Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1907 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

If you happen to be short of cash, just issue clearing-house certificates. Better get your coffin now. All the lumber will be gone in twenty years! The spool-cotton trust certainly spins a lot of money in the course of a year. “There is need of more currency,” declares the Ncvr York Times. Indisputably! Those big speculative corporations could stand a good many more “resignations. New York is paying 75 cents a dozen foi eggs. How about eggs for a national currency? The old stocking and the tin box are mighty poor places for people to keep their money. Everybody stop worrying; the New York health officer says there is no disease in money. There are lots of things more comfortable than being a Wall street financier these days. Whatever the exact amount the Jamestown Exposition owes, there, is little danger of it being paid. Considering that it has cost us SIOQ,000,000, the Panama canal is not such a big hole in the ground. So many “Napoleons of Finance” have gone down that Wall street must have a large collection of Waterloos. The average man could stand a panic better if the price of bread and meat would fall 10 points at the time. St. Gaudens* woman on the new gold coin ia clad in a war bonnet. Well, woman do most sf the fighting, anyway. ;

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