The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-11
TEXAS WOOL GROWERS.
ANNUAL MEETING OF The ASSO-
CITATION.
Presidents Address-secretery's Report
Election of Ofhaers-Actl0n During
the Year-PropOssd LegislA-
tive Reforms-General
Proceedings. ..- 81

tive ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Proceedings. ..- 81
The annual meeting Of the Texas state
wool growers association was called yester-
day to meet at the Office of the secretary (Mr.
P. ]. Moss). As the proceedings we're COM
menchg, = motion was made to adjourn to
the merchants exchange, and as this was al
most unanimously agreed to, the meeting at
once removed to that place. ..-
The attendance-the largest ever present
having removed to the merchants exchange,
and Mr.. H. ]. Chamberlain, president of the
association, was called to the chair. He was
supported by the following delegates: c. H.
Booth and A. H. Symes, Williamson county;
+. Mccarthy, Concho county; H. Bundy,
Atascosa county; e. Y. Henderson, Crockett
county; o. S. Newell, Kinney county; w.
Scott, Kerr county; v. L. James, Uvalde
county; M. Gillingham and J. T. Lyle, Uvai-
de county; John Wickland and A. Re:A,
Bexar county. Among the sheep men present
were ]. c. Ware, (Uvalde), T. H. Jameson,
Kinney. D, J. Crouch, (Kinney), w. R.
Smith, (Gillespie), w. G. Hughes, (Kendal),
M. D. Kent, (Concho), Jas. M. Foster,
Bexar.> -.NF ...-
The president then delivered his address,
which was as follows:
Mr.. Chamberlain, in rising, said:
"Gentlemen of the State Wool Growers
Association: 1t is always pleasure for me
to meet my fellow wool growers and converse
with them about our common interests, wheth-
er it be in my humble home, or at such public
gatherings. AT this, our annual meeting, we
come together as officers and members of the
association to report the condition of our as
sociation, TO consider the means for its per-
petuxtion and to attend to suah other business
as pertains to sheep breeders wool growers,
and dealers in the state of Texas. In the dis
charge of our duties as delegates OF such a
numerous constituency, and an important an
industry--vast and important not only to our
members, and the wool growers generally in
the state, but an interest of magnitude to our
state and nation. A few years ago when a
state organization was first formed in the wool
growers interest, and an attempt made to sus-
tain il, our herds were small, and far distant
from each other, and the means of conveyance
so slow and uncertain that our sheep men
thought the importance of our MEETING was
insufficient to justify the sacrifice Of
time, expenses and uncertainty. 1t re-
association in existence; now how changed all
these circumstances; even to those who wit
messed the transformation, and it seems to be
the work of a magician rather than Of man.
Als,g our public roads, from f.. Red River
70 the Rio Grande, and rom the Gulf of Mex
leo to the northern limits OF our state, worthy
representative of Abel may be seen guiding
his hescy herds; though perchance in the out
district, the shepherds crook is accompanied
with the faithful rife, ready for service should
the red skin seek his prey or q scalp. The
network Of telegraph and railroad lines have
put us in quick Communication and easy con-
veyance from town to town are accessible in
all directions. repeat, our interests are i'm
m .nse and or faclt es are for congre .ating.
Thanks to enterprisiug capitalists and railroad
men are satisfactory. We cannot afford now
to omit the frequent assembling Of ourselves
at our country district and state wool growers
meetings. Weare all mutually interested in
that 81 .ch conduces to the prosperity of the
bree4er, grower and dealer Of sheep in one
section of our state or another, for it directly
or indirectly aids the sheepmen of every section.
OnllcQ VIC arc d power u accomplish any
worthy object, whether it be in the enactment
of lands for our protection or development, to
the enforcement Of good laws already in
existence or as benefactOrs to our race, state
and nation. We have reasons for gratitude,
because our efforts as breeders of sheep and
growers of wool, have been 50 well blessed
during the past few years. That our climate,
soil and grasses, are not excelled for the pro-
duction Of superior sheep, wool or mutton,
has been fully proved. The prices paid have
been generally satisfactory, yet the attempts Of
intermedlers to tamper with and reduce the
import duties, have at times depressed the
markets, lowered the price Of woods, and pro-
dGced uncertainty both to the producer and the
manufacturer. 1t is not the expectancy nor
the desire of the wool growers Of the United
States to build up and protect their own in
dustry, at the expense Of others, or to the in
jury Of other vocatins, but they believs-and
the result Of wise protective system in the
past proves this belief to be accurate-that by
placing themselves on firm foundation with
other producers and manufacturers, every class
OF labor will be benefited, and capital will
find q ready and profitable investment The
great tariff convention recently held at New
York, where all the industries Of the nations
were represented has spoken, and given no
uncertain sound. Congress is asked 10 legis-
late for the protection Of home, not foreign in
dustries aud it now seems quite certain
that the tariff laws are to be acted upon in
.nn.r that will nut than, IN ract For ,,,~ ~