COWBOY = OXYMORON = CORPORATE CARTEL PUPPET "HISTORY OF GREAT AMERICAN FORTUNES" GUSTAVUS MYERS. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAGNATES’ CRITICS. "in their economic wars with adjacent cattlemen, forced their cowboys to fight and kill the cowboys of their neighbors, " Not a move, on the other hand, could the magnates make without the middle class raising the cry of fraud — a not untrue accusation, it is hardly necessary to say, but one singularly ill-chosen from a class itself gangrened with fraud. The Farmers’ Alliance and kindred organizations virtuously fulminated against the extortions and frauds of the magnate class ; the cattle dealers of the Southwest especially were not merely bitter, but rancorously so, against the railroad kings. Yet all of the large cattle ranches had been obtained by fraud in more or less degree.1 The cattlemen not only practiced extortions, but in their economic wars with adjacent cattlemen, forced their cowboys to fight and kill the cowboys of their neighbors, and risk being killed themselves ; nearly all of those cowboy affrays so romantically described in fiction, arose from nothing more or less than economic disputes between competing rival master cattlemen. To say that the entire manufacturing class was defrauding and swindling in every conceivable form is but to state a truism elaborated upon specifically in many a public document.
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