Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-06

~rERIoR OF NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE.
have had grave Senators rising in their
places at Washington and proposing to
introduce legislation to abolish Wall
street unless that haunt of bulls and
bears behaves itself, and at the news ex-
changes I notice that the rural papers
arc coming in loaded with diatribes
against the money center" of the coun-
try.
Did it ever occur to the financial NOR.
alists at Washington and Podunk that
there was one very easy way to abolish
Wall street? 1t is simply to follow the
advice of old Ben Franklin. and abolish
custom houses. The New York custom
house is located at the heart of Wall
street About it centers the great brok-
erage houses in which is transacted the
business of hemisphere. They are
mutually dependent upon each other.
1t is q plain fact that the custom
house and not the bankers and brokers
are responsible for the late squeeze" in
the money market The whole energy
of the commercial world has been con-
centrated apparently in an effort to get
all the advantage possible out of the in
term preceding the passage of the Nc
Kinley bill. AS result, Uncle Sans
custom warehouses are crowded as never
before with imported goods in bond, and
it is the money tied up in collateral and
deposits to secure these immense pur-
chases Of foreign goods that has created
the prevailing money stringency. There
is going to he "big pile" made out of
the sale of these goods if the tariff bill
passes according to program. And there
will be still tighter squeeze in Wall
street unless Congress provides for a
considerable delay in enforcing the pro-
visions of the Mckinley bill
The relations between Wall street and
the dramatic profession are suspected by
some to be rather more intimate than
appears on the surface. just now the
wife of Wall street banker is the reign
ing popular fa-orite in the amusement
world. and all on account Of a daring
exhibition of her personal charms that
has almost paralyzed the theater going
public. The presentation of "The Glenn
enceau Case" at the Standard Theater
was an attempt to take advantage of the
rather unenviable notoriety which that
rather startling piece Of French fiction
had gained. The dramatization proved
q failure, however. The public had no
taste for merely questionable language
and suggestion. One of the startling
points of the plot is the incident which
exhibits the heroine in the character of
an artists model This scene was pre-.
sented in the original representation by
Miss Rose Eytinge with a careful regard
Tor the modesty Of the public that de-
prived it Of all sensational features, and,
rs the play in itself is really very ordi-
nary piece OF vulgarity, it was voted a
dreary bore and seemed destined to q
flat failure. In this crisis, the managers
put Miss Eytinge and her scruples aside,
and brought Miss" Sybil Johnstone
from the retirement into which she had
gone some two years ago when she left
the stage to become the wife Of pros
porous Wall street operator. 1t is sus.
pected that Mr.. tombstone" got caught
in the late squeeze and needed brace
such as all habitues Of "the street" are
liable at times to find acceptable. Al
any rate, Miss Johnstone put aside hel
scruples lit is only proper regard te
her sex to SUPPOSE that she had some