The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-06
HOMESTEAD LAW AND THE
RICK AND POOR or TEXAS.

HON ESEEAD Ia W AND THE
RICH AND POOR or TEXAS.
he policy of the homestead law IS
y wise. 1t attaches people to the
il 81 the State with bonds stronger
haa hooks of steel.'' Giving fami-
b inalienable homes, it leads to their
lornment and public taste is promot-
No sooner does the citizen gather
pugh wealth to buy home then
pc invests it here rather than in life
Insurance in foreign States. Each
b2per OF a homestead is made, IN
edlcally depraved, good citizen.
thoroughly interested in the
lnce of law and order and in
Organization OF good society.
SO give value to property and rem
npes attractive and life delight
only objected to the law
now and then use it to
from creditors. There
reat wrong possible. A
Us invested originally in
Tempt from execution. Every
knowing this, credits another,
/ at his own peril, bat the more
adily for the reason that the benef-
ent law enables the debtor to pay
when otherwise he could not. Ii the
debtor, holding valuable homestead,
still fail to pay, the fact only remains
lat the creditor was misled by
his own greed for money and trusted
Aman's honor who is bankrupt,
ct has home for his wife and
ZEN. These he has no right TO
|verish and the owner of the
sstead, if he could, has no right,
brder to pay debts, to use the
Alesty of the family to execute con-
yer based on this property.
angular fact that men, educated
piety as organized under the old
sh barbarous black letter COM
law moties of thinking, never
eive that woman has any rights
CD the law or man is bound to re-
a. A woman agrees to wed and
idren. At that very instant,
WIS villainous eyes aud in those
Try creditors she ceases to ex-
Ter home and comfort signify
hing. II the husband choose to spec
or If men choose to make money
listing the husband, the wife, that
rs word may be good, may be
into the street hopeless and
Axas tolerates no such
- asstsannat barbarous code still
Mustered by our courts, save as
di6ed by bene6cent modern law
reason, has ceased to operate even
it should have been abrogated when
Apublicanism swept away many an
nc and monarchical facts and forms.
-. one has asserted that the
der OF : homestead should |
compelled by its sale to
BY any debt he owes a man poorer
ban himself. Why did the poorer. in |
N a case, trust the rIcher2 The |
lit given was not based upon the
Astead. 1t owes nothing. The
md not the property, made the
. and only the man is liable.
are. in such case, no frauds or
pses aud the two men traded
of perfect equality. If one
red as to the ability or honesty
her it does not follow that the
fe and children should be i'm
Pd that the poorer msy be en-
Men trading with one another
trade, as in other counties, at
yth and he gives one credit for
he has not when this credit
5n the homestead. 1t involves
wrong that in such case the
fes even though 1t might be
of such creditors stupid
whatever men may say OF the
poor ana Of rights evolved
s.rty the time will ne yer come
exas. while the rights and wrongs
nen and the distinctive existence
es and mothers as human beings |
fessed by the law, when the
ad law viii cease to exist and |
md the poorest of the people,
x to advance their fortunes
e in youth for comforts OF
be the very last to assent
al modification Of existing |