El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-24
MORRIS PEOPLE
ARE ARROGANT
Insist that Their Stockyards
Are Nobody's Business;
Defy the City.

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TO ridicule the idea that the women % I
the city had protested against the l 9CG-
ton of nuisances in the COTTON tiuui1
ton He accused those who had slsheFf
The nrotest against the maintenance Oh
nuisances within the city limits OF a.
tempting to hide behind the shlILs ~
i women and intimated that II was ~
business of the women of TINS city III
his estimation, what Morris * 20;
| should choose to erect on the blS %
ground they had purchased IN the Co'
| ton addition.
His treatment of the idea that women
I should dare to presume TO say lnaL ny
] objected to the creation ana mai
limits when his clients, the mighty pc
I cause wealthy, the overbearlng ana 81
rogant Morris q Co, was IN Inc VIII
| his treatment of the general pupIc ~
| Ell Paso and the mayor and the CITY
| council when he stated that ms con-
| Germ did not have to have lranculs99
/ from the city to erect STOCK yat9s dnu
! that though at first ne hau Sdlu IAey
would ask a franchise he had made up
| his mind to proceed without Ihe IOI-
mality or the courtesy Of asking Ihe
| CITY fathers whether or not Such pro-
| ceeding had the sanction OF the city
A BOmbaster Furious.
In the matter of bOmbast ana Sneer-
| ing invective the original ooIll Ltis;.e5
/ furioso could have learned something
/ from Mr. Dyer had he been present
Monday afternoon to listen TO the lat-
/ ter gentleman's argument IN oppo-
| sition to the propcsitlon In nd me me GlCy 10y
government of the city of FL Paso had
! any rights at all where Ihey might
/ conflict with not the rights but the
desires of Morris & Co., the great, pow
He was not there to make argument,
| however. for the reason that his cause
| admits of no argument. he was lhere
/ to muddy the waters ana 10 preJuulCe
81 go
] bers of the city council If possible,
! against the cattlemen who have the
! temerity to insist that they should
! have any voice at all in the conduct OF
the cattle business of FL Paso, which
| through long years OF patient Toll ana
much privation, they nave succeeded IN
building up to a point where MOTIFS d
! Co. finally sees 1t might pc proIlLdD!e
! for them to control. 1t is doubtful II
Insisted CattIe1nen Were Dupes.
Notwithstanding thaJ capt Brach
| and Harris Walthau, the attor-
| neys for the cattlemen, explicitly stated
/ that only cattlemen were interested
/ in the proposition to have all stock
! yards moved outside the city limits,
. where there would be room for cOmpe-
| tition and where the business might be
{ ! anchored permanently, with ample
Z room for its growth and the encourage
/ ment of the erection of packing houses
. ] and other industries conducive TO It's
! / growth, Mr.. Dyer continued to insist
( that the cattlemen were being used as
! dupes and that the mayor ana city
council were being imposed upon. That
the mayor, or members Of the city coun-
ell, or anyone else present at the great
meeting Of catuemen were LED away
! from the main point at issue by MI
Dyers sophistry, his bombast and ms
sneers. is not believed.
What the City Did
In the course of his talk, Mr. Dyer
referred frequently to 20-acre tract
owned by the city of Ell Paso in the
! Vicinity OF the 3O-acre StOckyardS tract
recently purchased by his client, and
! suggested that if the cattlemen were
! | really in earnest in the matter Of en-
, | gaging in the stOckyards business they
| could purchase that 20 acres from the
| | city, If they did not care to buy other
. | lands in the vicinity which he knew
were for sale.
Mr.. Dyer might have been asked
/ / had it been thought Of at the time
T why If the city government were moi
: / fearful Of the smells which might be
, ] borne ~ south winds over the entire
city, it did not erect its garbage. dis
! pCsal plant upon that little tract IN
! / stead Of buying lands for the purpose
{ / on the eastern edge Of the city, soutf
, ! OF the Franklin canal and close to tbs
4 , river on lands bordering, in fact, upOI
l the district sought to be set aside fol
1 ste ckyards purposes by the opponents
. Z Of stOckyards within the city limits.
] May Build Fertilizer Factory.
Mr.. Dyer, on behalf Of his client
maze q NEIudl OL4EL u GOWN LOL AlA'
Z / right to dispose of all animals dying
: ! from natural or accidental causes b.
. conversion into fertilizer. If Mr.. Dye
. J viii reduce his offer to writing there
Q is a chance that the city may accep
. his offer. 1t is fair to presume tina
il Mr.. Dyer secures the contract Il
> convert all dead animals Throughout
L city into fertilizers that his fac
tory therefor will be erected upon tn
s little 80 acre plot now owned by hi
E clients, within few blocks of tn
: heart of the city, and that the peopl
u OF Ell PasO will be required to tolerat
n the flies that viii be bred therein an
the stenches that will emanate there
: from for all time to come, because tn
q great. the powerful the arrogant Nor
IT'S 4 Co. desires it.
Cnttlemen Are Aroused.
n There is little doubt that Mr.. Dye
! ] was moved to his peculiar line of 'ar
e I gument' by the presence Of so man
/ of the real Cattlemen, the cattle pro
!, ducers, the builders of the cattle bust
d | ness of the southwest, the men VIII
have helped make Ell PasO the grea
/ city 1t is at the meeting of prOtes
! against allowing his clients to arbl
: / trarily deprive them of the profits c
! their industry and their thrift by al
| rcgantIy and without leave takln
over control Of the stockyards bushes
III the city OF FL Paso. It was SUI
prise to Mr.. Dyer He did not dreal
y EIat the cattlemen were so thorough
~ oused as their presence at the Gpe
Cldl meeting OIL the city COunCll /
D.. ! such large numbers demonstrated.
I Felt Himself Slipping.
> He no doubt felt that in spite {
Il the arrogant assumption of authOrit
:, by his clients the ground was slippin
= from under his feet. He probably fe
impelled by his fears to say to the cit
council, in substance at least I'VE di
not ask your permission but we al
there; we have acquired vested right
what are you going to do about II
Having acquired vested rights, thong
we did not ask your permission, 20
VIII invade those rights at your peril
What CattIemen Want.
The city council was assured by II
representatives of the cattlemen thi
the only object the latter had in ente
Z ing the stOckyards business in FL Pa;
2 was to preserve for themselves an opt
= market where competition would !
free and untrammeIed and where the
would be in no danger Of being d
I prlved Of their just profits for II
benefit of an organization which IL
already monopolized the stockyar.
business of a number of eastern paci
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