FOUR 1 I W A 1 3 THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS dustrious, most desirable classes, the that is more disastrous than was the due he induced his victims to take a universal educational campaign. small investors. piracy of the 16th century. more notes instead of cash. Harrington More effective national laws against In one day in February more than In the time of world stress,: when and 27 others, who were competitors swindling are needed, but more effective IR, AND BORDER BUDGET every dollar is needed to keep legit^mate 200 complaints were made to the additional of Bischoff, took several million still will be an active public grand jury in New York and H. J. MIN industries going, when all' resources dollars before they were arrested ppinion "which can and will abolish Editor and Manager are absolutely essential in restoring other cities. A majority of those or forced to flee. stock swindling and wildcat financing the Post Ofllce at Iatcnattonal Falls* Mlu« as Se«md-Class Matter a war-torn world and in feeding complaints, it was said, were from High Grade Swindler just as effectively as it abolished piracy starving millions, in such a time poor losers, whining, amateur gamblers While these Chicago Ponzis were and privateering. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 .PER YEAR who had taken chances on the other this great American public—the fairest taking in millions of dollars from I have spoken chiefly of the fraudulent most enlightened public in the fellow's game and had lost. But wage-earners and small savers, Alfred stock schemes. In addition this Northwestern Advertising Representatives world—permits this continual robbery scores of the complaints that day and E. Lindsay was attending funerals class of investors annually lose one to Minnesota Select List and excuses it witfr a silly "joke. But on previous and. on subsequent days where he made the acquaintance two billion dollars in wild investments, cat 7M Exchange Bank 215 South Sth Straet the joke is no longer on the sucker— were from honest men and women, of widows and unprotected women Minneapolis such as oil stocks, straight-out St. Paul it is on the great American public. whose only fault had b'een they were whom he induced to advance money gambles, that may be legally honest" The starving millions in Russia^and so honest they had no- suspicion of the on get-rich schemes on the New York but which rarly have the shadow of a BARRED FROM and, accordingly, the so-called "literacy U. S. had robbed them. Armenia could be taken care of with who stock exchange, of which he was not swindlers chance of paying out. The one-half test" became the favorite weapon CHIEF EXPLAINS WHY the money- that Americans give to Cheat are Many. a member. Lindsay got about $800,000 billion dollars of straight loot and the of the restrictionists. The exclusion In four months in New York City swindlers not gambling, but for from fewer than 20 women and a billion or two billion in of illiterate aliens was agitated in and wildcat investments Immigration Head Outline*1 Policy of fraudulent securities that will not possibly more than 50 brokerage firms failed. half dozen men before he was arrested. can eventually be headed off out of Congress for twenty-five years Department and Rules Now return a penny. The soldiers' Some of them probably were legitimate One woman had determined to by but one thing—education. If i_ and three presidents, Cleveland, Taft pu in Force bonus could be taken care of without business houses. But the whole have him arrested after he had taken pit, press, government and legitimate and Wilson, vetoed bills which so provided, a cent of public expenditure, if financial system of the country's her money, jewelry and stocks, but instead business will undertake job. but in' 1917 it was added to the the Grave Danger in Immigration Unless the money tha Jtthe swinjdlers greatest money market had become he persuaded, her to sell her valuable swindling as one of our profitable industries law over President Wilson's veto. Careful Watch is Constantly steal from small investors annually so honeycombed with swindlers that Chihuahua dogs td obtain more can be abolished. law Following the World war, the- demand But Kept on Gates were put to that use. If the money when the New York district) attorney money for him. Another of his victims alone won't do it. for further restriction became began an investigation and dozens of was Mrs. Lillian N. Duke, divoiced that Americans put into fraudulent so intense and unmistakable that the By W. W. Husband, Commissioner fake brokerage houses and bucket stocks and bonds, wildcat and blue wife of a millionaire tobacco manufacturer. house of representatives responded General of Immigration PARTY FOR BERNARD DECKER shops were driven out or indicted, She charged that Lindsay sky ventures were turned over to the by passing a bill suspending practically got $375,000 from her. United States treasury virtually all the effect extended to legitimate firms. all immigration for a period of Editor's Note: Time and again our war taxes could be paid off without There is no end to the harm that It is not these rich women, and some About thirty young people gathered warnings have been given this nation fourteen months. The senate was swindlers do they rob the poor and burdening the people. rich men, that concerns me. It is the at the St. Thomas church basement by experts in economic ^nd: other more conservative, however, and substituted unprotected, divert capital from honest great army of honest, hard-working fields relative to the unrestricted immigration Fortunes are Lost Tuesday night in honor of Bernard the Dillingham per centum to America and" the evils That figure, one-half billion dollars, uses and