Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-15
Annual Convention of Nat
ional Association Opens
in Convention Hall.
IS A RECORD BREAKER
President ]. w. Springer Makes
Ringing. Address.
HOLDS THEY MUST STAND TOGETHER
Urges ACCESSIBILITY of Taking Stock
Census Warmly Supports the
Grosvenor Anti-shoddy RilI-secre,
tary Martin Makes Annual Report.

otocK ASSOCIATION began a four days
session in convention hall here today.
The attendance is greater than at any
previous gathering of the association.
After the welcome address by Mayor
Reed and the response on behalf of the
association by Peter Jansen of Nebras-
ka, John w. Springer, president of the
association delivered an address.
President John w. Springer said
in his annual address:
We have learned at very dear cost
That while We may differ on politics
and religion We must stand together
in national organization if we would
mold our own in the great commercial
struggle now going on. To secure our
well earned profits we must stand
shoulder to shoulder for our mutual
protection, 1or the legislative chain
is no stronger than the weakest link,
and it is our business to remedy the
weak points in our allied Industry.
Must Be Protected.
Let it be understood here and now
that the American stockman proposes
to take care of himself, and that he
is not a supplicant at the doors of the
federal congress for any subsidy, for
any bonus or for any policy which
seeks forty acres and a mule But
We do serve notice on the vote
beseeching politician that the live
stock interests must receive protec-
ton from the congress of the United
States, just as long as the finished
products made from our raw materials
are heavily protected. Our allied in
terests stand with American labor.
and together We hold the balance of
II ger i'll this Union. None of our
great interests are historical or IN
reasonable or cranky on the subject
of tariff or tariff legislation We
know is has largely aided in making
our nation great, and it has assisted
the American workingman to higher
level than that occupied by any work
er on this round earth. But the tariff
is not perfect, and the stockmen of the
United States believe there are many
points where the tariff could be re-
duced, and even abrogated entirely,
for the best interests of the people as
conditions now exist. We believe,
further that tariff must be retained
on hides, wool, meat and animals in
order that the American stock
raiser may not be Disseminated
against. We must again at this and
the next session of the federal con.
gress thwart the highly protected man.
ufacturers from down east in their
selfish demand for free hides and free
wool.
Anti-Shoddy Bill.
We are strongly urging upon the
present ways and means committee
to report favorably the Grosvenor an.
ti-shoddy bill, and to force the manu-.
facturers to plainly mark each piece
OF cloth as to just what proportion is
wool, shoddy, cotton, ETC.. in order
that the man buying clothing will
know what he received. We cannot
be too persistent in our demand for
this bill.
1.-THE bill extending the shipping
laws from twenty-eight to forty hours
which has passed the house and is in
the senate, is fully approved by all
the cattle shippers.
Mckinley Reciprocity.
"Our interests firmly and fully be
lieve in reciprocity which recipro
Gates. We advocate a give and take
policy such as the great Mckinley
outlined. Not only this, but we advo
cate that the congress of the United
States pass a bill directing the Presi
dent, whenever in his Judgment it may
be necessary to retaliate against any
foreign government, arbitrarily and
unjustly discriminating against Amer
lean goods or products when the same
is as wholly unjustifiable as the pro
posed German tariff bill now under
consideration in Germany, which, il
passed, will exclude from that country
rs per cent of all our meat exports
The alleged excuse is that our canned
meats, ETC., are diseased and danger
GUS to the health of the people of the
Fatherland, which we all know is
false in every particular.
Commerce Legislation.
eve are also strenuously in favo
of the proposed bill to amend the In
terstate Commerce Law, in order tina
this commission may have authorit,
of its own orders and DEGREES. Tit
confessed idiocy of keeping up higl
priced list of five interstate commerce.
commissioners who hear the /, cases
look wise and secure no results. is il
keeping with Justice of the peace ii
Missouri declaring a federal statut,
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