The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-14
WHAT IT MEANS.
The Washburn Anticipation
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 1t?

No wonder the Chicago gamblers are anx-
ious to kill the anti-option bill and be-
smirch the reputation of its author, SEN
ator Washburn, and his associates.
Do you know what the anti-option bill
will do if it becomes law?
1t will make the wheat gamblers who
neither sow nor reap, run 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 $1,000 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 bushel 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 is making the ''wind-sale.''
1t provides that every dealer in options or
futures who fails to make true report of
his wind sales to the collector of internal
revenue every month or fails to pay 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 fine and
Imprisonment for the offense.
The anti-option bill
TAXES THE GAMBLER
and protects the honest trader and the
farmer. A speculatOr who cannot tell Il
kernel of wheat from a pumpkin and never
owned either one or the other will not be
able to force the price of No. 1 hard down
to 30 cents a bushel.
Any person making a 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 a
bushel tax.
If u dealer contracts or agrees to deliver
produce at certain time he must deliver
the goods or pay the tax imposed gam
blers.
Persons who actually buy and sell wheat,
corn, pork, ETC., and who desire to make
contracts or agreements for future deliver
les, will be permitted to do so by the anti
option bill on payment of a license fee OF
81 The anti-9ption bin is not aimed at the
gambler of the wheat pit, who neither
owns nor sees what he pretends to buy.
The anti-Option bill does not prohibit the
agreement for the sale or delivery at a
future time or within designated period.
dealers, merchants or manufacturers from
entering into similar contracts or agree
ments with the farmer for anything the
farmer may require for food. forage seed
or any article for his consumption.
There is no installing the meaning OF the
Washburn' anticipation bill. Its intent and
purpose is 10 protect the man VINO produces
the breadstuffs and food for the world
from the nefarious operations of swarm
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 it
when the farmers granery is empty.
What do you think of the political party
which has entered into despicable COM
binatiOn with the Chicago wheat gamblers
who want to kill this bill, for the purpose
of creating political capital out of it,
Yet the Democrats have leagued them
selves with the Chicago windsellers in an
effort to crush the bill and it's author and
to defeat the Republican party at the polls
in November. How will you vote?