The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-08-24
Hart Defends His Position and Chal-
lenges Citizen to Debate on the
Chattel Mortgage Law.


Editor CoJdr Chronicle:
Citizen refuses to sign his name again
in his article of the 18th inst. He con-
tinues his unfair method of attacking
me and my record as member of the
legislature. He prefers to wait. until
he is smoked from his hiding place.
Any man has right to discuss public
affairs and the acts of public officials,
but the public official has a right to
know who the man is that attacks his
record. A man has no right to insinu-
ate and try to create false impressions
with the public against any officer, I'M
less he is willing to stand mp and face
the public and take the effects of the
results of the impressions made by both
sides of the discussion. Citizen makes
false statement when he says that it
is an attempt on my part to dodge the
issue by referring to him as living in
Colfax and being public official and
feeding at the public crib. have no
intention of lodging the issue, because
| believe / voted right and am proud of
my vote. 1t is question as to who is
right as well as from what viewpoint
we look at the rights of men. If Citi-
zen believes that all men are born equal,
and the poor man should have the same
rights as the rich man has in law or
otherwise, he has no argument, and he
can only make the point that some peo-
pie are not capable of attending to
their own business, and must do so by
picturlng the very worst side of the
case and giving as proof what he has
heard in another State.
In reilly to man not being permit
ted to borrow money on bill of sale,
| will state one case of the many L
know of. This man wanted to buy a
log team. He owned four mule team.
He had no money, but was willing to
risk the team he owned for money to
buy another, just as many men mort
gage house and lot and borrow money
and build new house. Very often the
will cover both house and lot
and the man sometimes loses his home
and has to move out This man with
the four mule team sold his four mules
to the other man who owned also four
mule team, turned his four mules in the |
lot of the second man, then bought |
both teams on condition that they were
the property of the second party, and
the unpaid balance af the purchase mon
ey when paid, if paid by certain time,
was to change the ownership of both
four niue teams. In this case the first
party failed to raise the money and the |
second party finally had his teams turn
ed in his lot, just one four mule team
a head. Had the teams been under a
and the man had right to
mortgage both teams no doubt he could
have re-mortgaged them and had an
other chance to have saved at least a
part of the property that was once his.
This is the bill of sale route, and it has
been worked, legal or illegal. l am not
an attorney, and if this is not legal
confess l am ignorant on this point, and
if Citizen is SO much interested about |
our poor people. and knows. this is not
legal, and that no man can sell his horse
for $50 and buy it back for $50 in six
ty days, it is his duty to inform the
people, because just such things have
in Grant parish. Ihave writ |
ten few bills of sale for people who
had to have money where they have
sold their stock for much less than it
was worth, with the understanding that
the purchaser would sell the animal
back to the party selling it if he came
with the money as agreed on within a
certain number of days, the horse in
some instances remaining in the posses
sion Of the purchaser until the money
was refunded, with the additional
amount as agreed on. In some cases
the horse was turned over to the new
purchaser and he in turn would lend it
to the party who had sold it to him,
with an agreement that he would return
the horse or pay him SO much money on
a certain day. This latter case l have
my doubts about, but am not sure but
it would stick in court. However, do
know that no man would be allowed to
charge more than Sc interest for money
loaned on chattel mortgage.
/ know that the commercial interests
did not appear in Baton Ronge to lobby |
for the chattel mortgage act There |
was not a lobbiest there. except the