The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-23

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alone that, but today you cannot ship
any cattle from Escambia county On
account of the ticks. There Is right
and wrong way to eradicate cattle
ticks. They do it in every other coun-
/ ty of our state and adjacent states. IT
you have proper men, men that I'M
derstand and have the experience
there will be no chemicals used in
making solutions used for dipping the
| cattle.
Many years ago before you had any
dipping watts Mr.. Jim Waters had
many head of stock and I had good
many head myself. We made our own
| solution and we kept our cattle clean
and free from the tick. Also kept
cholera from hogs. l had many head.
and he had many more than /. We
| never had cholera among our hogs. We
| treated every one with sulphur and
/ charcoal and sulphur and charcoal will
i keep any stock OF hogs from cholera
and other vermin.
/ / was out the other day looking
| over the great acreage Of fine lands
owned by the Lansing Florida Land
| company and on our way out we came
across two punches Of cattle. About
/ seventy five head in one bunch and
about sixty in the other. To see some
| of these animals hardly able to walk
and their shoulders and hip bones
ready to come out of their hide and
you could hardly put dollar on these
tick infected bodies from their heads
to tails without covering a tick. It
was a fearful sight and to think that
such damnable conditions are per-
mitted in any civilized community. /
would like to be one man among
others who would apply a few OF
these ticks to the bodies Of some men
and representatives sent to our legis-
lature to make laws that would pre-
vent any such condition and / am GER
tan we would have laws that would
compel any man that owns stock to
eradicate the tick by dipping and stop
this fearful cruelty to the dumb AMI
mails. and put our county on equal
footing with selling and marketing our
stock.
AS regards the fence law and other
damnable outrages it is advocated to
abolish the fence law Do you know
that you are doing the very thing that
will prevent settlers from coming to
our county as Il man comes here ana
gets a farm of twenty, forty or sixty
acres he builds a home and commences
to plant his soil and before he FENCES
in all his land some fellow that never
owned an acre of land or raised crop
of any kind, but has few head OF
stock or cattle, and by the time the
farmer gets his crop well growing
these cattle come in and destroy i.
7 know personally of several settlers
that would have bought farms In our
county within the last six months ana
would have induced others to scorne
here but there was no security IN ony
to keep the cattle and the piney WOODS
rooters from destroying their planted
acreage.
Do YOU realize that all laws among
civilized nations gives each one OF US
the constitutional right to exercise our
personal privileges in any and all law
full undertakings, but we must e2eT-
else that right without injury or Jeop-
ardizing the rights of our relioWmeh
or in any manner interfering or cahs-
ing injury to themg
1t seems strange to me and 1ncom-
prehensible that the citizens CT any
community or county will permit OF
public wrong that is jeopardizlng an
causing the most serious injuries 10
the individuals and the most serious
drawback for the prosperity OF your
entire county and city.
Let the entire citizens of county ana
city come together and have indlgna-
ton meetings condemning In It's en-
tirety any and all methods made use
of by a few soreheads or irresponsible
agitators or by the representatives you
send to your legislatures, and you can
nut a stop to such damnable out
RACES. that a few irresponsible parties
can set aside all the laws~ef God and
man and work an frreparabfe INJURY
to the county. Citizens OF Escampll
county and Pensacola wake up anu
take immediate steps as whole com
ynunitv that will forever put a stop 10
these outrages and allow a few men
that have no consideration for the
rights of their fellowmen to turn
loose their stock to the detriment ana
injury of the farmers and prevent set
Tiers and homeseekrs from coming 10
vo,,r county and consider that any
man or men who will constantly IN
iure or ieopardize the interests of his
felIowTnen should be made to do right
or leave the community.
This is a very serious matter tina.
concerns vitality every man, woman
and child in your county and city ana
Won should think about 1t and see the
indisputable consequences and teke
immediate steps to do away with this
fearful wrong, and use the same means
that You would do to destroy an e.'i
demic of yellow fever or smallpox
T OF vour slogan be: DO unto others as
YOU would have them do unto you.