Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-02-26

credit Of Kansas Is being destroyed
that our people are getting bad name
that II has become necessary TO with
draw money from the state and to stop
lending to our people, and this by rea-
son OF the course pursued by-arst the
Peoples party In the late campaign, ana
second, by its representatives now In
the Legislature. This is not onlywrong,
but It Is tinged with spirit OF hatred
and malice. II comes from the spirit
Of the money-changers." The Peoples
party is made up very largely OF farm
ers. About 90 per cent. OF the present
House OF Representives are farmers, and
they are Of that class recognized as hon
orable aud honest, as woll as
intelligent and conservative men. II
is less than two years since these same
men, at least 10 per cent. OF them'
we're members Of the party which has
been In the lead In Kansas ever since
the state was organized Up 10 that
time they we're never accused OF any
thing dishonorable. They were never
charged with any disposition to repudi-
ate their debts or to 10 any way get rid
of their legal obligations. These same
men are now charged with all manner
OF dishonesty, they are designated as
repudiators, and as using the power ol
numbers 10 defraud their creditors out
Of not only remedies but rights
Briefly, 1t is alleged that the members
of the present legislature-nearly all
farmers, and they are representing o
constituency Of farmers-are bent
upon repudiation This Is absolutely
false, and nobody knows It better
than the men who make the charge
They know as well as they know any
thing that the farmers Of Kansas are
more interested In the state than any
other class OF people. They are the
men who know the state; they are the
men who made the farms; they are the
men who have largely paid the taxes tC
build the railroads, the bridges, the
court houses. the school houses and the
churches. These are the men who Of
all others are most interested in keep
ing up the good name OF the state and
preserving its lands for homes for the
people. A time has come in the history
Of these hard-working farmers when
they are unable TO pay promptly the
debts which they owe, debts which
were negotiated by and through these
same loan agents and bankers who are
now running about the country crying
stop thief The writer of this can
name personally bankers and loat
agents who refuse and are now refusing
to lend money to farmers on un
questioned security, Tor no other
reason than to trighten the legis
lature into letting this whole matter
alone and then publish to the world tha
they propose to lend no more money Z
farmers until they see what the Legis
lature propose to do. The writte
knows OF one case where leading bani
OF this city refused paper which
is perfectly good, for no other reason
than because it was intended TO bridg'
some Alliance man over few weeks o
trouble. The note was taken to anoth
er CITY and discounted without hesita
ton, so that 1t is true, and we suppos
It would not be denied by the banker
and loan agents themselves TO any bod
that they are doing it for the reasoi
before stated. We charge /
upon these men that they, and the
alone, are discrediting the State c
Kansas and her people. That they ar
trying to do 1t and that they are doinl
II with malicious intent, and tha
their object is to browbeat, to intimi
date, to terrorize the people 70
that is the spirit the money
changer.
The members Of the legislature ar
men OF nerve as we'll as Of brains. The
know that the interests OF this beaut
i,ll State OF ours, with all it's gloriou
history, In their keeping That II
farmers OF Kansas, and the mechanic
and the laborers and the working mas
es generally, with the merchants an
legitimate traders, will In the futur
govern here. The day OF the politi
clan Is past Money will be dethroneo
II the fight Is 10 be forced, we, the pee
pie are ready for It. II we cannot d
any better we can let our homes g
and we can afterwards, when none
becomes plenty and cheapw, hieh it wi
In a few years, buy our home
back again and have plent
Of time IN which to pay f
them. The rule Of the money power i
Kansas Is to end. The politician is t
be rslsgated 10 the rear, and the pee
pie themselves are to take care Of the
own interests. These people are hone
people, they are farmers and are worl
ers, they have no sort Of disposition
get rid Of any Just obligation, they wai
to pay every debt that they owe, an
they want to pay It according to the lie
ter and spirit Of the contract. They G
not ask for any abatement. What the
do want Is money with which TO pa
their debts, and they want it at ra
which they can AFFORD 10 pay. Let
BE- known that at l2 o'clock
any day money could be obtaine
at a convenient place with whi'
to pay the debts now due, the ST
Of the next day would not have pass
beyond the horizon before every de
would be paid. But we ask for mon'
and we are refused-refused by our
tionAl legislature, composed OF m'
charged with taking care OF the publ
interests. We are refused by the We
men who have negotiated the loa
which are pressing US now. We
denounced repudiators when all II
world knows that 1t is absolutely impo
Sible for US TO either pay or renew
Whan the leCislatlre proposes that IL