| Show ilL il-L 6 < j COMMUNICATED THE PRESIDENT AND THE CATTLE CAT-TLE KINGS It is not every day certainly that the I wires carry westward frornthe capital such wholesome matter as that published in the DEMOCRAT of the 5t lthe interview inter-view between President Cleveland and i the cattle men and strange to say the I DEMOCRAT was the only paper in the city that published the interview Those who think all virtues center in one political party while the opposite has the monopoly mon-opoly of the vices are to be pitied But that a change of parties has a wholesome effect is beginning to be made plain to some of the most bitter opponents of the Democrats and they are men enough to admit it and applaud the President If there is a fairminded citizen of any party who is not satisfied with the conduct con-duct of Mr Cleveland and the position taken toward the cattle men of the Indian In-dian Territory he must be hard to please That Mr Arthur was a great man few will claim On the other hand it will be admitted that few left office so generally respected the same cannot be said of his close associates and of some who held office under him Those who have kept themselves advised as to public affairs af-fairs and especially as to political gossip gos-sip know how much Senators Plum and Ingalls and Mr Secretary Teller have been talked of and criticised in connection connec-tion with the more than questionable actions ac-tions in regard to the Indian reservations and cattle interests It will be noticed by reference to the dispatch that the delegation calling upon Mr Cleveland included Senator Cockrell and Representative Glover men of acknowledged ac-knowledged integrity and of known political poli-tical influence acting doubtless in the present instance more as attorneysthan otherwise for their constituents Another of the party was a Kansas City editor whose influence and paper reach a section immense in acreage thickly populated pop-ulated rich and decidedly Democratic It is plain therefore that it was not to Mr Clevelands interest to treat lightly or deny what such men might ask if there was a show of right in granting their request yet he did deny them emphatically em-phatically notwithstanding 7000000 was mentioned as being at stake as a caution to be careful While no man of experience and common sense will disparage dis-parage the accumulation of wealth or the driving of any legitimate enterprise neither will he overrate the one nor justify jus-tify the other if the means employed be not only questionable but clearly wrong and more especially when the property acquired is landed propertya species of property by the way that even those who do not go to the lengths of Mr Henry George wish to see guarded to the fullest by those whose duty it is to protect from encroachments the public domain and the rights of the nations wards In the past we have had seasons when we heard more than was necessary through the press of bonanza kings next railroad kings more recently cattle kings have been the feature There is no question but the landgrab bing tendencies of the latter is open to more serious objections than the doings of the others if indeed the practices of the others are in any way objectionable and it is a matter of congratulation that a notice has been served upon these that there are rights besides the rights of money and the assumed rights of monopolies monop-olies backed largely by foreign capital That we will hear more of the matter and that there will be something of a storm raised about it if the parties interested inter-ested have covered their tracks sufficient to risk abusing the Executive there is little doubt Under the circumstances an editorial in the Chicago Times of August Au-gust 1st published before the mOle complete com-plete developments of the 5th is deserving deserv-ing of careful perusal and we recommend it to all who would wish to study the question thoroughly and impartially XX |
