Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-10-10
har~ on the Republicans.

on the W0pOObC0Uos
:, In Globe Republican comes forth
q Is week in an editorial three columns
long, in which it shows up what q Kan
sas republican Legislature has fastened
upon the people. Here, for instance,
is a graphic description Of the iniqui.
ties of the laws relating to int rest on
tax sale certificates:
at seems the height Of nonsense to
establish rate of interest at twenty
four psr cent. when the best Of securi-
ty in the world is given the investor for
his money. Every tax sale in the coun-
ty is attended by quarrels between
parties anxious, crazy to invest in the
certificates, which the poor farmer,
laboring man and all others whom the
hard times in Kansas has found un-
able to pay their taxes when due, must
see his taxes doubling up or him at
the rate of two per cent. per month
while in fact the law compels him to
give a mortgage on his home which
will be foreclosed in three years if not
redeemed"
This law is the offspring Of . repub'
lican legislature, and J. L. Finley is
dyed in the wool believer in his party's
doctrines. No one can consistently
blame men fofinvesting in these certi-
ficates. It is the LAW that is wrong,
not the men that exercise its freedom.
G.. NJ. Hoover is the largest landed
proprietor in Ford county, and his in
terests are necessarily with the land
holders.
The Globe again turns loose its bat
tries on the laws enacted by republic
cans, as follows:
"Under our present methods quarter
sections of land are often bid in for
$50, under judgment Of $500 or 81
600 and the balance of said judgment
stands against the man who made the
mortgage.
This is true-every word Of it, and
we ask the Globe who is responsible
for these laws? Mr.. Finley is = repub-
lican, and he will as a matter of course
train with his party. If the republi-
cans have put such iniquities on the
people as the above the chances are
against their reforming the abuses. If
Mr. Finley was running as an alliance
candidate, opposed to thssc laws there
would be consistency in bringing these
issues before the people; but to advo
cate the election of republican to re-
peal laws that have been enacted by the
republican party seems an absnrdity.
The Globe fooiishly states that Mr..
Hoover as president of the Pioneer
Loan and Trust Compay is opposed to
the repeal of these laws. It is un-
necessary for US to refute this state
ment as Mr.. Hoover has came forth
and enunciated his position on these
questions in a manner as fearless as it
is unequivocal. But there are q few
assertions made by our contemporary
that will bear revision. We might
consistently come back at the Globe
and accuse it of wilffully classifying,
but the chickering's Of the papers are of
no moment to the voters. The Globe
says Mr.. Hoover now helds SIS, 900
in tax sale certificates. Mr.. Hoover
holds but 81, 900 in tax sale certificates
and S., 600 of this amount is on land
on which the Pioneer Loan & Trust
Company has mortgages. the purchases
being made to protect the company's
interests. The company is paying
SIS, 900 yearly in taxes on land in
which it is interested. Who, as
matter or fact,-is most interested in
low taxation, Mr.. Finley, not paying
single dollars taxes, or Mr.. Hoover,
who is the mainstay of this company,
paying $4,000? Who is the more in
terestd in the reduction of the rate of
interest on tax sale certificates, Mr..
Finley, who, his organ says, may, pos
sibly, at some period have to pay in
terest on one tax sale certificate,
or Mr.. Hoover, who in a position
as the largest financial hacker of com
pany already paying immense sums out
to protect itself?