Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01

The PhillipSburG Herald published
a supplement last week contain ng the
Republican platform in about twenty
planka, each plank commencing;
1.-The American Free Hold Mortgage
Conn, ny of London, Limited, w,
John smith and Mary Smith Of Phil
lips county, Foreclosure.
THE Scottish American Mortgage
Co. VS. Henry Williams and Ellen
Williams Of Phillips county, Foreclos-
ure."
The Herald is q red hot political pa
per and uses knock-dOWn arguments
~ will be seen by parts of its p atform
quoted above Independent.
Thank you, brother Lam. It will
be seen that these Mortgage Compan-
les are British Freetrade fellows, and
rs such we don't have much use for
them. They are your kind, and we
wonder how it was that you did not get
these notices, as we understand that
these are the same fellows that YOU
bought tax titles for during the Sept.
sales, using county orders in payment
for that YOU had bought at from 80 10
s. cents on the dollar. which discount
you We're able TO pocket by dint of
your fight against funding the county
debt, which failure to fund made it
possible for you TO make that little
speculation at the expense Of the peO-
pic who had to sell their orders at a
discount which you p0cketed. No,
Liam, it was your platform, not mine,
not the Republican platform. 1t was
in the interests OF this platform that
you were acting when you recommended
the people to undertake to pay the
county debt in two years, when Won
we'll knew that such "a course would
cause men tn let their lands for tax
or compel them to borrow money a n
high rate Of interest to pay said taxes
with. OF course such Il policy would
facilitate your tax title business and
enable you to get many II poor fellows
farm for the taxes and the benefit
to Won would be
nothing short of upmistakaDo but then
how about the other fellows Y s Lam it
is your platform, you have been doing
all you could To bring about the state of
affairs that make your business good
But what else could be expected of a
man who knows no law self agrAndis-
mont, no principle but deception, no
zeal but to mislead the people and build
yourself APP at their expense. to mis!ead
them as to their interest, to deceive
! as to your purposes, to educate men to
be dishonest By trying to make them be-
lieve that they haze right to disregard
the rights of others, and refusing to pay
what they should pay, and that in many
cases to their own prejudice and great
! loss, you go about the country bowling
| about monopolies for effect, while you
yourself are the subservient tool Of mo-
nOpOlies riding over the railroads on q
pass, going to Chicago as an anti mo-
nOpOlist on a pass furnished by the very
monopoly you pretend to be fighting,
''Oh consistency, thou art a jewel"
No Lam it amt our platform it is
yours. We understand that the indie
pendent outfit were IN the loaning bust
ness, they made s0me loans and every
last one of them have been foreclosed
! We also have made some loans and less
than one out of one hundred have beer
foreclosed, and then only in cases where
they have fed the country, and it has
been necessary in order to get title. We
are willing to stand by a comparison o
our record by the side of man VIII,
would beat the county out of 81 cents a
an expense of five dollars, or put in du
phcate bills for fees in criminal case