The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-20
THE CATTLE SCARE.


This paper thiuks the cattle scare or
panic, If you please, last week, was a
good thing and will result in the great
est good to all, It being, to start on, an
established fact that we had IN ive herds
the genuine foot and mouth disease The
panic has already had the good effect of
taking by the throat and promptly
throtIling the scourge. Nothing but the
thorough shaking up which public SEN
timent underwent last week would have
produced the coed effects already OBJ.
tained. In consequence of the prompt
aud thorough work done in the way Of
arousing the people To action. feeling
OF safety in cattle circles prevails to-day,
and cattle are more valuable than they
would have been had there been uncon-
Germ add inaction. If house is being
devoured by flames IL is better for the
people to get excited and put out the
fire than it is for them to stand around
with their hands IN their pockets.
so when the cattle disease
was discovered II was better for the
newspapers TO publish the truth, and for
the people to hold public meetings and
the orators 70 make stirring appeals to
the people to stamp ont the disease at
once before IL got fool-hold. The two
visits. of Governor Click to NeG sho
Falls, and the two or three speeches he
made there, aud the ielegrsphIDg and
newspaper writing was just the thing
needed, and they did more good in ten
days than Philos ophizing, and attempt
ing to hide the truth would have done
in five years The scare Guaranteed
the Infected dist ict In Coffey and Woc d.
son counties; it raised four or i've thou
sand dollars to check the progress OF the
disease; 1t killed lot of the infected
csttle; 1t callei the leg stature together,
which convinces the people that
hereafter they are to have
some means OF prolec ing them
selves against contagious stock diseases.
The scare was good thing. Happily,
owing to our healthy climate; owing to
the excellent condition of the herds, and
owing to the good shape of our ranches
and cattle lots generally The disease was
easily controlled, and IL is a matter of
rejoicing that the people got scared and
have the trouble which threatened US
we'll in hand. Had they WAITED until
the herds were on the grass, it would
have spread like wIld-fire. We do not
regard the danger as oyer by any means,
but at this writing The people have the
upper hand of It, The scare will have
another good effect, it will show to the
outside world that when the people of
Kansas undertake to do a thing they do
II. 1t will show to them that there 10
security here for the stock interest, apd
that when there is danger the people
will promptly unite for protection. We
can truly s ~ now there is no state in the
Union where stock is so healthy, and
where Investments IN IL are so safe
1t Is true that the value of fat csttle
may have been somewhat deprecIa ted
for q short time, but not half so much as
1T would have been had not prompt and
deiermined measures been adopted to
crush out the danger II has been every
where published that not a case of the
disease had occurred among full fed
cattle, and 1t is believed that there is no
danger whatever from shipping them to
eastern markets. The depreciation
would have been far greater by this time
had not all the facts been laid before the
public because the suspicion OF dsnger
would have fingered q long time in The
east that the disease existed, and attempts
to hide the facts. or play the sneak,
would have strengthened this suspicion.
Altogether, 1t was a good thing the panic
occurred.