The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-25

the meat and found no disease. Such
authority must be believed, or else the
United States inspection is a farce
Can il be possible that you take the evil
dence Of a the)rist and throw out the
positive proof of a sworn United States
inspector? feel that have been great
ly wronged. The thirty.eight head Of
cattle completely destroyed, completely
wiped out my whole herd Of one hundred
head. | was never able to get any price
for what was left My stock has ever
since been looked on as tuberculosis
cattle. From tnat affair lost my rep1t-
tdtio2a and I'LL he'd am almost eighty
years old and do net feel able to go to
work. [ have been driven from my
farm Through this unjust dee y that
had worked and owned for forty-two
years. want to say that do not want
TO beg from the state of Wisconsin, but
I demand justice 1t was terrible thing
to single out one man to put him up to
experiment on without receiving com
pensation. And you say the test which
was made, if applied to-day, in view of
the advanced methods of treatment Of
tuberculosis cattle, would be insufficient
to warrant the condemnation Of and
slaughter Of cattle under similar condi-
tions. | wish to say right here: Was
not that a plain case Of experiment and
cOnfiscatiOn, and do not our laws give
US life, liberty and property until taken
from US by due process of law? Please
inform me how much law there was in
that state veterinarian sailing down on
| to me in the manner in which he did,
and is state veterinarian due process
of law'
Colonel Casson asked me to come TO
Madison when the legislature met Ia
year after my COWS were condemned)
and be would assist me III getting an APP
preparation that he thought would sat
isfy me, for he we'll knew that had been
wronged. The bill presented was just
what the cattle were worth. | did not
know then how it would affect my bu>i-
ness. $1,000 is no compensation. $780,
600 would not cover my loss, and you
say that have been compensated from
what the state paid me and from the
sale Of my cattle which were sent to
Chicago? 1t does not seem possible thai
the state Of Wisconsin can be guilty oi
SO great wrong.
If you commissioners can think Of
any way in which this case can be got
into the courts | wish you would let me
know. / should have got it there long
ago, but the state veterinarian was the
state OF Wisconsin, and the state cannot
be sued unless it has a mind to without
an order from the Supreme Court.
Four years ago my name was put in
the Sentinel of Milwaukee, and Inter
Ocean, of Chicago, as rascal, liable to a
fine of So, 900 and Imprisonment for five
years in state prison. Your state veter-
marian did all this and the state should
be responsible for this He was a man
under no bonds, but could come down
and destroy man and crawl back under
the wing of the state.
Perhaps this letter seems out Of place,
but it is pretty hard, l assure you, for an
old man Of eighty years to sit down and
swallow all of this without saying some
thing, and to go out of life being dealt
with in so terrible manner. My attor.
ney, G. E. EsterbrOok, knows nothing Of
this writing. I write Of my own free
will, thinking that sooner or later justice
will be done me.
OF course I understand this case is
closed for the present, but | want you to
distinctly remember that it will come up
again, whether | live to see it or not.
Will you please answer some of these
questions, and let me know how you get
around them? The state knew had q
case when they appropriated that $4,000
for you to settle my claim, and am as
founded at your judgment. hope, gen
tlemen, there is no politics in this case.
Respectfully.
r. S. HOUSTON,
34th and Fond du Lac avenues,
MjIuo11Eoo Wis