then, when belated and mert and women who take the little Decker who is to leave the last of this limit plan, which finally prevailed that would arise. It has only been is given by the Federal Trade Commission timid punishment arrives the innocent family nest egg, the money saved for week for Collegeville where he will very recently that the laws became and the so-called "quota law," which as the size of the annual loot bystander usually gets a large share a rainy day or for a home, and who, resume his studies at St. John's university. drastic. The Commissioner of Immigration, has provoked such widespread interest that "financiers" of the Ponzi. type of the punishment, if not all of it. because they are honest and unsuspicious, Dancing and instrumental W. W. Husband, herewith tells during the past year, went into effect us the why of~the matter—and the results steal from'small investors, every cent Ponzi, of Boston- swindling notoriety, put it in the hands of swindlers. selections formed the evening's entertainment, on May 19, 1921, and recent legislation obtained and those expected. of it taken by fraud, chiefly through had hardly become acclimated to They aren't to blame. We're to a violin solo by Lenice Bailey has continued its operation until atmosphere, having swindled the sale of fraudulent or worthless prison blame, the rest of us, farmers, bankers, and a saxaphone solo by Arnold It is doubtful whether any other June 30, 1924. securities. 10,000 persons by promise of 50 per ministers, merchants, editors, congressmen, Anderson being included. American problem presents so many Briefly stated, the Dillingham act Thrift and industry are essential to cent dividends in 60 days, than another, who sit idly by and see difficult and even bewildering aspects provides that the number of aliens of peace and happiness. Idleness and Raymond J. Bischoff, 25 years old, these gigantic frauds perpetrated year as does the problem of immigration. any nationality who may be admitted gambling promote crime and poverty. began operations in Chicago. Before after year. Cause of Appendicitis. Economics, politics, the public health to the United States in any fiscal year Robbing the industrious and the the lead-footed law interfered Bischoff Education Needed and other fundamental: factors of our shall be limited to three per centum of thrifty drags that class down and had taken four and one-half million What is the remedy—more law? No, When the bowels are constipated, civilization enter into the equation the number of persons of such nationality adds it to the shifty element made up dollars, chiefly from wage-earners. not to a great extent. Right now the the lower bowels or large intestines and with such a conglomeration of interests who were resident in the United of gamblers and criminals. Not only So great was" Bischoff's harvest that federal courts are cluttered up with become packed with refuse matter, in the crucible it is obviously States according to' the census of 191Q. does this annual stealing of one-half his employes left him to organize raids 480 stock-swindling cases involving that is made up largely of germs. a difficult, if not impossible task, "Nationality" is determined by country billion dollars breed crime, it takes of their own. $140,011,000 and 874 persons arrested These germs enter the vermiform appendix to evolve a policy which will be even of birth, and in effect the law applies from the1 Nation's power to produce Bischoff, when an awakening "investigator" or indicted. And that is only a small and set up inflamation, which measurably satisfactorily to that many only to Europe, Asiatic Turkey, more prosperity and more happiness. became insistent, made fraction of the stock-swindling cases is commonly known as appendicitis. sided entity commonly called the Persia, Asiatic Russia, Africa and Wherefore, that "One is born every part payments of dividends on principal.. most of them never get into court. Take Chamberlain's Tablets when public. Australasia. minute" has not a grain of humor in But Leslie Harrington, a competitor Probably there should be a strengthening needed and keep your bowels regular .To Limit Influx This immigration controversy began it. It is a senseless attempt to laugh had a "superior" method. of the law here and there. But and you have little to fear from appendicitis. The admitted purpose of the law is wjtl? the first settlement in Virginia at tragedy, at systematized robbery When his notes or dividends became the greatest remedy must come from For sale by S. N. Rubin. to limit immigration from southern and Massachusetts, and while a and eastern Europe, without interfering there have been periods of storm and with the normal movement from calm during the more than three centuries the northern and western European which have intervened, neverthe countries, which in immigration parlance less the same conroversy, involving include the British Isles, Scandinavia, Ding-Dong!! Ding-Dong— TUESDA Y, SEPTEMBER 5—Ding-Dong Ding-Dong!! practically the same factors, has Germany, France, Netherlands, continued down to the present time Belgium and Switzerland. Prior to and there is every promise that it the war 750,000 or immigrants more will go ?n indefinitely, were admitted fr^m the first named fc. the settlers second contingent of sources in a normal year, but under came to the Massachusetts coast the Dillingham Act only 158,200 may it was said by one of their predecessors be admitted annually from such that they were all "in) appear-* sources. On the other hand, the ances not for an fit honest man's normal' annual immigration from the company." Only last week Ellis at older sources was only about 180,000 Island a thoughtful American, looking prior to the war, but the per centum at a