e ers—believing it to be a bad thing to
)- Initiate the plain people into the fact
)- that there was an open organized
n market where government bonds
n could be sold and the quotations of
0 which were printed each day in the
i- newspapers for anyone to read pri
v vate enterprise stepped forward to
i- supply the want. Millions of people
desired to sell bonds—most of them
r without good reason, it is true. But
k they wanted what they wanted when
>- they wanted it. As a result the eoun
n try blossomed forth with dealers ad
i. vertising to “pay highest prices for
i- Libery bonds.” One issue of a Brook
s lyn paper recently carried thirty ads
a displaying this line. The best that the
r victim gets is three to five points be
y low the market. The worst he gets—
s is a good deal worse,
d It is only ignorance that victimizes
e the owners of fully-paid bonds. There
is a market where they could sell
1 under real necessity and get a fair
b price, if they only knew it. But no
machinery exists at present for the
1 sale of part-paid Liberty bond con
i tracts. The government might well
i arrange through the banks for the
s purchase of these incomplete con
y tracts, where a real need of realizing
AT THE SOURCE
How a Baby Brought Woman Suffrage to Wyoming
CHEYENNE, WYO.—A tablet commemorating the granting of woman suf
frage In Wyoming reads as follows: “This tablet marks the site where
the council of the first territorial legislature of Wyoming convened, which
legislature enacted the first woman
nun rage iuw pusseu m uio vniwu
States. Approved by John Allen Camp
bell, first governor of Wyoming, De
cember 10, 1889. Placed by the Chey
enne chapter, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, 1917." And this Is the
•lory of it:
A baby was born to Mrs. William
H. Bright In a rough shack In South
Pass, Wyo., while the railroad was be
ing built. Bsther Morris, a neighbor,'
tank foil (-harm. Mr. Rrlirht vm m
member of the territorial legislature and In gratitude for Mrs. Morris’ help
ofered to Introduce any measure for the women. 8he asked him to introduce
a bill enfranchising women, and he did.
The legislature was Democratic, and it pounced upon the measure as a
huge Joke. With the amiable purpose of embarrassing the governor of the
territory, who was a Republican and bad been appointed by the president, the
members passed the bill and put It up to him to veto. To their combines
amazement and horror, he did nothing of the sort.
The passage of the act created much political excitement In the Bast aifl
produced much newspaper copy. Special reporters wrote it up at great lengm
and It was the proper thing for travelers to send home a letter for publication.
exists on the part of the subscriber.
To circumvent the swindler it is not
enough to warm the public against
him. The public must be supplied
with a legitimate market for its bond
holdings at those times when it really
needs cash.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS!
SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Cor
dova Abstract & Realty Company,
a corporation, plaintiff, vs. George
D. Reid, defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting, to George D.
Reid, the above-named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within
thirty days from the completion of
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 25th
day of June, 1919, and answer the
complaint of Cordova Abstract &
Realty Company, a corporation, the
above-named plaintiff in the above
entitled cause, which cause is an ac
tion on a contract wherein the plain
tiff prays judgment for the sum of
three hundred and eighty-nine and
67-100 ($389.67) dollars, and for its
costs and disbursements in the ac
tion, and for such other and further
relief as to the court may seem right
and proper in the premises. And you
are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint as
herein required, that the said plaintiff
will take judgment against you for
want thereof, and will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in its
complaint, as hereinbefore set out.
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
on the 7th day of May, 1919.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, this 7th day of May, in
the year of Our Lord the one thou
sand nine hundred and nineteenth,
and of our independence the one hun
dred and forty-third.
(Seal) ARTHUR LA"NG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
May 13, 19, 26. June 2, 9, 16, 26.
NOTICE TO CREDITOR8.
In the matter of the estate of Chief
Court for the Chitlna Precinct,
Territory of Alaska,
In the mat.. ter of the estate of Chief
Goodlatab, deceased. In Probate.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned administrator of the
estate of Chief Goodlatah, deceased,
to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against the said
deceased, to exhibit them with the
necesary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this
notice, to the said administrator,
Lewis J. Day, at his place of residence
In the town of Chitlna, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated this 10th day of April, 1919.
LEWIS J. DAY,
Administrator Estate of Chief Good
latah, deceased.
First publication, April 17, 1919.
Last publication May 29, 1919.
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