Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 February 1892 — Page 7

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WOULD COME IN HACKS.

Preachers Ought to Give Up Fooling "With Doctrines. /-u

Trust the Lord, Lot* and, Obey Him—That li Creed Enough for Any Human Being:. V"'

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text, Luke vL, 17. He said: g?

Christ on the mountains is a frequent study. We have seen Him on the Mount of Olives, Mount of jBeatitudes. Mount Moriah, Mount Cavalry, Mount of Ascension, and it is glorious to study Him on these great natural elevations. But how is it that never before we have noticed Him on the plain?

Amid the rocks, high up on the mountain. Christ haa passed the flight, but now, at early dawn, He is doming down with some especial friends, stepping from shelving to shelving, here and there a loosened stone rolling down the steep sides ahead of Him,until He gets in a level place, so that He can be approached without climbing from all sides. He is on the level. My text says "He came down with them and stood on the plain."

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no ascending, no descending, approachable from all sides—Christ on the plain The question among all consecrated people to-day is. what is the matter with the ministers? Many of them are engaged in picking holes in the Bible and apologizing for this and apologizing for that. In an age when the whole tendency is to pay too little reverence to the Bible, they are fighting against Bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Bible. They are building a fence on the wrong side of the road: not on the side where the precipice is and off which multitudes are falling, but an the upper side of the road, so that people will not fall up hill, of which there is no danger. There is no more danger of Bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Scriptures, than there is that astrology will take the place of astronomy, or alchemy the place of chemistr}', or the canal boat the place of the limited express rail train. What a theological farce it is: ministers fighting against too much reverence for scripture, ministers pretending to be friends of the Bible, yet doing the book more damage than all the blatant infidels on earth. The trouble is our theologians are up in the mountain in a light above the clouds about things which they do not understand. Come down on the plain and stand beside Christ, who never preached a technicality or a didacticism. What do

jt you, O wise-headed Ecclesiastic, now about the decrees of God? Who gapes j, fig about yoursublap«Sfta5ism or your subralapsarianism?"- 'Jf

What a spectacle we have in our denomination to-day committees tryv ing to patch up an old creed made two or three hundred years ago so that it will fit on the nineteenth century. Why do not our millinery establishments take out of the garrets the coal-scuttle bonnets which our

great-grandmothers

wore and try to

fit them on the head of the modern maiden? You cannot fix up a threehundred year-old creed so as to fit our time. Princeton will sew on a 'ittle piece, and Union seminary wili sew on a little piece, and Alleghenny seminary and Danville seminary will sew on other pieces, and by the time the creed is done it will be as variagated as Joseph's coat of many colors. Think of having to change an old creed to make it clear that all infants dying go to heaven! I am so glad that the committees are going

to let

the babies in. Thank you. So many of them are already in that all the hills of heaven look like a Sun-day-school anniversary Now, what is the use of fixing up a creed that left anv doubt on the subject? No man ever doubted that all infants dvinogo to heaven, unless it be a Herod or Charles Giteau. I was op-

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to overhauling the old creed at all but now that it has been fitted ud and its imperfections set up in sight of the world, I say, overboard 1 with it and make anew creed. There i'

are

to-day in our denomination five hundred men who could make a betterone

mvself

ago,

could make abetter one

As we are now in process

of changing

the creed, and no one

knows what we are expected to be-

Have or will, two or three years 4 oe-ce be expected to believe, I could not wait, and so I made a creed of mvown, which I intend to observe the rest of my life. I wrote it down in I

memorandum-book

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The glorious Lord. To trust

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obey Him in all To that creed I

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"T. DEWITT Talmaqe.

rfhe reason Christianity has not made more rapid advance is because th» neople are asked to believe too many "»inSs' There are, I believe, to-day millions of good Christians who have never joined the church and are not counted among the

friends because they cannot

hplieve all the things they are re-

to believe. One half of the

Siiucrs a man is expected to believe o^er to enter the church and reach heaven, have no more to do with bis salvation than the question "H&w

many

volcanoes are there in

«t.« moon?" or "How far apart from inch other are the rings of Saturn?" "{p)W many teeth were there in iftw-^one with which Samson the Philistines?" I believe thing*, hot none I them have

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anything to do with my salvation except these two: I am a sinner and Christ came to save me. Musicians tell us that the octave consists only of five tones apd two semi-tones, and all the Handels and Haydns and Mozarts and Wagners and Schnmans of all ages must do their work within the range of those fitfe tones and two semi-tones. So I have to tell you that all the theology that will be of use in the world is made out of the two facts of human sinfulness and Divine atonement. Within that octave swing "The Song of Moses and the Lamb," the Christmas chant above Bethlehm, and the halleluiah of all the choirs standing on seas of glass.

