The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-25
NEEDED PROTECTION.

There are many property owners in
this city who will appreciate the plan
set forth in the following communica-
ton concerning landlords and tenants.
Popular sympathy naturally runs to-
ward the poor tenant unable to pay
his rent. and against the more wealthy
landlord who, when he demands his
due. is generally looked upon as a.
hard-hearted tyrant and oppressor.
But the person who has by thrift and
labor. or by any honorable means ac-
quired property. is entitled to his
rights and the law should protect him
in the maintenance of those rights.
The difficulty complained of in the
letter we publish below is not so much
with the poor but honorable renter
who is unable to met his obligations,
as with the dishonest and impudent
occupier of another's property, who
takes advantage of the laxity of the
law in reference to his case. and bid
ding defiance to the landlord whom he
has defrauded, skips to some other
domicile to repeat the swindle. He
shelters himself under the exemption
law and the landlord has no eff
ficient legal remedy. The owner of the
property may be making his living by
its rental and thus he is in urgent need
of what is due to him.
That, however, should cut no figure
in fair consideration of the case.
The landlord ought to receive due pro
lection from the fraudulent renter
either in the way suggested by "a
Sufferer or by some other means that
our legislature can devise, to whom
we commend this matter as worthy of
attention:
To the Editor of The Herald:
Nearly all the Republicans and some
Democrats favor protection in one way
or another. Some want manufacturers
protected; others want laborers pro-
tected: others material men, and so on,
as each have an interest. The restaur-
ant keeper is protected in this way:
Ii Door hungry mortal gets a meal
of victuals from him and departs with
out paying therefor he may be ar
rested and punished. If money or
goods be obtained through fraud or
misrepresentation, the person so OBJ
tanning them may be punished for the
act. and in this way the banker and
merchant are protected. Protection is
given in one WaV or anotha. 70 oI-,,oe+
every thing and every body except
the landlord.
In renting his property the landlord
is bound by law as firmly as the most
eXacting may desire, but has he any
protection from the wrongs of the
tenant? AS the law now stands the
tenant may secure the use of thous-
ands of dollars worth of property. and
may pay no rent provided he has no
property in sight beyond what lis ex-
emDt from execution, and when he
pleases may leave the rented premises
swapping his fingers in the face of the
landlord and tell him that it is cheaper
to move than pay rent.
Now Mr.. Editor, I ask Won and
through your paper, the honora HE
members of the legislature. if If is not
Just and right that the landlord shol;Id
have protection as we'll as others
especially against these cheaner-tr.
moye-than-pa payment tenants: by MAX
ing the effects of the tenant liable for
rent due, or by making If 2 mis-
demeanor for the tenant to remove Iis
e1ects from the rented premises with
out consent of the landlord until tba
rent is paid? Lawyers are renuirine
protection, give protection to tbe Iands
lord. A STTFFERE ss1s'''-