Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-16
I@al State Organizations Urged to
Join and Strengthen Position Of
Important Industry.
AN APPEAL TO FLOCKMASTERS

The National WOolgrOwerS aSsOcia-
taon are making an appeal to the sheep
ise,T and woolgrowers of the United
States to organize themselves into
local sociecies so that they may be in
a position to affiliate with the national
organization and be represented by
delegates at the annual convention of
that BODY which will be held in jan
sssry- The appeal is in the form of an
cperr letter by F. E. Warren, president
and Mortimer Levring, secretary, and
reads as follows:
THAT the sheepmen all over the
country see the necessity of organiza-
aion is evident from the increasing
a'Hn'ber OF local and state organiza-
sions 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
5iraired to purely local affairs. The
National Woolgrowers association is
probably the oldest livestock organiza-
tlogr in this country, having been or
ganized in 1865
''Until the present year it has been
rornposed of membership purely ndi-
riaua1, and has been national only in
ihe sense that it's membership has been
drawn from all sections of the country.
Owing to the universal demand for
some medium through which the scat
sered organizations of the country could
unite in their power for the general
good of all. the constitution and by
laws were changed, by the order of the
last convention of the association, so as
10 admit to membership local and state
associations. BY this method, when
AL Of the local and state organizations
shall have united in the national or
ganization, it will be national in every
sense of the word, and may assume to
speak with authority for all.
SIT 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 Jan
mary, every local and state organiza-
aicn of wool growers in the country
shall have become Il member of this
organization. With this accomplished
the next convention will be one of great
Importance to the industry, and will
put the wool grower in position to not
WHY secure needed protection, but to de-
ses0p the concentrated power necessary
10 settle many questions involving
needed Legislation. 1t will provide d
anedium through which national
ssolicy may be established for our in
assstry, an through which many inn
portant questions in relation to trade,
sranspori iation, Legislation and breed
lDg may be settled.
''As the work to be accomplished is
sor the benefit of the individual as we'll
7s the masses, it will be to the interest
fS every man engaged or connected in
any way with the sheep raising and
wool growing industry of this country
w. oSeOf.iC ittCAtiiiSu. cllllSl through
local or state organizations, or indivi-
aiually, with the national organization
AN effort will be made to divide the
expense and representation as equi-
sably as possible among the members
based upon the proportion of sheep
represented.
1.-The National Woolgrowers asso-
giation has accomplished much good in
the past, but, under the broader scope
permitted by the amended constitution
much more may be expected in the flu
sHre. Your officers and executive board
have plans for future work, which
mean much to every individual engage
ed in the industry. These plans de-
pend entirely for success upon the
power and strength that can be given
she organization that proposes them.
As sheepman and wool grower you
are interested in that success, and we
earnestly urge that you, individually,
do your share towards building up
ahis association.
This is the day of organization and
evolution. Old conditions have, in a