Daily Republican., 1886-03-02

landlord and Tenant.
We have not the least doubt that
landlords often lose the rents theiI
tenants owe them, a circumstance itsel! |
that makes land lords who would other
wise be kind and lenient, callous and
In Delaware the laws re
lating 70 debtor aud creditor have been
In many instances In favor OF
the creditors, but not for tenant credi- |
tors There Is now no imprisonment
for debt unless the debtor is non-
residau- of the SAFE, when, il he comes
within the State, he may be taken ON q
foreign attachment, and put into jail
uut.l he enters bail either for the salts
faction Of the debt or for lis appearances
to stand trial. In such cases the plain
tiff must bsooms surety that the board
of the prisoner shall be paid 1t lie
very seldom that creditor undertake.
such proceeding, Is public opinion Ii
strongly against imprisonment for debt,
and rs the creditor might not only II
the end lose bis claim, but the board OF
the debtor and have the costs In the
case TO pay besides.
The attachment law has also been
repealed, so far as the wages OF work
men are concerned, but IL sill applies
20 contracts and monies not considered
the regular weekly or mon ,hly earnings
OF work men. A Law has also been en-
acted exem pting from execution for
debt other than rents, one hundred dol
lars worth OF house hold furniture, fam
tly pictures, bible, and, IL we mistake
not, sewing machines. These excep-
lions, however, 90 nos apply 70 persons
living beyond the State who owe debts
OF any kind within the Safe, nor 10
persons in the act Of removing from the
State.
Bot none OF these humane provisions
extend to renters They have nothing
that O Landlord cannot sum MARTY seiz'
and have sold 70 satisfy his claim fol
rent. It must be said, to the credit o
the landlord class of our citizens, thA
those who would carry out the extrem'
of the Law against hapless tenant ar
the rare exceptions. Az q general ruiz
our Wilmington landlords would prefe
losing their olAlm rather than distres
poor family, poor through no fault o
their own. But there are exceptions
and there Is . great amount Of miser.
and suffering caused by heartless AnC
unfeeling landlords. We have In on
minds eye Q case recently disclosed
though 1t has been several months sine
It happened. We refer to IL as sampl
Of what can be done by unfeeling land
lords, and what they will do when Their
10 but little danger OF their inhumanit
becoming known. A man and his vii
came down from Chester County 70 thi
city o year ago and rented house i
the suburbs, but within the city. Th
man found employment in q lArg
manufacturing establishment ou.sid
the city limits.
In the third month OF his stay in Ii
city, he met with an accident, whic
incapacitAted him, for the time beinI
from earning Q livelihood. Thinkir
better care would be taken OF the ii
iured man, the wife took him TO b.
fathers residence in Chester Count,
When they went away they owed nil
dollars for rent OF course IL tn,
could not pay 1t at the time they shou
have notified she landlord TO that efe.
but the wife expecting 10 return In
week or ten days, they did not do 6
Under the circumstances the wife +
manned away longer than she expecte
In the meantime the landlord want,
his rent, OF course he did, all LANDLORD
do. When he called for 1t he foul
nobody In the house, but instead q
furniture was all there, sho wing til
the inmates we're only away temper
rily. Here was a temptation TO t
cupidity OF the landlord and he
doubt reasoned thas: Here is hou
full Of furniture, the owners have @
away, they did not notify nae, do I
know II they will come back, they {
beyond the State, am no: bound
give them any moi %, they owe me nj
dollars back rent and the prospect
rent for the balance Of the year, "
may not make my money? v
make II, and he did makeit.
He put watch over the house q
sent for q cart II TO remove the goo
but when the carter found out the t
state OF the case, be refused to tor
them. There are al ways persons, hC
ever, who will do such things In ca
Of emergency, and they were found.
the best goods in the house were tai
and sold for mere song. A new Sin
Sewing Machine was sold for Ave
lars, q stove costing thirty dollars "
for almost nothing. Bot the landl
got his rent, and whose business '
IL? After the sale was over someb'
wrote TO the wife and this was the I
intima.ion she had OF what had b
done. Distressed and hear tbroken
came down 70 Wilmington, and
out the little drib Of goods that had
been sold by the Landlord. We reft
this only 10 show what can be done
der he guise of law. Nobody will d
that the Landlord proceeded legal.
the mater, bat what mus. be tho
of . law that permits such outrs
Seine legislation 10 needed In thiI
specs, not TO restrain humane laudl
and encourage dishonest tenants,
TO hold in check inhuman landl'
and 10 protect honest tenants. In
days when the Knights Of Labor
compelling respect to labor and
using the boycott" freely, there
object deserves boy co.ting more
the landlord we have described.