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Show Tin: ('Aim Mnitnam: i.mi- Tni: renin bulletin puhllahed a few raoiitlia ago, atated that abstraita of li,l)0,nxi of farm mortgage ,wi re ob-tallied ob-tallied by the enumerators of the Hitrn ceiiaii. The i rellmlnary riiurt luid refereuce tu Iowa. That Htalu nun-ures nun-ures lu arm .i5,J0l,(i0i)acrr. II wa loimd that over VU0.O00 acres of that an a weru covered with a mortgage lu. dil.ti-.lneM of ovtr mi,VO0,niKI. At flr-t tbeae figure created couatirua lun, Inaauiiicli at It was Infirrctl from Idem that um-tenlli of tho Hlals was In Ilia hands of moniy aliaikt. Hi lal agents wt re npHnted lo lii'iulre Into thl matter. They found that about IU per cent, of till Indililed-ueta Indililed-ueta wa Incurred by purrliaihig farm. A man had not moniyiiumgli to ir chatxafarmoutrlghl, and had to let rrt of the I rli a remain Ran lieu lo bu psld oft" subsequently torn his earning!. earn-ing!. If the rcnoituf lajtpeclalagenbi I correct, then Uie mortgaga evil I not as bad a at first supposed. Thla syalemof rt amenl by mortgage prevail largely lu cities nud It Is not rigardedas Indoltodiicsi lu tha way of loans. Tho farmer In Kansas and In Iowa, claim that the liidibtcdnita waa Incurred In-curred by riaton of depression lu agricultural produrta, and that they are JiutlnViI In reiudlatlng theta molt gig ilther lu Iho way of chinp money, or by icgltlatloti realilctlng thu oeratlonof tho momy lender. Mortgngeslucuired, eaiK-clally those glviuln thu purchaiu of Ian I, should nut be nullified To lake such a slip would lwam.lal.-tlc, or ananhlal. |