The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-10
FRESH FROM
WASHINGTON.
Political Talk Around the
National Capital
How Hanna Reduced the Number Of
Farm Mortgages in the West
ern States.
The Petition from the Labor Conference
at st. LOuis-Important Docu-
ment> to be Had by Address
ing the Agricultural
Department.

ing the Agricultural
Department.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept. T.
Special The President in one of
his little side-show talks, while
junketing around Lake Champlain.
proclaimed that prosperity had
come to the West and would soon
visit the East, and then, like a great
practical millennium, would spread
all over the country to remain and
bless the people while Hannaism
rules and reigns. The immediate
cause of this jubilant assertion was
the sudden and unexpected squirt in
wheat caused by the short crops OF
other countries, which he attributed
to the Hanna-Reed robber tariff.
The President doubtless stopped
over with exhibition at the changed
condition. seeing that his great
farmer friends who had so literally
contributed, were reaping such a
bOunteous harvest in gigantic profits.
pont Morgan, who generously and
,magnanimOusly came to the rescue
of the Cleveland administration and
with the patriotic and disinterested
aid of banker ROthschilds, saved the
nation, raised a crop of 5000, 900, 600
bushels of wheat in few days
which Melted him the modest little
sum of $750,000; farmer Pillsbury, of
Minneapolis, scored profit in the
same length of time of $728,000;
farmer Francis, Cleveland's Secre-
tary of the Interior, pocketed $2l0,-
600; good farmer Armour, who
the lean EARTH" "all for charity"
pulled in $350,O00; farmer Flower,
the man of Allopathic dollars and
Homeopathic sense, was consider
ate enough to pick up $l25,0O0 be-
fore the supply was exhausted, to
feed the famine-stricken millions /;
farmer John Cudahy stopped pack
ing pork for a few days to pocket
$3.50 900; while an innumerable num-
Der of other favorites of the trusts
gathered in their millions. That
was all well enough for the trusts
who farm the farmer, but where
does the tiller of the soil come IN?
Hanna and the Mortgages.
Some of Hanna's subsidized news
papers are asserting that there has
! been large reduction in the num-
Der of farm mortgages in the West
! ern States since the presentadminis-
! tratiOn came into power. Such may
be the case, but they dare not state
the way in which the reductions
have been brought about. In the
first place there have been few if
any of these mortgages paid off even
within the past few years, and the
few that have been paid will be
found to come from States where
the majority of the people voted for
Bryan and were counted for Hanna S
mortgaged man. Hanna had the
list of men who were to hold the
election in all of the close and doubt.
full states. In very many instances
the men who held the election had u
mortgage held over their farms
All that Hanna wanted was TO know
the man thus encountered and that
he would trade. The sequel tells
the story. But there are other ways
cages have been reduced; first by
foreclosure, and second by the dis,
heartened farmer abandoning his
farm and freeing himself from the
heavy burden imposed by the mort
gage, he gathers up his family anC
seeks home in the Southern States
where genial climate, fertile soil
and a hospitable welcome awaits
him. All of the great railway sys
TENS in the sOuth-the Southern
the Seaboard Air Line, the Louis
vile & Nashville, the Nashville
Chattanooga and st. Louis, the Iron
Mountain, the Illinois Central, the
Chesapeake and Ohio, and the
Grand Trunk lines penetrating into
Texas, are kept busy providing
means of transportation for this vas
multitude of home seekers who are
fleeing from these mOrtgaged farms
The Labor Conference at its re-
cent meeting in st. Louis petitioneC
the President to call an extra SEES
sion of Congress for the purpose Of
defining the rights of the people tC
peaceably assemble" Why make
this request when that right was
won by our Fathers of the Revolu.
ton and guaranteed under the Con
stitution of the United States, anC
never denied until the baneful Mo,
nopoly and Trust influence invaded
the sanctity of Justice to cOntami
nate the purity of a Federal court
But if this right had not already
been clearly defined by the supreme
authority of the Nation, why make
such a request of the Chief EXecu.
tive, who owes his position to the
corrupt millions contributed for hi:
election by the same powers; anC
even should an extra session be call.
ed for this purpose, what could the
people expect of Hanna's Senate anC
the House of Reed?
General Roy Stone, of the Agri
cultural Department, whose special
ty in the service of the Government
is the improvement Of the public