Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-22
ouR pooR corLEcr1oN LAWS.

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Those who rent houses have a wide
experience on this lire While IL is some
times d.fhcult - get tenants, IL is often
times NOR ESQ to the quit Of them
heard a landlord say on yesterday that
he had been forced 10 take the doors OH
the Ringers and remove the window sish
so that the cold air might put a move
on the people who were in his mouse
and refused TO move or 20 pay rent
had a negro family in a cheap mouse OF
mire who had paid but one dollar In SIX
weeks When I went or sent for the
rent nobody could be found l discovered
they were in the habit Of locking them
selves inside Eand making merry over
useless calls at the door. But somebody
win say: Put the law on them
Well. l tried that sO-called remedy anu
was forced TO pay the costs
A Justice OF the peace, before whom
nv distress warrant was trle1, uiun
see ANYTHING in sight. whereby his costs
T,Igbt he reached. and so he thought he
must save the costs at all hazards, ana
7 Was ont S3Sl for attempting 10 collect
SlI back rent
7rbs mans wife. who usually paid the
weekly rent. and who often told me
that she washed for people 10 get the
money rose up to swear, with uhoiusn.iis
face that she had never paid cent OF II
in her re. InaL SAAE Aast1 AAN -N~
,-orId what her husband paid me ana al
,ho,,gb she had a swsTm of young ne
eroes i'm the yard. that they mutually
claimed she had never had cent Vi
support from her husband in her NE,
Trbat Aid IL avail that I testified to the
~o,,rt that she usually paid the dollar
: y-eeI, and that she was the one VINO
Maid IL nine times out OF ten' "heA 7"
was paid? - that
My word went for nothing anu ma
Justice so-called dismissed 1he ~
i paid the costs -,
rIar..fora I was not surprised 10 near
.hfs landlord say he went TO MS own
house and took out the windows anu uii-
Screurad the door hinges 1t was disagree
abIe- of course, but anything is better
than TO run up against Jusuce CouI' -
where the costs are the principal item
Those who have experience IN iahd REM
ing and are beat out OF their rem "
soTry ueop.e. understand 10 the full, the
foIIv- Of irving to get their rent by gong
10 a Justice court, or where a bum jury
will side against any person VINO mas
souething in favor of those VINO MAKE
. business of beating the landlord out OF
All that they can slide off or destroy In
the usual way. by neglect. either In tle
cultivation or failure TO gather VIII
ten contract stands no chance 10 o no
remedy WnaLeNGE- AoA N0A 49,
sorry tenants on, 10 other LANDLORDS anu
let them catch up the corners. where you
failed to make good. and the people VINO \
get the best returns from their lanus' |
tell me they have made up their minds /
TO rent to negroes and take the chances, !
FOR there is no end OF trouble when sorry /
white folks determine TO beat the rent
All such disturbances make Il hard Tor
the better class OF tenants. because they
must rent land and take the chances on
fndlng a landlord who has not been
made sore and suspicious by dismal ex-
periences, as here mentioned I
had TO remove a cheap renting mouse !
IN Gainesville TO save the planks, De-
cause the nearby thriftless people actu-
ally punched off the shingles from the
roof and burnt them up. as soon as
drove out a worthless negro family. :
There is no redress whatever. and / am
continually told that the windows In my
vacant houses. Immediately became a
target for the strOlling. idle and worth
less tramps around town
People see il done but nobody can point
out. or give the names OF the vandals.
and while there are sorry landlords in
the land. the land is nevertheless cursed
with idle Migrants. who take pleasure in
destruction and jeer at the owners
II we had any collection laws, or at
least. some tribunal where justice might
be reached. the situation would not be so
hopeless II was a move in the right d.
rection when Atlanta felt forced to cry
out against the internal injustice OF those
who had been working justice courts to
their own greed