Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-06-30
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Editorial Tools Insult and Lilo About
the Men Their Masters Have Robbed.
Commenting upon the tabnIated list
of thirty-five combinations published
in The Tribune May s. the Kansas City
Gazette'says:
The statement shows that the E'prigages
property sold for $28 518.57 less thee the f:.ct
Of the mortgages. This means that there wa,
that much more money borrowed than the
property was worth.
The above comment, being quoted ap
provingly by the troglodytic organ OF
stalwart Republicanism of this city
may be fairly quoted as voicing the
sentiment of Republican party leaders
of this county and state. They have
been driven to this extremity in their
vain effort to cover up the crime Of con-
traction of the currency, for which their
party is responsible. Rather than &C
knowledge the truth. they prefer to con.
tend that the owners Of the farms. the
appraisers who certified to property val.
ues under oatli, as well as the agents
who negotiated and guaranteed the
loans, all couspired to defraud the men
who loaned the money. Likewise that
the money loaner was just big enough
fool to allow them to do it. And yet.
by proclaiming to the world that Kan
sas, with its $245, 100000 Of mortgages,
is largely peopled by knaves who will
not pay their debts, these blindly parti-
san leaders absurdly claim to be help
ing Ito redeem the credit of the state :"
Not content with evicting farmers from
their homes, they add insult to injury
by proclaiming that the bone and sinew
Of our state have ''swindled the loan
companies" Ought not Shylock to be
content with the deed to the property he
agreed to receive in case his bt nd was
Forfeit Why then should he hold over
the heads of his victims judgment
which threatens to take from them all
their future earnings until usurious de-
mands are fully satisfied
Shylock takes no risks in any Of the
vicissitudes Of life-ill health or acct
dent, drought or food, wind or storm.
chinch bugs or grasshoppers-his bond
secures him against all these He has
moreover so manipulated the finances
that even a good crop brings the farmer
no surplus cash. Shakespeare's Jew him.
self complained
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When You do take the means whereby live.
But the laws Of Kansas. unlike those
of Venice, allow the creditor to pursue
the debtor to the last extremity and use
every agency within his power to bring
about the unfortunate debtors downfall.
even to taking the means whereby he
and his family may continue to live.
The modern Shylock outshylocks the
one of whom Shakespeare wrote. for he
hires lickspittle editors to goad the VIC
Tins of his malice to desperation by
heaping epithets on their disinherited
heads, falsely representing that 1.-The
plutocrat is really the victim" That
these editors are well up in the part they
have learned to play is evident from the
language they use-"sh iftless. worked
some joint" borrowed to speculate
afflicted with craftsmanship" loan
companies have been mighty clever"
believing for government aid" curb
stone regulating the affairs of the world
weeds hide their corn" are sample ex-
pressions found in the brief limits of the
article from which we have quoted Is
there no law, not even of decency, to
stay their venomous lying tongues?-
Junction City (Kan.) Tribune.
Will Contribute for Real Soldiers.
CONGRESSMAN .Iohn Davis of Kansas