Show CAUSE OF THE PANIC strawberry STRAW CERRY KILL HLL IS FLAT BROKE AND WEEPING BILL EXPLAINS it tariff ur or lack of confidence I 1 but just plain aai x by abo be 11 derson who alio GIVES alv up op III big gains gain and pence peace is restored Ro copi I 1 by charles B D lewis things were not going right at straw I 1 hill there were miners of 0 us but bat money kept getting tighter and scarcer and by and by nobody had a dollar to i lend came along and offered to work tor for 13 12 cents centa a lay day but nobody could coald hire birr atheni find and the who owed the price of a plug of tobacco was donned dunned until be was mad enough to tight fight we ve differed ns as to the cause but bet all agreed grIt griebat that bat it a financial panic was at baud and that speedy steps stepa must be I 1 if we rould wyril it ost off therefore on a saturday aft atac ernson we held a public meeting to devise ways und means abe first speaker was old jim white who lied had once beca baca a ju justice of the peace in wisconsin and was supposed to know all about financial panics when he was pushed forward he said id A month ago it e was livin lii in under the sacred sacred of these united with money as plenty KB is atlea 4 ou on a dawg we are now livin eivir under the sanio same sacred but so flat brol bro 0 o e thal thai its useless fur the storekeeper to tap that last barl 0 whisky lf this so sop if some mitter critter has bin boolin with our finan shut shul policy abos the a aiau Dawg gona one mo me if I 1 kin bin make nia ae it antill out T then herit lie he gave place to judge tomp hins 1 who bad failed in the grocery business la in iowa and was consequently looked up op to and who said clitis jest way all to once we has plenty of anorio money and all to once we cint cant raise a blamed cent whence this stringency in the money market t rev hev we ire over produced und and thus caused stag la it the tariff isit la it want ot confidence in the stability OI of L our conr government duni my hide bide but its beland MCI me when the panic struck me in the grocery bitne sR gf I 1 failed and made a 8 clean 1500 butchen but when this ere panic sot in I 1 fail fur a sh abil lin the ichird si sneaker leaker was a chap familiarly kno known tau as weeping bill he did the crying tor for tho who whole lo 10 camp bad back in the states bior his wife ran away with a root doctor A oc antl and he be was waa so affected by it that he coald nt read an almanac without weeping of a sunday afternoon we used to vet get out a newspaper aud and start him to read mad t X ib PK HALF A MINUTE FOP AVE avgerin EriN I 1 laig in t the ile mortgage sales and stray mule notices lotic cs and he be would asri ep over tb atheni as if they led had been heartbreaking tales ot of william expected the call lie ha w aped tears from his eyes and pegan began fellow countrymen this is a sed sad ocea occa shun short rod and I 1 cannot restrain my m tears several era eminent speakers hev bev stood here and stated the case and asked the cause excuse these teera tears we hev a financial panic what beung her on and what is ia the remedy I 1 feel fee to weep I 1 do weep the cause se of this ere panic is ns as plain its as the nose on hank jacksons face and the remedy kin be applied in 15 dinits A month ngo ago a stranger earn cum among us hold on ti till ll 11 I 1 wipe these blindin tears away lies here yil iles hes right in this crowd and his bis cognomen it ha be abe ll enderson I 1 he cum a mong among us liko like tho the sort soft sleek sly sar Bar pint nod and within a week lie had and larned lamed everybody evey body in this camp to play poker geranie gamme half a linit fur keepin we liked the gime garne wo we liked that part called bluff those 0 of ns who had the most bluml gradually cleaned out the others and a week ago ali the money in this camp was in the tha pockets of tom wallace and the undersigner undersigned under in signed sense smore tears three days day ago wo ave tot hot down with that soft sleek sly sara vir pint idt previously and nd inside of two hours he had cleaned ng as 0 out nt its Is it any wonder weve welve got a finan g hul panic when hes got all the cash fur miles around its no lack ot of col confidence lift and no fault in of the sacred conati fushun tho the cause causa is right here and cant be disputed again I 1 scap then you yon ask what ar the remedy plain as that II 11 hill I 1 over tharl I 1 WO we must make abe handerson Hc knell out that money and divide her up pro rots rata and live five later the panic will be gone and peace and plenty will prevail it was the thing to do and it was done abe was ahr thrown wu down and sat mat ou on and the motley money divided and the first and only panic which ever struck strack strawberry hill passed away without leaving is a wreck bo be hind bind |