The grafters of America, who they are and how they work (1906) (14590225280)

Identifier: graftersofameric00wool (find matches)
Title: The grafters of America, who they are and how they work
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Wooldridge, Clifton R(odman), 1854- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Monarch book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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estimate of the sum contributed annual-ly by this highly civilized nation to safe-investment and Get-Rich-Ouick swindlers is $150,000,000. While I do not anticipate the public will heed my warn-ing, I believe the exposition of such operations hereincontained will at least arouse post-office authorities andthe press to a realizing sense of their duty in the premises. To the swindler the public includes all classes, from thelaundress to- the lawyer, the merchant to the clergyman.It dwells on farms, ranches and plantations, in huts,hovels and mansions; it is found in every hamlet, villageand city in this broad land. No matter how remote thevictim, distance is quickly bridged by Uncle Sams fastmail and thus the most highly efficient department of themost enlightened government is perverted into a drainthrough which the wealth of the public flows into thehands of the Get-Rich-Ouick specialist. Sometimes the swindler is a respectable citizen, leading banker or broker, who organizes a stock
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