Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-16
sAySFAT TREASURY IS PAST OF WISDOM
Declares the Western stockman with
His FIocks and Herds IN the
Typical American Prince
of the Continent.

He was followed by ActinS Mayor Buckle,
who welcomed the delegates to the city.
response was made by r. NJ. Allen Of
Nebraska. telegram was read from Vice
Presldtnt-elect Roosevelt DendinR Con
gratulations and best wishes to the boys"
President Springer delivered the follow
ing address:
The stockmen of the United States now
clearly recognize that they must maintain
would have their interests looked after,
Knowing full well that this century VIII
present new questions for solution with
broader opportunities for commercial sue
cess. In our own business today there are
too many small leaks. too heavy taxation,
too many thieves and stock rustlers
abroad, too many state inspection fees The
whole interstate inspection business should
be controlled by the federal government
without dollars expense to the shipper.
One subject which has engaged our at
tention this last year has been the amend
ment now pending in congress known as
bill No. S132, which extends the time limit
on shipments If cattle from twenty eight
to thirty-three hours In summer and forty
hours In winter under proper restrictions.
taken by Its committee on law, to which my
resolution was referred with power to act.
OieomarHarine Legislation.
There Is now pending before the senate
what Is known as the Grout bill, which
passed the house by a large majority and
tax on oleomargarine I'm the sole interest of
the dairymen of the United States. The d.
rect object to be attained by this bill IL to
so tax oleomargarine that II will no longer
be able to compete with butter I'm the mar
ket and thus leave our home market TO
the butter trust. No more rank piece of
federal legislation was ever proposed and
which II passed takes the butter from the
table of the poor throughout this land. The
time has fully come when the great stock
interests must be represented In Washing
ton by as able men as we have IN the
We can no longer afford for a few thousand
dollars per annum to leave our needs to un-
advised and selfish Legislators. We should
have such an organization that when as
saults are made In Washington upon the
live stock industry (as is now the case with
the Grout bilD that we could employ our
ablest men to go there and defeat all such
special legislation and we should give our
sena tors and congressman to understand
that while we have no special favors to
ask that we VIII TO "A man resist both men
and measures which have for their object
the working OF hardships upon the live
stock producers of this country.
Assisted by Washington.
You will all recall the fight made by tbis
rganization for the continuation of the eX-
periments and distribution of vaccine virus
to stamp out blackleg in cattle. We were
country country al and ia abroad. @ W. We proved proved d it t only %
cost l cent per dose and the trust sold It
for 10 cents. As It was of general public
interest that blackeg should be stamped
out we succeeded with Secretary Wilson 8
aid in keeping up the experiments under
the bureau of animal industry and cor
gress continued the appropriation for free
vaccine. Is this of no consequence? Does
this not show what great consolidated
live stock organization can accomplish
Then, again, take the inspection of sheep
| and lambs. We succeeded In obtaining gov
ernment inspection; which entitled carloads
to be allowed shipment to the markets
without being held up at every crossroad
by state inspectors, who wanted fee for
| looking through the bars of the double deck
Cars-many of the lockers absolutely with
| out ability to have told whether they were
| sheep or goats The state laws of nearly
every western state need rewriting and re-
| vising, that all laws appertaining to live
| stock dncluding brands and bountes) shall
| be uniform and similar In the various
| states. We should now ask OF the railway
| management universal basis OF cal
| lengths.
| More Funds Needed.
Every passing year means much to the
| stockmen of this nation and we must not
| have our efforts handicapped by lack OF
sufficient funds to work with. It is tht
| part of wisdom to have fund OF at least
| $4,000 In our treasury, rather than barely
enough to pay one secretary, stenographer
our printing and postage bills. We are rep
| resenting the live stock industry, which wa:
never in such "A flourishing condition as Il
| is today and ample funds must be forth
| coming or results will not be what we hops
| for. What Is $1,000 to men and an organiza.
in Ut the National Live Stock association /,
with our augmented membership over 5000,
| 900 900? | trust that this present meeting
will provide the funds, so that your incom
ing president will have greater facilities 70
| accomplishing results than he who served
you for nearly four years.
Live stock Census.
In this connection l may be pardoned 70
| referring TO the first federal enumera ton o
live stock taken this last year under tn
| supervision of our able secretary, Charlie
shn rS soon hsve m reper
| showing the live stock OF the nation b!
classes Our people can then figure OF
supply and demand and we shall begin a
the beginning, so far as n knowledge o
| what we have Is concerned The prcsen
enumeration of live stock will show NOR
fore I'm our history. This means bette
stock, more careful feeding facilities am
a larger percentage of protected stock fror
the cold and blizzards than ever before.
Storage Reservoirs and Land Leasin.
The great question OF irrigation Is noy
before the whole people and there is n
class that a system OF storage reservoir
SHOWS would benefit more than the stoc
growers of these mountains and plains Ou
interests with those of the agriculturist
grass and the greater the abundance o
forage the more stock can be supported.
is idle TO talk of state work along irrigativ
lines. They lack the money and have to
much politics, so We must look To congGes
to provide way of making valuable tn
waste places all over the western prairies
of the United States.
Opening of Forest Reserves.
Another live question of interest to ou
people is the opening of the forest reserve
to the grazing of sheep and cattle. Thi
should be done an1 we have been very sue
cessful with the present Administrative a
| Washington, not only In obtaining these or
ders, but all other aid for anything of gen
eral interest to the live stock men of tn
country,
| Fnvors Retaliatory Laws.
While in Washington last June in oppo
sition to the passage of the Grout bill
was announced that Germany had passe
"A law discriminating against America
meats, etc, which would effect the prices o
our products. The time has come in ou
| national existence when We must retalia I
| against any and every government whic
| discriminates against our goods or prod
ucts. Steps should be Immediately taken I
| have a general law Incorporated as a par
OF our federal statutes. so that the Who'll
| world may be placed on notice that on
| goods and our products must not be dis
criminated against.
| 4 COntented American.
The western stockman, surrounded wit
natures gems and benedictions, with hi
hocks and his herds, with his growing fam
lily and vine-covered and rose -bedecke
abode, Is the typical American home
builder-the prince of the continent Happ
in touch with nature and can draw inspira
tion from the prairtes, the valleys, the hill
and the mountains! This is a charmed If
appreciated fully only by a broad-gauge
American, We are destined by our RI
sources to lead the world and our states
take advantage OF conditions nor will the
stOp I'm this onward march neither wi