The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-24
cLEvElANp ANp pRospERlTY.
How Certain Republicans We're ..Ruined-
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would promptly close with the incoming
of a Democratic administration Among
these were Banker Harper. of Cincinnati,
and Snowman Barnum, of Connecticut
The former did go out of business into
penitentiary for robbing his customers,
while Barnum has had tho franllness to
publicly acknowledge that since the cleo
tion of Cleveland business has been better
than ever, and that his real estate, which
he declared he would sell on tho innugur
alton of Democratic president, has
doubled in value since that innug guration-
But it must not be supposed that
Banker Harper is the only great Republic
can who has gone out of business since
the election of Cleveland. A correspond.
ent of The Indianapolis Sentinel writing
from Denver, recalls the fact that some
of the richest business men of Colorado
haye been forced to retire from business
by the Democratic administration, pur
ticularly the big cattle kings, who during
Republican regimes possessed the earth
and the fatness thereof in all that region.
Every one viii remember, writes this
correspondent that within a month
following his Inauguration, Cleveland
ordered the cattlemen to remove the
fences erected upon the public lands
erected approvingly during Republi-
10000 acres of government land under
fence near Trinidad shot at tho Federal
officers who undertook 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 COM
panies in Wyoming; that these English
men resisted the United States uuthori-
ties with armed cowboys; that before six
months of FREQ trade rule all unlawful
fences in the west had been removed.
These fences cost tho cattle barons more
than 2.000.0 coo, which Cleveland caused
to be destroyed. I"
The Colorado Field and Farm. whose
editor is Republican. said on this sub
ject few days ago:
aside from these reasons for failure
there are others that have helped on the
destruction of the industry i'll Colorado
and Wyoming. The investors in cattle
about ten and twelve years ago became
too greedy to possess tho earth, and to do
it they invested thousands of dollars in
barbed wire and fence posts aud encircled
the public domain-millionS and millions
of acres-intending that the sheep herder
end the bona fde settler-the man with
the pillow, seed drill and reaper-should
have no hold on the green earth while
they needed it for their lowing herds.
Then came the government with its
agents, sometimes with its army, and or
dered the destruction of the illegal fences
and the country opened to settlement.
This movement alone cost the cattle hold
ers of the state and Wyoming not less
than 81 900, 900 in loss"
But tho fences were not the only loss.
Immediately after the removal of the
fences" Gays The Sentinel correspondent,
actual settlers, tho man with plow.
states and crowded out the cattle men,
and today eastern Colorado is all settled
up, where, three years ago, tho cowboys,
cows and coyotes wero lords of the land
These 'graagers, as the cowboys call
them, ere crowding upon the knights of
the branding iron all over the west and
have taken up SO much of the public
lands that where there were forty acres
per COW on tho range three years ago,
there are not five acres today, and us it
takes on an average twenty acres to raise
n steer, go, COO head of cattle died last
winter In Colorado alone from starvation
Most extensive ranges have been wiped
out by hornesteaders, and large cattle
companies, of which tho Swan Land and
Cattle Company, of Scotland, with ranges
in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado,
We're the most extensive, failed. and
many cattle kings have been beg
CARED. During the past year cattlemcn'
have been reducing their herds or wind
ing up their business, and the result is
'glut' In the market. There is no demand
for cows at SIS, which brought S45 in
$17 And yet the people of Indiana, and
the whole country east of the Missouri
river, pay as much for beef as when steers
sold for S45 to $50 Why Is it? Does the
butcher pocket the difference? No. The
range beeF market is controlled by Chi
cago. Kansas City. Omaha and st. Louis
men, who are in trust-one of those
private affairs with which Blaine says
President Cleveland has no particular
right to Interfere.
Until Clevoland's administration the
west vas in the hands of cattlemen. They
had the banks, the merchants, the boards
of trade. tho press, the federal, state and
county officials and the legislatures-all
arrognntly arTayed against tho despised
grangers.' Those who undertook farm
ing had their fences cut down by COWBOYS
and crops destroyed by cattle. There was
no redress from officials of the state or
federal government. They were all in
-terested In tho cattle industry. When a
new federal officer arrived with n commits.
sion from Washington. whether as gov
ernor, secretary. judge or marshal of a
territory, or surveyor general, register,
receiver OF special egent of the land
Office, or Indian agent or post trader. he
was soon let into some cattle company on
the ground floor When Cleveland retired
them for the good of the service they all
found themselves in profitable business in
land or in cattle-not even excepting the
great grandson of his great grandfather,
who, upon retiring from lucrative Office
at Helena, discovered himself proprietor
of The Montana Live Stock Journal and
manager of tho Harrison Cattle company
So Colorado will undoubtedly vote for
Harrison and Morton this fall Cattle
men who, under Republican administra-
tion, combined the remunerative bust
ness of raising cattle on the free range
and robbing the government of its pub.
lie lands along all the streams through
fraudulent entries made by hired PRO
fessional' pre-empters and cowboys. in
order to monopolize the water privilege
and keep off actual settlers-are against
Cleveland, because the land office, under
the able and honest management of Com
missioners Sparks and Stockslager, re-
yokcd the fraudulent entries not already
proved up" by their Republican prede-
cessors and have successfully checked
further land grabbing. Ex-ofncials, ex-
pecting reappointDent, land sharks.
irresponsible men who make business
of locating" lands for corporations, luHl-
ber1uen who divested the public lands of
timber-some of whom were sent to the
penitentiary for this cffense and will be
out in time to votc-0re all against Cleve-
land, because under his rule their -'occu
patton is gone. Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
To Avert ophth..lIr,,.l.
a writer in Nature states that three
cases have come under his personal OBJ
servation in which brown skinned natives
in very different T,arts of the world