Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-04
GOLD BUG THREATS.
WILL FORCE IMMEDIATE PAY
MENT OF MORTGAGES.
sherifs VIII BE Perched Around on
the Worm Fences of the Country,
Like BlackbIrds Watching a Corn
Crop.


Crop.
The following bluster is an extract
from one 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
vestigation have a sneaking idea that
they can pay their debt easier with a
debased currency than under the pres
ent toilsome, slow-going process. But
tnls Is all dream born of the lurid i'm
aslnation of your typical free-silver ad-
'ocdte. The creditor who holds mort
gage on the farmers land is not ex-
acCiy an idiot himself, and the mo-
"ent IL becomes clear that free coin
age at the 16 to ratio will be legalized
III lnls country thousands of mortgages
wiz De foreclosed by men who propose
W nave their loans paid in good money.
me lree silver dupe may argue, with
Tears In his eyes, that the price of sill
yer VIII be Immediately jerked up to
tne desired point in the markets of the
"orId as soon as our mints are opened
10 the metal. But the hard-hearted
creultor doesn't belong to that class of
Ieasoners, and he will turn the former
out, Dag and baggage, then and there,
WIN the money in which the creditor
mas confidence. Just before the dawn
Oh tnat happy silver day-when the sill
yer lining Of the clouds will be coined
INTO good government dollars-sheriffs
VIII De perched around on the worm
FENCES In the country waiting for mort
cages to mature, like blackbirds watch
Ing corn crop"
Ye gods, what patriotism!
This is the kind of stuff with which
the organized plunderers are trying to
frighten the Ignorant rabble."
It's all game of "boop'
The entire sheet sent out by the COM
mittee is composed of just such sinister
threats and ridiculous hog-wash as
this.
1t Is intended for fools-but 1t won't
rub In. The people know that they
can more easily pay their debts wher
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 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.
turity of his mortgage, the laws ol
most of the states give the debtor from
one to two years to redeem his land
In the meantime the price of the lant
will so far advance as to give the debt.
or such an equity in the land as to en-.
able him to make new loan at low.
er rate Of interest, which is bound tt
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 ad
vancing in price-but the people them
selves are not feeling very tenderheart
cd toward the extortionists and con
tractionists, who, by the destruction o
half the money of the country, have
forced the people into debt.
II the creditor has no confidence IL
the money of this government, tn,
sooner he gets out of the country thu
better.
II he will not submit to the voice o
the majority of the American people
he is traitor, and should be hanged.
When 1.-The dawn of that happy sill
yer day" comes the hogs will find tha
the banks and railroads have beef
kicked out of the governing business
and their bluff has no longer any ter
ror.
The sheriffs, too, will be elected a
friends of the people, not as blood
hounds for plutocracy.
The people seek only justice in th
restoration of American money to tn,
standard under which the great debt
of the nation were incurred and tn,
fellows, who have conspired to contrac
the volume of currency, deserve to los,
all they have gained by such contrac
tion.
The spirit of 1776 and 1861 is bein,
aroused in the people, and it is foolisl
braggadocio for the cowardly bush
whackers of plutocracy to attemp
soaring the American people from thei
purpose.
When a majority of the America,
people vote together for free coinage O
silver, then they will also control th,
munitions of war--and If the traitor
Gus goldbugs rebel. they will be treate,
with a dose Of their own medicine.
The people are not to be mocked for
ever, and such threats as the abov
only make the people more determine,
to overthrow the tyranny that dare
thus to threaten them.
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lor,
--and when the Capitalists" attempt Il
overthrow the nation for revenge, the,
will find that the Lord is on the side o
the people, and that the safest plac
for bloodsuckers is on the other side o
the Atlantic ocean.