The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-17
pLAIy FACTS

A few months ago the Fort Worth Gaz tie
sorted that tho western counties NJ this
state could never become valuable as szri.
cultural lands and that they would evsr "a
main a pastuYal country. 10 wsB thon
working, as i. is now, in ihe interests o. he
csttleBeu. 1t has learned that The --st
bedy OF tho people of Texsg took e. dih,r.
ent view Of the Gaze, and j. now assumes
the pos ton that il wants thai section IA q
up by farmers, and, as 81 terms II, the man
with the hoe and the pillow. The truth Ia It
- working In The interest OF The great CA.
tie nyLdicales, which control 10 much OF the
public lands IN the west. II may cry
/" Solf, wolf" but is device Is easily de-
| tected, and there IRE lew but Who do not
see through It's object. The Colorado Clip.
per honestly expresses iiself, and contends
tina. the country west OF that point is not
capable Of cultivation and favors free
grass, that the cattle.rai7ers may have the
benefits Of the grass which grows upon the
land without cost TO themselves. 1.-THE
Clipper l. right IN this whore 10 the justice
In depr;ving The schools Of the state from
the benefits that rigbtfully belong 10 the
children, for that paper asserts II can never
become valuable as an agricultural district,
ard IS y consequence will not
be occupied by the man With
the hoe and the pillow. The assertion
that free grass made Dallas, Tarrant and
other eastern counties what they ere can
not be verified. IL was the railroads that
a-t--. III a.. .N, 49,, ~oa.
through. Had the Texas & Pacific railroad
stopped Mt Dallas instead Of being pushed
on 20 Fort Worth, that city would have re-
NAMED only . small county town. The
Gazette cannot, IL IL desires 10 no honest
and fair in discussion, claim hat free grass
made Wc7'herf1rd what y is, or that th'
horrishing cities OF Abilene, Baird, Colo
RADIO City and other noints on the road
would even have been in existence had 4
not been FOR the railroads. Belle Plains, IL
Callahan county, and Buffalo Gap, in Tay
lor county, before the advent Of the rail
roads, we're county seats, both located In
fine agricultural districts, with advantage
no other points 10 their respective oountie
could. claim, and yet, when the railroad wa
built north OF thcm, they ceased ID attrac
attention, and the prosperous towna on th
line OF the road grew and flourished and fire.
grass was no actor in their settlement
Facts speak Tor themselves. Since the pres
ent lease system has been in force all tn
country west Of this has increased in popu
lation more rapidly than eser before and
greater number OF farmers asd SCR
culturalisln are neitiing there now tina
even the most ~sanguine anticipated. n
SAGE man will deny that The course o. tn
Gazette is directed to retard immigration
into the we tern counties. la ite every is
sue, Il speaks OF the lease law prevenlin
actual settlers from occupying the lands
and by Implication, tells those who come Il
seek homes 10 the west, that all the valid
able lands are absorbed by cattle men an
they had better seek homes in other local
ties. In truth, 1t is plain that all this out
cry for free grass is made in the interest o
the large cattle syndicates and the speciou
plea that It re.atds settlement, isonly mad
to keep sctual settlers from going there IN
opening up Its resources aud improving az
e~nriching the country. Plain facts ar
stubborn things end are not overcome b.
mere assertions.