Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-05-14

WiltefS una speakers 10 reap harvest
out of the mlsfortunes OF their fellow
men, That Is written with special re-
ierence TO men who are clamoring about
the financial condition OF the people OF
kanses. They insist, In season and out
OF season, telling II wherever they go,
and wherever they have the means OF
sending their denunciations, that the
farmers alliance and kindered organi-
zations In Kansas are doing all that is
their power To repudiatc their debts
and TO bring odium upon the state and
the people. These fellows know that
what they say in this respect Is not on
ly false In itself and utterly without
foundation bTt that IL is spoken or
written with 4sieliberate intent to de-
ceive the peohe in other parts OF the
country In order that fortune may be
made out OF the deception The mem
bers OF the political organization known
IS the peoples party In Kansas cast
LbOut ll5, 600 votes at the last election
more than one-third the entire vote OF
the state, and yet ii Ii perfectly safe TO
fay that not one person In every one
hundred OF those who voted the peoples
party ticket ever, either publicly or
! privately orally or in writing, expressed
q desire TO repudiate any honest debt
There was nothing in the peoples party
platform, there was nothing in the
speeches OF the recognized leaders OF
the Peoples party, which even
lntimated anything Of the kind.
Our papers have repeatedly, time
and time again, given notice to the
world that they are not repudiators.
Our people utterly despise repudiation
in all its forms. We do not belong to
that class Of men and women, ana yet
many men who cry us down as donna
gogues and cranks and say all manner
OF evil things about US, circulate among
the eastern people and capitalists gener-
nlly, reports that we are trying TO get
rid OF the payment OF our debts. Some
thing, surely, would have cropped out
In the legislature last winter looking
In that directions II there had been any
intention upon the part OF our people 10
ges rid Of paying any dobt that they
honestly owe; yet only one bill was in
troduced which bore even remotely
upon the subject, and that was a propo-
sition TO give to the judgment debtors
an equity OF redemption for two years,
law which was once in force In this
state, and is now in force In many
other states, and ought 10 be in force
everywhere. There was nothing said
about rcpudiating debts then or at an
other time by the members OF that leg
islatme, What they asked for, and
what the people have perfect right to
ask for, is time to pay their debts.
Nothing is more common in business
matters than for debtors 70 ask an ex-
tension OF time when they find It diff
cult TO meet their obligations at ma
turity.
i is well known here and everywhere
that the condition OF the farmers in all
the west has been OF extreme embarass-
ment. and is growing worse rather
than better:but instead OF their propos-
ing to repudiate, they simply ask a lit
tie longer time. No reasonable man
objects TO this; no reasonable man ever
did object to a debtor asking time TO
pay his debt. 1t is only matter of
business between the debtor and the
creditor. We understand very well
that there is no such thing as morality
or sympathy In business. 1t is purely
and coldly dollars and cents. An this |
talk and noise about repudiation in
Kansas comes, as this paper has repeat |
edly charged, from class Of men who |
want TO make money out of the misfor |
tunes Of their fellows. One gentlemen |
in this city took occasion TO brand the /
movement in favor of an equity Of re-
demption rs a reputation OF the con-
tract. He is engaged in the business OF I
lending money; he knows as well as |
any body else does that the people OF /
Kansas have no intention OF repudiat- |
ing their debts; he knows as we'll as the /
rest Of us do that what we want is sim |
ply little time that we may save our |
homes while we are paying our debts. /
This clamor on the reputation string |
will cause an onslaught upon the debt /
ors Of The state by tho owners of money /
through fear that in some way their in I
ycstments are In danger. Then SYM
dicates will be organized for the purpose I
OF purchasing the lands that are sold 1
for a song at foreclosure sales. These |
lands will be put upon the market after.
wards for sale TO farmers from other
parts Of the country who are able to pay
Tor them, or new systems OF landlord /
farming upon an extensive scale will be
adopted, and the present owners, II
they see proper to remain In the
neighhorhood, will be "hired men, or
renters. That will be bonanza farming
when steam plows and threshers are
used; when sixty TO sixty-fye acres OF
wheat can be cut anc threshed in one
day by the use OF a single machine, as
II Is now, and has been done two or
three years in the state OF California.
Many OF the men who now own farms
will from this time on be at the mercy
OF one man or a company OF men able TO
employ a thousand farmers, just as 1t is
with mechanics IN the great factories,
where from 900 to 5000 men arc em-
ploycd, every man working at particu-
lar piece OF wagon, or shoe, or whatever
article is being manufactured.
II Is a serious matter, and the men
who arc bringing this condition OF
things upon US will have more TO
answer for in the time TO come than
they now dream Of. They are vam.
pires upon the body polite. They are
living OF Of the blood and the sweat OF
honest men. They are in all RESPECTS
bad. hold. dangerous men, and unless
the people rise In their majesty and
NOV them down before an indignant
public sentiment, they viii yet be ths
rulers OF the country. Kansas Farmer.