Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-31
Notes From a Tramp.

cease" still holds good, and one might
quite appropriately add that the opin-
ions of men never become SO fixed
that they to some degree change. To
illustrate, observe the following quo
tations from 'sFitin Joeys" paper. A
few months ago. one would have little
expected TO read IN the columns OF
that AnEniss publication the follow
ing, but the case of the g. o. p. Is get
ting desperate and the worst papers
of that party are now beginning to
take in its horn with the hope Of win
ming back few of the honest yeo-
many that have left the fold. But I
know but little of the temper of the
people in this part of Kansas if they
are to be tolled back with the inciped
SOD that is being thrown out to them
from time TO time by those who have
SO long been abusing them In a man
ner that would make the prince of
things ashamed himself They are
not feeling quite so confident here
now as they haYe been pretending.
Just now "Prlnce Hap has found out
that he will have too much private
business to attend to, to make anoth-
er attempt to stand up against Jerry
Simpson and has stepped down and
is willing to let one of the Jones fam
lily secure the Knockout blows this
fall. The cry of fusion between the
hand maid of republicanism has been
too thin and gauzy to fool those who
were formerly republicans but now
'tP. p" men to the core. That bluff
has fallen fiat. and the only plan for
them is to get the democrats to boost"
them again this fall. But to the quo
tations, and I will give this as the
first: ''Some money loaners in Kan
sas are, in anticipation of a demand
soon for farm lands and other prop
erty foreclosing, bidding the proper
ty in at a nominal price, and holding
the balance of the loan as judgment
against the party. For instance, a
man has borrowed $1,000 on a farm
said to have been worth at the time
of the loan, according to the loan
company's appraisers, 5000 or $4,000
The company forecloses and bids the
farm IN for $500, taking judgment
for g, 500 of the original loan. Thus
the party who has borrowed the mon
ey loses his land and finds back inter
est, costs of foreclosure, etc, to ex-
eeed the amount the loan company
has paid for his farm. In other
words, the costs, etc, added to the
g, 500 make judgment larger than
the original loan.
Now the fact and the common JUS
tice of the case is that when a loan
company risks $4,000 on its own judg-
ment on a farm or any other kind of
property 1t is nothing more or less
than robbery to take the property,
leaving the debt unsatisfied. It don't
matter, MIR. Lawyer, what the provis-
ions of the law are that protect this
kind Of legal plundering. it should be
changed and the property upon which
a loan is made should pay in full the
debt. The next Republican Legisla-
ture can protect the people by making
it impossible for a mans farm to be
taken representing double or thribhle
the value of the loan made upon it
and the debt remain unpaid. No
amount of slick legal clubbing can
make this system less than downright
robbery, and it should and must be
stopped In Kansas The Capital
must of had many bad nights before
1t would speak this truth. When ''P.
P" papers were saying that it was a
truth, the Capital was always ready
with its thread-bare cry of calamity
bowler" But now it has set up this
same calamity howl. 1t says ut don't
matter, MIR. Lawyer, what the provis-
ions of the law are" Let some one
now cry anarchy! GnGrchyi!" for Is
this not anarchy to defy good tohoL-
some republican lawf But, Dear
Capital, did not those 80 odd hay
seeds who were sent to the legislature
try to get two-year stay law passed
to prevent the very thing that you
are now setting up such a calamity
howl about7 But then the next re-
publican legis'ature is going 10
change all this ,ad republican legis-
iation. Why did they not help do il
last winter? Did fillibustering take
up all their timer And Echo asks
when will there be another republican
legislature7 But to another one Oh
the Capitals sayings:
A FEW CENSUS FACTS.
"There are 10I towns IN Kansas
with a population of more than 1000
their total population being, IN 1890
378691. About 1000, 600 people live
on farms in this state, or about 200.
600 farm families. OF these, 67,00C
farmers and their families are tenants
and 133, GOO farmers work their OWL
farms. OF the 133, 600 resident farm
ers who work their own farms, SO, 50(
are in debt. the average debt being
80 per cent of the value of their real
estate property. and the other A.5O(
are free of debt. About IS per cent
of the debt In force represents the IN
vestment, having been contracted fol
the purpose of buying land and build
ing barns. houses and other improve
ments, while % per cent. represents
losses by crop failure and other mis-
fortunes, including bad farming and
unWise speculation
The mortgage Indebtedness is VIVA
the calamity leaders base their ale
cation upon that there is a defcienl
supply OF money IN the country. How
they can find in the figures giVeI
above any evidence to substantiats
the charge is a mystery and puzzle
Let the readers for d short Tins
consider these figures; 200,O0 farm
families. $1,000 of them tenants II
1Ss0-please don't forget the date
That Was two years ago, and thosl
fellows spoken of above as taking thu
farm and following that mp with /
Judgment baYe been quite busy IN tn
last two years. How many of tn
133. 600 Who then owned their farms
nov have been sold ont and have