if they are working well and their crop promises to be large, he
will permit and even encourage them to draw upon him liberally; it
is only a partial failure of the crop, or some intimation of the
negro's edmonton independent escorts intention to shirk his obligations, that induces his
country factor to preach the virtue of self-restraint, or moralize
upon the advantages of economy.
The land owner's rent and the merchant'edmonton independent escorts s advances are both secured
by a chattel mortgage on the tenant's personal property, and by a
pledge of the growing crop. The hired laborer (edmonton independent escorts for it is common
for negroes to work for wages for other edmonton independent escorts negroes who rent lands)
has also edmonton independent escorts a lien upon edmonton independent escorts the growing crops edmonton independent escorts second only to the land
owner's; but as the law requires that the liens shall be recorded,
which the ignorant laborer usually neglects and the shrewd
merchant never fails to do, the former is generally cheated of his
security. Among those who usually work for hire are edmonton independent escorts the edmonton independent escorts women,
who are expert cotton pickers, and the loss of wages which so many
of them have suffered by reason of the prior lien gained by
landlord and merchant has helped to make them earnest and
effective advocates of emigration. The Western farmer considers
it hard enough to struggle under one mortgage at a reasonable
interest; the negro tenant begins his season with three mortgages,
covering all he owns, his labor for the coming year, and all he
expects to acquire during edmonton independent escorts that period. Edmonton independent escorts he pays one third his
product for the use of edmonton independent escorts the land; edmonton independent escorts he pays double the value of all
he consumes; he pays an edmonton independent escorts exorbitant fee for recording the contract
by which edmonton independent escorts he pledges his edmonton independent escorts pound of flesh; he is charged
two or three
edmonton independent escorts times as much as he ought to pay for ginning his cotton; and,
finally, he turns over his crop to be eaten up in commissions, if
anything still be left to him. It is easy to understand why the
negro rarely edmonton independent escorts gets ahead in
the world. This mortgaging of future
services, which