Evening star., 1903-12-15
IN FARMERS INTEREST
REPRESENTATIVE OF ALLIED
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES HERE.

Mr.. Jerome Carly of New York, recently
appointed general counsel and eastern rep
resentative of the Allied National Agricul-
tural Societies of America, arrived in this
city yesterday and is stopping at the New
Willard. Mr.. Carly is stanch republican,
and is personal friend of President Roose-
welt, and Is we'll known among politicians
throughout the country He Is here in the
interest Of the farmers throughout the
United States and to obtain legislation at
the present session Of Congress in their be-
half.
The membership of the Allied Societies,
he said today, numbers over 100000. and
expects to be double that number by the
next presidential election. The farmer, he
said. Is hammered down now. to mini
mum. as a result OF the trusts and big cor
porations. Before the farmer receives his
profit the enormous expenditures, including
insurance.. transportation charges conf
missions and elevator charges, are de-
farmer to live on. The society includes the
agricultural farmer. as well as the cattle
raisers.
The Allied National Agricultural Societies
of America include the National Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association, Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union, Ameri-
can Fruit Growers Association National
Grain Growers Association of America
ley. National Farmers League of America
and the American Live Stock Raisers' Asso-
citation.
Object Of His Visit.
Mr.. Carty said today that Mr.. J. c. Han
ley, president of the association, recently
communicated with President Roosevelt in
connection with an important question af-
fecting the cattle industry Of the country
In speaking of the object of his visit today,
Mr.. Carly said:
Last year, through a combination of cir
cumstances, short corn crop and other
ca uses, the price of live cattle went up to
about 51a to cents pound for four-year
old range steers. The price to the con-
sumner was pushed gradually UP until IT
reached ~ to 70 cents a pound This year
train load of cattle was shipped to mar
ket and only 31z cents pound was receiy-
ed, while the same prices prevail to the
consumer, with a big crop OF corn Th.
ranchmen feel that they have been paying
an excess Of $3.50 car. or at the rate of
21a cents pound about on each 80 COO
pound car of cattle shipped, while the ex-
cessively high price of meat to the con-
sumer has resulted in a reduction of meat
consumption of about 10000 900 pounds a
month. which serves only to aggravate the
condition.
THE ranchmen, as a remedy to meet this
evil, have organized to protect themselves
against the greater trust 1t is contem-
plated to set aside one-siXteenth of a cent
a pound on all live stock shipped to market,
which would create a fund of about Sl5,-
100000 a year to establish their own CO.
operative plants and packing houses and
ship their products to themselves at a per-
manent price of cents per pound for live
cattle and sell to the consumer. at ~ to Is
cents per pound on this basis. and IL the
trust would pay more than the established
price of the cooperative trust, let them
have the cattle
Continuing, the speaker said that the
matter is now before the Department Of
Commerce and Labor. and was awaiting a
field.