The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1884-02-09
OF SENATOR W. A. BOYD
OF TIPPAH ON THE LIEN LAW.
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Mr. Bsyd said: That as the repre-
sentative on this floor Of a people
whose chief pursuit is agriculture,
ARd apeOple composed largely OF
that most useful class known as
small Or homestead farmers, he
would beFecreant to his trust, false
to constituents, and las he belle we'd
to the best interests Of the state, If
he failed to- enter his protest
against the proposed action Of the
Senate in repeating section 1859 Of
the Code of 1880. If half that had
been said Of this section, by sena-
t0rs who had SO ably deClai med
against IT. we're true, then helwoald
| admit that It ought long since to
have been stricken from the statue
as aa enemy to her progress and the
consequent happiness of her Citi-
zens. The honorable Senator from
Marshall had indeed drawn
gloomy picture Of the depressed
condition of the people Of that
geod old county with her farmers,
her merchants, her mechanics, her
lawyers, her laborers, and her doc.
tors all "busted," all gone d0wn in
the vortex of one common ruin,
and when the !aet spoke Of his fac.
lie brush has been given to the pic
ture-larning to the Senate he held
he agricultural lien law up as the
producing cause of all this trouble
The Had of all his peoples woea."
Another, the Senator from The oath
District, conceded that the fine
was when it served good purpose,
but contended that it had outlived
the day of its usefulness, had be
come, so to express it, FUNCTUs Off
CIo, and hence he argued ought to
4 be repealed. Other Senators de
nounce It as an unmiigated curse
TO the country. If any one OF these
fposilions were true, he would
cheertully strike hands with the
enemies Of the law and aid in its
repeal. But he held the agricultu
raj lieE law in 40 such DIS esteem;
he did not regard it as the M on
ster we have heard here 1t describ-
ed. On the contrary, he held that
1t had been and still was with EN-
phasis the poor mans frien |, .ent-
bling such as use it without abusing
it, 10 work out for themselves an
4 independence, which, without it
they could not have obtained. He
| held that the law was eqnita-
bile, because while 1t furnished a
basis of credit to the labOrer, II
eqnally protected The rights Of the
capitalist who made 10 him the
needed advances. In order to de-
termine " hetheE-he was right or
whether Senators who differed with
him we're right, it seemed to him
that we had but to retrospect the
history OEthe states progress un-
der the operation of this now so
we'll abused law. Success is enc Of
ihe surest and safest tssts of mer-
Fit, and measured by this test, sure
~ this law had nothing to fear.
AS stated by the Senator on his lett,
(Mr. Luse), this law was enacted
more .han a decade Of fyears ago, at
a time when the business interest
Of the country were languiShing
from the prOstration of war and the
lack Of capital to develop the ordi-
nary agricultural resources of the
State. II was admitted that at the
I tine Of it's enactment it was a ne
cessity. Now for the results. Had
lie crippled the agricultural and pro-
: ductive energies Of the States
"Compare," he said, "if you please,
the condition Of the country and the
amount other products ten, twelve
Or fifteen years ago, when men
with strong arms and willing hearts
had neither money, credit, nor a ba-
=. of oradit with its nrasAnE nros-