The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-31
THE HERALD. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARy3 1884

Language, seemed "a be- recon- nending
herd law slrioter than We a." prepared ioI.
ard nothing else. Two dAys Iaier, when "
wNs manifest that ,he stock convention
w0uid pronounce against n herd Law, thu
governor made n speech, IN which no ssid
The herd law has been referred % In your
body as the herd law OF the executive.
have not suggested such n thing. Whn,
! might conceive 10 DO right, aud what l
referred Ia In my message, WAS the drivins
OF stock on the enclosed lands OF
another" N, ntlas', ~ Il made i'lain th-i
the governor has convened un 20 pass a law
10 ave Z ltnd.owner n lien on stock TIA
are driven tnslds 4 pasture TO ,ai era
With tho knowledge o. the ~ imsfs ~ NJ
~. THIS II a revelation; We are convened
20 pass n law ~ give lieu To ihr pasture
man or pa turo ch uses, a right when l
| oflieve the common law has secured with
Dut a statute, urie out OF mind
nut, Ia that same spe ch To the STOCK
nen, ~ said: "Pfoieci your,elve'! Months
ago | sad through tue press that the rem
rdy Is Ia the hands " the peope. F"f
| 'h's ono the s'a,e J urnassaid thai ! want
| ed teen 10 take the law into th,ir own
hands. No, sir, out DO want to iel the
officials to do their whole duly, and u you
ca Gu n man setting fire to your barn and
destroying your f.hces, II you ca oh am ~
the act aud shoot him-well, !
will mike. no pledge "s ~
Y, wA at. IL S w DO, ESa, w !. .h. .S Sss
suggestion al executive pardon for murderi
is this your remcd,' Encourage the doc
| IriDe that he feDca owner rau-t make IN
selfJudge jur' aud exsculionsr; let this
doctrine ~ forth, and the ralrlc will ba
dyed la blood from Red river TO the RIO
Grsnde. Mnrder will provoke organ z,d
retHliA tion, and the red aru oi butcherS
Will be dong it's work instead ii the peace
iul methods OF protecting Laws. The g.-
nius of constitutional liberiy, faint with
wandering the plains, and oched bv the
vertical rays OF anarchy, b-h-ld the gov
ernor OF Texas altar oil, promising her shade
aud pIotecti She nastourd, heated ana
fatigued 10 his protecting arms; but when
she heard from his lips this implied prom
ise TO pardon the murderer, she would nor
enter the circumference Of his shade. aod
she must now look for SAFETY IN the pa
triotism of the people.
| Law cannot reppse on penalties alone.
Social order can no more repOse on VIC en- co
/ ana terrorism than ~ eau on penalties,
Lsws must bs gfounced IN justice 20 ne
respected. and any remedy which leaves
the Paudora's box Of Tree grasi open will
only increase the ev;i. The wandering
| hefdsmgn who owns much cattle ana no
grass must cease his naveis; the pasture
man must also stop his oppressive ways,
aud both individuals aud corporations
learn, by paying Tor school land grass, TO
divide the burjeYa OF taxatiol Gish the
iGrmer, or there eau be no peace In this
country.
OTHER REMEDIES NOTICED.
The remedy, sometimes suggested, OF CIV
ing the governor power to remove sheiiiis is
in open violation of the constitution, which
entities the sheriff to trial b. Jury. 81,
also, the remedy OF making each county
pay for the fences destroyed IL not only un.
constitutional, but, ~ some counties, like
Archer, are closed In by pasture
fence. We wouid have the strange
snomsly, under such O rule, Of making the
owaef OF a pasture pay for the destruction
OF his own fence. Executive appeals tn the
Law and order element OF ience.des,royin ing
counties read WE'LL but they come too laie.
When the whole social fabric IS infected
wish the malady in the county, the sheriff
is powerless aud grand juries become u
mockery; then the causes fihe malady
hour la watch the people are invited to de
lend property rights and social order.
| A little patent nostrum, which In due
| time will see the light here in the senate
looks to giving the pasture man lien on
all cattle that enter his farm enclosure after
his fence Is destroyed. That rem.
edy will deserve medal Of
/ leaO, IJT again you are met
tn the objection thattho owners of the
trespDssl1g cattle would be the Dum orDus
under dog, who are now mad; aud the
pasture m IN 5ould DC bold fellow who
would i'm pound their cattle.
Nov, cir, ] have explored sufficiently the
whole cloudy horizon aud again Say To
you that, plaster and doctor this disease
a. you uany. there will be- no peace in ,nis
country until free grass ehsli csase. He
/ 7. l,a ia nd nj q
toe severe remedy which alone can cure Is
not on alarmis; and he ouly, in an hour
! ike this Is TO be dreaded, who refuses "a
zee danger; who, like the sen ,tor from ii Al.
rison, represents his constituents By read
ing doggerel poetry TO the senate. when
he slould be instruc,ing IL with ideas.
THE BILL REvfs~ED.
And now, Tor the provisions OF the bill
| Though modified herd law ia its results
~ l. not herd Jaw in the sense that mar
saall keep hts stock on his o wn unenc,osaC
land Existing habits OF the people should
Or respected, aD far as possible, by every
law, and assert hat this bill Is framed
with tina, view. Take an eastern vexa.
farmer, who, with much labor, has field
in that timber region of thirty acres. Ii,
has land around him, but covered with
timber. II required 10 keep up his stack
and nc SHOULD take the fence from around
hi, field 20 make q pasture, the eltire past.
ure would not sustain one animal. IL he
should attempt 10 herd his small stock on
his own land, his family would starve for
want OF lsborers in the field while engaged
! IN herdirg, Rut in eastern Texas not one
m 81 in twenty owns over twenty. I've
mead of cattle; and one who does,
can rent oil the open wood land for
pasture he needs for q nominal price
Eastern Texas, with its large agricultural
population, will no, feel existing COT ditioiis
disturbed BY this bill.
Frs,--The bill requires every man In
Texas to have somewhere In the county:
wheye he turns his stock loose, ten acres of
unfeuced land for each animal kept on the
range; provided, That each head of family =
shSll be entitled to tHrn ose twenty live
head. exclusive Of colts and calves, under u
year old, even II he has no land. II also
provides that stock owner having SUD-
cent land shall not be punished II his cat
tie DRIFT In winter TO smother county, II he
drives them back at the usual time In the
spring.
S.cond-It prohibits q man from here
If er fencing in tract Of land In the ine-
n or OF his pasture, which he docs not own,
or from continuing such fence If already
bu Il, unless he fences In the email tract to
itself, or arranges with the owner. IL the
owner ot the small tract lives on IL ms de
OF that large pasture, the bill gives him Q
right 10 turn loose on that pasture one AMI.
mai for every ten acres Of ground he OWLS,
and which Is not enclosed by an interior
fence; and such uss OF the posture dis
charges the penalty on tho large pasture
man for It's enclosure. II gives the man
thus ferced I'm, If he occupies his land, q
right-o.-way over the lines Of interior sur
veys, and lpgress and esress through gates
to public roads.
fhird-lt prohibits any pasture man
from turning stock loose on the outside
range, unless he owns In the county, out.
side his pasture. ten acres for every animal
Fourtn-is prohibits every man who has
defrauded the state by leasing or buying a
school section as dry land, from fencing IL
up. II it has permanent water on II. which
vas not made BY tanks. Under Its provi-