The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-22
HERMIT AFTER CULTIVATOR
HERMITAGE, Feb. 10. 1880.
Editors Herald.

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Editors Herald:
Cultiyator, in another harangue
about the ragged steer, attempts to be
witty. At wit he is failure; st repe-
tition a success, as the article consists
of I, l, AID ltser. steer. He attacks
ell cattlemen, and says they want to
run the country. Not bit of it.
They are running out OF il az fast
ss they can, many herds
yearly going to Wyoming and
others 10 Idaho. The estrsy pound
does not bother them much,
for the simple reason that if these
cattle damage a farmer they are I'm.
willing to pay the damages, and if
they are imposed on, all they have
got to do is to get out an attachment
and take their cattle. The cattle men
do not need me 10 defend them.
They are sbundantly aba to defend
themselves, and don't you forget it!
But it is the farmer, the poor man, or
the widow, who has but few cattle,
that this one sided law hurts. And
why7 Not because their cattle damage
their neighbors so much. hut lazy
people are always enVious oftheir more
industrious fellow man, and watch,
lay or squat for the calf, COW or horse
that might be seen near someone's
fence. You can see in their faces,
81 will get some OF your substance
now" as they march the unlucky
calf to the pound. That the law, as
it now stands, gives a man who is too
coRardly to steal and TOO lazy
to work, chance to get
something for nothing, there Is
no doubt. know a man whose COW
had not been outside Of bis fence for
two years, but one day she got out,
crossed the river, and was found IN
the estrsy pound six Dailes away the
same night. No damages, but S1.50
all the SAME. When some boys
with cattle were caught driving
them to the estray pound, and
asked who sent them, they promptly
answered, "the poundkeeper," and
in answer to what do you get?' II
get 25c. per head-he gets ST." But
suppose the impounding fees we're
25o. per mead, and feeding 15c. land
it's oil the same, the cattle get
nothing anyway, and the damages
lad to accompany the cattle, does
any sane man for a moment believe
that the estTay pound would be run
ming all winter in Box Elder County
and stock sold "plenty?"
Mr.. Editor, in all candor 1 ask,
wby should Utah alone OF all the
states and territories have the only
estray pound2 II am so informed by
q lawyer.) California, with its hun
dreds OF thousands of cattle,
and thousands acred farms. has
no estray pound. Millions Of
people without an estray pound /!
What can they be thinking about?
Mark Twain, in his book, ''Innocents
Abroad" found no estray pound
i(and he went as far as Jerusalum.
Jules Verne in his trip around the
world says nothing about the ettray
pound with its glorious keeper, and
yet here in Utah we have such per.
feet model OF that kind, that even
the wise do not see the necessity for
any amendments. Happy and
glorious Utah
Utah, isolated as it is. has never
had an article that brought the ready
cash as cattle. Think of California
days, Montana days, and even the
present days, what do We sell that
brings the ready cash? Cattle Then
look at the prosperous farmer. A
few names I will mention, Rydalch,
Of Grantsville; Layton and Smith, of
KsysviIle; Ford and CLARK, Of Farm
ingtop, and others who farm and feed
their surplus to cattle and keep them
until spring. Gentlemen, have you
any cattle to sell? Yea, with a sly
wink, is the answer. Ask these
with other enterprising men. what
they made their capital out Of
and they will tell you cattle: and
have these men stolen cattle? Every
body answers mol and yet this
model Cultivator, with his ten
acres, without a fence around
it, asserts and vaguely hints
that all cattle men do is to steal cattle
and fattsn them on his carrot patch.
What had these men that / meution
with hundreds of others when they
fret came to the territory? Bless your
soul, Lazarus was a capitalist beside
some OF them. Did they sit down
on a teu-scre lot, raise and suck
sorghum, and watch for their neigh
bors' steers? o NO! I will venture to
say that neither of them ever da-
mayed any mans crop but they paid
for it, and further venture that neither
ever put their neighbors' stock in the
pound. am for no fence law. 1
am for just, equitable law between
man and man.
Now, Mr.. Gultivator, if l have not
answered your gyrations, it is because
there was nothing to answer; and if
you still feel bad, take vinegar bitters.
AS for me, Pm of.
Yours. The HERMIT.