Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-09
Political strasbismus.

NuIoJs ne throws IN, IN
Parenthesls' the following: Neither
do they exist IN Phillips county, Ed y
Now II the gentleman's thinker
was not cut goring and adjusted hind
side before. he never would have
made that statement until he come
INTO this Office and examined the rec
ords, or what would have been better.
hired some one who was conlpetent.
to do so for him. He would have
known that people NOWADAYS were
not taking the word of every little
narrow-minded partizan editor. but
were investigating matters for them
selves, and that all men can find out
for themselves from the records, in
regard to all such questions But the
fact that he Is afflicted with the all
ment named at the head of this arti-
Gle causes him to make such state
ments in his paper, and also to tell in
private conversation that "them there
alliance officers are charging the old
soldiers for making out pension pa
pers."
AS to the article in question, I
should not take any space to notice
any slurs or pencil thrusts of the as
tute gentleman who 'MoULDs" the pol
icy of the Dispatch, were it not for
the fact that L write from the records
of the court, and he has taken the re-
sponsibility to unqualifedly dispute
my statement. This, in justice to
myself, demands notice.
He takes pains to pass over without
comment that part of the article where
the right of the holder of the mort
gage to foreclose is acknowledged,
and the justice of it admitted. He
fails to mention the fact that we do
not deny the right of the creditor to
take possession of the mortgaged
property and that this right is a Just
one; that we only ask that the law be
amended, SO as to make the mortga-
ged property satisfy the debt An
other evidence of his obliquity of po-
htical vision
The Telescopes reasoning that
''Phillips county land owners have
succeeded in getting three times the
amount of money on their land that
it Is worth in the market" etc, is false,
mere sophistry in fact, because the
market is not a real market, it is fic-
titious. If people in the states east
of this had money, they would be out
here to buy this land. But they have
not the money, so it comes to pass
that when the 'Hear ye! hear yep of
the Sheriff is heard at the ''front door
of the Court House." no home seekers
are there. If there were, then the
companies would bid the land up and
get all of their debt; but as it is this
government of ours has kindly short
ened up the money supply SO that
they can get the lands at their own
prices, and then have a judgement for
large sum of money besides, which
will follow the debtor to his grave
and hang on to his estate after he is
dead. In the name of humanity why
do not those very wise and far seeing
gentlemen speak up for the people?
Why do they not use their ''mIghtY"
power and influence to have laws
passed, that while the rights of the
debtor class will will be preserved
Will not detract one whit from doing
full justice to the creditor class.
The people do not ask TO be reliev-
ed from one single obligation. When
1t comes to intelligence and honesty
the farmers and laborers are not one
lot or title behind, even those great
men who labor under the pleasing de-
IusIon that they mould public Opin-
ion" They are willing, when they
can not pay the money which they
have borrowed from their more fortu-
nate brothers, to even give up the
property which they pledged to Sc
cure the same, but also all that they
have added to it in the way of i'm
provements. Willing to give up their
homes, the hopes Of years of toll, all,
only they ask to be relieved from the
incubus of judgment that they may
start again with hands unshackled to
build again for themselves and child
rem.
The idea that we are doing our
county and state harm by this class of
articles, is in keeping with the cur
rent argument of the class of jour
nails to which the Dispatch belongs.
Did it ever occur to the editor that
the state of affairs SO shown is no
more than it really is?
His insinuation IN regard to good
fat offices I will treat with the con-
tempt which it deserves and only no
tice one more statement. be says,
at is proper to say in this connection
that nlne-tenths of the foreclosures
made in Phillips county are up
on non-residents; many of the parties
getting large loans, considering the
value of security offered and as soon
as the loan was made departed for
parts unknown" Large loans" Is
good in view of the fact that Nc. was
for wears a member of a firm that
boasted that it made more and larger
loans than any other company. In
those good old days if you had asked
Nc. how much of a loan he would
place on your farm he would have ans
wered. from 80 to 40 per cent. of its
value. Now he and others OF his kind
come out and say that land IN Phil
Inns county was mortgaged for three
times what 1t would bring on the
markets" this is profound statement
In view of the-fact that the market
Is made by the creditor class.
In regard to his statements L Will
sav that out of the judgments taken
in foreclosure of mortgages, attach
nants and mechanics liens since Sep
tember '91, just about two-thirds are
toi-an on personal service. 1 have
NOT taken the time to look through
oil the files, and ] may be slightly
mistaken as to the exact service IN
each case, but the record shows, IA
i11d0nlerts taken in the class of cases
mentioned above and these personal