Nevada County picayune., 1890-04-23

the following, which we propose to expose as a gross deception:
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 "Hon, E. F.. White has finished l the census of mortgages onreal estate ! in Nevada county. He reports 1909. So you see the devil-tish has about half our farms in his clutches. Add to this the ravages of the anaconda, and you have a country fairly work ing with British blood sucking mOn- sters. The fate of such people is inevitable. The day of foreclosure, eviction and serfdom will soon roll up. British landlords and pauper foreign slave labor will desescrate the homesteads that were once the cradle of liberty. The graves of your noble sires will fall into the hands of those who will trample them in fendish delight. An! your lead CTS endorsed the Hazard circular. (See Hamptom's letters, Bayard's speech, Cleyeland's s message, Man ning's report, etc.) And you blind ly followed your leaders and bowed your necks to the Hazard yoke. How will you cast off this yoke? You will have to face Winchester rifles.
 Capt. Anslcy must have known he was misrepresenting facts, when he wrote the above, because he knew Hon. E. E. Whites investigations as to mortgages ran over a period of ten years, while the British loan companies have been operating here only a few years, and it is generally known only a small per cent of the many who apply for loans from them secure same.
 Now, for the facts as they really are. From close scrutiny of the county records, and at the loan of fees, we learn only 10 mortgages have been given to the foreign loan associations, and of this number 9 have been paid off-all that have come to maturity-without single foreclosure; the other 59 have not fallen due vet Of all the loans made at least half of them were given to secure money to pay balance Of purchase money due on land, and to these it has been blessing. Again, from the Deputy Clerk we learn there are only about 200 or 250 real estate mortgages on record, not marked satisfied, inclusive of the 69 spoken of above to foreign loan as- sociations. So, then, instead of the 1909 mortgages held by "British l blood-Sucking monsters" there are really less than 100 in their hands, only 200 on record, now unsat- islied, in all. However, If Capt. Ansley comes within 940 of stating the truth in this matter, we suppose it matters not to him, so it is made to serve his purpose, in causing blind prejudice and ignorance to follow his leadership. His false in- situations about prominent Demo- crats, disclose too plainly his inten- uons-to deceive men into voting against Democracy. He cares not for the truth, or how its perversion brings the good name of our county and her intelligent, industrious peo- pie into disrepute abroad, so he can but gain little self-imagined politi- cal advantage over his opponents.
 The farmers of this county do not stand in need of a guardian to trans act their business for them-dictate as to when and from whom they may borrow money. While we dol not ap- prove the indiscriminate borrowing of money, (from any source) 1t IS sometimes a good thing, and we are of the opinion the farmers can judge as to whether or not it is best for themselves, as we do for ourself.
 As usual, Capt. Ansley winds up with insurrectionary advice. This needs no comment, more than we've used heretofore.
 Intelligent, manly men are fast be- coming disgusted with Capt. Ansley and his co-leaders, for resorting to such low and despicable falsehoods, to prejudice and deceive minimizing men into going into error blind folded.
 Congress is plodding away, doing little save passing bills giving pen sions, and extravagantly disbursing the peoples money. The edict has