The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-21


portation and the banks are consequences
not causes. They are the natural result o.
prior conditions calling for and COMPEL
ing change in the modes and me; hods o.
marketing, butchering and distributing ths
product.
Whilst this is all very clear to me be-
cause l have thoroughly canvassed it, il
NAV not be as clear or as acceptable to you
who may haye preconceived opinions to
the contrary. Permit me then the priv.
ilege of a closer examination that we
may if possible come nearer together In
viewing facts and be better able to see our
way out Of our troubles.
Those who have given the beef supply
much thought, those mean who have
studied the methods of procuring beef for
the past tea or more years and the
methods of marketing il have given us
their opinion and the facts and figures
on which they are based and they are very
nearly unanimous as to the scarcity OF
cattle 10 the near future and the c0nse-
qu,nt increase in price. They base their
arguments on vel. known facts nsmely,
that in the general stampede of the past
three years not only have the rangemen
hurried their steer stock to market before
it was really ready but as well their COWS
and imDaiur- calves, thus not only plac
ing il out If their power to reproduce and
restock their herds, but of necessity linn T.
ing The supply, such as for instance the
calves marketed would have furnished
had they ben retained on the ranch.
But now to show you with what facility a
slight Cause may produce q general dis
turbance, premit me to read you letter
recei, ed bat few days ago from a gentle
man whom / had invited to this meetiog
to speak to YOU. will not give you his
name because he is present ard may if he
will refer TO the matter in the address he is
to deliver. He writes al see bright
future for Il e stockman, a very bright
one, and it cannot he very LONG DELAYED
now. The fJoi is about over, this spring
and early GUNNER will exhaust Il, and by
next fail the scare will be over and fe-
male stock will be reserved for breeding
again. Ii is now fearfully reduced; which
OF course must have a serious effect on the
beef supply'o of the future. ii however the cat
In the Cherokee strip are forced upon the
market in (lS9O about 800, 600, it will de-
press The IN rket next fall again, other
u
the apprehension is not that the farmers
Of America on their farms, raising from
Two 20 a dozen steers each will affect the
market dissstrously, it is the rangemen,
he ranchers who ARE the disturbing ele
nent.
The production of cattle, sheep,
logs and horses on the farms of America
s sufficient for the wants of her people
out when hun reds of thousands are pro
puc-d outside of these, big men who know
nothing of farming. who care nothing for
he farmer, or the disaster they heap upon
lin, many Of whom do no, own the land
n rent il, who steal its grass and water
rom the public domain anu who do not
ven pay taxes on the land as the farmer
8 compelled to do; when / say these
,snkers, merchants and capitalists of the
EAST put their money in the ranch for the
axe of the profits hey expect to make out
4 the business, they form the disturbing
ienaent over ssock markets, PROSTATE
'alues and destroy Industry.
In speaking thus of the ranehmen and
heir business, you W. understand that |
m simply noting q matter of business
hey are Ishmaelites and their hands and |
heir interests are against every legitimate
armer in the land.
The speaker here gave statistics as
lrnished by the department of agriculture
the United States concerning the dis
ribution of cattle In the southwestern
ates and territories
OF course these were not all 10 arketable
GERS or ready for shipment. But when we
TX ourselves where this extra stock was
arketed we find very anomalous condi-
on OF things In that the ranges and the
Iilroads and the shippers all converge to !,
IT, great market. The Chicago stock yards
port receiving in the year 1889, 1923 OILS
lad OF cattle against 2,011 .543 for 1888, a
I'm OF 4l2,O72 in the year. OF alves,
at market received in 1889 no less than
z, 794 against 96,0S6 the year before or
gain of 26,7OS heads The ST. Louis {
'ck yards received during the year
$, 2OS against 546,S74 In 1858, !.
loss of 37,667.
The forthcoming report of the department
agriculture will among many other i'm
rtant statements give figures OF the
crease of stock. 1
These figures are dry reading / know, e
d very difficult to follow, and yet they 8
: OF exceeding great interest, giving as I
~ DO the key to the situation. You
serve that the department attributes the
1tinuous and rapid increase to the de- L
opement of the range industry, not to /
er production on the part of the legiti. b
tie farmers. / say legitimate farmers q
,ause / cannot conceive of the :,
Il barons, the cattle syndicates, the :,
eign capitalists on onr western and q
thwesteru plains as engaged in legiti- G.
te business. They are there because O.
y have got the money to invest, careless N
Indifferent OF results or consequences :,
he country and particularly to that in =
try which is, and ever has been and d
Q must be the basis of all wealth, pers- b.
i, state and national. o.,
,et me compare these figures with the a,
s and you will readily see how Just are :.
conclusions. The range industry is o
one OF many years, but its growth was W
phenomenal as Its effects we're disaster I'd