The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-03-13
FROM FORT WORTH
THE CATTLEMEN OF THE WEST IN
COUNCIL AND WHAT WAS DONE
IN THE CONVENTION.
SPEECH OF HON. T. T. ANDREWS
Refrigerators and the Resuscitation of the
Cattle Industry in the Southwest
incidents of the Meeting.

FORT WORTH, Tex, March 1l.-President
A. P. Bush, Jr., called the Northwest Texas
| Cattle Raisers' association to order this
morning at 1920 in its fourteenth annual
convention. The opera house was elabo-
rately decorated.
Mayor H. S. Broiles welcomed the con-
vention in behalf of the people of Fort
Worth. He was followed by the Hon.
Thomas f. West, the orator lawyer of Fort
| Worth. He told how the association was
organized under an oak tree and how it
had grown until the aggregate wealth rep
resented by its members was more than
half the wealth of all the cattlemen in
Texas. He spoke in favor of the refrigera-
| tor movement and calleu on the cattlemen
u support it. He said Cleveland and Har-
rison differed in everything except in their
treatment of cattlemen and on that point
they wed with each other in opposing that
| industry. At the conclusion of the address
the band struck up Dixie, which was re-
ceiyed with cheers. The reading of the
minutes of the previous meeting was next
proceeded with and they were duly ap-
proved.
The report of the executive committee
was read and described the working of the
organization during the year. 1t showed
that the agents Of the organization had
recovered lost stock during that period
amounting in value TO $12,59S, and that
the same had been restored to parties inter-
ested. The report was adopted.
The following special committee was APP
pointed on resolutions: J. j. Klmberlin,
J. A. Lee, G. T. Herring, w. B. Worsham
and A. B. Robinson.
Judge John B. Rector of Austin then adj
dressed the convention on the subject of
refrigerators and moved that a committee
of three be chosen to devise ways and
means for their establishment. The mo-
| ton was carried and the chair appointed
Judge Rector, e. B. Harold and A. j.
Dull as such committee.
| The Interstate Cattle convention was
called to order at o'clock this afternoon
in the opera house, which was packed
from pit to dome by not less than 12Co peo-
pie.
Hon. T. D. Andrews, ex-inspector under
| the national bureau of animal industry,
called the meeting to order. Mayor Broiles
welcomed the delegates in behalf of the cit
| liens of Fort Worth, and Mr.. Andrews fol-
| lowed with an address on behalf of the
CubUlcluels LII Illc COuISc vi Ills ICllldIh5 uC
| said: 1T affords me infinite satisfaction
| to see such great body of Americans con-
| nected with one of the most important in
dustries in the world, who have left their
| homes east and west of the Mississippi
| river in order to come together in friendly
| conference to consult as TO the best means
to relieve the oppressed industry
| from the burdens which rest upon
| it. You have great deal to do
no idle task before you. You are inter-
ested in the welfare and upbuilding of an
industry that Is tnrottled by an iron hand.
| Then you must go at this matter in bust
ness like way. without temper and without
prejudice, with no purpose of breaking
down any other industry connected with
yours, and with no desire to do injury to
any branch of the business in which YOU
are engaged. There have been times when
| the desperate nature of our case has been
wildly apparent, and desperate remedies
have been attempted but invariably the
application has been without success. We
| now seek the light the way IN which we
can throw upon our industry more light
and to secure some good from a general
consultation and an interchange of views
come to stay, and we can have
nothing against them. They are the cheap
est, best and most economical means by
which beef has ever been killed and cured.
We can have no warfare to make on them
except as they may be shown to weigh up
on our interests. [Cheersl We believe in
refrigerators in factwe want more of them,
but we have nothing in common with men
who seem TO destroy our interests in order
to build up their own. A great problem
confronts us. The agricultural industries
of which we represent one, have gone down
to point where there is no profit in the
business. Last year Illinois produced a
great crop of corn. Illinois is one of the
best compromising States in the Union. J