Is there not some mode of getting out of the way these non-essentials, these superfluities, these divergencies. from the main issue? Is tnere not some way of bringing the Church down out of the mountain of controversy and conventionalism and to put it on the plane where Christ stands? The present attitude of things is like this: In a faminestruck district a table has been provided and it is loaded with food enough for all. The odors of the meats fill the air. Everything is ready The platters are full. The chalices are full. The baskets of fruits are full. Why not let the people in. The door is open. Yes, but there is a cluster of wise men blocking up the door discussing the contents of the caster standing midtable. They are shaking their fists at each other. One says there is too much vinegar in that castor, and one says therels too much sweet oil, and another says there is not the proper proportion of red pepper. I say, •'Get out of the way and let the hungry people come in." Now, our blessed Lord has provided a great supper, and the oxen and the fattings have been killed, and fruits from all the vineyards and orchards of heaven crown the table. The world has been invited to come, and they iook in, and they are hungry, and people would pour in by the millions to this world wide table, but the door is blocked up by controversies, and men with whole libraries on their backs are disputing as to what proportion of sweet creed, I cry, "Get out of the way and let the hungry world come in."

The Christian Church will have to change its track oc it will run on the rocks of demolition. The world's population annually increases 15,000, 000. No one pretends that half that number of people are converted to God. There are more than twice as many Buddhists as Protestants, more than twice as many Buddhists as Roman Catholic. Protestants, 135,000,000 Catholics, 195,000,000 Buddhists, 400,000,000. There are 175,000,000 Mohammedans and 220,000,000 Brahmins. Meanwhile, many of the churches are only religious club-houses, where a few people go on Sunday moring, averaging one person to a pew or one person to half a dozen pews, an! leaving the minister at night to sweat through a sermon with here and there alone traveler, unless, -by a Sunday evening sacred concert, he can get out an audieuce of respectable size.

The vast majority of the church membership round the world put forth no direct effort for the salvation of men. Did I say there would have to be a change? I correct that and say. There will be a change if there be: a fifteen million person added every year to the world's population, then, there will be thirty million added to the church and forty million and fifty million and sixty million.

How will it be done? It will be done when the church will meet Christ on the plain. Come down out of the mountain of exclusiveness. Come down out of the mountain of pride. Come down out of the mountain of formalism. Come down out of the mountain of freezing indifference. Old Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, great on earth and in heaven, once said to me: "I am in favor of a change. I do not know what is the best way of doing things in the churches, but I know the way we are doing now is not the best way, or the world would be nearer salvation than it seems to be."

So I feel, so we all feel, that there needs to be a change. The point at which we all come short is not presenting Christ on the plain. Christ on the level with all the world's woes and wants and necessities.

The full change will have to come from the rising ministry. We now in the field are too set in our ways. We are lumbered up with technicalities. We have too many concordances and dictionaries and encyclopedias and systems of theology on our head to get down on the plain. Our vocabulary is too frosted. We are too much under the domination of customs regnant for many centuries.

Come on, young men of the ministi'y. Take this pulpit take all the pulpits, and in the language of the street and the market-place and the family circle, preach Christ on the plain. As soon as the church says by its attitude, not necessarily by its words, "My one mission is to help for this life and help for the life to come all the people, and it proves its earnestness in the matter, people on foot and on horseback and in wagons and in carriages will come to the churches in such numbers that they will have to be met at the door by ushers, saying: "You were here last Sunday you cannot come in today. Ladies and gentlemen, you must take your turn." And it will be, as in the Johnstown freshet and disaster, when a government station was opened for the supply of bread, fend it toek the officers of the law to Weep the sufferers in line, beoause bf tpe great rush for food. When thL

famine

struck world realizes that the

church is a Government of the universe to provide the bread of eternal life for all the people, the rush will be unprecedented and unimaginable.

