Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-13 | Page 4 | A Scab Proclamation

A SCAB PROCLAMATION. Governor F R, Gooding of Idaho, having heard that mango among horses and cattle and scab among aheep exists to an alarming extent In Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana and Oregon, (why not Washington and Canadian points also, and so make the circle complete?) proclaims a dead-lino at tho State boundaries of Idaho, which shall not be overpassed more than two miles on pain of all animals so Intruding being soaked in quarantine. It la hardly likely, If mange and scab prevail in all these surrounding States to such an alarming extent as to require re-quire the Issue of this proclamation, that Idaho could be especially contaminated contami-nated by the Incoming from there of horses, cattle, and sheep. For Idaho Is certainly In tho same condition as her neighbors; if the flocks and herds all about her arc infected, then her flocks and herds are Infected, nnd the proclamation procla-mation Is useless unless Idaho will at tho samo timo cleanse her own flocks and herds. There Is, however, a much more serious seri-ous menace to the State of Idaho from her neighbors, nnd' especially from Utah, than the mango and scab referred re-ferred to in the proclamation of Governor Gov-ernor Gooding. We refer to the mange and scab upon the political affairs of the State, coming from that malodorous malodor-ous center of foulness, the headquarters of the hierarchic despotism. This mange and scab Is propagated there and labeled out In Indecent doseo to a cringing clientele, which accepts It, though with much blasphemy and a deadly loathing which is only supported support-ed by the recollection of the offices that can be captured by Its use. The mangy political bull and the scabby political ram that aro set adrift among tho Inhabitants of Idaho, from the thoroughly Infected political herds of Utah, may well bo quarantined against by Governor Gooding; and If he docs not quarantine against them now, while there is yet time, he will live to bewail his folly with bitter yet unavailing una-vailing regret.