The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-11-07
MELLETTE AND TAYLOR.
A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE
REPUBLICAN, AND DEMO.
CRATIC NOMINEE.


A Few Pointers--.Judge Men by Their
Past Acts and Vote Accordingly.
From Dakota Knights Of Labor.
One would hardly think IN this
state where land is supposed to be free,
that the land owners no longer ago
than last winter planned and contrived
one Of the most hellish schemes ever
thought Of by human fiends. Shortly
after the election a year ago, certain
we'll known parties from the "center
of population locality, advised a
scheme that would abolish exemption
in the case of tenants. At that time
it was not known who was to cham.
pion the cause Of the landlords in the
legislature. On the afternoon Of Mon
day, January IL 1890, in the House of
Representatives.. at Pierre, the Hon.
Maris Taylor, a representative from
Beadle county, introduced a till that
became known as House Bill No. so,
a measure, had it been successful
would have given to the people Of this
state all the horrors of the British
landlord system. The DILL passed
through the various stages Of leg,s.
lation. backed by the most powerful
lobby ever seen in a Dakota lcgis-
lature. Through the the tireless
effort Of MIR. Taylor, the bill passed
the house upon Thursday, Feb, 20,
after gallant fight in opposition, led
ty Barnes Of Brown, and Mcintyre of
Coddington. On Friday. February q,
upon motion Of Mr.. Mcintyre, of Cod
dington, the vote was rcconsidered and
it was thought at that time that the
bill was killed, but Mr.. Taylor's
ability as a plutocratic legislator was
greatly under-estimated, and early and
late he toiled on in the interest of the
landlords, until on March 5, during the
confusion and turmoil attending the
close of the session his efforts were
again successful.
We give below few extracts from
the bill introduced by Mr.. Taylor.
These will be good reading at this
time. We wish our readers to study
these quotations carefully.
SECTION 2. ut may ana s.,aii b.
lawful to and for every lessor nr land
lord, or his or their agents, bailiffs, re-
ceiver or other person or persons en-
powered by him, her or them to take
and seize as distress For arrears
Of rent any and all property of the
lessee III and upon any part Of the
premises demised. leased or holden,
and to sell or otherwise dispose of the
same towards the satisfaction Of the
rent for which such distress shall be
made"
And again liz section 3, we fad
the following: "For the arrears of
rent upon any leased premises whether
by verbal or written lease
the property of the tenant or tenants
occupying said premises shall not be
exempt from levy or sale for the salts
faction Of the rent due or to
become due under the con-
dition Of the lease, upon which the ten
ant or tenants holds possession.
This would put to shame the Tory
government of England.
A provision in section 10, is as fol-
lows: THAT no appeal shall lie in
in the case for distress for rent, but
the remedy by rerlevy or action IN
damages shall be had instead.
Thus itcan be seen that the poor
man cannot appeal and drevent sale of
his household goods, winch no courts in
the world could make as valuable
as they are to him, and no
matter how unjust the claim, the sale
must go on and he must begin a
separate action to secure his just dues,
and besides, while the possessions Of
the family-the household goods.
clothing etc. answer every purpose Of
new articles Of like kind but when once
they pass under the sherif's hammer
they must be appraised as old or Sec
ond hand articles, and the poor devil
not be able to recover one half enough
to place his family in as comfortable
condition as when DIR. Taylor's ,uedic-
inc was administered to him by his
landlord.
This bill goes still farther in the in.
terests Of the landlords that it was in.
tended to help create and protect, for
in section 2 we find the following:
Upon any rescue or unlawful re.
taking Of the goods and chattles dis.
trained for rent the person or persons
Qandlord) aggrieved thereby shall, in a
special action for damages for the
wrong thereby sustained, recover bis.
her or their TREBLE DAMAGES and cost
OF suit against the offender or offenders
in such rescue or retakiug of said goods
or chattels any or either Of them