The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-23
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Railroad Passes Lien Law.

EDITOR CLARIoN.-There are some sub
! Jects of Stale policy upon which the senti-
ment Of the people of Mississippi Il so
decided and SO pronounced that there is no
installing that sentiment at all. One is
| that no official of theirs, no Governor. SEN
ator, Representative, Judge, District Attor-
ney, Sheriff, shall serve them and at the
same time be beneficiary of the railroads
by accepting their free passes for which
they have paid nothing No one knows
this better than the members of the pres
ent Legislature, for the question of free
passes entered the canvass in almost every
county in Mississippi at the last election.
but from the slow progress which the anti
pass law Is making IN the Senate, mind
ing one of the movement of the shuttle of
loom, it is apparent that the advocates of
the proposed Law are having a hard time of
1t to carry through the measure, How gen.
tlemen can reconcile it to themselves to
object to measure so eminently proper
and just is more than l can see The sub
ject should have been favorably disposed
of at its first reading, after having been re-
ported upon by the committee. Tho eyes
of the people are upon the action of the
members of the Legislature upon this sub
ect.
the people have decided to have a change
is that of the lien law They demand t.
repeal; the agricultural classes, the most
to be injured by its repeal las the nercan-
tile interest would have the country be-
heve) ask its repeal; the State Grange.
representing the largest agricultural or
ganization in Mississippi, ask its repeal; |
the Governor, in his Annual Message, asks |
its repeali certainly if all these do not
know what is to the interest of the State. |
who doesy
The lien law Is driving white farmers
away from Mississippi every year, their
farms having passed into the hands of the
merchants, under the operations of the
lien Law, they abandon kindred and sa-
cred ties-the graves of their ancestors
and of their little ones, to 90 West. and
try in new country to make another I
start in life. The merchants place coIored
laborers upon these plantations and draw
heir profits just as well. so they are salts
led. A very responsible gentleman in -
county told the writer recently, that within
he last few years twenty white
families had already been moved from
MS immediate neighborhood and their
liaeea replaced with coIored people.
hus breaking up white schools, white
49, e-4SoF NAASO soo&ctgi just such Is GOING
n IN other portions of Mississippi vhere 8
his process of disintegration of the white a
cement is going on. viii the Legislatnre $
I the State allow this blotch upon our
tatutes to remain forever as a miIIstone d
round the neck Of the Slater a
Inc state Is now well supplied with food ?
roPs Of its own growth. There is no dan 9
er Of any one starving in land Of plenty G
here labor IS in such demand. then avvav g
it'll this lien law. It may have been neoes- r.
Try when It was created, but that Is No P
niger the case, - soon viii be apparent. ,
repealed for good and for ever. and nj
octored and patched up to suit those on
osed to its repeal Its various sad Effects
pom the State have been 50 ably ARMED
at It = no longer necessary to repeat fhs /.
gqnlsnis. srqbe Al the articles ID its fa-os
g they VII g f9and q Is sssling rnon J,
it-interest- Lei the Legislature as sa' ~
" men ana g,Fs tie people relief from n
Pa06REss.