People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — One Kind of Preying. [ARTICLE]

One Kind of Preying.

Here is an example of the kind ot preying that is believed in and practiced by too many calling themselves Christian Americans: A poor woman in Boston borrowed $lO, giving a mortgage on her little household furniture, and agreeing to pay $1.25 a month interest. She paid the interest for two years and was unable to do it any longer. But the loan company didn’t let up; they told the poor woman she might “scrub the office” twice a month in payment of the interest. This she did until, in money and work, she had paid the original loan five times over and still owed $25. And this is the kind of extortion that is going on within the shadow of every church spire in the land.—Coming Nation. In a running debate in the United States senate recently, the fact was developed that Senators Jones and Teller wrote, or helped to write, the financial plank in the national republican platform of 1892. It is known also that Senator Jones wrote the platform of the free stiver gathering at Washington city recently. Neither of those platforms are explicit enough for populist* to stand upon. The first is so ambiguous that poulists have accused th* Rothschilds with writing it, while the latter has a preponderance of “Whereases" ti “resoluH->--> ••