The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-27

in some respects misunderstood. We
therefore do him the justice of print
ing his further emcidation in full, as
follows:
Granite Ranch,
Eanksville, Utah, June 81, 1913,
Editor Tribune have been prevent
! last contribution by press OF business
Having little spare time today IT oc~
CURED to me that IT might not be too
late yet.
You say that you were surprised that
1 suggested that sheepmen should en-
gage in the general farming business.
intend to convey that idea al all. The
Impression that tried to make was
that they should adopt the methods
eral farming districts. The sheep raiser
OF the Western Range district Will have
to adopt those tactics and plans sooner
sure of that. They will have to produce
a better quality OF wool. a larger sheep.
market them younger. take better care,
use humane methods of trea tment and
employ practical, conscientious and in
telligent help.
1 am located at present in the very
heart OF a sheep range. both winter and
summer range, and have observed for
the past seven years much OF the man
ner and custom of ha ndling sheep on the
ranges Of southeastern Utah, l also
wool business in the central west. the
general farming district'-and know
whereof write. If the sheep raiser Of
the central west practiced the methods
Western Range sheep and wool pro-
ducers. they, too; would be unable ''to
make ends meet" They would be howl
ing for protection" too
a fellow saws To me the other day
Don't think we could adopt those meth
ods of your general farming district
laFmers- aTga rs ,o++aS Mhat ,oo, says / Cant
breed a larger sheep? Can't sell lambs
Instead OF two or three-ye olds? Can't
employ better and, practical laborers?
handling your sheep? Can't employ a
conscientious herder that will attend
strictly to his business2 Can't use care
and system St;us1 in the bTsiness as becomes
not If the proprietors and owners don t
look after their sheep and quit employ
ing the kind OF labor that is being used
by large majority of the owners Of
sheep in this western country.
If had space to describe the atroci-
ties that l have witnessed on the ranges
the readers till they would be dunn
founded. Whenever most, il not all, OF
these suggestions that l have made OF
improvements in the sheep handling
business have been put into practical
use. and the handling OF the wool be
given intelligent and practical business
system and methods, then the howl for
protection" to the industry will cease.
There are so many criticisms OF the
methods and practice that space forbids
that l go farther.
You quote Abe Lincoln, When we buy
a plough for. $50 and it's made at home,
we have both-the $50 and the plough, .
Yes. that may have been true once But
your system Of Protection" has brought
classes of our people till they haven't
got elther-the $40 nor the plough Do
YOU want to try 1t any longer? Most of
our people are getting pretty tired of
producing and letting the other fellow.
ceeds. M
1t will be seen that our correspond.
ent's suggestion that he did not
intend to say that sheepmen in this
region should engage in general farm
ing business really amounts to that;
for in his very rejection of this
and in his explanation Of what he
really meant, the development of his
thought naturally lead to precisely the
same idea that he rejects. He dis
tinctly conveys the impression that he
would have the sheep raisers of all
| this region adopt the methods of the
sheep raisers of the general farming e
districts Of the old Middle West; and
yet 1t would be impossible for the sheep
raisers here to adopt these tactics
without adopting the methods.
In so far as the improvements that
are insisted upon by our correspond
ent can be worked out on sheep
ranges to advantage, probably the
hockmasters here would be glad TO
adopt them; but it is not easy to see
how they could get into the prac-
tices Of the farmers of the general
farming districts of the old West
without engaging in general farming.
For, the sheep raised by the farmers in
these farming districts are merely in
cidental to their general farming
product In view
Our correspondent objects to the
quotation of Lincoln s practical illus
tration of the benefits of production,
and says that the idea has been out
grown and that the middle classes of
our people "have neither the plough
nor the money! In saying this,
however, our correspondent entirely
departs from the true situation, so far
as the record can be ascertained by
official returns as to distribution of
wealth For, the money In circula-
tion among the people now is greater
in volume than ever before: and even
in Utah the banks have more money
than they ever had. the merchants re-
port greater cash trade than hereto.
fore. and mp TO the present time the
country has been the most prosperous
country on earth. Whether it will con
tinue to be thus prosperous, in view Of
the prospective passage of the Demo
cratic bill TO revise the tariff, if the
bill becomes a law, is something that
we shall all have to wait to see,
The actress who chose Friday, June
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