Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-04
APPEAL TO CATTLEMEN.
Issued from Las Vegas, N. N. bv the Cattle and Horse Growers Asso- citation.
LAS VEGAS. N. NJ. April IS. 1SS

LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, April IS, 1889. To Southwestern Cattlemen:
 The organization known as the Beef Producers and Butchers National asso- citation, which was formed at St. Louis in 1888, has, among other objects of at tainment by its work. the following.
 The object of this association shall be the promotion of the cattle industry of America and the promotion of the inter ests of the cattle producers, consumers of meat and butchers and the proven ton uf the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases among neat cat tie; the securing of just, reasonable and certain rates for the transportation of live stock, and also for the re-establish- ment of competitive cattle markets and the enactment of. such sanitary laws as will tend to raise beef products above all suspicion of disease, and to generally bind together common interest, in that the same may be fostered, developed. systematized and guarded.
 This section of its constitution appeals very strongly to every man engaged in cattle raising, not alone on the great ranges of the southwest, but in ali parts of our country. There are to-day cer- tain well-lnOwn and powerful factors existing which are causing the greatest depression in the history of our indus try, and which have been so long in operation that the gravest anxiety is ap- parent in many minds as to the inherent strength of the cattle producing interest being sufficient to meet and overcome the evils which are surely absorbing the vitality of our business. The agents of daCf~nntInT1 T powerful by what they feed on.
 The general uprising of the people everywhere the past year against the machinatiOns of those who would estab- fish and perpetuate grievous monopolies in food products, and especially the great interest shown for the salvation of the cattle raiser in his contest against the syndicates who are stripping him of his possessions, has brought strong ele- ment of encouragement to our support by its moral effect, in that the way has been prepared and measures for relief instituted, by which we can, in part, protect our investments in cattle from the rapacity of the dreesed beef combi- nation. This is a source of the greatest encouragement at the present time to hold our position without wavering against the attacks of interruptions men, and thereby protect and conserve the in terests of every one who has an invest ment in cattle properties.
 Many of the thinking men of the land are convinced that the wholly unnatural conditions which surround the business of beef production can be removed, and instead of retrogression being the natural result, in the operation of our business. natural and legitimate gain shall ensue. This result will surely come through the combined efforts of the cattlemen and those who are anxious to see the heavy hand of oppression removed and just commercial relations established. The efforts put forth the past few months by the cattlemen, cattle breed CTS and farmers in connection with many of the butchers associations of the Uni ted States, have been most successful. | Legislatures have considered the giant evil which Is resting so heavily on the stockmen and farmers and have sought to provide a remedy. In the contest for | the supremacy of right over wrong which is being waged gratifying progress has been made. Our own legislature has placed on the statute books a law which protects the cattle raiser from the bane- I opoly the world has yet seen-a mon | Oply that rules or ruins, as was recently shown very conclusIvely in its action against an enterprise organized to com pete with the Chicago dressed beef com bination. It tolerates nothing that sa- Yors of equal rights in commerce. It | crushes all competition and reduces the l beef producer to yassalage. Practically | hn laN1 iah Io, adopted is now on the statute books of Colorado and Minnesota. Other states are working to the same end. that is. the protection of the public health from the effects of soulless greed and commercial depotism in the handling of staple food product.
 The continuance of labor in the lines of effort now laid down will be produc- tive of surprising benefits to our inter ests as well as those of the meat con- sumers.
 The work must go on. There is no time for repose. The monopoly who are grinding us between the upper and the neither stones are always alert, most powerful, full of subtlest means, and with resources for attaining their ends. even at the expense of commercial nor | uAii OIHcI lSt, limit. Values for cattle must be brought back to their legitimate position. Our | investments can once more be made prof itable if We will support all agencies in a material way which are subserving our interests.
 The Beef Producers and Butchers National association is carrying forward organized and effective work for our in- terests, and is standing as the represen- tative of the meat producers, the butch CTS and the consumers of beef is secur- ing such state and national legislation as their necessities require. Its work comments itself to every cattleman by its high quality and as powerful aid in the promotion of his interests.
 l therefore earnestly and respectfully ask you to ally yourself with that as soclation by taking membership therein, which, with the dues for one year, costs only 5. Kindly remit that amount to the secretary of the association, H. M. Taylor, Las Vegas, N. M, and thereby assist one of the best agencies at our command for the improvement and bet ter regulation of the cattle raising in dustry.
 Very respectively yours, J. A. LA RUE,
 Chairman Ex. Com. Cattle & Horse Growers association of New Mexico. |
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