Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-10-19

me that you were about to lose your
land because you could not meet the
payment due on the mortgage would
have been answered sooner, only |
desired to send you check with the
ans Her. | am very sorry that l find
myself unable to do this. have ex-
haustcd my ready money in my crop
not thinking should need any until
crops come in. Had known you were
pushed / could easily have kept
the money had and would have done
SO have bought some blooded
stock l could have done without and
an organ for the girls they have long
wanted, and fixed up the house,
which, with my crop expenses, took
all the money / had and left me few
dollars in debt.
On receipt of your letter went up
to the city to borrow some money to
send you. have So, 900 out on mort
gage. and took that along as collat-
teral, but the banks would not loan
any money out, save to their city
customers. I tried the brokers, but
they would not loan any money only
on city security. Ioffered every thing
/ have for security for $500 for ninety
days and could not get it. Their ex-
cusc was that the strike and the tariff
had unsettled business, and they
could not let any money out except to
city customers and that as rule on
demand.
went to my old friends, Smith and
Graham, who did not have it, and even
with their endorsement l failed to get
the money. If had city property l
could have got the loan. 1t seems to
me that ought to have got the
money, even without security. / had
no trouble to get money ten and ff-
teen years ago on individual note,
and now that / fail when ] offer
security worth twenty times the
amount | can't reasonably account
for it. write you this at length SO
you may know that made an earnest
effort to relieve you.
1t won't do for you to lose your
farm. think it would be best for
you to see your creditor and induce
him to wait on you six months l
will see that you get the money by
that time. If he won't do that resist
foreclosure and that will give us time
to get him the money, and it is better
to pay the expense than to lose your
home. 1t would also be better for
him to wait, as it would cost him an
additional expense to foreclose.
/ staid with your uncle Henry
while was in the city.
He is an ardent third party man. l
went with him to hear one of their
speakers. He spoke on the money
question only, and made it very plain
for his side have not paid any at
tention to their principles, although l
have not made any money for years.
In fact the value of my lands and
other property has fallen so much that
to-day they are not worth over half as
much as they were fifteen years ago
Neither is the produce of the farm.
suppose being out of debt and the in
terest en- the money loaned out when
times we're prosperous helped me out.
Well, the speaker made the reason
plain to me, and your embarrassment
caus ID me to pay very strict attention.
lie said the people had been deceived,
and that hard times were made by the
money power, ana as proof cited
that the farmers had raised an abund-
ance of everything to support human
life and make people comfortable.
That the cotton fields of the south
and the sheep raisers over all the
Union had produced clothing material
sufficient to clothe the people com
fortably and half the outside world
besides, and that there was no cause
for hunger or lack of raiment lie said
that the funding of the money into
interest bearing bonds was the first
great crime against the people. That
II a government bond was good as
gold, it was the people behind it that
made it SO through the taxing power
of the government And that If the
credit of the people could make a
bond bearing interest equal to gold,
then they could make n treasury note
that bore no interest equal to gold,
for they bore the same security. And
that the treasury note green
backs) had the advantage of the
bond, inasmuch as it bore no interest.
That 1t was a crime against the ma
ton to issue bond-as the govern
ment was the only power that could
make money, and that they could
make money out of paper as well as
out of gold or silver, for 1T was the
law made by the people through con
gress that made money and not the
intrinsic value OF the metal, or any
.1:- alec Al an examnle he showed