The Minneapolis journal., 1903-01-13
TUESDAY EVENING,

IU ESDA4 EVENING",
the perpetrators to the federal prison. and
fine them heavily besides. 1t will only re-
quire an allopathic dose Of the medicine
and the balance will be good.
"IIalf of the judges of the supreme court
Of the, United States upheld the position
taken by the officers Of the National Live
Stock association in our long fight against
the oleomargarin bill. 1t viii sui timatelys
kill itself as a law. and our position be
sustained that it was class legisla ton pure
and simple and against the best interests
Of the creamery people and also the oleo-
margarin manufactures S s s: 'ss :ss5s
'We are now urging upon congress that
g. census OF all live stock animals on ranch
and farm be taken every five years and
promptly published In order that the
breeder and feeder may know, what ami
mails are ready for the market. y *fl
IT desire to congratulate ol1r member
ship on the passage Of the irrigation bill,
which this orga nization, urged upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and which he 80 strenu-
ously aided in making a law. We all re-
alize that the more water we got on the
great plains the more grass would be pro-
duced. Grass means beef, and beef brings
money anywhere In the wide world. We
should therefore do all in our power to
cultivate the growth of grass, and the care
| forests, and the forest reserves We
should consider ourselves only tenants by
courtesy Of this great government prin-
cipality, and it should be our chief aim and
delight to guard this heritage for our
| children and our children's children.
For the semi-arid lands in the grazing
| district, the homestead law. allowing 16O
acres should be. extended to 800 acres as
| it will not be gainsaid that it lis impos-
slole Tor man to make a living on any
16o acres remaining" .>- q. Z. H.
The Packing Trust. .,N
AS to the proposed merger Of interests
| oy the. packers at Chicago, Kansas City,
st: Joseph, Sioux City,, Omaha and Fort
Worth, President Springer said: '*ssE'.=
Never before was such an unholy com
bina ation attempted. Not content with
amassing colossal fortunes in the past, two
decades from the stock q raisers of the
| west. these same packers now blossom
out as would be dictators. The stock
men of the United States have over four
billion working ca pitaI.@@iI II forced to do so,
you can build packing plants of your own
kill your own stock, market the product
and undersell@ any packing house. trust
We have men outside this Charmed circle
who have money, brains and energy, and
with these three they also have hearts lef,
IN their physical anatomy. Let us pro-
nounce sentence that II this merger is
| ~ SnAt OPCIdl6 It's SOUU.UUU,-
100000 merger without cattle, without
sheep and without hogs, for we own the
raw material and we will refuse to sell tc
any packing house combine"
Charles F. Martin Of Denver, secretar,
OF the association followed with his annua
report 1t showed a steady increase tr
the membership and scope Of the asso.
ciation Mr. Martin said in part: y. :
The Anti-shoddy BIZ.
the committee on ways and means report
the anti-shoddy bill to the house, but
without success. Within the past two
weeks l have sent out additional letters
10 members of congress and to this com
mittee again urging prompt action on this
OIL: l have received replies from ma
Jor1ty Of the members of the house. and
am satisfied that If the COMMITTEES would
report the bill to the house it would pass
The leading argument advanced by the
opponents of the bill is that it cannot be
made operative. It does not seem to lis
that 1t Is any more difficult to have fed
eral inspectors regulate the importation
OF rotten rags gathered from the slums OF
Europe and their manufacture into cloth
ing 1or the American people than it Is fo1
leoeral inspectors to supervise the sIaugh.
Ter OF american steers and the manufac-
ture OF the oleo contained in the carcass
into healthy, clean and pure butter. The
tax "nlch this legislation imposes is one.
tenth OF cent a pound to be paid bv the
manufacturer. 1t can hardly be said thai
tnls would work a hardship upon the
class OF manufacturers who use "shodd,
and sell ;aH-wooP 50 suits to the America :
peop!e for $l5. It is not protection sinapl,
LOT the growers Of wool that we are ask.
Ing, but protection for the consumer !,
we'll. 49,. ~
Membership and Finances,
1.-THE, mernhArsh}p
steadily increased, but not to the exten
OF the previous year, for the reason tha
most or the active organizations in tn,
United States are now members. Th,
Q lndivldual membership has increased yer,
: satisfactorily, extending to Canada. Mexi
co, Hawaii, and Inquiries have hean "a
4 celVed from stockmen in the Straits Set
2 tlement OF the East Indies. The increas
e IN the assessment on live stock from 3
j. 70 oo cents per 1000 has been accepted b,
. ali organizations, with the exception o
one. '~'.'.
: One drawback is the failure Of the mem
Ders 10 act promptly when called unor
+ Another Is the lack Of funds to carrv q
- the work. ~
: "Ihe receipts for the year were within
Il IeW hundred dollars as large as the yea
e previous but our expenses were heavier.
n A recess until 1880 followed.
" The Afternoon Session.
q The afternoon session was taken i,
9 with the annual report Of the executiy
I, committee, the Introduction of resolution,
e OF which there was a large number. an
q the consideration Of general business
- Papers were read by L.rC. BOYLE of Nil
. souri, on Mortgage Law with Referene
! to Live Stock; by DR.. j. ,Wythcomb, ore
| gon, on The Great Northwest as a, Stoc
| Country; w. V. Galbreath, Texas. q
| Ra1lway Live Stock Agents and The
relations to the Shippers; and by Tho
Kelly of Illinois on :'The Movement