The Glenwood post., 1906-01-13
STILL FIGHT
GRAZING TAX
Roaring Fork and Eagle River As
sOCldtion Holds Lively and
Interesting Session at
CdrbOndaIe
TO SEND DELEGATES TO DENVER

The meeting of the Roaring Fork
and Eagle River Stock Growers asso-
citation. held in Carbondale last Sat
uIday, was hot stuff from start to fin
ish. 1t was called to order by W. Fl.
Harris, the president, c. b Sewell
keeping tab on the proceedings as sec
retary
you will believe when we tell you that
some of the big cattle growers of
Glenwood Springs were present and
contributed freely (for the time being)
of their knowledge from actual ex-
perience (?) in the stock business.
Among these may be mentioned Sena-
tor Taylor, Theodore Rosenberg and
Henry Jay Holmes.
An interesting letter from Congress
man Hogg was read. in which the
congressman stated that Senator Pat
terson, who had charge of the protest
grazing fee, made serious mistake
by taking the question up direct with
the president and ignoring Secretary
Wilson.
Mr.. Hogg thought the cattlemen
would have to pay the tax, for while
he. holds that the president and secre
tary have not the power to impose and
collect this tax without specific au-
thority from congress, he made it plain
that i'll his judgment. should the ques
tion be taken TO congress, that power
would be quickly granted and the cat
tlemen would be no better off than at
present TO say the least Mr.. Hogg's
letter was far from encouraging to
those seeking to evade the grazing
tax. He admitted that the cattlemen
of Colorado were strongly in favor of
forest reserves although he was him,
self opposed to them.
Senator Taylor, in the course of the
discussion as to whether the tax could
be collected and whether the stockmen
should fight it. said the president was
positive in his determination to collect
the tax and if the matter went to con
gress he thought there was no doubt
the president s attitude would be sus
tanned. He said any action brought
in the federal court at Montrose, could
not be heard before next fall after the
close of the grazing season. Mr.
Taylor's talk. when stripped of the at
tacks on the policy of the administra-
tion was about as barren of comfort as
the letter of Mr.. Hogg. The senator
presented a.letter he had received from
John A. Ewing, one of the com -nittee
sent by the cattlemen to Washington,
but this was principally along legal
lines and aside from denial of the
right of the president to impose the
tax, was Oh a par with Hogg letter
and Taylor's talk
Theodore Rosenberg presented an in
teresting array of figures showing the
benefits which Colorado has derived
from the desert land law and advising
strenuous opposition to the repeal of
this act.
Charley Sewell, the secretary of the
association, said he lived in a section
noted few years ago for its populism
and that for many years he had heard
great deal about public control but
now when the government undertook
to put this populistic theory into &C
tion by controlling the public range
within the forest reserves, there was
great howl. Charley didn't record
his own speech in the minutes but this
is the substance of his confidential re-
marks to many of the stockmen.
The Post is informed that there are
SO members of the local association
and that 81 of them were elected dele
gates to the big stock convention
which meets in Denver the last of this
month, the one to be left off the list
being "the man from Carbondale".
who has received almost as much news
paper notoriety this winter as the poor
cows who are to be 80 ruthlessly de-
prived of their grass.
Resolutions were passed thanking
our congressman and senators for the
interest they have taken in the matter
and also Ammous, Ewing and Baer for
their trip to Washington. 1t was stat
ed on the side that the thanks alone
we're sufficient for Baer since he is a
rich man, but it was said that Am
mons and Ewing should have some
thing . little more substantial and