Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-24
TA5 ANTI-oPTioN BILL.
The Fa<F1yrs Will Show at the Polls What
They Fhtnk of It's Disgraceful Defeat In
Congress-.

The Faxrasrs Will show at the Polls What
They Eif1nk of Its Disgraceful Defeat In
Congress.
Especial Correspondenee.l
The leading article in the Chicago
Herald sf July t6, headed in heavy type
''Millicns In the Scale" has two COL
umns OF defense of produce and meat
gambling as conducted by boards OF
trade. Ehis paper seems much alarmed
and shows wildly the distress given to
speculative gamblers of Chicago over
the prospective passage of the Hatch
WashbuNn anti-option bill. 1t says
various schemes have been proposed
to ''best the law" in the event of the
passa0e IF the bill" After mentioning
various phases that are proposed IL
says: Finally Henry Ciews came to
the rescue with q brilliant and mer-
chant Hike suggestion that operatives
go right along as usual, but that they
call grsan hay" If this Mr. Henry
Clews Is the New York banker and ex-
pert gold manipulation, so much quoted
as autnesity on finance, 1t is no wonder
that shzer dollars are worth but CT In
gold stscdard and 1t Is only a question
of time when they will sell to owners
of gold 3or cents In some manner q
gambfisg house can be run openly as a
tennis court, or a saloon be called
church festival. If our western peo-
pie were as ''swartly cute" and
had rs little honor as some Of these
money dangers and boards of trade"
operators of New York and Chicago we
would Aip them hay and draw on them
for wheat But we don't do that -we
ship wheat and after deducting one
bushel out of every four for freight they
pay US sn'sSbasis of sixty-seven cent
dollar and then speculate value of
one dollar sixty seven cents in to the
grain before it gets on to the table of
the protected" mechanic and con-
sumeS. Oh! how wicked these granger
law n,kSrs are becoming, when they
actually pass laws that will compel
these food gamblers to withdraw their
capital from such honorable % busi-
| ness! There are 311 Of these firms
operating" on Chicago's board of trade.
There are wholesale men who have
travelling men on the road that COCA.
sionahy Ssit down to a little game OF
draw poker for dollar ante and the
ceiling for a limit, which wholesale men
have been known to complain at the re-
suit, Tor they sometimes have to stand
the ''skrinkage" between such gaming
table and the ceiling.
! How much more should the people Cd
this souHtry feel interested In a game
having ten millions in the pot at stake
each play on food products in the hands
OF these board Of trade" gamsstersi
OF course this game of chance on food
is so respectable (?), has such fine
club house, employs about Hve thou
sand clerks and hangers on;" all Of
which makes it quite brutal for ths
'grangers'' to pass law that Is likely
to hamper. its run of business.
Mr.. Hankins, the gentleman who
lately retired with a million Of dollars
from running a notorious gambli...
house on Clark street IA Snicaro
gathered his gains, :. lew cents or dol
lars at tinse from the laboring mer
- poor clerks The Herald attacked
him in its columns time and again, bu
public opinion in the city, backed by it
corrupt enforcers of law, was so Low
and debased that despite the public
press Mr. Hankins continued his bust
} ness ~ and he is now an elegant gen
tlemaa of leisure. The Herald can see
! that Hankins' den was wrong and th'
! .sboaYSl of trade" can see that the 50
! called bucket shops" are wrong, ou'
nobody but granger" can discover
dishonesty and burning wrongs enact
} ed in options" on food Of the masses BY
gentlezuen on boards Of trade.
, We have seen the ''grangers' termed
: sshogs'' by the State Journal, hay'
heard them called fools and cattle ans
: chrorsss and other manner Of abusiv
: terms but that does not make then