The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-26

If = repeal could stop the credit BUSH
ness, there would perhaps be some zd
vantage reaped. But ii ell aot stop 4.
and this whole Southern country, viii
run 81 tick, in one shape or another, Tor
nsaar = year to come And, besides the
cher bad features arising from the ne
peal and landlords should refuse to re
sssabiish-eFes1it With their lands then
you viii see negroes emigrating TO Louis
lana, Alsbama, Texas and other States
where they csa get their daily bread
advznced them.
Il Is asserted too. that = repeal would
cheek the dilapidatiOn observable in
plantations and rebuild houses, fences,
&c, and stop the gulches- This, like
the other eonlectures in its favor, Is sim
ply aireastling. Who is ready to pledge
the amelioFation, except through dreams
spun out on paper? Seize the iron /
facts, as they present themselves 10
sober contemplation, and see if there is. |
or can be, any provision made for all |
these high expectations. They cannot /
be accompanied without money and |
labor, and who pray viii furnish those
prerequisites! On the contrary il is
likely to grow worse, and the crash that
Is now heard or all sides, in thus being
deprived of the small props that are
placed from time to time, will soon tum-
bic into spulehral wreck. That Is,
there are stronger grounds for guessing
/ a downfall than an advance Assure
the money that Is to bring about the
desired reform and all well-otherwise
charity should suppress measures 50
doubtful.
The views here taken Of this pressing
question are for agriculturists as class
for there are exceptional individual
cases. For instance, where a planter is
able to run his plantation without the
help of merchants, a repeal would not
effect him detrimsntally On the other
hand such persons are working under
: the proposed mode very proftably even
now. Buying for cash and letting his
supplies cut al soodly profits, he cannot
suffer. Indeed an agricultural capital
i<t finds himself chief of every situation.
I He commands his rent his 200 per
' cent. profit on advances and the bale of
! cotton for mule hire. But take the
ECUEastltNs -
100 of them; How do they stand
e Hardly able to furnish breakfast fol
n themselves, to say nothing of the tenant
! and under such circumstances, they
would be compelled under the repeal tc
&c run risk of sacraficing shelter TO ap
ie pease hunger. Let the common land
81 lords, in some way discover, that thii
e serious change is contemplated and the,
will greatly preponderate in the cry o
d "hands of our only safeguard" Being I
le passive people, with thoughts and hand
a absorbed in their avocation, they ar
!. mostly unaware Of doings outside thei
homes. But advise them fully of thi
: move touching their fundamental inter
I'd terest, and they would stamp an unmis
IN taxable quietus to any such suggestion
-, They have seen too MANY plantation
E 90 up, under deeds of trust to now ris
cd their own. Thew are hardly aware of
d. single place, worked under q deed G
% trust, that has not turned out disastrou,
trously to the owner, and they hay
nc been stinting themselves and Twin
cy hard to avoid being thrown into til
of very predicament. And as for its gi'
To ing them absolute control of labor the
know better They have rubbed ii
AZ skin of the Ethiopian with all kind ,
p liniments, and find it uncomfortable an
a firmly set in its stubborn nature and /
in must abide the time fer nature and M
human laws to bring about desire
" changes.
In endeavoring to point out successfI
or planters under such a system as thu
,st proposed-the more observant common
"a er, will at the same time call your attel
= ton to the large bank account and IL
lp- immense stores of those fertunates an
ms bring your eve to bear on his own fleece
Ill pocket. He will explain to you that
=, is through buying for cash, selling f,
!" cash, trading with cash and settling wit
de cash, that fills the Golfers of those me
i'll and not hard lieks in the soil Rulir
in prices of cotton will not Garrant an
~ margin above scanty living. If an
extras are demanded, the planter mus
nd through his unburdened bank accoun
.ly set mp stores and other outside show
~ Start the commoner on the same foOtiI
and he will cheerfully adopt the san
70 system otherwise he must struggle G
pt- as his means, reason and judgmeI
authorize. Prudence, and reduced eli
- cumstanecs, will not allow him to rus
=. blindfolded into air built schemes.
IN There is no hope for the weak pla
i'm ter in the change-but SHOULD the rope
oh take effect, it will prove boon to IL
no capitalist in another way. In the aba
donment of their plantations by Il
&C. commoners, for lack of means of co
to Quoting them under the new orde
las many hands, thus set adrift would DC
a. haps not leave the State, but flock areuI
the store houses of these few monop
ect lists placing them in position, not on
ed to secure a superabundance of labor, b
to dictate terms.
:. But while working so favorably
in capitalists would the State not suffer
iiu beholding the exodus of her yeomanr
Ter who seeing themselves and their Ian
Of abandoned 20 the mercy of money,
- kings, may determine TO try their fo
~ tune without its borders. 1t j. not il
LOT probable and the old mother shou
nd ponder seriously the contemplate
civ change ere she plunges into an irretrie
~ able blunder. And in view of the ia
=" that the Legislature, at its next met
all ing, is to consider this momentous OUT
i'm ton, does it not behoove Representative
AZ TO study it well in all its bearings, Al
be sure of the wishes of their coas
ny tuencies, before they repeal the Agricl
he tural Lien Law? The writer firm
his believes that very large majority
,er- planters, after calmly Surveying t
=. whole ground, would not want it touch
"a" at all, unless it be to scratch ont sol
ear doubtful expressions and obscure LEI
sal points, so as to make it still plain
for that landlords shall and must come 4
under. all circumstance They are I
y rock upon which the State and all
&C interests are based--its support
of treasury. Respectfully,
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