Thomas County cat., 1890-03-06
The Ludell Gazette of March col


useful Legislation, laws beneficial te
their interests, at once. No man in
Kansas so much desires to serve this
people faithfully and well as does oul
present congressman. He is now
ready for the work. He has defin.
ite policy. The people can easily un,
derstand what Mr.. Turner desires to
accomplish, and his denomination
would not be experimental, but on the
contrary it would be an omen of the
accomplishment of definite results in
legislation. He will soon introduce
in congress measure compelling the
foreclosure of mortgages in the coun-
ty in which the real estate is situated.
The money sharks of the country, re-
siding in other states than that in
which their land is situated, often
take advantage of their non-residence
by bringing actions of foreclosure in
the United States courts, often hun
dreds of miles from the land affected
by the suit, instead of bringing them
in the local courts in the neighbor-
hood of the land, thus causing the
MORTGAGE, although he may have a
just defense, an amount of money in
attending the distant court, to defend
his rights, nearly equal to his equity
in the property in litigation. This
legal, though outrageous manner of
procedure, often results in the man
of limited means being deprived of
his property on account of his inabili-
ty to defend his rights and causes it
to be gobbled up by the greedy non-
resident Shylock without price or con-
sideration.
Mr.. Turner proposes that the SER
vice disability pension bill shall pass
the house at an early date during the
present session. He, like all other
patriotic Americans, feels that we owe
n debt of something more than graft
tude to the men who defended our
flag against the legions of the most
gigantic rebellion of modern times.
The patriotism, fortitude ahd nerve of
the men that fought with Washington
for the creation of our government
was not deteriorated in their posterity
that fought with Grant and Sherman
o save it. If the first were rewarded
for their sacrifices in the interests of
their country, why should not the sol
diers of the Union in like manner be
for their heroic sacrifices
and services during the Nations peril?
Mr.. Turner says the time has come.
The republican party, the party that
saved the Union from ignominious
destruction. has the power ard if she
fails to use it in the interests of our
battle-scared veterans, she is not
worthy to retain what the people have
given her. This bill, if enacted, will
bring into the state of Kansas annual
ly So, 100000 additional pention
money which will enable many an old
soldier in the winter of life to lift the
mortage from his farm that now rend-
ers his life one of discomfort, and eau
Sc his declining years to be those of
peace and prosperity.
Mr.. Turner, in common with other
members from the west, is now assur-
ed of the passage, at an early date, Of
a bill providing for an unlimited COIN
age of silver. This enactment alone
will produce an annual expansion of
our currency to the amount of $50, 900,
900 and forever loosen the grip of the
money power upon the industries of
our common country. Then demand
will trnly regulate the supply. Mr..
Turner himself has already introduced
a bill, aud is industriously urging its
passage to issue $3.50, 100000 of
green-backs to take the place of the re-
tiring bank notes and thus prevent a
forced contraction of the currency.
Farmers are not these measure in the
interest of the debtor of the west. and
would not their enactment be the com.
mecnoment of the return of industrial
activity the country over? Many of
our people do not seem to understand
and realize the fact that the present
hard times are due to the rulnous pol
icy of the democratic party in forcing
a constant contraction of the currency
during their four years of power. As
Mr. Turner said some time since in
relation to this matter, the cause and
effect do not come together, sut We
are realizing the latter in Kansas,
which is not felt in sections remote
from commercial centres for sometime
after the occurrence of the fromer.
Another measure that Mr.. Turner
is urging to an early passage is the
matter of the reduction of double
minimum land to s125 per acre.
Farmers, can you say that E. j. Turner
is man without policy? Can you
say truthfully that his continuance in
the councils of the Nation is not de-
manded in your interests. He is a
man of measures and not of words.
He is not>a bellows that gives forth
only win when the lever is pulled, but
he is the making of a heavy weight