Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-29
KLRWIN ITEMS

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To the Editors of the HERALD:
This part of the county has not
been heard from for some time
through your paper. Let me give
you a few items.
McGinty Band will have a grand
ball at the opera house in this city on
Thursday evening, Nov. 5.
Our merchants are enjoying a good
trade and are so encouraged by the
future business outlook, Regardless
of the fact that the Alliance has run
the credit of the state down to a very
low estimate) that they are daily adj
ding to their already large stocks.
They all believe there IS soon to be a
change IN their line for the better.
The political pot is boiling hot, the
mustard seeds" are mad; their
schemes are old and gone to rot, which
makes them feel so sad; and as we
look over the field and see the big lit
tie bosses who now control the once
glorious old party of Lincoln and
Garfield, we feel like shedding tears
for it. Once so grand, but now even
a memory branded with the fact that
we once voted for such unprlncipled
blatherskites as George L. Anthony,
and others of his vindictive nature,
makes us ashamed of our past as
voter.
They howl "calamityr' and with up
lifted hands say we are regulators,
and some of these most bitter against
the Peoples movement, who call us
regulators, are even plotting now to
keep from paying their just share of
the public burden. sob, consistency.
thou art a jewel" When the mort
cages are referred to as a just cause
for calamity bowling, they will ans
wer you something like the following
which we take from the n. Y. Irib-
ltIle, and which is found copied YER
batim in the Topeka Capital, the
Kansas boss bible:
"One would think to hear these
men talk that the farms of the United
States had been mortgaged entirely
without the consent of their owners.
One would think that some hobgoblin
or other mysterious being had been
stalking over the country, and every
time he caught farmer with his back
turned had been clapping a mortgage
onto his farm entirely unknown to the
farmer himself"
No one would think anthlng of the
kind. It must be remembered that
every time farmer borrows money,
whether on mortgage security or not,
when pay day comes, he finds his
ability to pay diminished hU - ooso
w "r made hn% m"- :, nave purpose
~. Hi"''0 ley dear, so it Is next to
-. possible for him to pay off his
mortgage. To illustrate: A farmer
borroWs money on mortgage when
wheat is worth $500 bushel. If he
should Immediately pay it off, bush
el of wheat would wipe out $500 o.
that debt. He little dreams that wher
pay day comes, it takes two bushels
to pay a debt which he might have
cancelled with one half the amount OF
the start The people want a stoI
put to this robbing them continual,
of the power to pay their debts, anC
they are going to have it done.
Street gossip is continually goiDi
on by the advocates of the old part.
regarding the merits of the seYera
candidates for Office. We have moth
ing to say in the shape of mud-sling
Ing rs bll6 OppO5lbAOA Hcto. VIC wa
say, however, as all the fight seems t
have been concentrated on the otic'
of treasurer, that Mr. Mercer receiv
ed q majority of the votes of the con
: vention and we should stand by him
If we should let our personal feeling
for any candidate dictate a vote i
that direction, we have forgotten th
? principles as Alliance men we ar
) sworn to protect.
? Our county committee has investl
> gated the charges against MIR. Mel
t Ger, and find them to be false. The
again, will we as farmers and labor
= ers turn away from a farmer cand
. date, and give our votes to a banke
r and bankers pet; to one who
? schooled in the tricks that are sly an
!. the ways that are dark for deceiyln
: the people. We think not.
j Let MS all go to the polls next Tue
s day aud vote for a principle. remen
: bering that failure to do SO weaken
n our cause just half vote and injure
= us Just SO much in the great fight fe
d justice in 1892.
: Yours for the right.
4 Y1SpIcAToR.