typical group of present day immigrants limit law will pedmitf 198,000 to come. undergoing inspection, said During the fiscal year only about 300,000 of to me "Is there no possible way immigrant aliens were admitted, keeping this class of people out of but ending June 30, 1922, southern the country." It has been the same and eastern European countries used from the beginning and probably will more than 95 per cent of their alloted so continue as long as America continues quota, while the older sources named to attract the people of other sent us less than 50 per cent of the lands. WITH school less than one week *away, these next few number alloted to them. The Open Door Of course, it was inevitable that the Practcally all of the colonies enacted days will likely be busy ones for mothers. There are many operation of a law which arbitrarily restrictive immigration laws, held back hundreds of thousands of things to remember and much planning to be done for each some of which clearly reflect the fears intending immigrants should result and also the intolerance of the founders, in hardship to many individuals, and a child. O. M. Carr & Co. has anticipated these needs and but the new republic took an severe strain on the machinery of the opposite course and for a century feels that it can now offer a service which will make choos­ immigration service. However, the following the revolutionary "war characteristically humane action of maintained an open door policy with ing of children's clothes a pleasure. Won't you come in Secretary of Labor Davis in temporarily respect to all classes and conditions admitting a total of 2,500 excess of mankind from every land and and give us the opportunity to assist you? quota immigrants as a measure clime. There was of course, continued of humanity the patient and unremitting and, at times violent, opposition work of our immigration officials to this policy, but throughout the at ports of arrival, and the century the ideal of America as a splendid co-operation of American refuge of the world's oppressed prevailed, cousular officers in Europe, made a although it must be admitted Get Ready for School! humane and effective administration that on occasions the refugees were of the law possible, and, while the treated with no little harshness. quota law has its faults, it is doubtful Foreign nations banished their whether by any other method the purpose criminals to America and communities of congress could be effectively sent us their paupers. We complained carried out with, so little hardship on and complained bitterly but continued the immigrants concerned. to receive them until the year 1882 Girls and Misses when a law was enacted which denied & BLOUSES SAVE THE SUCKERS admission to idiots, insane persons, SAYS KANSAS SENATOR MIDDIES—"The only thing for school criminals (other than political criminals) Assortment of light colors wear,"say teachers. In white galatea with and persons likely to become Capper of Kansas Gives Some Start! in Percales and Madras navy collar and in wool, red, blue or white, all a public charge. Having closed the Figures on Swindle —also in shirt models with door against four classes of aliens, daintily trimmed. Success congress was not reluctant to add or without collar and in all $1.69 values now. .\ $1.44 others to the category of those deemed sizes. They are in three $2.25 values now 1.91 Says Soldiers' Bonus Could be Paid to be physically, mentally, morally With Money Lost in Fake groups. $2.50 value s-now 2.12 or economically undesirable until Stock. GIRLS' FLA^NNEL MIDDIES, plain red, blue, now there are some thirty legal reasons 85c to $135 of one sort or another why an green, braid trimmed, ages 4 to 16, a splendid By United States Senator Arthur immigrant may not be admitted. The number, each $4.25 Capper. first Chinese exclusion law was also GIRLS' BLUE SERGE MIDDY DRESSES, enacted in 1882 and subsequently Editor's Note: Senator Arthur Cap ages 6 to 14, at special prices this week: there has developed a policy of restricting,' per, that fire eating but level headed CAPS!!! Kansas editor and leader, talks out $9.00 values now $8.10 or in a large measure prohibiting, in meeting in the following. There all Oriental immigration. $8.50 values now 7.65 are few persons in the United States A wonderful assortment Restriction Needed. $7.00 vlues now 630 who have saved -money but have The peoples of Europe and Asiatic the that will delight the mother known insidious approach of the $6.00 values now .. A 5.40 Turkey, however, continued to enjoy fake stock salesman and a majority as well as please the boy. $13.50 values now 12.15 unlimited access to the open door, of them have Itallen victim to his In mixtures and plain colors wiles some time or other. Senator provided they met the various tests exhaustive Capper from long and study and all sizes. prescribed by law, and Europe always BOYS' TWO-PANTS SUITS S O I N S of the situation is in a position to explain furnished more than 90 per cent! of what happens and? what is to be A Real Bargain—Tweed, Worsted $835 90c to $1.25 35c.—50c.—75c. our immigrants. Following the advent done about it. of southern and eastern Europe as the chief source of supply, our immigration The late P/T. Barnum is reported grew to unprecedented proportions, to have said, "One (meaning sucker) 0. M. CARR 8c CO. and with this development is born every minute." The saying came a widespread and insistent demand has long been a chronic witticism. for restriction. Stastics showed It is the general excuse for and the that about one-third of the immigrants VA explanation of the to 2tillion dollars who came from these sources loot that every year is stolen were unable to read in any' language from one of bur thriftiest, most in- v-