Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-15
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KANSAS CITY.
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yards, OF terminal charges on excessive
railway shipping rates or unjust dis
elimination for or against live stock
market, and others equally as serious
to our interest. and that when we
prove the charges to have an Inter
state Commerce Commission, which
can enter up decree, and execute an
order to discontinue the same or send
the perpetrators to the federal prison
and fine them heavily besides. 1t will
only require an allopathic dose of the
medicine and the balance will be good.
Half 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 oleomargarine
bill. 1t will ultimately kill itself as a
law, and our position be sustained that
it was class legislation, pure and sim
pie and against the best interests of
the creamery people and also the oleo-
margarine manufactures.
Stock Census.
eve are now urging upon congress
that of a census of all live stock ami
mails on ranch and farm be taken
every five years, and promptly publish
ed in order that the breeder and feed
er may know what animals are ready
for the market What the progressive
stockman wants is reliable livestock
statistics every year as to what there
is in sight in horses. cattle, sheep and
hogs. If the general government will
give us complete census every five
years, 1--WE can easily publish the figures
for the intervening years from our
national headquarters to guide the
stockmen of the country
Irrigation Laws.
81 desire to congratulate our mem.
bership on the passage of the irrigar
ton bill, which this organization urged
upon President Roosevelt, and which
he so strenuously aided in making a
law. We all realize that the more wa
ter we got on the great plains the
more grass would be produced. 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 of the range and the protection
of the forests, and the forest reserves.
We should consider ourselves only
tenants by courtesy of this great gov
eminent principality, 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 160 acres
should be extended to 800 acres as it
will not be gainsaid that it is impossi-
BILE for man to make a living on any
100 acres remaining.
Grazing Lands.
1--WE should ask congress to author.
ize the appointment of commission
to go into the various states, classify
| grazing lands, and make recommends
lions in line with what the people who
dwell there want. Our position should
| be, let the people have what they
want, as their homes are at stake, and
| their children should have the benefit
of the very best condition we car
J throw around them. On this subject
let all politicians go away back and
sit down, and let the plain people set
tie the matter in their own counties
all over this great western country
l.
most vitality interested.
Scores Beef Merger.
GAS to the proposed merger Of inter
/ ests of the packers at Chicago, Kan
sas City, st. Joseph, Sioux City Oma
/ ha and Fort Worth, President Spring
| er said:
| Never before was such an unhol,
| combination attempted. Not conten
with amassing colossal fortunes in the
| past two decades from the stock rails
/. ers of the west, these same packers
now blossom out as wou1d-be dictat-
4 ors The stockmen of the United
] States have over four millions O
working capital. If forced to do so
you can build packing plants of you
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 left il
i their physical anatomy. Let us pro
4 nounce the sentence that if this mer
/ ger is conSummated it can operate it.
i $50,000,0 100000 merger with out cattle
\ without sheep and without hogs, TO
we own the raw material, and we will
j refuse to sell to any packing hous,
combine"
i Secretary Reports.
| Charles f. Martin of Denver, secre
tary of the association, followed will
his annual report. 1t showed a stead,
l increase in the membership and Scoop
of the association. The afternoon SEES
sion was taken UP with the annual re
port of the executive committee, in
PRODUCTION of resolutions and the con
sideration of general business.
:, crocers in Convention.
\ Kansas City, Jan. 13.-Grocers from
all parts of the country are in attend
ance at the sixth annual convention O
: OF the National Association of Retail
Grocers, which opened three day
meeting here today. The first ses
sion was taken up principally in rou
!, tine work.