The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-07
HERD MEETS HERD
, THE CHlLDREN's GRASS.
httle from the Pacific and Cattle from
the East Threaten to Over-run the
Land of the Young Texan
A Free Grass Fact.

Hfhe following article from the Honey !
Nove Independent is one OF the clearest /
nd most able eXpositions of the objects ,
Df the free-grass advocates that has yet
eome under our observation. Every one
should read 1t carefully: at has been
bur short time since the Republicans
ir convention ut Fort Worth declared i'll
fakor of free grass, and the fact was
loldly heralded by the Gazette in an at
fe,npt to frighten the Democracy into a
colnpromise, intimating that with the
stock men of the West and the Republic
cans the Democrats fayoring the lease
|law were apt to get into warm place
dnring this campaign. We all remem-
bel' these things said and
'hihted by the Gazette, and this mis-
pitiful, pusillanimous endeavor
iochange base and throw the Republi
cans and Greenbackers now into line
MIN regular Democracy, and that, too,
aaAinst the expressed sentiments of the |
Mpublicans, is the thinnest of all the |
tazette's thin policies. The fact of the
mole business is this: The cattle kings |
and foreign syndicates want western
TeXas left free for their benefit and pur
noses; the Gazette will hardly
Nny being the organ of
iheSe capitalists; nor do we
presume the Gazette will deny its being
The outgrowth of the necessity for such
an organ after the forming of such syn
dicates in Fort Worth and elsewhere,
who all work together for their own
good; and being thus born and thus
Supported will the Gazette have the
Ieffrontery to deny being the mouth
!lpiece for these interests? viii it deny
These things without evasion or equivo-
iscation? Itclaims to be paper of Fort
NORTH, and of Texas, which it may be
and is, but that is not the point; will it
= DEM being something else, and that
ksomething the principal motive of
the Gazette?
NThe vivacity and brilliancy of the Ga
I zette on the general topics OF the day
j. has gone far to deceive the people as to
Its real purpose, and by gaining their
rontidence through its energy and en-
IA terprise, it now seeks to use this advant-
" agc for the benefit of its masters.
5'rhe Gazette claims that free grass will
q eet tie Western Texas with small farm
p ers. This is mistake. 1t also claims
" thai free grass settled the State at first
! THAT is correct. 1t wants to know
WHY free grass will not settle the West
l. as it settled the East. The
reason is simply this and notL'
- ing more: In the early days
, OF Texas there was always plenty o
room further west for the cattle as civ
ilHation demanded the slil; the herds
- sod westward without AN objection
NOW there is no West for them L
ffetreat to; they are met by herds o
shecp ami cattle from the Pacific slope
IL Ialko hunting a refuge from the oncroaci
ing settler; they can go no further
! they ARE hemmed in; their range !
0d lin ited, and the settler still crowds then
ufihorc was still room left there won
e. III no cry for lrce-grnss. Stoclime
~, Mlmor for the privilege of roaming {
ID Measure over what lands are vet left
Mp State, and cry persecution If asked |
u mn for it. Hence the cry OF iree-gras
:" III is not the settler, but the cowmm WI
" does the bowling. 1t is hot war now b
Mpcn the settler and the long-hornt
row for possession Of the last tOOthold
he Ihe COW. We favor the settler, and go
se ION his rights to the soil of Texas.
b. Snow again. Il Is claimed 10y FIRE
mass organs that leasing the lands
cnitle keeps the settler out, and tn
therefore they are opposed To such lea
he ing. \ pretty piece OF sophistry, indce
y, Now let us explain that dclusion. v
~ hnVc already seen that the cattle can
ND further, and as consequences II |
caitlc must mmgle and contend
Tim mastery. With free grass I
u cattle can roam all through the s.
~ Elements, eating up the range, &c
- snmiuu the water and destroying l
rrpps. Under the lease the cattle ;
forced TO remain ON the leased lands, a
ara not allowed TO Craze anywhere ell
Tbp settleris safe. His own and his nei>
u bors grass, fenced or untenced, is p
y fected from the herds. Among sucI
aettlcmpnt the herds are forced a. clio
qnartcrs than is possible for them
1lye. and they are crowded ont, lcuvI
the settler In undisputcd posSesst
With free grass and the privilege
:. urazo everywhere the cattle will ira
y plp the settlements TO death, Com
y Tho cattle to stay on their own lease,
pay Tor that, and the range Is too limi
anywhere among settlers.
"AuO.her arguments that settlers
- moi locate on leased land. The time
g come in the history of our country "
2. lands subject to location are Mt pre-
-. un, with their value constantly liner
: ing. Choice OF homes on public Ian,
- now narrowed down almost beyond
= comprehension OF men used To an
= limited domain from childhood.
b. lands are leased To the cattle for Il ;
tenn of years and then always sui
- 10 location and settlement Mt any
= Immigrants hunting homes In Yves
rexas win no; hesitate long To lOcat
= on out of leased tracts, knowing they
2 pfotectcd from molostation by the
q OF Texas. Where one settles others
inflow, and the lease becomes uselC
2 I'D stoclinan and is abandoned by
e Ion with the lease. give the settle