The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-30
The EXEMPTION Law.
Editors of the Register:

Editors Of the Register:
The letter addressed by me through
the columns of your valuable paper
some time since to the Hon. Charles j.
Faulkner, upon the duties Of the Con-
vention, seems to have called forth a
great many comments, both from the
press of the State, and from various
correspondents throughoutsthe State,
some favorable, and of course, some I'm
favorable.
None of the questions discussed by
by me in that letter seem to have met
with any opposition, except the exemp-
ton law, and the Board of Supervisors
All we said about the Board OF Super
visors, was thus: The people were
averse to the restoration of the old
county court system, and perhaps
better system than that and the present
one might be devised for the people.
l am decidedly opposed to the old
county court system, for reasons not
necessary to enumerate now. I have
no particular objections to the Super
visors system. l know very little about
our present system, but about our old
county court system, know enough
to be forever opposed to 1t.
fit suits the Convention to continue
the present Supervisors system, will
be satisfied. Are you satisfied with this
explanation, Passive?
Wisdom, public policy, humanity and
the obligations OF our beloved Chris
tianity agree with me in my pleadings
for magnanimous exemption law.
lived four years in Ohio, where l
saw the beneficial operations Of the
law. Look at her great wealth and
prosperity! never saw man refused
credit because of that law during the
four years OF my residence there
Almost anybody can get and retain
home there. Go where you may
throughout that great State, and you
will find plenty Of Virginians. What
took them there? They left their native
State because there was no possible
chance for them to financially better
their condition.
A Poor Man" Yes, this poor
Man" didn't send his name to the prin.
ter with that unkind article. We don't
wonder at that. We would have done
the same thing ourselves, if we could
cherish as much unkindness in our
heart as he apparently does for the
poor.
We will call him Medicine Man" for
our convenience, for, il we are not mis-
taken, this same Medicine Man" heads
a petition OF seventy-fve from this city,
asking the Legislature to modify or
abolish the exemption law.
IAN Awful Poor Man" takes up the
gauntlet in the Sunday Neaos, and
takes issue with my Medicine Man"
and shows conclusively that pooHman
could buy medicine for his sick
family just as well with an exemption
law as without one; and moreover, an
exemption law does not make man
common sense, reason, lie teachings Of
all combine to demonstrate
the expediency and public necessity for
such humane law. Until some such
a law shall become engrafted upon our
statute books, the depopulation of our
State will annually continue. Mr..
Jackson, Of Wood county, has reported
a bill before the Convention already,
allowing 100 acres OF land, or the value
in town or city lots, as homestead ex-
emption. We hope the Convention
will show it's wisdom and humanity by
making provision Of this kind in our
new Constitution. Weask Poor Man"
or our Medicine Man" whether he
would like to see the bed taken from
under a sick mother or child and sold
by the officers to pay his drug bill? |
We have seen such times once, ana
NAV high Heaven forbid that our eyes
shall ever witness such heartrending
scenes again. HUMANITY.