The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-26
CLEVELAND AND PROSPERITY
HOW Certain Republicans Were Ruined BIZ
HiS Action.

the cam palgn q 1904 me hePuDllcans
assured the country that if Cleve-
land was elected business would 60
to eternal smash, and some Republi-
can business men put themselves on
record and declared that they would
promptly close with tie incoming
Of q De mocratic administration.
Among these were Banker Harper
of Cincinnati, and Snowman Bar
mum, Of Connecticut The former
did 60 out Of business into a peni-
tertiary for robbing his custo "ers.
while Barnum has hat the frankness
to publicly acknowledge that since
the election OF Cleveland business
has been better than ever, aud that
his real estate, which he declared
be would sell on the Inauguration Of
Democratic president, has nearly
doubled in value since that Inaugue
ration.
But it must not be supposed that
Banker Harper is the only great
Republican who has gone out of
business since the election of Cleve-
land \ correspondent Of the In
dianapolis Senti mel, writing from
Denver, recalls the tact that some of
the richest business men Of Colorado
have been forced to retire from bus,
mess by the Democratic admins
tration, particularly the big cattle
kings, who during Republican
regime possessed the earth and the
fairness thereof IN all that region.
Every one will remember, "
writes this correspondent, that
within month following his maui
guration, Cleveland ordered the
cattlemeh to- remove the fences
erectnd upon the public lands
erected approvingly under Repub.,
Iican rule; that an Englishm an
with 10000 acres of govern sent
land under fence near Trinidad shot
at the Federal officers who UNDER
took to remove them, and was in
return severely wounded; that the
army had to be used to remove the
fences OF the English and Scotch
companies IN Wyoming, that these
EngIishmen resisted the United
States with armed cowboys; that
before six months Of free trade
rule all unlawful fences in the west
had been removed. These fences
cost the cattle balons' more than
50, 000,O 900, which Cleveland caused
to be destroyed
The Colorado Field and Farm,
who editor is a Republican, SAID
on this subject a few days ago:
aside from these reasons for
failure there are others that have
helped on the destruction OF The in~
dustry in Colorado and Wyoming.
The investors IN cattle about ten
and twelve years ago became too
greedy to possess the earth. aud to
| do it they invested thousands of dol
airs in barbed wire and fence posts
anu encircled the public domain
millions and millions Of acres-iu~
tending that the sheep herder and
the bona fide SCI tler-the men with
the pillow, seed drill and reaper
should have no hold on the green
earth while they needed il for their
lowing herds.
"Then came the government with
its agents, sometimes with its army,
and ordered the destruction Of the
Illegal fences and the country opened
to settlement. THIS movement
alone cost the cattle holders Of the
state and Wyoming not less than
$1,000, 900 in loss"
But the fences were not the only
loss,
Immediately after the removal
of the fences" says the Sentinel
correspondent, "actual settlers, the
men with pillow, seed drill and
reaper came in from the states and
crowded out the cattle men, and to-
d ay eastern Colorado is all settled
up, where, three years age, the cow.
boys. COWS and coyotes were lords
OF the land. These 'grangers, as
the cowboys cnll them, are crowd
ing upon the knights of the bran
ing iron all over the west, aud
have taken up 50 much of tine pub
tic lauds that where there were
forty acres per COW on the range
three years ago, there are Tot five
acres todaF, and as 1t takes on an
average twenty acres to raise
steer, 250,0 head Of cattle died
last winter in Colorado alone from
starvation. Most extensive ranges
have been wiped out by homestead
ers, and large cattle companies, Of
which the Swan Land and Cattle
Company, of Scotland, with ranges
in Wyoming, Montana and JolOra.
do, were the most extensive, failed,
and many "sattle kings" have been
beggared. During the past year
cattlemen have been reducing
their herds or winding up their