The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-06
A CRITICAL CRITICISM CRITICISED.

OIL VIII enc BArCabu OIeCtcot 10 ehO ''6i
clans would say, ad homenem. We cannot
find any reason TO publish them, except
that their appearance in print will be
gratifying to our correspondent. and
as we arc anxious to please him we print
them, although there is no discussion Of
any particular matter Of public interest
in them The writer appears TO haya
arrived at very candid mood, and In
facetious manner begins by informing US
that We have been talking Of something
that we know nothing about, and the
presumption is that he claims TO know
all about the whole range Of agriculture.
We accept the challenge and are willing
to make our bow and own up to our
friend on one condition, which is easy,
simple and fair. 1t is, that our cores
pondent will unmask his identity and
comrare the result OF HIS years work in
agriculture i,h The result Of ours in the
same business. Then five do not prove
10 his satisfaction that We have made a
larger per cent. per acre VI clear proht
than. he has done, We will own up to
knowing nothing about agriculture. If
our friend wants to get in candid mood
we will join him, and put this dispute to
practical tests which will prove the rela-
tive claims Of "a Farmer" and one
of the alleged ignorant editors. tn the
of f,1
"a Farmer" says that the farmers are
unable to provide substitute for the
lien law that they want none, and that
we are not qualified to enlightcn the far
mers upon the policies they should pur-
sue, and yet he says that it is our duty
TO provide substitute for the lien law.
This is convincing logic (?) 1t may be
condensed somewhat thus: The farmers
do not know what to do; you are not
fitted 20 enlightcn them on the subjec, i,
therefore you should enighteu them by
telling them what to do. There is an
other strange proposition in the article.
L is that the men who do not want 10
repeal the law should provide substi-
tute for it. We are satisfied to keep the
law, and therefore it cannot be expected
that we should get q substitute. We say,
frankly, that the only reason we do not
favor the repeal of the law is, that we
cannot see anything that would do in its
place.
IN tt,n Il ttr>t lam l,a lot
of Assignments, our correspondent con-
tinues unfortunate, for he admits that
they are the cloak for numerous evils,
and yet he desires to encourage the resort
10 them. Such resort can only be had
by assignment now, and in that case no
creditor is bound to accept 1t who does
not desire to do 80. The debtor cannot
make him accept. Our correspondent,
who feels called on to defend Savannah
township, says they only intended to
make assignments without the interven-
tion of the expensive forms Of law, and
thinks the creditors should accept it..
The people Of Savannah eau hardly nc.
cept such defense. for they did not in
TEND to set ut defiance the laws Of the
country, aud take oil of the responsibility
into their own hands. "a Farmer"
must know that tho expense Of the forms
Of law 10 no excuse for violating the law.
1t is expensive to try and hang muir.
derer, but that would be no excuse for
hanging hir, without the forms of law.
The people OF Savannah do not need de-
fense Of tLis kind, and it does them In
justice. They are paying up their obli-
cations like men, and, as n class, are not
Sinking their liabilities. The news
paper controversy that is being waged in
their defeuse processes to speak for the
township. but it does not fairly represent
the masses of her citizecs. The pay
ments that are being made every day by
her people show that they know what
contracts are, and that they intend to
fulfill them.
AS to the questions propounded con.
cerning tho Lien and Homestead laws,
the answers are very simple:
lst. A lien does net extend beyond the
crop for the making of which the sup
plies were advanced. The debt, how
ever, subsists, and may be enforced as
any other debt.
End. The lien for agricultural supplies
does not attach upon personal property
at all, aud hence. q chattel mortgage
clause is frequently inserted to cover
personal property. No property not
mentioned in the mortgage is bound by
it. Such property can only be reached
by judgment and execution.
8rd. The constitutional amendment
adopted at the last session OF the General
Assembly does provide thst the home.
atead cannot be claimed against debts
contracted for the purchase of the land
in which it is claimed, and also that the
crops raised on homestead that has
been laid of shall be liable for levy and
sale for debts contracted in the produc-
tion OF those crops. It does not provide
anything of the kind where no home.
stead has been laid of.
"a Farmer" in conclusion, attempts
final thrust at what he seems to deem
our defciences in moral precepts, and
complains that We have not touched
upon the moral question involved in his
articles. We did not do so because we
thought it euperfuous, bnt if our views