Pass Cattle Tick Bill, Says Editor, Jan. 22, 1921

The bill of Representative Johnson to rid the 22 eastern counties of the cattle tick should be passed by the general assembly and the question decided once and for all.

Persons who believe in the open range and who would permit all cattle to run at large indiscriminately are confined to only a small section of the state. They do not consider their own interests of the interests and rights of other people or the advantages eastern North Carolina would der4ive from the riddance of a menage to cattle growing.

Farmers of eastern North Carolina spend more money in fighting fence laws at every session of the general assembly than they would in keeping their cattle confined to pasture, but they don’t seem to consider this phase of the matter.

Given a stock law, the people of these 22 counties would not return to the open range. They have kept the eastern section of the state back long enough.

(From the editorial page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)