, 1884-08-31
The Cry of a Canadian With Lib
eral Ideas.
Nominal and Real Reasons For Ca
muck Interference.
Their Mainstay Argument Shattered
BY Mr.. Frewen's Facts.
Transatlantic Cattle Trade.

almost alone do the meat business between
this and Liverpool. The cry of disease
and infection to the cattle of Canada
through the locomotion of Wyoming
beeves, whether affected or non-affected,
Is supine in the deepest sense IF the word.
As the great operators themselves, it
would surely be for their interests to pro-
mote the business here with a view to its
development elsewhere. to adopt it any
how so that they may have a finger, if
not their whole hand, in the pie. If the
Wyoming cattle turn out sanitary, well
and good; if unsanitary, why then ameli-
crate but not annihilate. As the Toronto
shippers have not sense land 1 have told
them so through the press), to see this
matter as you and l see it, the only plal
for your interested feeders would be to sell
a few consignments noleas rolcns ON this
market, and thus take the bull by the
horns. This action would soon scatter
the Jealous cry of contamination; a cry
that Canadian cattle were first subject to
on their deportation in Liverpool, but
which the qualify, on arrival, quickly dis
sipated.
Good export stock is selling here at 81
cents per pound, Surely your shippers
could not lose at that, especially if they
defeated exaggeration and insult, and
made a cosmopolitan market besides.
There is no getting over the fact that we
are 900 miles nearer Europe by this
route than by any other, and it is not only
for yours and ours but for globular inter
ests, that the nearest way should be proved
to be the safest and best
These facts may apply to all your pro-
ductions. ALEX. S. MAcRAE.
The letter given above is from one of
the largest cattle dealers in Canada, and
one who has cut a very prominent figure
in the efforts to secure the Canadian
right of way for Western cattle to the
English markets.
That isa very good letter indeed"
said Mr.. Thomas Sturgis, Secretary of
the Wyoming S~tockgrowers' Association,
yesterday as he finished the perusal of
Mr.. Macrae's communication.
There is one other very important
point to be added to it," continued Mr..
Sturgis. IF the Canadian Government
sees fit TO continue It's present short
sighted policy of excluding American cat
tie that are designed for shipment to Eng
land they may understand that the cattle
men Of the United States have formed a
combination that will defeat the designs
of the Canadians. Our cattle will be
shipped from the various points in the
West over a special route to Portland,
Me-, and from that port gain entrance
into Great Britain. The Canadians will
thus not only lose what they might gain
in the transportation, feeding and hand
ling of our cattle but also find US in d.
rect competition with their stock in Great
Britain. Ono of the most ludicrous
features of the affair is that the Canadians
should allege the fear of introducing dis
ease as a cause for preventing our cattle
from crossing the border. Where do they
get their cattle supply but from this coun-
try? This point is very nicely brought out
by Mr.. Moreton Frewen in a communica-
ton just sent to the Pail Nall Gazette, a
copy of which he has mailed me-"
The communication referred to which
was written in answer to a letter from a
well known Canadian, is as follows:
Public discussion and criticism in the
press is an excellent and healthy thing
but it is neither seemly nor honest that a
director of Canadian cattle companies
should make a public appearance to OPP,
pose the claim to a clean bill of health on
the part of Territories from which these
very companies have drawn and are now
drawing their entire stock of cattle, with
out any quarantine, or precautions what
soever. The position Of the Canadian
Northwest is just as strong as, hut no
stronger, than our position in Wyoming
or Montana. Imagine the no, rland
boundary of Yorkshire and Dcrbyshire.
Picture to yourself such a boundary as
this, out extending two thousand miles
from Lake Superior to the Pacific, ranches
on both slider f%Tinging the entire frontier;
not only cattle, but buffho in thousands
crossing and recrossing, hunted by In
dams; the consequent impossibility Of
fencing; picture all this. Now, will any
one explain how. when the south side Of
this line is infected, the north can ever be
safe; as welLwhen grouse disease is sweep
ing the Derbyshire moors, attempt to
keep it out Of YorkshireI If Mr.. Mill
burn should record his belief that it is the
future function of the properties he di-
reefs to supply the English farmer with
store cattle but that theycannot with equal
safety be sent from Wyoming or Montana,
then he has not the capacity ever to direct
a cattle company; indeed, he would be en-
titled to the respectful sympathy of his
fellowmen.
Mr.. Frewen will arrive in Chicago from
New York on Tuesday next, and accom-
panied by Mr.. bingham, one of the larg-
est English cattle dealers, he will visit the
Powder river country. Mr. .Lingham will
there and elsewhere be shown indisputable
evidences of the healthy condition Of the
Western cattle and will go back to Eng
lind confirmed in the belief which he al
ready entertains that it is to the best in
terest of Great Britain to throw open her
ports to Western cattle, the Canadians to
the contrary Notwithstanding.