The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17
W0 SIDES To IT.

There are two sides TO every story. aud
We are inclined to think that when all the
truth has been told concerning the little
war over there in northern Wyoming. all
the goodness and virtue and obedience to
the law viii not be found On the aide of the
ca,tiemeu who went into Johnson county
with such flourish OF trumpets, and are
now wondering how lhey are going to get
out 18th whole skins We apprehend that
when the story snail be told il full IL will
be learned that the big ranch owners have
not even fair share of the law en- their
side. Such thing is possible that all tue
people OF TWO or three great counties are
rogues and thieves, but it is not probable.
1t may be that all tie officials are corrupt
and obey the bidding of the criminal
classes, but it is not likely. 1t is among
the possibilities that grand iuries are made
up OF cattle thevee, and will not therefore
indict those who steal cattle, but this is
hard to believe OF community which pre-
tends to be respectable and lives under the
FERNS OF law
We shall not be surprised TO learn that
rich cattle men and strong companies have
extensive herds and immense ranches in
the disturbed district; to learn that poorer
people have been settling in the region.
demonstrating public lands and thus mar
rowing the range heretofore held free of
charge by the opulent cattle barons. 1t
may transRire that some of the settlers
have done wrong, perhaps cut wire fences
enclosing the public domain, and it may be.
branded maverick occasionally; utthers
will be astonishment il it shall be demon
strated that the small ranchers, tho so
called rustlers, have even held their own in
acts of meauness in this warfare which has
been going on during the past year or So
IT they have managed to keep oven with
their more powerful enemies it will be The
fret time that the small fry have done so
well. On this subject well posted cattle.
man said to the Denver Times:
There are undoubtedly some very tough men
in the wyoming region, but the majority do not
come under that title. There are hundreds of
homesteaders who have taken up claims unon
the outskirts of the ranges occupied by the
great cattle companies. AS rule these mon
are poor, aud they embark in cattle raising on
small scale. They see herds numbered nv
the tens of thousands and feeding upon lands to
which the owners have no earthly claim. Very
frequently they overflow trenches upon the
sQuatters little holding and he is not so much
to blame If he does corral and brand n few
mavericks TO pay for damage DONE presume
have lost my per cent, but look at the mat.
ter philosophicelly. Another thing. These So
called rustlers are not outlaws, and 1 doubt
whether indictments have been found against
half dozen of them.
We expect good deal Of the real truth
will be found in this statement when thu
full story shall be told, and in that event
ought the prosecutions not to run acainat
The wealthy cattlemen who, ACCOMPANIED
by band of hired ruflans from a distapt
state, undertake to drive out or shoot down
without ceremony the poor fellows who
had the temerity to think tina. others bs-
sides cattle barons had rights in the
countryg 4
twill not be well pass Judgment in ao-
vance OF the facts. but it will not he