The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-09-13
GOLD BUG THREATS.
WILL FORCE IMMEDIATE PAY
MENT OF MORTGAGES.
sheriRs Will he Perchod Around on
the Worm Fences OF the Country.
Lik Blackbirds Watching q Corn
Crop.

from n of the ~brOadSideS being sent
out by the Sound currency commit
tee. to be used as supplements to cuckoo
papers:
"Three-fourths of the people who ia
vor free coinage without personal in
v~estigation have a sneaking idea that
they can pay their debt easier with a
debased currency than under the pres
en- toilsome, slow-going process. But
THIS Is all a dream born of the lurid inn
aglnation of your typical free-silver adj
vocate. The creditor who holds a mort
gage on the farmers land is not ex-
actly an idiot himself, and the mo-
ment it becomes clear that free COIN
age at the Is to / ratio will be legalized
In this country thousands of mortgages
VIII be foreclosed by men who propose
70 nave their loans paid in good money.
Inc Tree silver dupe may argue, with
tears In his eyes, that the price of sill
yer Will be Immediately jerked up to
the desired point in the markets of the
world as soon: as our minis are opened
70 the metal. But the hard-hearted
creditor doesn't belong to that class of
~reasoners, and he will turn the former
out, bag and baggage, then and there,
with the money in which the creditor
mas confidence. Just before the dawn
OF that happy silver day-when the sill
yer lining of the clouds will be coined
into good government dollars-sheriffs
Will be perched around on the worm
FENCES in the country waiting for mort
cages to mature, like blackbirds watch
ing a corn crop"
Ye gods, what patriotism!
This is the kind of stuff with which
the organized %plunderers are trying to
brighten the ignorant rabble."
It's all a game of "boo!"
The entire sheet sen, out by the COM
mittee is composed Of just such sinister
threats and ridiculous hog-wash as
this.
1t is intended for fools-but it won't
rub in. The people know that they
can more easily pay their debts when
money is plenty than when it is scarce.
Neither are the debtors all idiots.
They know that a real estate mortgage
cannot be legally foreclosed until ma
turity, or until there is a default in the
payment of interest.
They know, too, that the capitalist
cannot force payment in gold, unless he
has made a special contract.
They also know that even after ma
turlty of his mortgage, the laws of
most of the states give the debtor from
one to two years to redeem his land.
In the meantime tie price of the land
will so far advance as to give the debt
or such an equity in the land as to en-
able him to make a new loan at a low
er rate of interest, which is bound to
follow an increase of the currency.
OF course, the hard-hearted creditor
will do all he can to crush the people
and get hold of the lands, which are adj
vancing in price-but the people them
selves are not feeling very tenderheart-
ed toward the extortionists and con
tractionists, who, by the destruction of
half the money of the country, have
forced the people into debt.
If the creditor has no confidence in
the money of this government, the
sooner he gets out Of the country the
better.
II he will. not submit to the voice Of
the majority Of the American people,
he is a traitor, and should be hanged.
When 1.-The dawn Of that happy sill
yer day" comes the hogs will find that
the banks and railroads have been
kicked out of the governing business
and their bluff has no longer any ter
ror.
The sheriffs, too, will be elected as
friends Of the people, not as blood
hounds for plutOcracy.
The people seek only justice in the
restoration of American money to the
standard under which the great debts
Of the nation were incurred-and the
fellows, who have conspired to contract
the volume of currency, deserve to lose
all they have gained by such contrac-
ton.
The spirit of 1776 and 1861 is being
aroused in the people, and it is foolish
braggadocio for the cowardly bush
! whackers of plutocracy to attempt
soaring the American people from their
purpose.
When a majority of the American
people vote together for free coinage Of
silver, then they will also control the
munitions Of war-and If the traitor
GUS goldbugs rebel, they will be treated
with a dose of their own medicine.