The Glenwood post., 1916-04-01
Denounce Infamous Measure to be In
itiated and Called a Herd Law
New Officers Elected
FOREST RESERVE GETS A REST

all the influence he possessed against
this herd law just as hard as he could
yess, he was even ready and willing to
kiss and forgive the forestry officials
against whom he has in the past hurled
SO much criticism and sarcasm, for he
has found that they are not such bad
fellows after all, and he has further
learned that the system over which
they have supervision is not the great
bugaboo to the stock industry which
he and many other well meaning stock
men for years predicted it would be.
In fact, Mr.. Light says he has learned
to adapt himself to the forestry regu-
lations and that the local officials
mean only good to the stockmen, and
anyway the forestry system is here to
stay and it is waste of time and ef
fort to oppose it when there is a real
and serious menace confronting the
stockmen which is far more inimical t }
the stock interests than the forestry
system was ever thought to be, and his
admission that he had previously bean
fsunnecessarily, alarmed over the matter
brought forth considerable applause.
Dan Flynn, who has seen considera-
BILE of the workings of the herd law in
Utah, told the stockmen present that
some of the squatters in the land of
Mormon make more by collecting fines
from stockmen than they do from legit-
innate farming.
Joe Hum called attention to the fact
that the people have for some time
been kicking about the high prices they
were forced to pay for meats, but sug-
gested that these prices were nothing
as compared with what they would be
if an extra penalty were placed against
the stockmen as would be the case il
the people voted this herd law.
The resolutions committee compoed
of A. J. Dickson, A. 8. Baxter and
George sievers, then reported the fol-
lowing:
Resolutions
Whereas, It is proposed under the iu-
itiative and referendum laws of the
state, to enact so-called herd law,
and
Whereas, That such law, while ex-
ceedingly harmful to the entire state
would be especially disastrous to the
western slope where there are immense
areas of land that are Of no value and
can never be of any value except for
stock grazing purposes. With this pro-
posed law on our statutes the large as
well as the small stockmen of this Sec
tion would be forced out of busine s.
and the loss would be not only to the
stock industry alone, but farmers would
find no markets for the products of
their fields, and thus the loss would be
especially severe to all our people. 1t
would mean the forced abandonment of
our grazing areas and would necessitate
the going to waste of thousands of tons
of beef producing grasses which arc
now utilized with profit to our people,
whereas, under herd law, stagnation
and poverty would be inevitable. Not
only would the stock industry suffer,
but great hardship would result to
the common people as. meat prices
would become prohibitive to those in
close circumstances.
Resolved, That for the above reasons
and many Others which might be given,
the Roaring Fork stockgrowers asso-
citation hereby declares itself unaltera
bly, opposed to the so-called herd law,
about to be initiated and submitted to
the voters Of Colorado, and that we
turge all good citizens who believe in
fair play and the protection Of one OF
the greatest industries in the country,
to use every means possible betwecn
now sad the coming election y defeat