The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-11

to provoke discussion belieyiny ILoIents ,Lo, a1s
oi IL much good will come. Let Ia civa u,
inc matter careful attention. and i;sc66ros 6rso
II possible tho cause of our troMh,"e SIutef
wi,h nnI'e 81 must be something radically wrong
Win Win US! II we are growing poorer eyer1
S,tar' i,'lng as we do in a land that
1eoaiu 1e De flowing with milk and honey
~ II is IN our system Of agriculture let
US improve 1t; if We lack laborers let ns
prlng IN immigrants if it is the lien
raw, iet II be stricken from the statute
oook OF the State; and if it is the home.
stead law, let it be abolished.
Dr. ). IS. Jennings, Of Marlboro after
nearing the remarks of Col. Butler in.
'ronuced the following resolution ;"
Tesofred, That it is the deliberate linda,
ment OF this body that, in the Interest er
ihc agrlculturists Of our State. the I;en
law ought to be speedily, finally and for.
The Rev. David Butler. Of Coor,;,
favored the resolution. He had neyer S,
himself been personally injured by the
use OF the lien law, because he had never
nad lien Oh his crop in his life bnt
those men that did have them on iheir
crops, in his opinion, were affiicted ,x w;,I
a ieprosy moro fearful than the leprosv
Gl Egypt, and un.ess the farmers Of the
oou!h soon succeed in throwing off this
teirlb.o incubus, they would shortly be
orlven out OF the society of successful
men 1t had been said that the sun SET
upon Georgia every night finding her
poorer than in the morning. He had
Deen shocked at this declaration at first
put ne had come to the conclusion tbst
IL was melancholy truth. 30 man
could live and pay so per cent. for the
use OF the money necessary to carry ON
MS farm. Each year the farmer found
himself poorer than the year before Ha
thought all the trouble could be traced
directly to the lien law. 4 man in
Georgia the other day had startled his
neighbors by telling them that he was
one year ahead when all of them had
gone behind. When asked to explain
he said, "Well l am eating this wear
what ought to cat next wear" There
was but one remedy, be thought. and
that was 10 raise more provisions and Ioss
cotton, and for the first wear to come
down 10 hard pan and live on ash cake
ahead wy
Gen. a. c. Darlington said that while
he might admit the sorry condition of the
farmers, he could not see the force of his
trends arguments upon the lien law.
The law was not compulsory. No Liam
wa, compelled to give lien if he didn't
want to. If the gentleman would tell
the farmers how, with nothing but their
land, they could carry on their farming
without giving lien, he would settle the
whole problem.
Mr.. Livingston, of Georgia, said his
old friend had forgotten one of the most
striking lines in the Lords PRAYER
Lead rs not Into temptation" Georgia
had gone through the trouble of the lien
law. Since lis abolition there was much
to be thankful for. The farmers pot all
the money they wanted on reasonable
terms. The goods, instead of going to
the tenants, mostly ignorant and extray.
agnnt, now 20 through the hands of the
land owners, whose interest is far closer
to the tenant than the merchant. The
merchants w.Lld not be hurt. They
would be benefited, as had been proved
by practical experience in Georgia
MIR. T. Ii. Russell, Of Anderson, said
that the merchants in his section were
opposed to the law, and said they would
give credit to no man whom thoy had to
take lien from. He favored the aboli-
tion of the law.
Mr.. Edwards, Of Darlington, favored
the repeal OF the lien law. 1t was crush
ing out the life of the agricultural peo-
pie.
Col. Harry Hammond said the lien law
was not a negative thing. 1t encouraged
the importers of bacon and corn to do
business in this country. The farmer
gave q lien on his crop taking crops
raised in the West. Would it not be
better to leave the farms altogether?
The abolition of the lien law, he thought,
was the entering wedge which would
eventually break up the evils of monop
Olies and eXtortiOn.
Gen. Darlington said if the lien law
was abolished, one thousand ploughs
would be stopped in Grecnvillc county
alone.
Col. Aiken favored the abolition Of the
law
Gen. Darlington said all this talk about
the oppression of the capitalist was clap
trap and demagoguism. The abolition of
the law was against the interest of the
poor man.
Mr.. Humbert, of Laurens, held that as
long as the lien law was in existence, the
farmers would never become self-support-
ing, and it was poor policy to tell the
farmer to work and starve under it.
Col. Rucker, Of Anderson, said that
while the lien law was not compulsory.
it acted as al evil by the temptation it
offered Of making the planter live ex-
travagantly and kept him forever in debt.
The lien law tempted large numbers of
ignorant men, who were not capable OF
running farms, to become tenants, and
instead of becoming we'll paid lab'rer,s,
they eventually degenerated into poorly
paid and incompetent farmers. Lessen
the number of incompetent tenants and
the labor of the country would be I'M
pcoyed and the general agriculture OF
the State would be elevated to higher
plane. 49,,
turc to say that if there was one question
upon which the land owners OF Green
vile county was more unanimous than
another, it was upon the abolition OF the
lien law. What the people wanted was
lesson in sef.denial. :,
The resolution was then adopted AMID
great applause.
SroNEwALL JACKsoN's DEATH.-Mr.
ID. w. Busick, of this County, VINO
since the war has been register of deeds,
was one of the soldiers that started with
The litter that bore Gen. Jackson off the