The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
WHAT: IT MEANS.
The Washburn Anti-Opti0n
Bill Means Death to
Gambling.
1t Will Compel the Parasites
Who Prey Upon Honest
Farmers
TO Help Support the Govern
ment or Quit Their Wind
selling.
What Do You Think of the
Political Party That Is
Opposing 1t7

No wonder the Chicago gamblers are anI-
ious to kill the anti-option bill and be-
smirch the reputation Of its author, Sen
atof Washburn, and his associates.
Do you know what the anti-optien bill
will do If it becomes law?
1t will make the wheat gamblers who
neither SOW nor reap, run a mill or an ele-
vator nor earn their bread by honest work.
nor pay office rent or wages and have no
| taxable property, help defray the cost OF
running the national government and re.
lieve the men who now pay all the taxes
of some Of the burden.
1t will impose license fee Of 900 q
year on every dealer In options, and also
provides that he shall pay a tax to the gov
eminent of 20 cents for every busbei Of
wheat, corn, oats, rye or barley he buys or
pretends to buy and cents for every
pound of pork, lard, bacon, hops or cotton
he speculates. This takes in the agent or
the broker who rs making the "wind-sale."
It provides that every dealer in options or
futures WHO fails to- make q true report Of
his wind sales to the collector Of internal
revenue every month or fails to pny the
license and the tax shall be fined not less
than $1,000 nor more than $4,000, or be
sent to- prison for not less than six months
or more than ten years, or both tine and
LUZ tkxS OAcuSc.
The anti-option bill
TAXES THE GAMBLER
and protects the honest trader and the
I farmer. A Spectator who cannot tell q
kernel Of wheat from a pumpkin and never
owned either one or the other will not Ike
able to force the price Of No. 1 hard down
| to so cents q bushel.
Any person making deal in wheat or
| other produce will have to show where that
produce Is, and that he Is the actual owner
OF It,, unless he has paid the 20 cents q
If a dealer contracts or agrees to deliver
produce ut s; certain time he must deliver
the goods or pay the tax imposed On gam
Persons who actually buy and sell wheat.
corn, pork, etc, and who desire to make
contracts or agreements for future deliver
opo viii Lii BE to Of 90 BY the fe s"
-. The anti-0ptiOn bill is not aimed at the
legitimate trader. It is directed against the:
eseer rr OF the wheat pit who n neither
The anticipation bill does not prohibit tic
farmer from entering into contract or
7atufe time or within a designated period.
! Of his proluce, nor does 1t prohibit retail
dealers, merchants or manufacturers FROM
ments with the farmer for nythiDE the
farmer may require for food. forage, seed
or any article for his consumption.
There is no mistaking the meaning Of the
Washburn' anticipation bill. Its intent and
purpose is to protect the man who produces
the breadstuffs and food for the world
Of parasites who neither work nor pay taxes
men who neither buy nor sell but who
by pretended sales lower the price of wheat
when the farmer wants to sell and raise II
when the farmers grancry is empty.
! What do you think Of the political party
which has entered into a despicable com
Who want to xiii this Bill. for the purpose
of creating political capital out of it,
Yet the Democrats have leagucd them
! selves with the Chicago windsellers In an
! effort to crush the hill and its author and
| to defeat the Republican party at the polls
| In November. How will you vote?