Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — A Cattle Monopoly. [ARTICLE]

A Cattle Monopoly.

Chicago Times: Every year almost numberless thousands of cattle move northward from Texas over the trails that lead to the shipping points, whence they are conveyed to the great cattle markets of this country and Europe. l ow, the Indianlterritor v stretches across all the great Texas cattle trails. By getting possession of the Indian country and inclosing it with a barb-wire fence, the cattle barons effectively blockaded the Texas cattle trail —corraled the Texas cattle trade, so to say. Naturally, the Texas cattlemen objected, and upon her complaint the government ordered an inquiry.— That inquiry developed the fact that the object of the cattle trail was to depreciate the price of Texas cattle. When they had thus “beared” the price of Texas cattle to the lowest point, they wade large purchases, stocking their great pasture ranges in the Indian territory with Texas steers. Like the Carlist toll-takers at Vittoria they had placed themselves in the middle of the road and said to the Texas cattle growers: “Let nobody pass without speaking to the porter?” They had a “corner,” not only on the Indian country, but on thj great herds of cattle in Texas besides. — When, by a peremptory order from the government, th a y opened the cattle trail, the price of cattle in Texas advanced 25 per cent. Which shows that to get possession of the Indian country, with power to erect a gate across the Texas cattle trail, is not an unprofitable speculation.

Gainesville (Texas) HesperianTimes: There was a howl from the protectionist press when Jdhn Roach fell. His employes were discharged. The yards are there, the material is there, the unfinished ships are there and the administration intends, under the government contract with Roach, to take hold and set the men to work. The employment of the laboring men of America does not depend upon the continuance of any particular man in business in a speculative relation to labor, Galveston (Teixas) News: How the Indian territory cattle barens must s gh for the good old days when Teller bossed the Interior department. If Blaine were in the white house the barons would still lord it over the territory. Gainesville (Texas) Hesperian - Times; Presid nt Cleveland sticks to his text that the cattle must move from the Indian territory. — There is some satisfaction in having a president who means what he says and sa -s what he means.