Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-15
LISTEN. WILL YOU?
How Legislators are Disgusting Hon
est People

est People
To tie Editor OF the Daily EAGLE.
DEAR SIR-Whv don't you stop
YOUR screaming Against the cattle com
mission and The COW doct5r:-St0ck
Yards.
If"Stock Yards" had read the EA-
GLE more atrentIvcly he would have
discovered why. Our reasons are
simply because to maintain them l.
not only a foolish expense, resulting
in no good, but in actual harm. With
this commission Kansas will have no
less of disease, but on the other hand,
the direct tendency Is TO discourage
stock growing and deter eastern stock
men from coming into the state n
demand creates a supply IN this as ID
all things else. There has never been
a year in our history as state that 4
greater or less number of live stock
men have not lost either cattle, horses
or hogs from some cause or other, but
the cases were only sporadic, oftimes
not heard of in adjacent ncighbor-
hoods. There has never been
sweeping, fatal epidemic or contaglon.
Now, how is il under the commission
law and state COW doctor? Every old
COW that gets the wolf in her tail or
q grub in her back, or looks a little
weak out of the eyes at calving time,
every horse that catches touch OF
the episootic, every bunch
of hogs that turn up their
toes from improper feeding
or too close inbreeding, is forthwith
reported to the sanitary commission
and the state COW doctor sent for IN
great haste. These instances come
thick and fast, apparently now, be-
cause every case is thus made public
and given state wide currency. The
live stock journals OF the cast take up
these items and spread them until Kan
sas, which had always been regarded as
one of the most healthy livestock
growing states in the union, Is now
rocked with wind collie and hollow
horn from center TO circumference.
and it is all on account of creating
some offices which cannot be kept NJ
or maintained unless the men who
have been selected to fill those fat
places can make "A showing ot business
Now for a home and practical in-
Sfancr \ short time since "A man
came to ihi- Office with the intnrGHE-
ton .ai the "iaud.r> had broken out
ia - fearful manmer in D"lano AM
At;5ca townships. and that he and III
'cIghh"r> had been unable ia g"t th'
stale veterinary surgeon TO come
d. n Ne wrote the facts /" The
governor aud he next day a very
bri. ht in 81 igrnt man, DIR. llulcunh.
the state veterinary surgeon, put
AN appearance, and who pushed
out Immediately for the in
fected districts. After his
return we asked him what was the
marrer and what was 10 bc done: He
said there appeared one or two wei
defined case, of glaudcrs, but there
was nothing to he done, n the owner,
of the animals and all the ueighbors
had taken all the necessary precautions
to prevent a farther spread Of the dis
course they will in all like instances;
but all the same, Sedgwick county Is
now stigmatized all over the country
as badly glandered county; and men
from that neighborhood tell us that
other stock raiscrs in the county are
afraid of the presence of their
horses. Again, as TO the great ''Foot
and Mouth" disease: If Click had
not been a cattlcman there never
would have been an extra session, no
commission. no COW doctor, and the
foot and mouth" disease would have
long since been forgotten, and the
state great deal better of in rcputa-
ton.
If the state will appoint Us a state
food or water doctor with salary Of
5000 year and a commission to
back us, we will give bonds that with
in two or three years to have half of
the water and food of the state de
clared unfit for use, aud every other
man and woman afraid to eat, or
drink either, providing there are no
open saloons. Down with these extra
off ces