Increase of Satanic Delusions.
The almost incredible number of clairvoyants, palmists, and other Satanic agencies now flooding the country, is evidence of the abnormally corrupt condition of the world in this twentieth century. And their business is solely the deception of their credulous dupes. The city of Chicago alone is accredited with 800 of these deceivers, playing upon that class of people who are readily caught by any suggestion of a scheme for getting something for nothing. The chief of police of that city recently expressed the opinion that many of them are in collusion with the promoters of fake mining schemes, oil-investment concerns, and other get-rich-quick speculations, and that they get a commission on all the business that comes to these promoters through the victims of their fortune-telling. There is ground for these suspicions, as most of these fortune-tellers make a specialty of giving business advice, and many defaulters lay their defections and failures to having followed the counsel of these deceivers. But their number and their victims continue to increase. The natural love of money in the human heart renders men more susceptible to deception through a promise of easy gain than by any other means.