No Stock Law in Pasquotank. . . Country Majority Holds Free Range in
County election Tuesday
The farmers of Pasquotank county
don’t want Stock Law and the people of Elizabeth City don’t care whether they
have Stock Law or Free Range, all of which is evident from the results of the
Stock Law election held in this county Tuesday, August 5. Hardly half the town turned
out to vote. The farmers did turn out and vote and while the town rolled up a
majority for Stock Law, the county rolled up an overwhelming majority against it.
This settles the Stock Law
question in this county for the next two years at least. It is probable however
that the question will be revived with more vigor in another two years. Another
Stock Law election in Pasquotank probably will result differently.
There is no mistaking the fact
however that the country majority is in favor of Free Range. The country people
are used to Free Range and they don’t want to give it up. There are tens of
thousands of acres of woodland in this county that provide free forage for
scrub cattle and hogs. It is hard for a people who have been used to this Free
Range for centuries to give it up.
Stock Law first became an issue
in this county in the last political campaign. Every effort was made to commit
Pasquotank’s candidate for the General Assembly. Representative Saunders took
the sensible course and provided an election, to let the people decide the
question for themselves.
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