The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-29
THE GRAIN AND STOCK Growers
Fifth Annual Tri-State Convention Is Ee'd at Fargo
Interesting and Instructive Addresses Made.

Tri-State Grain and Stock
association was convened Tuesday at
the Fargo opera house. The annual
address Of j. A. Johnson, president o.
the association, was the feature OF the
forenoon session. President Johnson
took occasion during his address to
detail some of the evils Of the eleva-
tor and machinery trusts, and also
turned his attention to the beef trust.
On this subject LIE said:
you have it IN yotr rover to de-
feat the formation at least in the
future OF these trusts. Your power lies
in the ballot. If you will attend your
primaries and conventions ana make
every man who aspires to a scat in
your legislature and congress pledge
himself IN writing, before nomination,
that he VIII vote for laws both in tie
state as well as in the national legis-
latures that will prohibit their forma-
ton and pledge themselves not to
vote for any man for United States
senator wntil the man or men who
aspire to those exalted positions viii
pledge themselves IN writin. before
election that they will uae their votes
. and influence in the same direction,
you will 500 see a difference. There
is nothing that sc2res a politician SO
much as votes, or the want Of them;
tthey will do anything you demand,
If you make them promise in time.
unless you will take radical measures
you will be bound hand and foot i'll a
few years. You Will be as powerloss
with the new trusts as you are to-day
with the elevator trust. Yol will ad-
NIT that while there may be half a
dozen or more elevators in your town,
all competition has been killed. The
agents all strive to secure your grain,
but the price is the same at each ele-
vator. That trust has made million
aires out of a few men at the expense
of you and others, who are at theil
mercy.
"Until this year the elevator com
panies contributed. In reply to an in
quiry made by me some time ago as
TO whether they would assist us, n
Of the general managers answered in
part as follows:
"'Judging by the statements made
by the various elevator people after
THE last grain growers convention, i
should not expect that any Of them
would contribute a cent toward that
proposition again. The elevator peo-
pie feel that while they have contrib
uted for several years past to this
proposition that matters have been al
lowed to be discussed in these meet
tngs which were distinctly detrimental
TO the interests OF the elevator peo-
pie"
J. II. Worst, president OF the agri-
cultural college, was the noyt speaker
and he outlined in an interesting man
ner the work OF the convention.
Prof. J. Fl, Sheppard. of the ssri-
cultural college. was the first speaker
at the afternoon session, on Breed
inc Stock for the Northwest"
The address of Prof. Sheppard was
enthusiastically received. and it was
pronounced by all a very able and in
~structive discourse. When he had
concluded Prof. Susan NJ. Reid Of the
AGRICULTURAL college, was introduced
and delivered a very instructive paper
on Domestic Science" She handled
her subject with a master hand and
brain, and the paper will undoubtedly
prove one Of the best and most In
s~tructive OF the congress.
/. A. Huntoon of Moorhead. with an
address on Manufacturing Corn Fod-
-. - W DAr1yb fn71amnl
Mr.. Huntoon is an orator OF no mean
ability, a sourd reasonor and IN all IN
interesting talEer, and for about twen-
" minutes highly entertained his au-
ditors. A paper on the shelter Belt
for Stock and Remedies for Insects IN
furious o Animals" by Prot. Waldron
OF the agricultural college, concluded
the first days program.
Wednesday, Jan. 20. .
To-day's sessions Of the Tri-State
Grain and Stock Growers association
we're large attended, q greater num-
Der being present than has ever before
attended an annual meeting of the as
ISOLATION.
President Johnson announced the
following committees:
Committee to Report on the Nc
Cumber Bfll-Capt. d. l.. Wellman Of
Frazee. MINI; E. d. Childs Of
C~rookston. MINI, and p. J. Rance OF
Webster, N. d.
Committee on Future Of the Asso-
ciation-J. II. Sheppard of the North
pakota Agricultural college,: T. A.
Hoverstad, OF the government station
at Crookston. Mimi: s.. ". r.. Pack
ard. Niagara. n. d: ". +. Greeley.
editor Dakota Farmer, Gary, 5. d.: N.
e Carnine. Aberdeen. 8. d.; l.. A.
Ueland, Edgeley. n. d.
Prof. Hoyerstad OF the experiment
station. Crcokston. made the opening
address this morning. his theme being