The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-02-01
CATTLE nAxcx ExonoAoxsssrs.
TIE Cattie.breedias Companies and the
Pebble Domain.

| associations have sozed the public lands and
| converted them to their own use Is well.
known fact. That they hnvo acquired tho watot
| rights 81 tho plain country by Migrant abuses
| OF tho Homestead. Entry. Desert Land and
| Timber Land acts Is another we'll known fact
| That thoy have by tho improper use OF the
| Same laws laws designed to enable poor mon
! 10 secure homes and develop the agricultural
| resources OF the uninhnbited West seized tho
meadow land OF the grazing grounds OF high
altitude AUDITING on the Rocky Mountains is
also well known.
Texas IL the only State In the Union where
large tracts OF public land ran be lawfully
acquired. the land In tina, State having been
reserved TO the state when 1t entered tho
Union. In the Territories OF Arizona and New
Mexico and In Colorado large tracts OF land are
hold under alleged Spanish grants. but the
vacant lands AFRO subject to The same laws that
IRE In force throughout the public domain.
There are several Immigrant railroads that
OWN the alternate sections II land for twenty
miles on both sides Of their track. u gift from
the rnscay Republican party. Recently sew
eral ca.tlo companies have been organized to
orernte within the i!mi,s Of the rniroud lands
use for convenience Of Illustration I'm Ari-
IONA cattle eonpany Tint. It Is stated ia the
railroad land in Arizona. II is prcsumab!c that
this company having bought the land. Intends
pnacduanted with tho condition OF the case
II they have bought 100 900 acres OF railroad
alternate square bslon:s to the Gov s,
There is no law under which the conn any cnn
%saniro Public @ad BY, rqTSHaso Ihey
ees to OBTAIN Title 10 i !. under smH' ne
and laws. and then deed TO them. THIS wou Z
sidered; Now. If this Arizona cattle company
build q, T. barred wire fence around their lands
thcy VIII enclose 100 600 acres OF land that be-
longs 10 the L nlteu States, md nnu which
any citizen OF the country has tho right TO
build home. 70 which he is entitled TO have
ingress and egress by the most natural route.
The land is public. and no man or association
OF o. men hns n particle of right to obss!rnct
travel over 1t. They have no right to say. Wa.
q cattlc-growing association. are above tho
law: The fence prevents cur herd from wan
than 10 herd. We care nothing about tho rights
OF agricultural settlers. We build tho fence,
and III any settler darcs cut IL wo will kill him,
We will denounee him as a horse or cattle
II is true that on certain ranges fence Is
why should an American citizen be forced TO
ride for mill as have been along f. nee erect
ed by American or British cattle-growing CON-
p2nies That men not citizens and bitterly hos
TIE 70 our institutions and unable to under
lowed by q weak Government TO erect barbed-
wire barriers on our public domain il q burn
!ng outrage, and one that no people excepting
would be- uncomfortable il these e. men Wore Wore citi.
aens but when 81, natiye.born citizen. riding
great Napoleon. md sold to US solely to curb
the power OF Great britain. finds II fence un-
lawiully erected BY British sHb,eSt and in 70,
portion OF the man who dares to cut the OBJ
struetion erected on hts heritage, it sits heavi.
whiskered ones outnumbering him four or five
TO one, ana on their pres unin to be insolcnt
does not make tho mattor Of tho fence sit iight.
The Importance OF tho ca,,le industry on the
u n n vfrA IN fAdn md
stantly kept before the people, SO AS to create
the impression that, tho capital invested in 1t
vested rights in land. This is mistake. The
eapi!al Invested is not onc;haf as large rs
800 900 0CO aud OF land they own little.
though they claim extensive areas. Every
cattle company that operates outside OF Texas
stood that they could not lawfully obtain pos
session OF an acre Of ground beyond that al:
Thorn understood that il they bought railroad
land there Was a. no inw under which they
Government. land. They knew that they
% So public sna a.lsa hat they S de- saes IS
were built they could pirate about vested
rights until ihey were ssiae.hed in their
Associations In bui iding fences on the plains
and and IN the mountain Valleys Is the most bnre-
for their lands Many qonsrsss.non G and Mps sena
these B hE a Gm
companies that clan 70 employ far moro capt.
neS ther do r,a not a. aHg
sressmen: they kaSw . better same than
then II dist5rscd by hostile legislation. to cry
Already the papers OF London denounce all
proposed Congressional action to prevent Brit
ish cattle companies from absorbing our pub
lie domain ma IA and importing foreiGn lantlordi,sm
Western "a y egSpntiullv
honest and characteristic OF Americans. They
claim that our Govern ment should havo mott
ranches that land dd not ssn9p S" ,he
branding laai irons and cattle they carry. The
SO accustomed to grabbing the land of semi
SSiyillzed and timid people that they are now
who owns it. These foreien e a mi have
bought some branding irons and a few cows.
and on the strength of this investment they
bought: This land they did not and could I not not
to it, 1t should be cleared OF fences at their ex-
pense. and promptly thrown opon to the public
ing associations is to grab tho vacant public
grazing lands under the pretencs OF conserv-
ing It. and then to risidiy exclude agricultural
settlers and cattle growers OF small means
from it. They viii be heartily supported in ali
their acts that tend to procure the desired
desire to establish foreign lnndlordsm in tho
United states and create another Ireland in
'ho cipHo pcypHu luo NtISSDuIl-IO create an
estate out OF land that they cannot lawfully
hold, from which to draw money to be spent in
1t is better. ten thousand times better, to
have the range overstocked and the grass de-
str9yed, than TO permit foreign landlordism to
spring into vigorous life on our soil 1t is far
better to have the range in the condition 1t is
ut present than to turn it over to. the cattle
men. Let the grass and water be free to all
mon; Let the range be unobstructed by a
single fence. Let the citizens OF our country
DO protected in the remote regions they enter
IN search ot homes. and let all mon DO FREQ
equipped and paid by foreign aud American
companies &c, who hang men that they may profit
protect its citizens, lawfully engaged, in my
and every part Of the world. is unworthy OF life.
government that sits supinely and allows
foreign corporations to enter on its land and
gap a long list OF unlawful acts, by shooting
republic. who did not know that foreign courts
had been set up In the far Western country. is a
sham government and deserves to fall buried
beneath the contempt OF mankind.
There will DO no difficulty in crushing this