The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-12
THE "NO FENCE" ISSUE.
what DR.. Dupon Has to Say About

1rybat DR.. Dupon Has to Say About 1t.
Editor Morning NeloS: Your correspond
ortsof the issues of May 25 and June 4, call
Cor attention, which / ask be accorded me
.brourh the same medium. The fence or
m fence cause is one on the part of no fence
,hampions, it seems, not to show truly no
fence will so much improve the wealth and
r,rosperity of the county but to show how
Ir,,nch ruin am accomplishing with $500
worth of COWS that pay but $l.50 taxes
On,jttild to san OiCN and represent more
land than tOU pasture my stock with pas
me inclosed, marsh privileges, etc. When
II is asserted my 500 worth Of COWS forced
The county to expend $500 to fence against
them. it is nonsense. The fence that should
not have cost $50 on my side my cattle do
not range where an expensive fence
was erected was on the same spot when
tbe property was purchased by the county
and now rebuilt by the same old rails.
There are also large number of cattle
owned by others. | wish it understood l
advocate the present law, as l believe it a
inst one. If by advocating "old fogy ideas"
makes me a monOmaniac, as expressed,
about stock, haze not the big head Nth
= in ma o,Cn estimation, nor do | wish to
make a cattle ranch of the streets and
squares of the city, for hold only the PEG
ME in districts outside the city who are
interested should decide this question, ard
nv districts, whenever it is shown that
there is responsible, valuable labor to cult
vate the land cleared and fenced that has
crown up in broom sedge and sapGngs
since the war for want of reliable labor,
and the large acreage of uncleared land can
be utilized by reliable labor.
Many good citizens owning homesteads
pasture few cows on lands lying idle, or
marsh bush land giving milk and beef to
their families, a right the law permits, a
privilege just as much as to drive over
county roads Gf monopolies do not gobble
up the county public roads,. | claim this
right for myself and fellow-citizens, believ-
ing the no fence law will be a useless hard
shin imposed to benefit not the agricultur
lists, Will any sane man risk valuable
crop unincosed? Can the otfense of tres
pass be committed on open land. Are our
courts not now sufficiently burdened with
litigation!
Inow direct especial notice to the absurd
charge of disparaging the interest of agri-
culture by DR.. Oemler. | here say his name
was only referred to by me in answer to u
reporter, who is the largest planter Dr.
0emler is a no fence man III my district
mot county. Other reporters often
err At that time the White Bluff cross
road was the district line. ''dnd is no,0
legally So" In answer to a circular Of the
commissioner of agriculture, "How much
cotton, corn, rice, sugar cane, etc, is
raised y replied none-but one plantation
,Pritchard). The tax digest, so freely used
against me, will tell if | was correct at the
time The fruit growers Dr.. Oenler refers
to overhauled Commissioner Henderson
The day their resolution was published |
wrote DR.. Oemler and others the word
county" was used for my section of this
district, . assumed the authorship in letter
to Commissioner Hendel son. and he gave
my name, and his correspondence was open
to all. If an error of the word county"
not used by me in place of district" is dis
paragng to agriculture, then am culpabe
From the beginning, judge if it could have
been done, it would have never ended then,
hardly supposing it will influence any voter
ION the fence" Having been a jealous
worker in the dark days of reconstruction
to have Intelligence rule the county, sub
nit to the intelligence of the people the
cause of fence or no fence The counter
petition will answer why fifty good farmers
want the fence law in Chatham.
S. F. DUPoN.