Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-24

Clews calling wheat hay" make an
evasion of law possible, by these
pirates on the high seas Of trade, these
despoilers of honest business and labor.
The Herald writer gives . summary Of
the principal financial interests repre-
sented on the Chicago board OF trade.
which he says will be seriously dis
turbed by an anti-option law-and he
figures it thus:
Capital invested In commercial business;
Speculative 100000
Receiving ---.-......--...-- ..--..- lO,OVOSS
Elevator companies es................... 100000
Total. Isl 100000
Note this acknowledgement that the
capitalized packing house interests are
speculative agencies He admits that
the ten millions invested in purely
speculative work, in case of an anti
option law passing, would have to sell
it's plant (?) and put its money in some
other enterprise.
What a great calamity that would bel
The country grain dealer and the farm
er speculstors who have tried their
hands on board of trade schemes will
all miss the ''option feature" Of the
board of trade, but their families will
not miss it so badly. The granger
legislature of 1890 passed the Australian
ballot law, doing more for our state and
good government than all the legisla-
lures Nebraska ever had before; and now
the ''grangers" are trying their indu-
ence in the national halls of congress,
and even the polished food gam bier is
being looked after
The world moves and the devil In
likely to lose some of his soft snapA"
''The eye cannot say to the hand, I
have no need of thee" but the hand
can say to the evil-eye of gambling,
whether in low dives at keno and draw
poker rooms or in gilded halls of
boards of trade, " I'VE have no need of
thee and your baleful light must cease
shining in good (?) as well as bad soci-
ETY. upon our producing and consuming
world"
VIII our business interests join with
their customers and friends, the farm
ers, to weed out corporation worship
ers, class favors and gambling from
our growing fields of universal equality
of opportunity? 1 think they will
'Mr. Partridge has dtinguished
himself in another field He has proved
himself to be as shrewd a letter writer
as grain dealer. He handles sarcasm
as effectively as options His open
communication to Messrs Hatch. Wash
burn ct al, thanking them for their eff
forts In his behalf, Is unrivaled in its
line. But it's easy TO be merry when
one has cleared 800. 900 on a single
deaL"-Chicago Herald, July es.
The gentleman referred to In the lines
quoted above and the open letter he
wrote has a direct bearing ON the ques-
tion Of grain gambling or noptiona" To
a better understanding by our readers It
will be proper to state few facts re-
garding the gentleman and make some
quotations from his letter referred TO
that we may weigh the elements Of tho
cities that are Aghting the anti-option
law. He sag Amy business training
has been that OF mercha nj" Con-
tinuing in personal strain he explains
how as buyer Of goods and always seek
ing the cheapest market he developed
the habit of bearing down values, never
being satisfied with trade when
made but holding the impression
that better bargain might
have been secured. This, he explains,
decided his line Of action when leaving
the calling of merchant" to enter that
OF option desley." placing him on the
"bear" side Of the market or gaminE
table. Mr.. Partridge bad what could
DO termed ''plunder" store on State
street known as the Boston store" and
his stock was replenished from bank.
rupt and job lots from everywhere and
anywhere.
In the category of trade he filed the
same position in merchandising as does
the hysna in the economy of nature by
skulking the plains to gather dead
bodies wherever misfortune or death
overtakes them The position Of this
gentleman and the hyena are both
legitimate as long as the business
honor of mau II 50 low as to permit
conditions of trade to breed bankruptcy
and gambling, and the ignorance of ths
brute so low as to make his self preser
vation impossible.
In unfolding his line of reasoning fol
taking the depressing side of the mar
ket he says: Financial and CONNER
, cial misfortunes and accidents are per.
petually occurring to shake confidence
and disturb values, and besides the cos-
~ NHiA AA6 ehO RkORCEbJ W DS GhhcL
Into consideration" This line Of rea
, soning is true to the existing condition
of facts. To change these existing con
ditions Is just what the peoples party
is trying to do. A financial misfort
. une" can be one where an enterprising
energetic business man borrows half O,
his capital, and that half being timid q,
capital, which timidity consists in fear
ing 1t may not get In interest all tn,
man makes in It's use, may be called In
at time when bankruptcy must follow.
National banking and interest bearing
money- instead of a nroHt or loss sharing
}. medium of exchange or measure OF
E values are well calculated to breed tho
= financial misfortunes" Mr.. p. proated
4 with so often In his buying. So far in
e his letter 10 exhibited only the "shrewd'
q man of hygienic tendencies, and all hi
, positions 30 far, are from his stand
q point, well taken. But not 30 for tbs
8 balance Of his letter. He having dc
veloped into ''oonspicious success" as q
4 grain speculator, from the natural apti
o tude of his mind and merchant ~ train
Q ing, and being desirous Of condition.
8 continuing that would afford further
J? scope for developing genius In ths
d speculative line explains his opposition
Q to the anti-option law and the sarcasm
l. TO Hatch, Washburn ct al.
# He terms the attempt at passing thi
g law as 'illegitinats and unwsrrantabl'
y interference with trade methods"
1t is not likely that the gentlemal
o would sirs an open letter claiming tha
s Laws against "speculatinE" In none!
( with cards or playing Of keno and hk
), games of chance were 'illsgitimate ant
l. unwarrantable interference with
n methods of gaining money; but to tn
d man who has 10 bay bread and mea
IT from his day labor, the prioe of whio
ts food Ia fixed by "speculative methods.
- .Inbler I'm grain and the Qambl