Christ on the level. When, during the siege of Sebastopol, an officer had commanded a private soldier to stand on the wall exposed to the enemy and receive the ammunition as it was handed up, while he, the officer, stood in a place sheltered from the enemy's guns, General Gordon leaped upon the wall to help, and commanded the officers to follow him and then closed with the words, "Never order a man to do anything that you are afraid to do yourself.' Glory be to God, the Captain of our salvation has himself gone through all the exposures to which he commands us to be courageous. He has been through it all and now offers his sympathy in similar struggle. One of the kings of England one night in disguise walking the streets of London, and not giving account of himself, was arrested and put in a miserable prison. Where released and getting back to the palcce he ordered thirty tons of coal and a large supply of food for the night prisoners of London. Out of his own experiences that night he did this. And our Lord the King, aforetime endungeoned, and sick, and hungry, and persecuted and slain out of his own experiences is ready to help all, and pardon all, and comfort all, and rescue all.

A Christ easy to get at! No armed sentinel to challenge you. No ruthless officer to scrutinize the papers you present. Immediate solace. Through what stFuggle people must go to get a pardon from worldly authority! By what petition, by what hiiidrauoe, by what nervous strain of anxity, by what adroitness. A Count of Italy was condemned to be put to death at Milan. The Countess, hearing of the sentence, hastened to Vienna to seek his pardon. The death warrant was already on its way. The Countess, arriving at Vienna in the night, hastened to the palace gates. The attendants forbade her entrance at all, and especially at night, but she overcame tnem with entreaties, and the Empress was wakened and the countess pleaded before her for the life of her husband, and then the Emperor was awakened to hear the same plea. Commutation of sentence was granted. but how could she overtake the officer who had started with the death warrant, and would she be too late to save the life of her husband? By four relays of horses and stopping not a moment for food she reached the city of Milan as her husband was on the way to the scaffold. Just in time to save him and not a moment to spare she came up. You see there were two difficulties in the way. The one was to get the pardon signed and the other to bring it to the right place in time. Glory be to God, we need go through no such exigency. No long road to travel, no pitiless beating at a palace gate. Pardon here. Pardon now. Pardon for the asking. Pardon forever. A Savior easy to get at. A Christ on the plain.

Australia's Pest

The plague of rabbits in Australia cannot be described without seeming exaggeration to those who have not had experience of it. OHginally introduced in a colony of about a score of individuals by a squatter near Melbourne, who thought their familiar-' presence on his station would "remind nim of home," they have kept the recollection of England so fresh in the minds of pastoralists as to tempt them to very treasonable language concerning her whenever rabbits are mentioned.

The fecundity of the rabbit is amazing, and his invasion of remote districts swift and mysterious. Careful estimates show that under favorable conditions a pair of Austrailian rabbits will produce six litters a year, averaging five individuals each. As the offspring themselves begin breeding at the age of six months, it is shown that at this rate theoriginal pair might berespansible in five years for a progeny of over twenty millions! That the original score which were brought to the country have propagated after some such ratio no one can doubt who has seen the enormous hordes that nowdevastate the land in certain districts. In all but the remoter sections, however, the rabbits are now fairly under control one rabbiter with a pack of dogs supervises stations where one hundred were employed ten years ago, and with ordinary vigilanee the squatters have little to fear. Millions of the animals have been killed by fencing in the waterholes and dams during a dry season, whereby they died of thirst, and lay in enormous piles against the obstructions they had frantically and vainly striven to climb, and pois&nsd grain and fruit have killed myriads more A fortune of £25,000, offered by th* New South Wales government, still awaits the man who can invent some means of general destruction, and the knowledge of this fact has brought to the notice of the various colonial government some very original devices.

The British museum originated with a grant by Parliament in 1752 of £20,000 to tVe daughter of S! r. Hans Tloane, in payment for his fW library and vast collection ot tie productions of nature and ».rt. T'. this collection was adobd the Oottonian, Harleian and other collations.

Thrushes and oth^r bir£ crush the shells of land snails and extract their juicy bodies, &•> do also raccoons and wood rats, be/ wood!fid birds will not eat .naked snails, because the slime on ftMuo sticics to their beaks a*d spMlf their teachers

CURRENT COMMENT.

TARIFF PICTURES.

