The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1886-11-18

A'o", iee w suppose scope OF country
to belong to the public domain. Ci.i-
zen A. owns cattle: citizen b. owns
sheep. Citizen A. gets control Of leg
lslation, and declares that citizen B.
shall not drive his sheep across the
land. So far as the government land
is concerned, no such law would stand
judicial examination. The United
States court will set it aside. Both
are seeking to convert into private
property the natural produc. of the
soil, and il which does not belong to
them. 1t is quite true that men pre-
tending To be in search Of range drive
their sheep overa we'll grassed country
and destroy the pasture. They pretend
to be mnving across the range, when
in fact their sheep are eating up the
feed as they go. All this is Injurious.
but its remedy lies in the purchase of
land. The Central Pacific Company
owns considerable body Of land in
your State but proportina'ely very
small body. Every acre of land in
your State capable Of cultivation
should be made the home of family.
Devoting your State to grazing is de-
populating IT, driving out civilization.
destroying wealth. and in all respects
returning backward to barbaiisn. In.
dividuals gha desire to take up 160
acres If government land or purchase
land. frou the Stats, for the purpose
Of culli'aIing products to which your
climate aud soil are ndaptei,
SHOULD BE PROTECTED
Against cattle, horses and sheep They
should MT be required to fence. II
you own cattle, and find a profit IN
feeding up II the natural growth of
lands which do not belong to you.
should you rot bear The expense ef
herding that stock If of the lands
which spme man IS trying t. devp e to
the support of a fannly, The establish.
mcni If 5 ttlemsni. aud the cusa-
quen' growth Your 5 ael To deny
tne man who i. attempting t. do these
things, he fostering pr,lectl II of the
Law, Is TO deny tn youi state, pnrula.
tion and wealth 1h. legislator VIII
will deliberately v'e for bill ~ dis
courage settlement III he State of
Nevada. by voting for a measure
which will force the intending set Ter
to make large investment in fence.
against the douIes ic ;nlmals OF h, sc
who propose to gov rich by pasiur-
ing the .pen ranges of the Safe, will
vote FIR Measure as clearly Intended
TO prevent population from coming
into the State, as if that intention
were framed IN the plainest possible
admission our language can convey
The use of them to the public land, or
land owned by the her,lslnen or the
shepheard. ought to DO made equally
free for either Of them. There should
he no Law putting man awning sheep
under disability from the use If a free
range, from the uss Of rr perty which
belongs to the whole public. equally
with the man Who owns cattle. The
property being public, anyone seeking
to use It by herding sheep or cattle
should have an equal right to 1t. Men
do not acquire superiority of right by
reason of the kind Of property they
own, and the attempt ON the part of
any t. control legislation III the in
terest Vt one industry, to WIT, cattle,
and against another industry, to wit,
sheep, will prove to be ininlical to the
laws of the United States, and will be
eventually Sc. ids by the courts of
this country. All such attempts are
ia the nature Of class legislation. They
are hs attempt upon the part Of "a
single interest to seize The government
a d weld its power int er ,wn be iaif,
and against the rights OF olher classes
who may be inllnical or numerically
inferior Against all that class of leg
islation, you may depend upon the op-
position If the Central Pacific Rail-
road, So long IS ex Governor l., land
oiaiiferd retains control Of It's general
administration. He believes in the
great doctrine that all classes and all
Interests should be made equal before
the law, and that the rights of all,
whether rich and powerful or poor and
weak, should be protected. He holds
to the doctrine that men are possessed
Of inalenable rights, and that to Sc.
IL.