The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-11

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TIEtTALLLANCE LEGISLATURE
Our comments on the letter of the
Kinsley correspondent to the Eugle |
seems to have STIRRED up that gentle /
mans bile, and caused him to rake f.
over his old Capitals 10 lind enough OF
that journals characteristic epithets
to apply to the peoples party. His
political pabuluf1 is evidently confined
to the dainty bits lie finds in such
papers, and the knowledge he has of
the proceedings OF the legislature, is
evidently only what is dOled out to him
through their columns. We venture
the assertion that he never saw copy
of the railroad bill that passed tie
House, and that all he knows of its
contents is the meagre and distorted
account of it given by the Plutocratlc
papers. If he were not utterly ignOr-
ant OF the character OF the bills
passed by the House, he. would not say
that what good bills the House did
pass were also passed by the Senate
i number of bills rejected uy the Sell
estC hDAl Ee-sa9A ~ -AAC LUBE LAAaAL
received nearly all the republican. as
well as the ALLAN e votes Of the House.
One was a bill to regulate the sale
of personal property upon foreclosure
OF chstteI mortgage, aud among
other provisions for the protection of
the rights Of the mOrtgagor, required
that The property should be appraised
and should not be sold for less than
two-thirds OF the appraised value.
This bill was introduced by George
Douglass, the republican member from
Sedgwick county, and was supported
by Judge Webb, the republican mem
Der from Shawnee.
Another was the bill to repeal the
law permitting Il mOrtgagor to waive
appr,lisement Of the mortgaged prem
ises on sale on execution. Under the
present law farm worth 50, 900 zlay
be bid in at sherifs sale for 81 900 by
the mortgage. and large judgment
| dOcketed against the owner. The bill
referred to, remedied that hardship by
requiring the appraisal of the property
and that it should not be sold for less
IAAtA'' "a ZIG az EsAetA9pA NGhAAE
| a similar bill, at the beginning Of the
session, was passed by the Senate, but
before it could be acted on by the
House, was recalled by the Senate and
killed.
If we had space and time, we could
give the gentleman the titles and num-
/ bers of a large number Of bills passed
by the House bat defeated in the Sen
ate, that would have corrected many
evils that now exist in our state laws,
The fact alone that the gentle
man applies such epithets as
''Wild-eyed Lecturers. - and other like
| terms to the speakers who are discus
sing the great economic questions of
| the day before the people, shows that
he is Il back number who knows prac-
tically nothing of the great questions
that are being discussed by reading
and thinking people all over the civil
| lied world, nor of the state of eulight-
ened public opinion on these questions.
How different from the frOthy full
limitations of the fossilized addiehead
that runs the Topeka Capital, and the
Infantile limitations of the same that
emanate from his special correspond
ents throughout the state, were the
scholarly profound, and digniGed
utteFances of DR., McVicar, the presi-
dent of Washburn college, at the
Congregational church last Sunday
morning. Such men as Or. McVicar
know that the great changes that have
taken place in industrial conditions
throughout the civilized world, the
last few years, have caused social
problems to arise that were never
dreamed of by our forefathers, and
require new adjustments, 20 be made
to correspond with these changes if
our civilization is to continue.
Such men also recognize that the
people who are most injuriousIy
affected by the evils that admittedly
exist in our present social system, and
also the great minds of the country
who are investigating these questions,
are earnestly and in good faith seeking
the true solution of the problems, they
| therefore treat the opinions and views
of others on these great questions with
respect and consideration even though
they may not endorse their views as
to the proper remedies for the evils.
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