The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-04
Texas Cattle.

national cattlemen's convention, it
would seem to us to be the thing for
Texas cattlemen to organize, so as to
present firm front to that body TO
the end that the damaging discrimin-
ations against Texas cattle might be
soltened If not entirely done away
with, All danger of the disease
known "a the Texas fever, has passed
away as in winter, 1t promptly disap-
pears. But yet, Notwithstanding all
this, the governor of New Mexico
stubbornly refuses to raise his quar-
antine, and thus are our cattlemen I'M
able TO fill the contracts for both Oc-
tober and November deliveries.
These are evils which are very griev-
Gus aud repressive to one Of the chief
industries OF the state. Ii seems to
| us that the Texas cattlcmen, If they
would act in concert and with entire
unanimity, could raise such din at
the coming convention, that that
body would take immediate action,
aud congress give us the very sadly
needed legislation this winter on this
subject.
Unless the northwestern herds are
positively endangered by Texas cattle
at this season of the year, all obsta-
cles to their movements ought to
be removed promptly. II is neither
justice or sound policy to permit the
cattle of Texas 20 be thus interdicted
and forbidden the markets. The
poor of Chicago, St. Louis, New
York aud even far away Boston, are
all interested in this matter aud, as ii
is Interstate in its range aud sweep,
congress should honestly seek for
and fearlessly apply the proper rem
edy. 1t would seem to us that cat
tie commission, consisting ofsome of
the best known cattle operators of
the west and few scientific veter'na-
ry surgeons, should be appointed,
aud to this body be referred all the
questions growing out Of the con-
flicting interests and vicws of the
men engaged in the business.
OF course this is a matter In which
Texas has vast interest. More in
fact than any other state, because the
policy Of exclusion, as 1t now pre-
walls, falls more heavily upon her
than any other. 1t SIMPLY amounts
to the murder, or at least the serious
gripping of her cattle operations. So
vast an interest, one amounting to
many millions per annum ought
to call out every latent
energy of the people, but more espe-
cially of the men engaged directly in
the cattle business.
1t would seem to us that the thing
TO do would be to enlist, as far as
practical, the delegates to the nation
nj convention in the matter. To ex-
cite in them spirit of fairness. We
do not want to force diseased cattle
upon any market or upon any graz
ing ground. We simply want the
privilege of entering these fields when
the season is such as to render it
safe for our cattle to come to them.
The foolish terror of the governor of
New Mexico in keeping up his quar-
autine now, after all danger is over,
Is mischievous in this---that 1t wan
tonly Injuries us snd can do New Mex
lean stockmen not the slightest
shadow of good. A broad-viewed,
square aud sound policy on the part
of the stockmen OF Texas, at the com.
ing national convention, will so oper-
ate as to induce decided "let up" in
the virulency of the northwestern
men and especially on the part Of his
excellency, the governor OF New
Mexico.