Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-11-08

less beneficial condition is to result t
the large owner, why is the latter nc
opposing it? Why have the big outfit
become SO suddenly solicitous for tn
welfare of their smaller neighbors?
Why if it is to be bill for the smal
man, were the delegates appointed b.
the American Cattle Growers associa
ton to meet in Denver on the goth ul
timo, and frame a bill for presentation
to congress men, whom the publ
press reporting the proceedings of tha
meeting mentioned individually ant
referred to them without a single ex.
ception as large" cattlemen, or a.
representing the Largest" stock con.
| Germs of the country?"
| In brief, the reply is that it is not
the future of the man with few head
of stock that arouses the interest OF
| the large stock corporations, but it is
| their own future and their own i'm
| mense interests they view trembling in
the balance.
Take it in the gentleman's own home
counties-Chaves and Eddy. There the
small man is coming in; is invading
and taking an equitable portion of the
large grazing tracts heretofore con-
trolled by few companies. He is
coming in fast, too, and it is the sting
of this rapidity that impells the
large" owners to cry out for lease
law that this aggression, against which
they are now powerless, may be check
ed. The little man has no need, nor Is
he asking, for lease law. He is doing
very we'll under present conditions,
thank you, and if the Roswell writer
has in truth the best interests of the
small owner at heart and seeks his
success then the greatest service he
can render his ward is to pray and la
Dor for continuation Of present con-
ditions, for under it the country is
being reclaimed from the sway of the
syndicatesi and large companies: what
once was the range of a single outfit
is now dotted with the windmills of
the men with a few hundred head of
stock population is increasing; taxa
BILE property being added-and the lit
tie man pays on every head while the
big man lodges; towns are feeling the
effect of the increase of trade that
flows from the coming in of the little
man, and where once was lethargy is
now energy and enterprise.
This wave of settlement and progress
is flowing without the propelling force
of lease law; then, if a leasing plan
would further add to the benefits and
advantages of the little man. would
not the "large" companies be entirely
wiped out?
Are the men who compose the latter
of such a philanthropic nature as to
work for the destruction of their own
interests?
The answer Is obvious.
The small men by combining and
running wagon or outfit can gather
their cattle just as cheaply as the
big men are barring little owners from
their wagons, it will not be for long;
the day of the big man, "the king" if
you please will soon be over.
The small revenue that would result
to the territory from leasing fees can
not weigh in the scales against the
damages that such a bill would bring
about. An honest and proper rendi- |
ton of the stock owned by the big |
and the payment of their |
Just proportion of taxes thereon would |
today result in as much revenue to the |
territory as would ever issue from a |
ease law. Honest rendition will bring |
greater and quicker revenues than a |
ease law.
AS to drift fences: The section of |
ID in the greatest number is offering
10 objection to their maintenance
where the number is reasonable and
hey are constructed in a proper man.
Ter. The danger from them arises in
hat they lead to constant aggression
lpon the part of the owners, to the ul-
innate end that they are converted in
o pasture fences and thus permit cer-
ain men and companies to monopolize
he range and shut out settlers and
'ther men possessed Of equal rights.
But whether the fences remain up or
ome down, the stock industry will
continue, as it is now, New Mexico's
hief industry. If the fences are de-
nolished on the plains in the south
astern part of the territory, the cat
lie business will nevertheless move
long undiminished, and il the men
Who are now prophesying the total OBJ
iteration Of the industry and their own
etirement therefrom in the event the
ences are destroyed, do indeed retire
which they will ,not-there are others
nth equal capital and ability to take
heir place, and who will operate the
usiness with profit
New Mexico wants no lease law, un-
ass the territory desires to crush the
mall stockman and perpetuate the
ange interests in all the immenslty Of
primer years.
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