Show A FARMERS PLAINT PAYSON may 15 1893 in the serial weekly herald of april last I 1 notice an article under the heading fencing la in stock pv referring to its adoption several years ago in claremont county ohio and the good results accruing it to is stated there that we had better postpone the of this matter till the legislature is in in session or about to meet my opinion is in that now to is th tin thi i time to discuss this question for these reasons we know that customs which have prevailed so many years no matter tiow how unjust they may be especially i n z the changed conditions of today as compare with forty years ago cannot be easily altered As a rule it takei take a long time for people to give up old ideas and adopt now new ones even if the latter have been tried and proved to 0 o be a grand success in other places again the people need this education iu u order to prepare them fur for the election ot of their legislators for if they should as is usually the caie send end and stockmen stoc kmen there ani and any anti and all but farmers or those that understand the situation and are willing to deal justly with all classes it is riot not at all likely the farmer would get ny iny redress no matter how bow just his bis cause may be T the be herald quotes the local option law as it now stands elands and says this is considered sufficient bent by the representatives of the people I 1 have lived iti in this territory about thirty eight years during all this time I 1 have been engaged in farming and stock raising to a limited extent we have had ence and no fence laws jaws during that time but none done that has given protection to the tanner farmer in any sense of the word neither will the farmer got get any red redress ress worth the name till the owners of sheep and stock are compelled to keep their animals in their own en closures at all times except when running on the public range you know we have never bad even the option of this kind of a feuce fence law I 1 wish to propound a question to y u and all others namely ii if there were no benefits or proceeds to be derived from sheep or stock would they not be declared a running at large rhey certainly would yet the farmers have to suffer this nuisance every day and if they want any redress they may izo in court every thereby makita making litigation and costs of b both ath time and money for the farmer that he is 18 in no wise responsible fur for bad and if tie he should not be able to prove whose animals did the damage as under the cincu circumstances it is ii al almost most impossible to do these men that claim they have a right to herd their animals on their own land next to others land with valuable crops gathered will tell you to prove that their ant ani mali did the damage when they know that they did the damage because they practically herded them on OD the crops in fact some of them have been caught at this business herein lies the strength th of the sheep men and stockmen stoc kmen and it may be said truth ully of the owners of animals that although they rj neither either toll toil nor spin they reap the harvest all the same I 1 mean as far as the farmers crops are conce concerned concerted the policy adopted in this territory from its alist settlement and one that has made it possible lor the people to hol bol i the position they are ac creAted with educationally namely standing third in the united states and territories in this respect is in my opinion largely if not entirely that of the people farmers included living in cities an n towns thereby making it possible farour children to get an education that it is ig not likely they woula won 11 have got if we had been scattered abaroa ion 1 on our farms besides other advantages tending in this thia direction too numerous to mention attention yet strange as it may appear abie ial made to work in favor of these sheep men and stockmen stoc kmen to plunder and destroy the far farmer merIs crops with little risk of having to pay the damages in order that this maybe may he understood der stood more thoroughly I 1 would respectfully refer the reader to three articles on this subject in the serial beidl weekly DESERET NEWS of january 31 at march marc b 3rd ard and april this thia year as it is ie said that although this baw is a success in ohio it does not filow fallow that thle this would be at present in every pirt of thia territory this being rue the legislature could enact a law of this rind for the Territory giving an option to the people of any county to declare by a two thir Is vote that stock shall be allowed to run at large A friend of mine who lives at brigham city was surprised when I 1 told him that the sheep men here have te ten ben n herding their sheep on land in the center of our farms where there were hundreds of dollars worth of lu erne seed that the sheep could and tild did tread out by just fust going over it when etwas it was lying in bunches on the ground about ready to thrash he says the sheep men at his hie place build corrals and sheds and feed their animals here on the contrary after all this experience of destruction of property the sheep owners tell us they have the right to herd on their own land or any other persons person s land from whom they can get the ledge by purchase or otherwise at any time f the year with or without fence it cannot be possible that they realize the position they place themselves in in taking this stand our farms and all the proceeds thereof are virtually theirs theira according to this logic because of the p powerful gerful club the sheep and stock they hold in their hands true we have the right and privilege left of doing all the work and paying the taxes now it seems to me that jago boult be ashamed of himself at being eo bo far outdone by these men to iu this kind of business for you know in giving his advice to Roa roderigo erigo he said aid put money in thy purse honestly it thou canoby but put money in thy purse it gives we me pleasure to record the sentiments as expressed by 0 ie e sheep owner namely that it was not possible to here them under such coad condition if you were to place men on all four sides of them another one however offered to bet me money that his herder auld 0 uld herd them under the name conoit conditions ions on forty acres of land tor sixty days without letting them net off to do any one any damage I 1 tad t ld him I 1 did not indulge in gambling otherwise I 1 would be too pleased to 10 ace him afterwards I 1 found a man complaining about his bis sheep trespassing tres passing on his premises for proof of which he asked me to go and see are the wool sticking to the wire fence around bia place in town this was because I 1 seemed a little inclined to doubt his bis word I 1 was not hunting items JOHN DONE |