Show LAND GRABBERS GAMES tax boom furore having been precipe bated upon this thip community with phenomenal suddenness many of the honest and simpleminded simple minded class who own realty in this city have been unacquainted quain ted with the wily methods of speculators and their property has slipped from their grasp they have been thus left to chew the cud of discomfiture the more calculating and worldly class ate greable able to take care of themselves and it they do not they are not entitled to any great degree of consideration it is the legitimate province of 41 public journal to protect the guileless against the encroachments encroach ments of the subtle and unscrupulous consequently apologies for occasionally sounding a note of warning tor for the benefit of the former are not necessary this consideration induces us to point out a danger to which some people in this city are now exposed the method referred to is everywhere deemed to be one of the most objectionable tiou tio able in the category othe land grabbers erab bers offers are out to the holders of first mortgages on realty to dispose of them for a consideration it needs no subtle process 88 of reasoning to reach a conclusion as to the object of this species of traffic the aim is for the purchasers of these incur bran cesto get possession of the property without consideration tor for the condition or circumstances of the mortgagee any condition incorporated in the instrument fauvre to comply with which through force of un no controllable centro contro lable circumstances would b be overlooked forbe for dihe time being by the magnanimous mortgagee is liable to be taken advantage of bythe by the speculator and the original holder bolder may thus be practically thrown out upon the street we draw attention to this traffic for the benefit of persons whose property is under cortage that they may be aware of the danger to which they are liable t ate tine 1 I by the forelock and make a ange ments that may be fi t 0 guard against it unless ca t 1 ns l are of such a character that it ca cannot a I 1 0 ot t be avoided the mortas ing of their homes by bythe the people is a disastrous policy he who subjects himself to the condition is not in tile full sense a free man he is at least a bondman in a financial sense and that situation curtails his liberty in other respects it is a regrettable fact that a god many people are in that situation our present object is to direct their attention to the further lier fact that they are in danger of having their situation made much worse of 01 course the condition in the respect referred to will depend upon the action of the original mortgage holders many perhaps most of them would not place the persons virtually in their power at so great a disadvantage as would ensue from the disposal of the inc condition to land speculators others may not be quite so there are some also who havel peculiar ideas in relation to placing a brother man in a disastrous situation they would not be willing to do that kind of business in a direct way but would by disposing of a mortgage to another party imagine that they had washed their hands of the whole business philosophically however they would not be tree free from re responsibility in the premises for it if a wrong ensues its production has only been made practicable by their action and speaking from the standpoint of the gospel as revealed anew through joseph smith I 1 man will be judged according to the manner in which he treats his fel 11 the merciful shall obtain mercy and the quality of mercy is not strained |