Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-31
Eastern Insult.

ST. JoHNSBURY, VT, Jan. 49, 1894.
N. b. BLANTON, Kansas.
DEAR Strive are informed that you claim
| that the foreclosure of our mortgage on your
| property was unknown to you.
Perhaps you have forgotten that you ever
gave mortgage, insomuch as you never paid
| anything on it. You and men like you have
done more to injure the credit OF your state
| than anything else.
man who will repudate honest debt is
the MEANEST kind of a SNEAK and if he lived in
Vermont he would be TARRED and FEATHERED
and rode out of the state and into Kansas.
When you can no longer BEG. BORROW or
STEAL eastern money then your people will
realize that honesty is sometimes the best
policy.
If you think we want your farm you are very
much mistaken, but we would like part of
the money we loaned you.
Yours truly.
w. 8. BoYNTON, Treas.
The above is sample of many insult
ing letters that find their way to Kansas
from the arrogant East. 1t awakes
Kansas people to the fact that they
have been imposed upon for years by
overriding and legalized thievery of
Eastern sharks. who after depriving our
people of the means of paying their
debts now demand their pound of flesh.
After using money and influence to
purchase legislation that takes from the
farmer his means to pay obligations,
those Eastern parasitic offscourings of
iniquity accuse him of Reputation. The
contempt in which they are held by our
intelligent people who protest against
industrial slavery is so great that 1t
borders on hatred. The presumptious
and insulting actions of the East would
disgrace the DEVILS depravity and
eclipse the most horrible records of gal
ley slavery days in ancient Rome.
Mr.. Blanton replied to the above let
ter as follows:
HAzELToN, Kas., Jan. 2j, 1894.
W. S. BoyNToN. ESQ.,.
Treas. Passumsic Savings Bank.
st. Johnsbury, VT.
sIR:-Yours Of the 18th inst. Is received and
in reply will state that it is true | did not
know that the mortgage was foreclosed until
| the last term of court. You are mistaken
when you say that have mot paved anything
|
] At the time gave the mortgage some eight
| OF nine years ago the land was valued at thirty
dollars per acre. invested every dollar that
I got on the mortgage in improvements on the
| land, and even more. You bid the land in
for five dollars per acre, about or little over
one-half the principal, interest. taxes and
costs; so it seems that you are willing to take
the land at one-sixth its value at the time the
1 do md hon h0r- ittdor ar,
tered up against me for as much or more thar
was received when the loan was made. Be
cause kick at this you say that If lived il
/ your state l would be .'tarred and featheret
and rode out of the state If that is so / an
| glad live in Kansas. but believe you arr
mistaken. i also believe that if you were IN m,
place you would kick higher and harder than
can. But you should have bid as much a
least as would cover the all thu principal in
terest, taxes and costs. You should have bic
| fifteen dollars per acre, half what the land wa
valued at the time the loan was made. We ars
not regulating. we would gladly pay if We
could, There are very few of our best farmers
| who can pay their taxes; the products of thu
| farm do not bring enough TO pay cost OF pro
| duction; we have been deprived of the meani
of paying debts by your class, sir, the money
i power. By conspiracy you have contracted
the currency, destroyed the greenbacks aDt
ldemonetized silver, and your class is resp0n
j sfbIe for the great distress. suffering and star
walton that exceeds anything that ever &C
CURED in this country But when farme
objects to being robbed In violation of ever.
principle OF law and justice, then your class ii
and out of the safe cry out the is injuring tn
credit of the state The farmers of Kansa
are a. honest and as willing to Gay their debt