Show SO SOON FORGOTTEN FOR dOTTEN some weeks ago there was quite a furore in the press over it the supposed movement to curb or put an end to short selling in wall street and other exchanges like most movements in behalf of the average citizen it appears to have died a natural death if a farmer sells and receives pay for a thousand bushels of wheat which he does not possess and can cat not deliver the fellow from whom he received the is boin money choing g after that farmer with a sharp stick in one hand and the law in the other it is obtain obtaining inix money under false pretenses but if a gambler in wall street sells a thousand bushels of wheat which he does not own and can can nob deliver that is called short selling and he is allowed ollo werl to squirm out of the hole bole the best pst way he can nothing bothin No thin is ever done to him SQ so far a as the law is concerned if a hungry man s teals steals a chick chicken pil and is caught he lieis is sent to tail jail but wall street gamblers can fllch filch millions mil liong from other beat down the price of farm products at the psychological moment and roh rob farmers of other millions and it is called trading trad intz on the exchange chango ex the poor pool chicken thief is is just a thief because he has no bonev and no influence the wall street robber is a trader because he has both bonev and ail influence our national scheme of right and justice is certainly good to the 1 ellow fellow with a pull whether he ba be an lien honest nian or the biggest out aut of hell |