The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 11

SRR : Whang! wnang! whang! Clinkety-clink-clink! Merrily ring the hammers on the anvil. Pretty soon, SMASH! Hammer busted. . Grab. another hammer; off again! Whang! whang! whang! Clinkety-clink-clang! Pretty soon, SMASH! Hammer busted again. Run get 1 it another one and start again. Whang! whang! whang! i 2 : : o = e, What’s all the noise about? Oh, just the busy little knockers trying to crack that hard old nut, the Nonpartisan League. And now the e B hammers are all smashed and lying in fragments on the ground. “What's the use?” say most of the knockers. They’ve all quit and gone away. | No, not quite all. Here’s Old Guilty coming with a pick. He takes two or three big swipes at it. His pick comes down—-smash! on the vil. Now that’s broken, too. Did you ever see the like? The farmers smile serenely. Looks like Big Biz would have to hire another blackst ; e . e (Editorial in New York World) © e A A resoluti ted tim instructing the Federal world over, is a betting market.. To a certain itisar © A as to cover the.wheat situation at Chicago and passed. =~ = - . | ' Ll . Meat and its products are tangible articles of commerce at I f Chicago, but the wheat that is dealt in there is mostly imaginary. o Before the European war began, the receipts of actual wheat at dlemen Chicago had been running for some years between 25,000,000 and ex 35,000,000 bushels, much of it for local consumption. They are - considerably. larger now,-but most of the time when the gamblers of the Board of Trade are buying and selling the entire Crop every thirty days the real wheat in store at Chicago amounts only to a nu . few million bushels. e i Gl rathr th " The so-called Chicago market, vihich affects prices for food the