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Show A I'liEA rilOM I'AVSO.V. A.'Alntt Ibo llarages of Mirrp lllrgolly Allowed lo Hull on L'uftiicid la nn . Jihtor Deitret -Teu t A lew reasons for thu despair that Is In the hearts of tho farmers at hust those whuhavo suffered from the dtp. redatloua of slock aud sheep, First: That they destroy thouunds of dollars worth of 1 roj erly every year, as completely com-pletely as If It had been consumed by lire. Becond: That this It the only tafu method known of converting, taking by force, without any promltu of remuneration, re-muneration, one man's (roperty to thu ute of another, either with or without Intent. Without dun-ger dun-ger uf n criminal rotecullon, In rerard to the loss that wo sustained latt fall, I will stale. We had n num. her of acres of lucerne teed near Pay-sou; Pay-sou; thota owning laud next to ours undertook to herd theep on lt,or rather hired a boy to herd. The remit wat they got on our laud while thu teed was lying ou tho ground uud threahod out somewhere near one hundrrd dollart1 V, olth of teed. That Is Ihu iltlnutoof disinterested (artles. Tho herdtrsayattcro wirsollier slieop on tho land In question lisldcs Ihelis. riili laud hid a good feneo around It, i bit the sheep tore tbo wlro oil and curled It Into the middle of tho street, f courtu this tied was all destroy de-stroy tJ, thu ehitp getting but lllllo of II. Now all this time we did not know tiu re were any stieep there, Ilils beliu Ibo first time, thai sheep had been herded on our farms Hint I know anything about. It It well ki own that hluip will go through any kind of nf neii eicsrt n tl (lit loan! one llviiortlx fiet high. Hhould wo be compelled to ut sucli u feucu at thlt around our laud, Ml that then, men uiu turn their ihccp on Hu Ir own Ian I, either with or wilhout a horJer? It rmkci but lltllu dlUereucu which, as wat proved I eyoud a tlaubl Initial) not only In Hilt enw but In ether that 1 nould Hume, Does II not look u lllllo inorureasooablu that Ihty should lelice tlitlr onn Iind lu this nay so Hit) could keep Iheni there, anl Ir we should wish to rut sheep ou our Ian I that wo should do the annu? Hut some will say, "ihoy will have to y you damages and li not thatsufllcleiil?" 1 u answer I will say thtt we Ilv. thrtu miles nway, and It Islmpcvulblo for us to be theru all thu thno atiil,lherofore, not ab a to swear whai eluopdld the dam-ge. dam-ge. All tint wu kmw Is what thu herder will aJmll. Now, this may ba ae.ood thing fur thu tlicip man, but how about the far nn i? And when wu eoinllcr that out nf this hundred dot-lurs dot-lurs tlctlroyed theihccpownortlld not get live doltais buiiellt, perhaps it niaLi t It much worm than if they had got thn full hem lit of It Wu might say that Hit y burnt up $13 worth to gel fi heiiufll, for that Is about thu status cf II. Now,I would ask Is this n prufllablu way fur any puo lu tu di, business, saying nothing uf tlio right aul luttlee in Ihetarc? 1 will say lu lehalf of thetu men that I huvo no IJea but what they thought thu theep could bu herded on t elr own land an 1 might bo cmmlderu I nn experiment. As I do not know of any ono attempt lug to herd sheep In tho center of our fsrnn 1 1 fore, It noma to Inu Hint tluy will bu ublu to tie-by tie-by Hill tlnio Hint It Is Impoislblu to do any audi thing. There are men, no doubt, with less jrlnolrle and regard for Ihu rights uf others that will continue to do thi. thing, n j matter how much properly tbelr nuimala may destroy, even II tboj, by utterly diitroylng ninety-nine ninety-nine dollars of oilier people's pro erly, could ouly get one uollur bcnullt. In Ibis case I do not know what we ccnld do undtr txlttlng condition, nt It leemi to me Hint this part of the country wut malu exrtetly fur Iho benefit of thetlieepiind stockman, and there would be nothing left for anyone any-one rlsu after they had got all they Willi, u! II. It muit alwayabe homo In mini In studying this qneillou that Ihu farmers farm-ers as a rule live In cities aud towns from three to four miles uway, so that It Is utterly Impossible for them to know when tlitcp or stock aro on tliulr land, much lcaa.Luow.wharv4hey. are. At the tame tlmi , It miylbe inld truthfully that If theihet;i owners (or stockHien either for that aatter) had to pxyftfill the itauiage tluy uo, lley would te .vllllny v fartck their Own laud if they put their thetfp there. There Is ono mora Illustration I will give lo show how this mode of herding stuep might work If pertltled In. Hjiiid three or four years ago I raised ou ten acret of land onu hundred nud forty butheU of luieru teed. This brought ino lucsih about eight hundred UolUrs. Now, If I had had u uelghhor that owntd tin op, uud hu had attempted to herd them uu his own laud next to mine, It wuuld havu been pretty cer tain mui ihey would I avu made a threshing tloor of my land, and In u very abort time, with dogs after them, three-fourths of It at least, or in other words, six hundred dollart' worth of tcsd would be detlroycd, Irani ud lu Ihu ground burnt up, so to speak. With Hilt moduuf herding sheep It Is plslu thut tbo sheet men run vtry little rltk or having to pay for the ilnuiige they do, beeaute tbelr herder can get them oil lu a thort time, and wheru la-oj le tuldoui travel nu one but tbu herder kuowt anything about It, And at for thu veracity of thu average birder under thu clrcumttances, thu people will have tobe their own JuJg a Yet the law says that you mint pruvu whoie anlnialt they were that did tho damage dam-age before you con get any redress. Ibis Is very good law, as a general proposition, but under tha conditions stated a forlorn hop,, for thu farmer. If the farmer should put a tight board fence sullleleiil tu kenp sheep out, It would then bu Iho sheepmen's turn to take It down lu placis, so that his sheep could get Unified thu Mimu as Ihu atookmcii havu dono uvery year on this time p'ece of land, which, nu doubt, Ihty would do, Thorn It another phutu uf this question, which is Ihlti That wherever tin up go, If Ihey do not dtitroy all theru Is, stuck will not eat what Ihoy leave. Die que, tlon may ba atked, who It rttpontlblo for thlt tutu of alUIrt? My ojlulon Is, not tberhtinur etockmtu altogether, but Hiuople generally, 1 find In my experloiituihatthe man Hint owna n utiwortwuls about at uuxloui to huvo his ruu looto as tbu man who owut u huulred ben J, anl w iiiiy rent nisured that so long ut thlt It the cate thtattstuof things will ulways exist. This feeling of surpriiu coine.i from the settlements of liiw counties that have so much government land that Is freutaugu fur sheep aud stack, but thu tlmu will conn , Soulier or later, when wewlllleglii to examine threo questions ques-tions moru critically In Iho Intertet of Justice and tcouomy; In faul, cinert,u from the bock woodi ut rtgurds them things, at they have doau lu other states and countries. A great many men ucknowledgu thlt, but think Ft will bua long time. Theru Is anoint r thing that would batten this much to be desired change, If Hiiro wtrumoru oplo that had valuable crojfl ou their laud that weru late In maturing, to that tbey could not get them oil lu tlmu to snvo them frombulugdestruyod. All such would see tho olnt at once, but Iho principle Is not interest ahue that should move us lu theru matters, but right uu I J us-lieu us-lieu in nil things, I will sty alto that n great many f union uwn laud In Ihrtu ur lour ulflureiit directions, which make. It still worse for them. John Do.nl, l'AtbU.V, Jau. 20, 1693. |
