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Show THE FBMOE LAW. Tat injustice of the fence law haa been presented repeatedly by several sev-eral sf our correspoudeubj, aud still needs to he agitated by the people of Utah. The time baa eome, In the settled portion of the Territory, Terri-tory, when the farmer must receive protection against damages from stock, and the expense or preventing prevent-ing such damages or the consequence, conse-quence, thereof fall upon the stock raiser who ret-Jtlesely seek to shirk theost, while be pockets the profits pro-fits of turning out auliual lo rauge near cultivated fields. The following follow-ing which we clip from the jrairte farmer, touches pertiu-ently pertiu-ently on this Important quvatiuu: I The fences In the United States are estimated to have cost tl.um. . --,-, ears . s-. eU lift IT tUO US tlonaldebt, and to be worth two-thirds two-thirds that enormous sum, or $HU0,-m $HU0,-m -0,000. The yearly expense to keep them In good order aud cattle-proof, cattle-proof, is about flO,0ii0((U, or j to every man, woman and child, ! white, black and red, in the country. coun-try. This ia tha result of the unjust un-just system of fencing every raau1 i stock eut, Instead oT compelling every man who owns stock to keep It feuced in, so It cannot tresiasoo any of his ueighbers'. Every owner own-er or cattle should care for them himself lueteed of compelling bis uejjfhbor.who prouebly ewns none, to do so. This is the law iu all Kuiopean it gloria, and elo in Kanaius Colorado and Nebraska.' |