The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-07
he Braggadoeio Cattle Barons.

ness and effrontery of the cattle bar
ons is taken from the Kansas City
Times of yesterday. 1t says:
Last Thursday morning, after COM
menting upon and strongly endorsing
Secretary Mobiles letter in regard To
Vaeating the Cherokee strip, the Times
said editorially:
Secretary Noble has made a mistake
of fact in fixing the date of removing
the cattle on the strip at June /. The
date should be earlier OF later. No
hardship should be inflicted upon the
cattlemen and no large quantity of
cattle should be forced upon the mar
ket unnecessarily. The severe fortune
which befell the Cheyenne and AraPa-
hoe association should be avoided.
Since the Cherokees and the cattlemen
appear to yield to the decision of the
government. If it appears that a pro-
per and even generous regard for the
int. ests of those who nave cattle Oh
the strip under mistaken view of the
law requires a later date. the people
will support the government in allow
ing it. One thing should be guarded
against, and that is restocking the
strip with cattle next spring. Time to
conveniently market or remove the
stock already there may be allowed,
but new cattle should not be driven in.
The date should be either earlier or
later. us the best interests of all con-
cerned shall require. June ! is the
worst possible date. The secretary
can easily find out whether the associa-
ton will have to winter any consider
able body of cattle. If so the date
should be later to allow time for fat
tening and marketing. If not the date
may AS we'll be fixed at April /, or even
earlier so that the opening of the strip
to settlement may give the pioneers
lime for a crop season the first year.
This position is one entirely cOnsis-
tent with the record of this newspaper,
for not one day since the gobbling up
of the Indian reservations by cattle
syndicates has the Times failed to de-
nounce such occupancy as illegal and
against the best interests of the people.
We have always contended that such
lands as were necessary for the Indi-
ANS should be allotted them in sever
| atty and the remainder be opened to
settlement by the government. The
occupancy of these millions of acres by
the cattle syndicates has always met
our strenuous, continuous and unqual-
flied opposition.
But when President Cleveland in
| 1885 ordered the syndicates to remove
| their cattle from the Cheyenne and
A1dBdAOO lCoClNdJlOIlS. liiC L lC-
monstrated that ample time was not
given to market or distribute the cattle
without great and unnecessary loss,
and asked President Cleveland to eX-
tend the time so as to allow the cattle
men to get rid OF their herds without
hardship to themselves or overcoming
the market. So now while uphoiding
| Secretary Mobiles order The Times, in
the same magnanimouS spirit, has in
! foFna1n6 in hRir NIL n
from unnecessary losses.
1t seems, however, that these latter
| day braggadocio barons do not appre-
ciate the situation. They die hard or
! rather determine not to die at all. AT
| first they appeared to acquisce In Sec
rotary Mobiles order and intimated
| that they would not antagoniZe the
| government policy. But this was only
Il ruse They have too fat a thing to
give it up without "a struggle. They
are getting their second wind and
rallying up for final contest. They
! give it out that they are willing to pay
] out more than double the amount that
the government offers for the Cherokee
strip. y dispatch from Talequah says
they Will have lobby there at the
meeting of the Cherokee council to-
morrow to Influence the Indians
against accepting the offer of the gov.
|
abuse and lie about men and news
papers that they cannot intimidate OF
control. They even threaten the presi.
dent. asserting that Cleveland's order
eXpellIng them from the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe reservations was the
cause of his defeat, thereby intimat
ing to President Harrison that he haC
better beware, or similar fate may
befall him should he endorse Secre-
tary Mobiles proposition.
Could braZen effrontery and selfish
greed go fuIther?. Was there ever be
fore presented the spectacle of few
bloated barons defying the law and
policy of a great government openly
and above board? There is but one
| end to this matter. These barons will
have to yield to the irresistible march
of progress and commerce just as the
last of the barons had to succumb tC
the power of the people in England
There was great Warwick then. but
even he could not stop the trend OF
| events. He was "a mighty man, great
in power. influence and intellect
There are no Warwicks among our lat
ter day barons. There are some vul-
gar braggarts and blowhards, however
that is all.