THE REMEDY. 707 



Making a total interest-bearing bond and mortgage 

 indebtedness of $7, 750,399. The mortgages average $1,442 

 each. There is no use quibbling over these figures; they 

 are matters of record, and until the records can be made to 

 show differently this table will hold the floor. " 



Says J. H. McDowell, writing from Kansas: <c Eighty 

 farm mortgages were foreclosed at the last term of court, 

 and there are 800 mortgage foreclosure suits on the docket 

 of the district court for Sedgwick county. This county 

 adjoins Butler, and when in that county we are told 

 that eighty mortgages on farms were foreclosed at last 

 court term, and in another county we noticed there had 

 been 151 farms closed out under mortgages. In several 

 States we learn that almost the same state of affairs 

 exist. One thing is evident, if some relief is not found 

 through our combined efforts to remove oppression and 

 prevent corners which rob farmers of their labors, in a few 

 years a number of States will be in the hands of foreign 

 and eastern capitalists and the tenant system of slavery 

 established similar to that which exists in the monarchical 

 countries of Europe, where the lands are owned by a 

 landed aristocracy, and the people are mere serfs. " 



Says the Labor Journal: 



"The case of Sillars, a man hunting work and out of 

 money, who asked for a cup of coffee, and was arrested 

 and sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment and a fine of 

 $30, is attracting much attention. It transpires that his 

 wife is working for $4 a week to support herself and child. 

 That he had been out of work for months, and had walked 

 from New Jersey to Connecticut seeking work, having 

 only forty-five cents when he started, living on bread and 

 water until the forty-five cents was gone, when he was 

 arrested as a vagrant, fined and jailed. Verily, this is a 

 grand country for rich men." 



