Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-19
An open Appeal TO Communlstic
PreJudfces


banker and money lender He has lent
great deal of money to working men ana
others to build houses, and since the panic
has had to foreclose q great many mort
cages on such properties or probably lose
his money. A correspondent Of the Gin
cinpati Commercial has been porting
over the county records at Iodianap.
oils. and has discovered that
Mr. English mas, during the past three
years, brought one hundred and eighty-sx
suits for judgement and foreclosure of
mortgages, and that he has added to this
the heinous offence of himself buying in
forty-two of the properties. Worse, and
more OF it! He actually obtained such of
tn. SO ropeiiies as he did get at less than
the amounts for which they were mort
gagged Again it is alleged that he was
guilty OF the shameful act of buying
property offers d for sale because of delin-
quency in the payment of taxes, despite
the fact that this was very unpopular with
the dehnquent1.
This is certainly terrible showing in
the eyes of the communists. Here is |
rich man who was guilty of the crime of
lending money to a large number of his
fellow citizaps TO enable them to buy homes.
This was not enough, but he had the impu-
dence TO collect of these people the inter
est they had agreed to pay him, and when
| the panic threw people, who had miscalcu.
lated their ability to pay, behind in their
interest, after waiting nearly four years,
the wretched man proceeded to foreclose
his mortgages He was guilty of almost
| as vicious conduct, it will be seen, as the
loan associations of our own city, com
posed mostly of working men, which have
been pursuing the same tactics. Like the
latter, also, he does not appear
t, have the properties thrown
on the market, and when the
price was bid up to a sum equal
ing the mortgage he appears to have let
the property 30, only purchasing those for
which nobody else would give as much as
he had voluntarily loaned upon them.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes a
detailed list of all such suits and gives the
names of the defendants. The New York
Tribune reprints it with q great flourish
Of trumpets. aud in double columns
Both papers evidently consider the dis
closure most damaging one, and unhesi-
tatii,gly q, peal on the record, as they
make it up, to the prejudices of those who
believe that "base is the slave who pays, "
and infamous beyond endurance the man
hocompsls any one to pay. We seriously
ask honest business men what they think
of such taeticsS Think about it and con-
slider the probable result in the long run
of contest between the politicians Of the
two parties in the liue which these two
papers have thus mark d out. How dc
you think goa you'd be pleased with the
final resell
OF course every one Knows thai il il
were proposed TO apply sach ideas tc
themselves, every business man in this
land would revolt against the thought 2nG
. denounee it as a suggestion of crime. Blu
it cannot be denied that they do at leas
} conrive at the use Of such d magogy a
. an instrument to use against their oppo
u nents. R4te is the New York Tri5Hne
known prostitute of principe
for hire an undisgaisea yeadarer I,
u passion ald power, which boasts Of it
growing Circulation among business meI
y and processes to particularly represent th
u honest money sentiment of the country
y 1t manifests not only willingness bu
= eagerness TO sacrifice not only all Its ow
y past professions but national unity an
II fraternal feeling tor the benefit of tn
10 party 10 which rs base editor has hire
. himself. IL now goes d ptep tnrtht
~ and offers up property and order to ZEE
ie the fame of itd bate on the altar {
10 passions and yet "buslness men" smil
u and if they do not applaud, at least do 1t
protest. Have they thought what thei
will be loft for them to appeal
lie in casa this spirit their orgai
ly are evoklng turns against them
lie it is all right to appeal to communist
he pre- iudce agalIs. William IL. English b
rs, cause he has collected debts due him, is
of right to appeal to it against any otter mt
We who has done the sane thing, and
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