The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
ROCKEFELLER
PLAN URGED.
President Springer Suggests
Standard Oil Methods
To the National Livestock AssO-
citation Meeting.
HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS
Says StOckmen Should Own
Their Own Cars.
Declares That Unjust Terminal
Charges Must Go.
HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan. 16-The third
annual convention of the National Live
stock association of the United States
began here today with good attend
ance of delegates. After several ad-
dresses of welcome the annual address
of the president was delivered by J. W.
Springer.
President Springer said in part:
I'VE face with the twentieth century
new questions, new responsibilities and
rapidly extending markets. Conditions
have forced our nation to abandon the
Chinese wall policy and we are today
enjoying at home our greatest prosper
ity, while our foreign business for 1899
reached the unheard of figures of over
$1,000 600, 900.
THE question that meets ambitious
Americans as 1900 dawns upon them is,
shall we lead or follow? / speak for the
greatest live stock association on the
race OF the earth when I say we believe
IN leading, not in following. Commerce
is the backbone of a great nation, and
the supreme contest today is for COM
merc1al supremacy. We shall contest
for the markets of the whole civilized
world and stand sponsor for any and all
the weaker peoples who ask for our
assistance. We are ready and able to
teach them the advantages of a liberal
education, a religious tolerance and abb
solute political emancipation 1t is not
a dream to predict that before the
twentieth century closes our political
destiny will be bounded by the confines
of North America, if it does not direct
ly or indirectly extend even to the en-
tire Western Hemisphere. American
enterprise, crystalized through Ameri-
can labor. American products, is direct
ing the ship of state today and the best
the earth affords is none too good for
,oI-1
gress is sending its throbbing pulsa-
tions of activity up and down the COM
mercial highways of the earth and, my
friends, If you can not keep up with the
procession, you will be rapidly relegated
to that circle of has -beens' whose OBJ
jections, criticisms and predictions of
dire and awful calamities should have
written over their chaotic domains,
Abandon Hope-Progress- ye who
enter here.
And why; pray, should not the stock
men of the United States be for the new
order of things? Less than ten years
ago your range horses were selling at
from IS to $25 on the market Today
they bring from $50 to $50 while your
high-claSs saddle and coach horses are
selling at their highest figure, even to
81 900 apiece Less than ten years ago
your cattle down here in Texas were
sold at $8 for a COW, with calf thrown
in, while today the COW is worth from
SIS up and the calf at least so more
Less than decade has passed since
wool went wool gathering at cents
a pound on the range, while next year 5
crop is now being contracted by the
big buyers at 20 cents on the ranch.
While our sheep which wandered aim
lessly over the trackless plains and
sage brush flats could find no buyer at
| $3.50 and 81, whereas now, anything
with wool on it's back is being searched
for with great diligence at from 81.
| to 81 each.
Yes, and not to overlook the Ameri-
! can hog; years ago he squealed for
| takers at $2.75 per cwt., while now 81. 75
and $500 is paid without the squeal be-
ing thrown in at all.
Is it any wonder, my friends, when
| you look the facts squarely in the face
that the live stock industry of the Unit
ed States is to be found harnessed to
| the chariot of progress.
rs it plumbers or quality that COM
/ mands the worlds gold dollars today
answer it is quality. And now permit
me to lay down five axioms which ]
/ hold are self-evident.
"First-That no state can realize a
! heavy immigration that is not liberal