Show FARM MORTGAGES during this campaign agn wo we have heard beard from democratic stump orators a great deal about farm mortgages mortgagee it has been freely charged that tile reason there is such heavy indebtedness hanging lia nging over tho the I 1 I 1 eads of the farmers in some of the newer states is because the tariff has bas deprived them of a foreign market for their surplus products product a such is not the fact there are other reasons some of which arc are set forth in a recent number of tile american economist in regard to farm mortgages in michigan for instance it was reported far and wide in sundry newe newspapers papers that mortgages of that description readied reached the enormous total of when the report of the state in 1833 made them or about one eighth of the sum asserted now wo we have the facts from the united states cen census 4 sus of 1890 as nearly approximate to exactness as possible and can look them square in in tile face let us look at kansas farm mortgages mortgagee as heavy in proportion as in any state and heavier than in most taking the census statements asiata as data durington during ten years from 1880 to 1890 there were recorded mortgages on real estate amounting to state and railroad land contracts excluded from this and all statements of these or 71 per rent cent were on acres ai i c farms mostly and per cent on lots village city or other january 1 1890 there tile re was unpaid on these mortgages or nearly one half of this or 71 per cent was on acres mostly farms and aud or 29 p per er cent on lots A big mortgage record crushing crashing it would seem at first eight let us its look further facts square in view all the time atia it is sate safe to say the census tells us that three fourths of this debt was incurred for p purchase purchase money or improvements far the larger cart part for purchase money this is is no sign of hard times or pinching decay if a man buys a farm worth 2000 pays half and gives a mortgage for the other half in the large majority of cases it is safe and profitable profit ablo bad management sickness or the grasshopper plague may drive him to foreclosure but far oftener lie gets out of debt and wins a decent competence in michigan in 1888 the foreclosures fore closures were but 3 per cent of the mortgages suppose them double in kansas and arid we have six farms in every hundred on which foreclosure and arid its painful results occur not a large proportion of the recorded debt 34 per cent ia is on real estate in n the western half of the state where values are low anil and new settlements were made on public lands there ia is the heavy proportion of debts to values just as elsewhere in michigan I 1 alcona county now and with only farms had mortgages 7 on more than half of them for 97 per cent of their assessed value berrien county older and arid with farms lias has but a fourth of them mortgaged for 14 per cent of the valuation the poor pioneer isan is in debt today tomorrow in the majority of cas cases q s lie is out of debt often I 1 lends c rids money or if not wholly out of debt owes less in proportion to liis his property kansas has had special trials yet it is s no exception to this general rule tho tile governor of kansas and the secretary of the board of agriculture agree that the assessed value of property is is 25 per cent of its real value in 1880 tile united states census agent stated t alie e total real value of the property in the state at in 1890 it ia is made i 16 the mortgages during these years arc half paid up and arid their total unpaid is but one fourth of thia immense gain in the value of property tile mort mortgage gago debt aggregating as it docs does ia is 1434 per cent of the tru true valuation evaluation of all property in the state says the census report not a hopeless allowing showing despite all untoward circumstances kansas hag has gained greatly re atly and the large majority of its farmers have gained even in these ten trying years speculation too much risk by pioneers in heavy mortgages on new farms for purchase money poor crops and low prices have made liard hard times and nono none should be indifferent to the trials of bravo brave pioneers but these census facts show a gain wonderful under the circumstances cum stances and the largo large decrease of mortgages since 1887 is especially noteworthy COLONEL may be all wrong in his religious opinions or in the lack of religious belief but notwithstanding he be expresses many social truths in a late lecture at chicago lio lie caid said and let me tell you tonight what I 1 mean by liberty of the body it is to give to every man what lie cams with his hands lands and this great question of division has lias got to bo be settled oven even in the united states capital takes too much labor geta gets doolittle too Little labor will not always live in a hut with capital S living in a palace flesh and blood are more sacred than ban gold and the time will come when the law will eco see that bevery man has the right to life liberty and not only the pursuit of happiness but the right to catch some of it before he lie dies I 1 want to live until I 1 can find an aristocracy of honesty of generosity an aristocracy of intelligence an aristocracy of heart and brain I 1 am sick of the old kind I 1 want liberty for every n man an I 1 do not believe in the law of supply and demand as applied to flesh and blood if they who toil cannot have some of the good things of the world then I 1 dont want vant anybody to have them THE tribunes ogden editor declares that it is said that J C G said that lie would give liis his check for 1000 it if he were made the democratic 10 nominee for mayor to beat FRED J KIESEL MESEL if the latter should be made the liberal nominee that sound much like yet it is possible I 1 that ho be may have made the remark but ii lie did we hereby notify him that the gum sum is entirely too small the boys are very hungry if he lie desires to be elected lie lid will have to open a fresh barrel and fish out several times 1000 it is alleged that one distinguished ex mayor paid about five tir times es what ARMSTRONG is so said id to bo be willing to put up for the honor it is very doubtful however whether mr KIESEL desires to be a candidate this year the liberal victims name is spelled lundy now it will be left after election day WE IVE HEAP that still another party in ogden proposes to put up a city ticket all and d expects to secure some votes for it of course this being a free country there is nothing to prevent each and every man from having a ticket of his own and arid flocking by himself if lie feels so disposed but really we fail to realize the necessity for any more municipal tickets in ogden the tile man who is not satisfied with the platform of the ogden city republican must be a very liard hard man to please the party that thinks it can place at the head of its ticket a wiser eater safer better man tor for the office of mayor of ogden than E 31 ALLISO jn is fooling itself and so be with tho tile entire republican city ticket every man on it is able competent and arid strong and none better can bo be found by the party which proposes to nominate another ticket THE democratic party of ogden city is on the ragged and jagged edge with I 1 a jag factory at one end and a jag cure institute at the other the party is well prepared to take care of the loaded brot brothers herd who fall by tile wayside |