Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-15
I've STOCK N[N MEET
Fourth Annual Convention Of
the National Association at
Salt Lake.
President Springer Delivers the
Annual Addressed enounces
Grout Bill.
Claims Ii Takes the Poor Mans
Butter From His
Table.

laDle.
Salt Lake. Jan 15The assembly hail
was crowded to its fullest capacity this
lmorning at the opening of the fourth
annual convention of the National Live
Stock Association. Governor Wells and
Mayor Buckle delivered addresses of
WELCOME, and the response was made by
R NJ. Allen, Of Nebraska. President
springer delivered the following adj
dress:
THE American stockman takes a par
Idorable pride in his valuable live stock
holdings, and in his supreme confidence
mot only in his own but in his country's
brilliant future. He believes in an in
telliseIt progress; he believes in pro-
ducns higher quality of live stock;
IN obtaining a broader education that
| he may grow mentally bigger and
broader; he believes in building a
brighter. more comfortable and happy
1 American home. which ia our chief OBJ
lject lesson to. the world. That modest
| siren of prosperity has wooedl
and Won the people of this coun-
/ Try, encouraging them TO believe in
Themselves and in their ability to feed
4 ard clothe the world, and to do a sue
lcessful business even with the islands
| of the sea. II has been ordained that
our Americafisrn shall broaden with
4 the years, and we enter the twentieth
century greater, broader grander than
4 our grandfathers entered the nine
teenth century. Let US congratulate
ourselves that we are a part Of this
princey heritage. and that We, too
share in the satisfaction. and confidence
I that has taken possession of our people
lin The last decade.
The stockmen Of the United States
I now clearly recognize that they must
maintain an energetic national organi-
cation if they would have their inter-
4 ests looked after, knowing full we'll.
that this country will present new ques-
4 tons for solution With broader opportu-
mites for commercial success In our
.lown 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 interet and inspection bust
ness should be controlled by the federal
i government. without a dollars expense
to the shipper.
There is now pending before the sem
4 ate what is known as the Grout bill,
which passed the house by large ma
jority and which seeks TO impose 10
cents a pound tax on oieomargarine in
/ the sole interest of the dairymen of the
United States. The direct object to be
obtained by this bill is to so tax oleo-
margarine that 1t will no longer be able
fn te, sa,.a In,
and thus leave our home market to the
butter trust. No more rank piece of
federal legislation was ever proposed.
and which if passed takes the butter.
from the table of the poor thruout this,
land. The time has fully come when
/ the great stock interests must be repre-
scented in Washington by as able men
as we have in the business and by the
very best legal talent.
The state laws of nearly every west
ern state need rewriting and revising,
that all laws appertaining to live stock
i dncluding brands and bountieg) shall
be uniform and similar in the various
states.
We should now ask of the railway
management a universal basis OF car
Lengths, az 36-foot cars are now univer-
j sal, and the rates, are still based on 30
foot cars; all cars above Sc feet to carry
an increased rate per foot, and all less
i'll proportion which should apply uni
versally either by weight or carload
lots: minimum to be low enough where
It is dollars and cents per hundred
weight to enable lamb shippers to load
4 the minimum and not be charged for
2CoO where but $4,000 can be loaded.
This is a just demand and should be
conceded by the railroads.
We shall soon have tabulated re-
FORT showing the live stock of the ma
ton by classes. Our people can then
figure on supply and demand, and We
shall begin at the beginning so far as a
knowledge of what we have is con-
lcnrned. The present enumeration of live
stock will show more holders and small
|er holdings than ever before in our his
tory This means better stock. more
careful feeding facilities and a larger
percentage of protected stock from the
cold and blizzards than ever before. We
should now insist that having made
such an excellent start the government
should every year report on similar lines
just what we have produced in the live
stock classes. and to do this will re-
Guire special live stock bureau of the
goyernment. If the farmers of the
country require special bulletins as TO
growing crops, etc. so too the stockmen
should be similarly favored by yearly,
classified census returns of live stock
ond monthly bulletins giving cattle.
sheep and hogs on feed. the supply OF
horses, etc. which would advise the
holders of all kinds OF live stock lust
what to expect. There has been too lit
tie authentic information placed in the
bands of the stockmen of the United
States in the past. and the twentieth
century is a good time to urge reform.
The great question of irrigation is
now before the whole people, and there
is no class that a system of storage res
e.voirs for the waters of the melting
mountain SHOWS would benefit more
than the stock growers of these mount
Gins and plains. Our interests with those
oil the agriculturists are reciprocal. and
more water means more grass, and the
Iereater the abundance of forage the
more stock can be supported. It is idle
Ito talk of state work along irrigatiye
lines. The states lack the money and
have too much politics. 20 we must look
Y = congress to provide : way Of making