[Ads-l] Throwing a Monkey Wrench and Sabotage

[Peter Reitan]

Nice find. Thank you.

What's interesting here is that this citation also involves the so-called "free silver" debate that Governor Shaw was involved with four years later.  Coincidentally (or not, perhaps), one of the men prominently mentioned in the article is a Congressman from Iowa.  Sadly, however, the writer only says that Bland was "charged" with being  "in the position of a man who threw a monkey wrench into a threshing machine" - but does not tell us who made the charge.


In any case, it appears that the metaphor was floating around in political/finance circles for several years before Shaw received so much praise for using it.

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