New York Press: In 1880 the American people consumed*® 54.56

pounds of sugar per captia. Then the McKinley law came along, made sugar free and cheap, and in 1891 the same people consumed 67.46

pounds of sugar per captia. The removal of the duty on sugar was in full accordance with the protective policy. It is a cardinal aim of that policy to make all non-competative products absolutely free of duty, while imposing a tariff of competing goods tnat will effectively protect American labor.

TURPIE ON ISSUES.

Chicago inter-Ocean. What Senator Turpie said to an Indianapolis newspaper man means more than that he is anxious that Isaac P. Gray, once Governor of Indiana, should receive the vote of his State at the next Democratic convention for the nomination of a Presidential candidate. It means that the Senator believes tha# the temper of his party in his State is unfriendly to the claim of Governor Hill, and no man knows the temper of the Indiana Democrats better than Senator Turpie.

The fact is, and it is an indistructible fact, that the tariff question can not be divided into sections. Free trade or protection must stand as a general policy. The fight for supremacy must be unto the death. Mr. Cleveland recognizes the force of the situation and boldly assails tariff as "the iniquitous, unconsti: tutional, and inequitable source of revenue." It is either that or it is the best mode of raising revenue available. It is not partly good and partly bad.

As' to the personal issues that would be involved by Mr. Hill's candidacy, Senator Turpie disapproves of them, and in this he will have the fellowship of the best men of both parties. The campaign of 1892 should be as educational and as impersonal as that of 1888. The slanderous diatribes of 1884 never should be repeated by either party. The next election should be to determine whether a majority of the people are for or against protection and honest money. The issue should be principles rather than men.

TARIFF AND BONDS.

The following letter is one out of many received during the year which prove how slightly "the campaigns of education" have educated the peopleas to National finances:

To the Editor.—Please give me true details of what tariff is for, where it goes, and what it is for, and how they draw government bonds, and what interest tliev have to pay on them how they loan them, what you pay to get tht in

Tariffs are levied to produce revenue. They are of two Kinds, for revenue only, and for revenue with protection. A certain quantity of money is expended by the government yearly. The amount spent during the last fiscal year was $421,304,470, of which $219,522,205Jpame from tariff duties on goods imported to this country. The rest was raised by direct taxes upon the people. Of course, every dollar taken from the tariff would have to be added to the direct taxes, for a given amount of money must be raised for the expenses of government.

The first financial act the first Congress of the United States declared that the true policy of the Nation was to raise revenue as much as possible by tariff and as little aspossible by direct taxation. George Washington approved this act, and no President except Mr. Cleveland ever has advocated the opposite policy of raising the greater part of the National revenue by direct taxation.

So that as tariffs are needful, this question arises, "Shall we have tai*iffs for protection and revenue, or tariffs for revenue only?"

A tariff for revenue only takes articles like tea, coffee, sugar, and other things that the country either does not produce at all or not in sufficient quantities for its use. It is plain that tariffs on such things are taxes paid by the purchaser. For if a merchaut import 1,000 chests of tea from China and pay $10 duty on each chest he must add that $10 to the price of it.

But a tariff for protection and revenue lets tea come in free, but it places a duty on things that are made or grown in this country. For example, it places a duty of 25 cents a bushel on all wheat imported. Now if a Canadian farmer sell wheat in a United States market he gets only the same pi'ice for it that the United States farmer gets $1 per bushel perhaps. But he has paid 25 cents duty. In this case the foreigner pays all the duty. In the matter of iron goods, carpets, and other things that we ».iake in large quantities, the foreigner pays all or part of the tariff, either directly or by selling at a reduced price. For if the price of an American made carpet be $1.25 a yard, and the duty on an imported cat pet oe 25 cents a yard, the foreigner uin not get $1.50 for his carpet, bt cause the American article of like quality sells at $1.25. He therefore must accept this price. But the 25 cents duty has to be paid, and the foreigner either pays direct or he sells to the American importer at a reduction of 26 cents, which the importer uses to pay the duty. But the earpet sells for only $1.25. "Bonds." commonly so-called, are promises of the United States Government to pa certain moneys bor

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rowed during the time of war. They bear interest at rates varying from 2 to 4 1-2 per cent, which is payable at the United States Sub-Treasuries. The government is not issuing new bonds, it is paj'ingoff the old ones as fast as they are presented The credit of the government is so good that its bonds bearing 4 per cent, interest sell at a premium of 16 cents on the dollar.

