Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1907-11-12
FLANAGAN CRITI-
CISES ROOSEVELT
In REGARD to the LatterS Policy
Toward the Sheepmen
Of Nevada

to mention. Although | was pio
neer n the use OF Sierra range-lands
on the California side OF the line, al
though we pay yaXes on 10000 sheep.
SEQ cattle and horses and 5000 acres
OF land in Lassen county California.
and on other property in Plumas
county. same state. and although one
of the three directors of orr company
is citizen OF California. the forest
supervisor denied us the same rights
as our neighbors We're granted. on the
grounds that we were NevadanS. 1t
would be laughable We're it not so
serious breach of right and Justice
this idea of Federal official dealtng
with purely Federal affair. yet re-
cognizing a distinction between "a
Nevadan and Californian. and. in
effect. saying because you are Nev-
adam, operating on the Sierra Nevada
mountains. you shall be allowed to
pasture only one sheep, where we per-
nit your neighbor, because he is a
Californian. TO pasture four Could
d scrimination 90 further than that?
: EXCEEDS RIGHTS
Not satisfied with enforcing it's
decrees with regard to its own prop
erty. the governments actually goes
so far as to tell others what they
SHAH do with theirs. Incredible as it
may seem. the government has actu-
ally carried this Interference to the
extent of forbidding the railroad com
pany 10 rent certain sections to me-
This l call carrying paternalism to
the limit
perhaps a single concrete instance
will illustrate better than a volume
of general remarks the character of
the policy or rather, impolcy. with
which we have to contend I have
before referred to the Constantia
ranch as property on which taxes
are paid the include 5000 acres of
land. 10000 sheep. and 500 cattle and
horses. We asked permission to use
the adjoining lands. The government
refused us and gave it to a Basque
who didn't own an acre of ground
: What does it all mean? 1t would
mean confiscation of all our posses
. Sions. of the fruits of the work and
study of lifetime were we to tamely
submit. But that thought is the far
thest from our ideas. The sudden
and unlooked-for refusal of the govern
ment to permit us the use OF lands
I to which we have been accustomed
forces US to look in other directions
to lease. and otherwise accumulate
? lands for the subsistence ard general
maintenance of our herds This means
great expense. much damage and less
= to us for time. but it means also tht
eventual utter extinction of the small
5 holders. who previously maintained
i ,heir herds on the lands now being
5. taken up by u.s. II means in time
d the confinement OF. the sheep industry
o III this section, 10 It few large owners
Q and the payment. in the end as al
p ways. by the general public, OF tn,
. losses sustained by these owners i,
q the process OF protecting themselve!
d from absolute confiScation
@ This will constitute the sum tota
OF the governments misguided ever
2 tions Instead OF cutting the sheer,
II raising industry up among an infinit
1t number OF individuals. it will confin
II it more closely to fewer. and increaS
h lnely fewer lands. and will. i'm tn
y end. entail upon the general publi
d higher prices for mutton and lamb