The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-22

that two of the horses and large num-
Der of the cattle died on our hands.
Smith says that We sold or mort
gagged part of the steers and were
allowed to retain $50 of the proceeds
by the bank. This is absolutely false.
The bank released the % steers that
we're left of the 80 head, and received
in payment $40, which was more than
the same steers Melted us when they
were sold in Kansas City seven months
later.
lie also says tina. vt the outset we
promised to pay IL per cent for the
money aid that the first six months
interest was added to the note; that
we then kicked Oh the interes,, and
the interest was cut to 10 per cent.
This statement IS also false, and we
lave tile notes to prove it, When We
made the deal the agreement was that
the note should be renewed every six
months. When the first six months
was up Mr., Hine, the cashier, refused
to allow it to be renewed for six
months, but required us to make note
due i'll three months, with interest at
IL per cent Oh the principal and inter-
est then accrued. When this nOie
became due we were compelled to give
another due i'll three months at the
same rate. The interest was not cut
for year, us the notes we have will
show OH their face.
We did not claim in our article that
we paid directly to the bank any of
the earnings of Ourself and wife, we
stated very clearly that our earnings
were sunk in paying wages and buying
feed to make the property pay out. and
nobody bat contemplate scoundrel
would attempt to derive any other
meaning from our article.
When Smith said that we never
turned in a dollar of the product of our
farm. he knows that he uttered dia
bolical lie. A large part of our crops
for three years was fed to the cattle
and horses mortgaged to the bank. and
but for our large outlay of money to
keep the stock up it would never have
paid One-half that it did.
AS an excuse for this malicious
attachment, Smith says that ole time
in Lewis we made il number of false
statements calculated to cause distrust
i'll the bank, and did all we
could to bring it down. This is Il
false and malicious lie. We never
made any false statements about
the bank, to any person at any place,
but Ill the perilous time last sunlmer
did all we could to allay the fears of
deposltOrs.. We even kept out of The
Graphic Items of news III regard to the
failures Of banks in the east for tear il
might cause run here, and we knew
iJ would be Il disaster to the county to
have the bank fail. But the statement
OF the Mercury shows the al,imus OF
some of the bank officers. and that the
attachment proceeding was "a cowardly
and malicious attempt TO wreak their
revenge upol us rather than an effort
to collect IL debt. We never stated nor
intimated to Edwards, fline or any
body else that we had done all We
could and that Edwards would have to
lose the balance of the claim, and aoy
one who says we did simply lies. We
have sold all cur property that could
be turned into cash and have applied
the proceeds to the payment of our
debts, and we know of no law, human
or divine. that required us to pay over
our earnings to the bank before the
mortgaged property was all disposed
of and leave our other creditors un-
paid.