ADVICE TO THE MILLS MENIndianapolis Journal. Democratic papers which supported Mills for Speaker have said a good many abusive things about Speaker Crisp which were doubtless untrue, but there is one true thing which they might say but have not. The worst thing that can be said of Mr. Crisp is something that can be easily established from the records. It is that he has never been legally elected to Congress, but is now, and always has been, a representative of fraud. Certainly if it can be shown that he has no title to a seat in the present Congrsss and has never been legally elected to any previous Con gress, he would have to resign the speakership. The Mills men can prove this on him if they want to.

Mr. Crisp represents the Third Georgia district. It has not been changed for twenty years, and consists of sixteen counties, nine of which have colored majorities. The following figures are from the census reports:

Population Total White. Colored. Col. Maj. Population.

1870 62.0JZ 81,383 29,353 ... 133,408 1880 03,439 88,£92 25.452 153.331 1S90 79.523 122,594 43,071 203,187

On the basis of one voter to every five persons, there were in 1880 12,687 white voters and 17,779 colored voters, being a majority of 5,081. In 1890 there were 15,094 white voters and 22,518 colored, being a colored majority of 6,604. Mr. Crisp has represented the district since 1880, and has been returned by a large Democratic majority in every election. In 1890 his alleged majority was 7,790, the number of Republican votes returned being 2,248. Of the 22,518 Republican voters in the district the Democratic elestion officers in 1890 returned only 2,248 as voting. The district has a Republican majority of at least 7,000, yet Mr. Crisp was returned bv a majority of 7,790. In 1834 the election officers reported not a single Republican vote cast, and gave Crisp a majority of 4,131. Again in lS8o they ret jrned not a single Republican vote cast and gave Crisp a majority of 1,704. The Damoorats of the district seem to have been lazy that year, and only 1,704 of them voted, but as no Republican voted at least none was returned as voting —Crisp's majority just equaled the whole vote cast. As there were only 1,704 votes cast in the district that year, Crisp took his seat as the representative of 1,704 voters. It took from thirty to fifty times as many voters as that to elect a member in the North.

Here is abundant evidence of fraud, in fact, a perfect mine of it. It will be the easiest thing in the world for the Mills Democrats to prove that Crisp has never been legally elected to congi*ess, and that he has no more right to a seat in the present Congress than he has in the iiritish Parliament. His certificate of election is forged and fraudulent. He himself is tattooed all over with political fraud. He represents nothing but the violation of the Constitution and laws. Let the Mills men go for him. Let them show him up in his true light as the willing benificiary of a wholesale system of fraud. Let them denounce him for the political burglar and robber that he is. Let them rip him up the back. They can make it mighty hot for Mr. Crisp if they want to. It would be a noble spectacle to see a faction of the Democratic party championing honest elections in the South. Let the Mills men sail in. It is a great opportunity.

DEMOCRATIC ECONOY. The country has heard a great deal about the "Billion Dollar Congress," and what this Congress intended to do in the way of reducing expenses and cutting down appropriations. As a matter of fact, leaving out the increase in pensions, the appropriations of the last Congress did not much exceed those of the one preceeding it, and the increase was due to the growth of the country. But the whole matter has been persistently misi'epresented. and at the same time the people have been assured that the present Congress would make a very different record.

In view of the glowing promises of retrenchment the Democrats have been making, it is remarkable that the first regular appropriation bill reported at this session shows a large increase in the proposed expenditures for which it provides. This is the bill providing for the support of the Military Academ}' at West Point, which was reported a few days ago by the committee on military affairs by General Wheeler, of Alabama. One would suppose that this institution was a good place to begin the work of retrenchment. Of course, the people are proud of the academy at West Point, and are willing to give it proper support, but as we are in no immediate danger of war, there does not seem to be any present necessity to increasing the expense of West Point. On the contrary, it would seem to offer an inviting"field for the prun-ing-lcnife and for an object lesson of Democratic economy. The country, therefore, has aright to be astonished by the fact that the ,bill just introduced carries appropriations exceeding by 20 per oent. those of the "billion Congress." Tbp bill pass^l by

the last Congress appropriated for the support or the academy $462,000,1 while the present bill proposes to ap« propriate $486,000. Tne bill may or I may not bo changed, but if passed in its present form, as reported from the committee, it will appropriated, larger sum for West Point than was ever appropriated before, except once. The second session of the-

