The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-14

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and the extent of their success is only too
plain to be seen in the records of farm and
real estate mortgages throughout the length
and breadth of our land. every one of them
standing as undsputable evidence of the
existence of these same blood sucking vam
pires in every part of our country, who. un-
der the guise of benefactOrs of honest in
dustry kindly allow us to use their illgOtten
money to improve our farms only demand
ing and eXacting from us six, seven. eight,
ten and as high as fifteen per cent per an.
mum, and small (?) bonus of from twenty
to thirty one hundredths of the sum ad
vanced. This whole sum with interest
must be secured by first class gilt edged
notes bearing compound interest and which
notes must be secured by first mortgage
upon real estate worth five, ten or even fifty
times the face of these notes or mortgages.
which enables the holder to hipOthecate
said notes to obtain their full face value and
nice premium from any commercial paper
broker or bank in any part of the land; the
vampire again borrOws money of banking
firms or private individuals in Massachusetts.
Vermont. New Hampshire. or in whatever
part of the country the lowest legal rate of
interest prevails and kindly transports it to
where money is most urgently needed and
where the legal rate of interest is highest
and invests it as heretofore mentioned.
How many time do you suppose this pro
ceeding may be repeated before the yam.
pires get. not only the whole of the money,
which may be in circulation, but. also. have
every honest producer completely shackled
with interest bearing mortgages? Iventure
to say that inside of twenty years from to-
day this entire country will be owned land,
people and all by few such men as Jay
Gould. VIM. Vanderbilt and Claus Spree
kles. simply because we are too blind to
see or realize the magnitude of the schemes
which such men are capable of conducting
solely for their own personal gain. and if
this thing does come to pass we have only
ourselves to blame for it, I'VE ARE THE
PEOPLE" and as the people we have the
right and the power to protect our future
welfare as much as we have to protect our
present and immediate rights from being
tilched from US. We have not only the
power and the right to do this, but duty
demands that we shall do it. and the time
to do it is now. before we find ourselves
hopelessly helpless in the tolls of the great.
est giants humanity ever produced. the
combined energies of few shrewd, calcula-
ting, farseeing, avariciOus. unscrupulOuS
men, whose schemes have already made the
greatest wealth producing country in the
world groan in anguish over its poverty and
crime
Will some one of these great financiers
kindly explain for us the phenomenon of a
country prOducing-as ours dOes-mOre
than six times as much as it's people con-
sumo, being cursed with poverty and hard
times and forced to use money which is not
worth its face representation? l say, will
some one of these great vampires show us
what has become of the millions upon mill
ions of dollars worth of products which
have been produced in this country within
the last ten years? You say they have been
marketed. sold. Very we'll. what has be-
come of the money-somebody must have
the money? Who has got it? the honest
producer or the vampire?