The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-14
FOR STRONG CENTRAL BODY
Local and State Organizations Urged
to Join and Strengthen Position
of Important Industry.

IlOu ~ LAO SAOOpA4OA Va "OOA0AO"OAS
of the United States to organize into
local societies, so that they may af-
fliate with the national organization
and be represented by delegates at
the annual convention of that body,
which will be held IN January. The
appeal is in the form of an open let
ter by F. E. Warren, president, and
Mortimer lowering, secretary. Copies
of the letter have been received in
different cities and. towns OF the state
and is as follows:
"1hat the sheepmen all over the
country see the necessity of organi-
zation is evident from the increasing
number of local and state organiza-
tons of wool growers. These. local or
CARNATIONS have already accomplished
much good for their membership but,
while the objects and desires are all
practically the same, their benefits are
limited to purely local affairs. The
National Wool Growers association is
probably the Oldest livestock organi-
zation in this country, having been or
ganized in 1865.
As Reorganized.
Until the present year it has been
composed of a membership purely in
dividual, and has been national only
in the sense that it's membership has
been drawn from all sections of the
country. Owing to the universal de-
mand for some medium through which
the scattered, organizations of the
country could unite their power for
the general good of all, the constitu-
ton and bylaws were changed, by the
order of the last convention of the as
s~ociation, SO as to admit to member
ship. local and state associations. BY
this method, when all of the local and
state organizations shall have united
in the national organization, it will
be national in every sense of the
word, and may assume to speak with
authority for all.
at is the earnest desire of the Off
GERS of this association that before
the next convention of the National
Wool Growers association is held next
January, every local and state organi-
zation of wool growers in the country
shall have become a member of this
organization. With this accomplished,
the next convention will be n OF
great Importance to the industry, and
will put the wool grower in position
to not only secure needed protection,
but to develop the concentrated pow
err necessary to settle man questions
involving needed legislation. 1t will
provide a medium through which a
national policy may be established for
our industry, and through which many
important questions in relation to
trade, transportation, legislation and
breeding may be settled.
IL 6enefltS Individuals.
GAS the work to be accomplished is
for the benefit of the individual as
we'll as the masses. it will be to the
interest of every man engaged or con
nected in any way with the sheep
raising and ~wool-growing industry of
this country to become identified,
either through a local or state organi-
cation, or individually, with the ma
tional organization. An effort will be
made to divide the expense and rep
resentation as equitably as possible
among the members, based upon the
proportion of sheep represented.
''The National Wool Growers asso-
citation has accomplished much good
in the past, but, under the broader
scope permitted by the amended con.
stitution, much more may be expected
in the future. Your officers and ex-
ecutive board have plans for future
work, which mean much to every indl'
vidual engaged in the industry. These
plans depend entirely for success upon
the power and strength that can be
given the organization that proposes
them. AS a sheepman and wool grow
err you are interested in that success
IT, -.
and we earnestly urge that you, indi
vidually, do your share towards build
ing up this association.
This is the day of organization and
evolution. Old conditions have, in a
large measure, been upset by the rapid
march of progress. We are confront
ed by new conditions and new prob
lems The modern nlan is to mee1