The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-31
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O mmunism by refusing 10 punish corpo |
atoms and individuals for I r,apgaaing on
he pa.uraRe owned by the children 81
ms state The authority OF law "a never
TON IN that Panhandle country, which with
unnrpauizrd COUNTIES sCu'hv5sl OF u,
unvers territory larger than New YORK
q ~ CORP rata, euclose- 100 600 acres, COW
.fiug nearly three counties, aud rs hve
luudrrd stock hnlders ara scattered IN
very cry from - Louis 10 P40s
CONDITION ~ rnE PANHAhnLE COUNTRY
c. Attn me intl thai Panhandle country
ed explore iis mysteries, There you VIII
and a wire fence said "a be 0ne hundred
,ui twenty miles long TunDing cas- anu
west, crossing school lands and The land ~
pdysie parties IL IN n straiiht fence 10
catch drin cattle aud connects with no
oher. North OF ~, men who own grass
and ,h0 ahO Own none HAYS divided on
lr their use tho territory OF Texas; anu
Sue 10 the unlucky stranger who drives his
nerd 10 share with them the srsss Sirosms
aud dividing ridges from the arAlliary
boundaries OF their asurped domain.
Liues Of side. riders pass every dsy rom
orth - south and fence and Keep the
ock OF esch lord on the territory claimed
nv MIN, VS. pastures vithcu, rsgsrd %
snerhEip oi land, now enclose cnu lies
Passing from Mobeiee to fsscosa,
one hundred and thirty miles. YOU
are only out of "A pis.ure Tor twenty
tnree mites OF tina distance. Ihe Kerr
land and Cattle company ~ said 10 have
10 900 head Of cattle in u pasture aoross
| which IL days Journey. fhe Frauklin
L.ud aLd Cattle company ~ repntsd 10
nave over 1000 head la Gray and Hutch
insun counties, while toe Ma.t,dore Cattle
company donates With stock men and cat
tls the territory ri Crosby. Dickens and
I perhaps Motley COUNTIES. Oae hcm alone,
which purchased over twenty Thousand
I nd ~
| aid 10 own two millions Of dollars worth
of cattle. has hardly enough land IN Texas
! Tor their vast heards to he penned on. Free
! range men, who neither own or lease lana,
occupy most OF the sand hills 10 the north,
and rom the Red River to the Rio Grasde,
along the border, except that ienctd ia
/ thage immense pastures. Roaming over
uu0rgsuized counties and along the border,
from one water mole 70 another, thev
!rauplp und,r their boots the grass arourd
| The humble home Of The pioneer hester;
aud thus. away from law. where power
measures right there is no redress.
! When is this madness to csaae3 ana does
not his wholesale lease Of school land" by
associated capital and itJ purchase by
iudircc' agencies call n loudly Tor an
executive recommendation 10 correct H. as
the evil Of the st.tuie not giving lien on
"a ANNA that goes into ano'hfr man
pasture, which bis ercellercy thinks we
should correclP
&. patient, senators; I am doing sum
! tor tho i-raiers al this state, and ~ tbht
sienogtapher will repOrC my words, VIII
sand n through the land. | am sho"ins
III. evils that threaten social order before
( | answer your objections 10 my remedy.
La Que county, three months 2go, there
was pss,ute OF 10000 acres. built on
g irdon OF sections owned by pasture men,
The fence was all on their land bnt
- a.. Of ~
so 600 acres OF land thot belonged TO
private parties and 10 the school lund,
not an acre OF which was rented TO
them. Near that pasture runs stream
OF living water. up which the hardy emf.
grants nave pushed their way, ana built
their nests? From tina, pasture herus oil
cattle poured out during the summer u
consume the grass around the humble
homes and tread to mortar the prairie
where veTdure grew, only TO return to hne
range on the inside during winter. tut
yourself in the nester's place-unab.e 10
raise milk cow or n beef on your own
land. You look over into the pasture OF
Your neighbor ana r. iiect that he has ap
propriaiel to his own use the school land
dedicated to your child AS well as his, nnd
! wcuin YOU not curse in bitterness OF near
the partla. laws that gave you no remedy
/ My friend Senator Henderson, who lost an
tn In the service OF his country, Is sald 70
own Il section OF land inside OF thst pasture
I wn'ch he could neither rent nor sell ID the
usurpers.
ROAMING STOCK MEN.
A long the hordtr coun'ie', nov ofgenized,
skifting the panhandle, and ia those below
the sand hills, the same wropg and oppres-
sion l. found. Wandering, pomiiio heroi.
men range across dvi1inR lodges from one
! stream 10 smother, over their Kingdom i
/ tree grass, consuming The Ia7ge aud stafv'
inr the home stock of ne small iarmer-
/ nen who own soothing but their stock,
their hecd horses, and sidearmq. To some
ct these gentry, the wire ience, whether
around the farmers pasture or school
section, Is especially inconvenien'; ana
'pmong them are found warm disciples OF
Mr.. G orge-men who believe that LAID
ourht tn be tree, and who whisper into the
ear of the hester that these pastures alone
cause II the trouble. Unless
this gentry is controlled by law,
unless lhey are made 10 cease their
wandering ways and buy or lease the grass
on which they feed, there IS ne peace tor
T,xss The fenced in water no 9 Is in their
way aud W Ia the help o' the deiuded sat
tier they made il the special object OF their
drv,l'uebi. see man now IN the LOBBY
ahl will tell you tba, the corporations
! wnlcn oHn lat herds aud 40 .asG, are AOt
the only depredaJors, for that within one
hundred miles Of where | now stand, here
cattle, who hardly own or lease enough
! land on which to round up their herds.
| These gentry are the same in all ages.
Since the days when the herdsman OF &C.
rar strove with the herdsman OF Isaac at
the well-siuce the days when Jacob swim
died his fsther.in.law, Laban. by fixing his
striped rods, the wandering herdsman has
been gath, ring by Graf: anu holding with
the strong hand. Their habits are wild
and unIestrained, and the custom oil
marking calf without know
ing the ownership or It's mother,
will never improve your civilization. !
Know this class we'll. and Tor thirty years /
| h ave both tried ard defended them. Faith.
iul liz friendship and yiodic i've in their
hate, they will make your best CIT zeis
when YOU once stop their roaming Until
then they will sometimes practice the
/ strange morality Of seeing no wrong in des-
olating the range around the settlers door,
or hanging n horss.thief and branding an
unk nown cali. as some OF them have done,
on the same day. As .ong as they are let
alone they will fix boundaries on free range
etween then. selves in the Panhandle, even
rs Laban and Jacob did. and watch each
other with the same susp'cion that this
same Jacob did his brother Esau, wien,
after a long absence, he came to meet him
with 400 misunderstanding forward his
prest nts of goats and cattle, out hiding In
the rear Rachel and her tend-r.eyed sister,
TO both og whom ne had taken fancy.
FREs GRASS THE GREAT CAUSE.
Sir, tree grass in Texas Is Mt the bottom
OF ali this Iawlessness. Against IL this bill
opens a war; aga ms, It 1t put In motion. n
bal, which. whatever this senate may do,
will roll over those who stand In It's way
NEXT November, for upon its progress de
ponds not only the advance but the exist.
epce Of civil z.tion N Texas
Look at > our condition. List wear 400.
coo cattle we're under contract In January
tor the northern drive; this day Lot one
hoof is bought, for there Is not bank In
st. LOUIS Chicago or any here else that
will advance o dollar 10 = Texas cattle