Fiftieth Congress appropriated for this purpose $ .H)2,77, but that provided for the erection of several new buildings which were much needed. The present bill does not. In his report accompanying the bill General Wheeler says that the committee, 'in their anxiety to reduce the amountof the bill as far as passible, have reduced all salaries which exceed $1,000 per annum, except salaries which are fixed by law." The aggregate of these reductions is $1,600. Yet. .astonishing as it may appear, the bill creates fifteen new offices, wir.h salaries aggregating $7,6t0. General Wheeler points with pride to the fact that the committee has effected a saving of $1,600 by cutting down salaries, but he conveniently forgets to mention that, at the same time, they, added fifteen new offices with salaries amounting to $7,600. The General is not able to say whether these new offices are necessary to the welfareof the institution or not, bu'. that is not the po'nt. Whether necessary or not, they show a net increase $6,000 in salaries, while the entire bill shows an increase of $84,000 over the one passed by the "billion Congress." The entire proceeding

interesting illustration of Democratic economy as she is practiced.

BAD FOR THE CALAMITYITE3. Instead of making war on the Pinkertons, the Jerry Simpson and Watson party in Congress should turn their noise machines upon that part of the Census Bureau which has been investigating mortgage indebtedness. Every bulletin, with its array of cold but resistless facts, will sweep out of the minds of candid! people all the assumptions of poverty and calamity which these prophets and purveyors of despair have been making during the past three years. The last bulletin presents additional results in Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and TennesseeOne fact that will attract attention is that all the mortgages given during the ten years 1880-89 in these States aggregated $2,000,602,077 ok a res and lots, and that during the same period more than half of this indebtedness has been liquidated, leaving a real-estate mortgage in force January 1. 1890, of $906,669,526, bearing an average State rate of interest from 6 per cent, in Tennessee to 8.64 per cent, in Kansas. In this, connection it may be stated, as a result of the investigation, that therate of interest paid on mortgages has declined 1 per cent, during th» decade covered by the investigation that is, where the rate of interest was 7 per cent, in 1880 it was 6 peccent. in 1890. Such a fact as thiswill not stop the clamor of the car larnity howler, but it will impress a. candid and intelligent mind.

In seventeen counties in these rep* reseutative States searching investigation was made into the causes which have led people to borrow money on farms and lots. In four counties of Illinois from 66.82 to 92.25 per cent, of the money procured on mortgages was expended ins the purchase of real estate, its improvement. or both, and in the same counties from 8o.82 to 97.22 percent-., of the money levied was devoted to other objects than "farm and family expenses." In the live counties investigated in Kansas, from 51.96 per cent, in the "hot wind" northwestern county of Decatur to 77.92 per cent, in the older county of Jefferson, of the money hired, was devoted to the purchase and improvement of real estate, and from 74.28 per cent, in Decatur county to 96.53 in Jefferson of such money was devoted to other purposes than "farm and family expenses." The amount borrowed for "farm and family expenses" in the four Illinois counties averaged 2.75 per cent, of t'ae whole. Tirjsefacts sweep away as cobwebs of the imagination the persistent claims of the purveyors of cal »m ty to the effect that farmers have b^en compelled to mortgage their L'ar.ns torn eet current expenses.

Again, as to the character of mortgages. The cry has been raised that they cover farms almost o.Kclinivoly. In Kansas, an agricultural State, the mortgages in force in 1890 on lots, as against farms, agsri-earatod S'3S. 1W.755 leaving $174,720,071 up acre or farms, while in Illinois SJi:',010,033 is on villiag.?! or c.ity lots :mhE $165.289.112on acres or farms. Th-v statistics further show that while thenumber of mortgages placed upon, acres or farms in th lire Slates wasthe largest in 1387--1-H.0 37 to 111.434 in 1839—the mort^i'^es uvu lots in 1839, 119,815 -wore iv?ver ec ceeded but once in number and. never reached in amount.

One other fact presented is tint the largest number of mortgaehave been given during the years tlm'. business was active and people wen hopeful, while during the dull periods the number ha5? do-lined. Inthe booming year of 1337 the total of mortgages triven in the five State-* reached'the highest figure, both uponacres and lots, which seems to :ndidicate that the mortgage rather an evidence of good times lb.au the black flag calmnity.

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