People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — An Infamous System. [ARTICLE]

An Infamous System.

Any system or policy of government that robs people of their homes is infamous, and if there is no other way of changing it, then it should be done by revolution. The record of home robbery within the past twenty years is startling. Take one state, and a very good one for illustration, Minnesota. During the past thirteen years there were 2,087,130 acres of farm lands foreclosed, and the owners driven out of their homes. On this land dwelt 33,453 farmers, who were all set adrift. In the towns and cities of the same state during ths same time 57,112 town lots were foreclosed and not redeemed. Here is another army of homeless men started out to tramp for a living. Must the people submit to a villainous system of representation of their nature? If they do they don’t desire liberty.—Southern Mercury. 1