Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-19
iWALhSTlREET THRONE
: ThRYAARE Still Il HOOKING FOR
THE BOOM.
Loslngi Faith In Marl5 I Hanna and HIS
Methods--The, Danger Signal Flying -
Assets Are ShrinkingVCannot Grasp
.tha Fact That There Is a Corner.
(By Eugene Bloodgood Beb-e.)

At the end, of the last century heav-
en- seemed tired of. kings, and George
the Third, of Louis XIV. and the aris-
tocracy. of France. Now heaven seems
tired "a of the plutOeracy Of the gold
trust, the sultan, British rule in lndia'
Of the barbarities in Cuba. The spirit
of unrest presides lin the 4.street" with
, q dash, Of iRothschi1d tbitters. The boys
have long since ceased. to imhibe Mark
Hanna's asses milk OrrPulitzer's sooth-
Ing syrup, and the generous. public is
j. not as hungry as Harlem goats for the
goldtintad paper of Lii Hung Chang
Morgan. OF course the street wants
arbitration to placate John Bull and to
induce him to buy Yankee rails. Ha!
ha! think my plan much better. Ii
the street" wants to tap the money
bags of the London Monte Cristomost
effectuallyr it. should erect "a temple at
D., once for the worship Of a statue of her
gracious majesty, the same las They
have in Thibet. This would surely
.pursuade John Bull to open his, royal
bowels of compassion. The spectacle
Of Clure, Morgan. Sage, Conner, Moro
sini and other high priests cfyesgold-
en- calf crawling in and kissingtth big
toe of her majesty would cause the an
gels and tRothsehild' to shed tears oof
Joy. All, then. We should have prop
er arbitration, and John might consent
to establish a Bow protectorate the
same as he has over Egypt over the
Wall street and Oc this country and ap-
point fRothschilds guardian of Uncle
: Sam. 'IThen we should have the mil
llenniur1 indeed, in which the lion and
= the lamb would lie down together with
the latter inside and a temple prob
ably erected to the Jew of the kings
himself. Certain financiers of Canni-
bal alley who howled loudest for gold
and Marx Hanna have succeeded in
plastering John with Wheeling and
p. Lake Erie before it had its recent break
of twenty points. One by one the
roses fall. This is only one of the
weak sisters. The terrific contraction
caused by making all the money of the
country gold and redeemahle in gold is
causing assets and values ito still fur
rther shrink. Gentlemen ,inanciers!
make your little game. You will find
you cannot capitalize deficit, though
Rip Van WinKle Gage may succeed in
doing 1t with the treasury deficit. Look
at Delaware & Hudson, out nearly four
millions since the beginning of Jan
uary, '95. Look at Jersey Central on
the faigh road Cor a twenty point
break, for this road could pay no div
1dend without the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre branch, which is blind pool and
a mystery. Western Union and Man
haitian are also mysteries under the
Morosisi style Of bookkeeping. With
out the mail money it receives from
Uncle Sam, New York Central could
not pay over two per cent Uncle Rus
sell is skinning Manhattan to pay div
idends to the last degree.
Here is an epitaph for the roseate
old boy:
Here lies dear old Shent7per-shent,
The more he made the more he lent
The more he made the more he
shaved
Good God! can such a soul be saved!
'. The Lexow committee have sue
eeeded admirably in advertising the
capacity of sugar" to coin the ducats
and sugar plums. The garlic-scenteo
Pulitzer continues to howl against the
sugar trust as If it had some sepciii
spite against it. What is the sugar
trust in enormity and rapacity COM
pared to the gold trust? The trusts are
creatures of a vicious money system
and they are measures of protection
against the rapacity of this gold trust;
yes;S against failing prices, and the
competition to buy the gold dollar
Within a few days the steel trust has
collapsed and rails are down lower
than. ever. before and wages reduced.
The only way toYstop this intense COM
petition to buy the dollar is to increase
the volume Of money of ultimate re-
demption and then you will have in
creased consumption. rising prices and
CONSEQUENTLY. increased production, so
that one concern cannot control the
total sugar or any other product. To
kill the; trusts increase the production.
The WAg'in Cuba renders it easy to con-
troll tHs Sugar product at the present
timegHS 4.
TheSboys have their spyglasses and
microscopes out again looking for the
Mckinley boom and yet the market
continues to sink.
The fact is. the boys are losing faith
in Mark Hanna and his methods. John
Sherman is the great financial and
Mark the great political tyrant of this
country; Wall street Sees the danger
signals tout. There is likely to be
music at Washington as well as in
New York The major is already in hot
water. The little minds of the street
are apt to magnify mosquito into an
elephant, but they cannot grasp big
ideas. They do not understand the
fell Vaccinations of the gold trust, but
they do see that assets are shrinking,
as Mr.. Bryan says. They cannot grasp
the fact that there Is "a corner in
gold" but some of them know that GER
tain parties in the street have from If
ty to seventy-ive millions of legal ten
dars boarded to draw out gold when