Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-30
LIES AND AN ANSWER.


CAPITAL quotes the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, and INDUCES in its usual misrepresenta-
ton, and gutter mud singing. The whole is
in reference to an act of the last Legislature in
which the holders of Kansas obligations are re-
ouired to make new records in cases of assign
,nents. The original bill gave sixty days for
the new record, without penalty, but was
amended, before passed, to give six months.
The North American had the impression that
the bill passed in its original FORM and in its
comment, as quoted in the Capital, denomi-
mates it Gan act to legalize coniscation." The
Capital, after making the correction as to time,
INDUCES in the following "There is no doubt
but that the bill was deliberately passed to rob
eastern creditors, and con6scate debts, but, like
q GOOD deal of other dishonest legislation pass
ed by the reformers, if fell by the wayside ?"
Let us get at the truth. Cox mortgages his
farm to tones. Jones assigns the mortgage to
Smith There is no record of the asst gnmert.
The mortgage becomes DUE and Cox pays to
tones, supposing that Jones is still the owner of
the mortgage. Jones is sconndrel, and ac-
cepts the pay, and says nothing. The mort
cage bond is back East. Cox waits for the
surrender of the bond. Instead Of the bond he
recieves notice from Smith that his mortgage is
unpaid.
Result: Cox either loses his farm under
foreclosure, or renews the mortgage. Jones
escapes scot free. Perhaps Jones and Smith
are mariners in the deal. We are not drawing
on our imagination. We know one man who
was caught, and we read of another case in the
courts. but the mortgagor lost. The third
partv was an ''innocent purchaser" 1t was
AGAINST tsneak thieves" that the law was ell
acted-to save from "confscation" the holdings
of poor men, The law is not half severe
enough 1t ought to be ten years in the states
nrison-solitary confinement. There can be no
more damnable form of robbery. Beside it,
BURGLARY is honorable, and highway robbery
noble.
IF we call the men guilty of such crimes all
sorts of names, what shall we say of the papers
who defend, palliate, condone, or who assail
and misrepresent lawinaking body who have
simply performed bounden duty and praise
worth act? To rightly condemn such, the
language is barren of words. and the imagin-
alton of conception.
To say that such papers are the lickspittes
Of capital and the low sycophants of modern
brioands is but faint condemnation.
Has it come to pass that law-1naking body
cannot enact laws in perfect accord with the
laws against burglary and highway robbery
without becoming the object of obloquy and
instrumentation 1t seems So AS between
+he man who loses his little all and the savings
of lifetime of, maybe, hard labor, and the
nan who lies in wait for the unsuspecting and
The unwary, and who, by catching such in their
,ueb Of dark and hidden schemes, accumulate
Immense fortunes we stand by the men who
,osa and would a thousand times rather be
moor, with the poor, than be rich of stolen gains.
The Capital, or the North American and all
The lickspittle papers put together cannot stay
N. sentiment that is setting in against modern
h-;oandage' any more than the federal chieftains
oo,ld STAY the tide that set in against them in
~. middle ages, and that finally swept them
from existence.
no not afford legal protection to the citizens
90 small means against the avarice and
.,oo;tv of the so-called capitalist would be to
..,-oc1aim our government farce, and our age
-, ace of roaring hypocrisy. Let us get done,
800 for all, with the assumption that money
leaders and corporations are not amenable to
IL ~ and good judgment, just us we'll as vaga-