The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-04
THE LETTER
LARAMIE, Wyo., Jan, "a, 1909.
F. e e.

DEAR SIR Your letter of Jan.
4th has been forwarded TO me here.
1 am no longer of North Carolina.
In every enterprise of the National
Live Stock Association, which Is
legitimate and which Toe not en-
croach on the rights of some of its
votaries, l am with you. But, as l
have written you before, if present
at the meetings, my voice would
have been heard in dissent from
what seems TO have been the moving
action Of the ASSOCIATE IN in regard
TO the dairymen.
You insist, as the leader of a Ma
tional Live Stock Association, in
providing the dairyman to the wall.
Why? You make an assertion that
the passage of a bill In Congress
(either No. 1, 4 or 1O) relating to the
O ,loring of olaomargarine ciU IMPURE
the cattle industry SCI, 900 900 m
nuGLLy. On what GLASS of informa-
ton do you base such a rash state
ment?
The ooloring of oleomargarine
means, if it BAL anything, that it
can be, andis being sold for what it is
not TO a large number of unsuspeot
ing people, who think they are buy
ing real butter from the genuine
dairyman, and this to the real loss
of the dairymen.
Why, 1 repeat, should you and Mr..
Springer, as representatives. of a
great live stock combination, be con
oentrating the range energies against
one branch of the live stock in
dustryP
Unless you withdraw this persecu
ton of the dairymen, it would seem,
from my standpoint, shat they would
be justified in putting into active
execution the notice that they twill
make war ON every measure" you
are interested in before Congress. 1t
seems 80 me TO be a very good time
for you to stop and think, and come
TO a fair understanding with the rep
r~esentatives of the dairy branch Of
the national live stock interests.
GA house divided against itself
cannot stand" now, any better than
it could in ancient times. The Ma.
tional Live Stock Association is yet
young and can we'll afford TO listen a
little tn some branohes-the dairy,
for lnstanoe-wh which have been doing
u Legitimate business for many years.
This industry is not before Congress
without cause, and it may be we'll to
heed their reasons and to r~eo4lculate
the live stock interests and see ifyOu
cannot better cry off on a different
track and earn more credit for the
young giant association than to be
undermining one of it's great allies
and supports.
Suppose you were. t. succeed in
Congress, and break down the dairy
men what do you think the effect
would beP In a few years, if you
ruin that branch for the small stock
men, and they pretty generally turn
their attention to raising calves and
Digs, what will result?
Where will the prices of your
produo 8 go when their changed in
dustry sends millions of animals to
the sham les which are now almost
satisfied? So long as the supply does
not exceed the demand all goes we'll,
but cut off the millions of dairy COWS
from dairy production by this war
on dairymen, and turn this energy
into producing veal, beef, pork, and
cleo oil then contemplate where the
heads of the young National Live
Stock Association will 60 Stookmen
will then begin to think for them
selves, as is usual when misleadership
has brought trouble down on the led
throng
Is does not suit my notions of deal
ing with people to go out to one
neighbor and urge him to write let
ters TO our Representatives, in Con-
gress to take action which is calcu-
lated to hurt another neighbor. This
is what your letter asks of me as a
resident of North Carolina, where
the dairy interest is worth as much
A NAGGING COUGH drives sleep and
comfNSt away. You can conqueriit