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257 SEiVBNTBEINTH. AS IT WAS Kansas and Nebraska — SjrnQnym for disaster, To mortgage plaster By financial master. BUT NOW Her banks are not of sand, But sound to beat the band: So cripple her if you can, Mr. Wall Street Man! A GCOD joke! ' The above: "So cripple her if you can, Mk. "WAiiL StRBBT Man," was written before Thursday, Novem- ber 7, 1907, on which day all banks in Kansas, and for that matter every bank and trust company in the United States shut down and refused to permit their depositors to draw out to exceed $5.00 or $10.00. This was necessitated by the action of thei Wall street financiers and New York banks refusing to allow the currency in their vaults being paid out — thus demon- strating the power still wielded by a few men in New York city. YOU may be sure the next morning all were busy, from the highest to the lowest. The General with orders, but mostly with friendly greetings to the many kind chil- dren of the plains with whom he had become acquaint- ed. Chief Tatarrax did everything known to, him to