The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-10-14
/ More Of the; Butchers, Advocate. y

iiftfC 5GvVluA lAehSA ULtfSAOA-UO
refer to the Butchers Advocate OF New
York and its attacks on western dressed
beef. N,
f Tho Advocate was started as the organ
Of New York retail. butchers and for the
expression Of their opp position to western
dressed beef No one denies the fiightpf
any corporation OF set of individuals to
establish newspaper to represent them
in all their interests and to lawfully ep-
pose anything detrimental to those in
terests. The establishment of the AdYo-
cate for these reasons was moi. only right
but was a good more on the part Of the
New York butchers. 3 7.s5i I'll
But there is a limit to the lawful oppo-
sition: Of the Advocate iu its crusade
against western dressed beef and that
limit it has not only reached but passed.
No 1lntruthful statements are lawful in
backing up a position no Eaattor how
right that position may be. y Y
In it's last issue, the Advocate step
fathers the report that pleuro-pneu-
monia has broken out near Medora and
insinuates strongly that tho diseased
cattle we're killed here and sent to New
York to be sold in the Co.'s retail shops,
If the above were the truth in either
of its parts, the Advocate or any sensible
man knows that the Co. would be crimi-
nally liable in large amount. Ifthey
were liable, the Advocate would be the
first to take steps to have the Co. punish:
cd. No such steps have been or will be
taken, because the Advocate knows the
statement to be untrue. The nearest
the disease has come to Medora is 16C
miles away. The infected cattle were
Immediately quarantined and have now
not only been killed but buried in 3
trench eight feet deep and the carcasses
covered with limo and dirt. And this
work was done by money guaranteed b
Marquis de Mores and Theodore Roose
welt. The former is the head Of tht
Company which tile Advocate intimates
the diseased cattle for theil
retails trade and the latter is one of tht
Eprominent ,raisers Of the sag stubble'
beef, whom the Advocate accuses Of sci
ling diseased carcasses to con6ding east
ern purchasers. This article will reacl
the eye Of the editor of the Advocate ani
we call upon him to right the wrong hi
lhas done range interests by stating tina
Epieuro-pneumonia had broken out nea.
Medora. The infected district is as ia
practically from Medora as is Australia
tOyer l6O miles Of farming country Iii
between, across which the disease coul
scarcely have passed and certainly neye
viii now that every animal ius til
infected herd whether diseased OF nc
has been killed and busied. 3$
The Advocate has a way of ,lenyin
articles BY saying that they are the swor
| Of the Co. That itcann0t resort to sue
subterfuge in answering this article "
i will say that We have had no word Of col
4 respondence in any form with any men
i ber Of the firm directly Of indirectly .
i tho subject; that we are in no sense i
/; their pay and that We are now and fd
4 lsome time have been paying them mo-
i. for rent alone than we have heen recei
il ing from them. ss;s
]. The facts as TO the location of u
4 disease are easily learned and i man
retraction from the editor OF the Adv
cate is the only conrse left open for hin