The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02


the privileged seats that II carries
with II, they eau subsequently SELF The
city Is rapidly filling, aud there need be no
apprehension but what In ono or two years
from to-day, the demand for the stock with
those seats will be so great that 1t will com
mand premium. BY all means then let
us make good this little deficiency of 10000,
and herald the good news to the dramatic
world and our noighbors, that Dial Has will
next year offer unusual theatrical ieasts,
UNREASONABLE DEMANDS,
II has been for so long time thought that
Texas chief interest was in the raising OF
cattle that 1t is hard, even now, to impress
our population with the truth that this is
destined some day, not for distant, to be-
come nothing more than minor enterprise
with us. The outside world and the stock
men, however, still seem to think thav
Texas is fit only and designed only for cal
tie herding and stock purposes, and the late
convention held in Austin OF the stock men
of the state so Enthusiastically operated upon
this principle that we cannot refrain from
calling attention to some of the suggestions
aud resolutions there made and adopted. In
the first place the members Of the conVen-
ton in the resolutions adopted indirectly
insisted upon fixed dividing line between
agriculture and stock-raising and resolved
that such line should be most carefully adj
iusted Now we do not feel any enmity at
all toward the stock-raising interest of this
state, but on the other hand desire as
matter of course to see it grow and improve
annually but we do most heartily object to
any effort on the part of the stock men TO
draw line over which agriculture shall not
dare to venture under penalty OF the
law. In other words we deprecate
disposition in any one line OF business
to circumscribe or cripple another.
Particularly is this the case, whenitis sought
to curtal the operations and lessen the field
of agriculture. Upon the latter of course, as
every intelligent citizen knows, the state Of
Texas must depend for population, wealth
and general development, by breaking the
immense tracts of land, both public and
thus placing the masses in position to ac-
nuire homesteads and develop the soil,
the state.may fulfill its destiny as one
the grandest commonwealth on earth, but,
if contrary policy is adopted, ifvast tracts
of land are to be turned over 10 the cattle
king and the cowboy, and
wall built up against the encroach-
ments and growth of agriculture it will be
many u year before Texas assumes that sta
ton as great state to which her resources,
extent and increasing population entitle
her. There is not under the sun a more fer
tile soil than that of Texas, or one more ca
pabe of supporting a dense population,
and producing remarkable returns. But if
we would get out of it its most generous
production or richest fruition, every acre
of it must feel the hand of labor
must, in other words, be worked for all
it is worth. Of far more signii-
canoe, financially, to us than cattle, to
say nothing of the matter Of supplying i'm
migrants with homes and enriching the
masses, and thus present an attractive field
TOR the poor of other states and all lands, is
cottop sugar, wheat, etc. Upon these
products we$nust depend for future wealth,
and slowly, but steadily, are the tillels OF
the soil taking up the immense wastes
which have heretofore been the home enIy
of the cowboy and The Texas longhorn.
Under such circumstances, it seems to u
not simply an unreasonable, but an ex-
tremely absurd and unjust demand
that the machinery of the state
government should be set in mo-
ton for the special protec-
ton and fostering of the cattle interest.
The men who handle cattle, like all others,
must be governed by the laws of trade and
the march of events, and if the majority
of the people of this state prefer to own
and till the soil rather than herd great
numbers of cattle thereon, there the matter
ends, and it is more than folly to ask the
state to set a boundary to agriculture or
build bulwark for the stock men. Then
again, this convention among other things,
resolved that it should be an oiiense, pun
ishable by fine, to take up an estray, If range
stock, before it had run on the lands of an
individual two years. and ono year if work
animal. This is most remarkable propo-
sition and is merely another way of feeding
range stock for two years on the lands OF
individuals Indeed, there were many
other equally Objectionable and absurd
suggestions and resolutions, but it would
be 100 tedious to refer TO them. While We
want TO see stock and stock-raising pro-
tected as all other property and interests,
we cannot but protest against legislation
especially enacted in behalf of one class
of men or kind Of business, to the pos
tive injury of another. The stockmen,
of course. are not TO be blamed nor
criticised too severely for their action, as
they simply did, aud will continue 10 do,
what the high tariff men, or the ship build
ers, or the iron manufacturers, or any other
special class representing a distinct branch
of trade are doing constantly-seeking spe-
cial fayors from government. But we trust
that our state will take no step calculated
10 cripple one interest at The expense Of an
other. If. however, without injury to
others, the stock meu can secure legislation
which will build mp to greater dimensions
and greater profits their line Of business,
an well. and success TO them. q.
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