| Show WALL MALL STREET AND THE COUNTRY I The Nation of New York after quoting from a country p contemporary that that Wall street is no longer loner long lon H er able to corner the currency situation sn says It HIt is seen een that nothing is so fluid and sensitive as H capital pital that a great croat shock hock to credit in ono one part of tic r country is certain to be bo reflected elsewhere o OH o are arc nil at 1 hound bound u up in the same name bundle financially as al well as ns call cally fence Hence it was that the thc boastfulness s of western newsPapers newspapers news papers l died Nl on their lips as they saw mw tho the conditions condition in in cw York reproducing themselves es el in in Chicago o and md Sau ban I Pr in Oregon and aud Oklahoma Wall street has of course cours it its times time of ot senseless g speculation of or which the tips ups and iDd downs down may not immediately signify but when through h a long lone period pc pe Tio tho the Wall Mall street barometer is set for foul weather prudent people everywhere e make read ready to go 0 in in out of the tho rain Precisely It was quite natural perhaps for country papers looking at the wheat crop the corn COln I crop crop the cotton crop the crop of or gold metals metals gold silv silI sil- sil v I ver yer copper lead and the rest rest to to feel that if the stock sharps on Wall Tall street were having a bull and bear fight the outside countr country was not much concerned concerned concerned con- con because the did not know that the they prudent pru pru- dent people who were better posted had already I gone gone in out of the rain and right in New York I City they thep had locked up perhaps Nor T did they y realize that some half dozen en cor copper pcr kings had determined to smash the whole interest for the time being to line their own pockets and to gain control of some properties which they coveted eted nor that the United States Steel trust had determined to to- take in the Tennessee Iron Coke and Coal holdings holdings holdings hold hold- ings to get a dangerous rival out of the way Certainly Certainly western and southern men have been deplorably de- de ignorant but they are gaining in wisdom fast and are reasoning this way What kind of Jf financiers are those New York magnates that draw the surplus money moner of the country to them and then make a club of it to beat out each others other's brains and incidentally in doing it give gie the whole republic republica a black eye 7 Is it not time for an income tax a progressive progressive pro pro- siYe one oile one up to confiscation when profits reach a certain amount The west is solvent what sense senses sense's js s 's there in making the great republic a football for forthe forthe the black guards foul tackles backs and pl playing Jing l low lot lotof w of Wall Vall street to exercise on 7 There is no wa way to curb the toughs tough in that game save fae through taxation and the p penitentiary Of cour course e the average of them is made up of goodmen good goodmen men but a little lump of str strychnine as ns big as a pea will embitter a barrel of water and just now the bitter hitter pill of Wall Vall street is embittering the nation and md some adjustment should be reached to make such things impossible And so soon as possible the west est should draw away from that c cyclone clone center and fix its business on calmer lines Still the trouble came originally from the prudent people hurrying to H get get in out of the rain by bp locki up their surplus funds |
