Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-13


 urged-Laws Wanted to Prevent
 "Packers- Fixing Prices lon hoof." many rough edges to make smoother the pathway of the s.ockmen, there remains still others vital to success. and it Is our business to see that these gla-ing wrongs are righted and that speedily.
 We cannot raise livestock without adequate railway transportation, and better service than the industry is now receiving. Rates have been raised on all livestock, and the aver age running time is less satisfactory than formerly, while transportation to actual shippers has been arbitrarily cut of, and this industry especially selected for crucifixion. The railway managers expect you to go to market with your livestock. care for them.
 
 hiring pr Ifessional shippers. and you are then advised by the corporation that you can pay your way back home ar walk. At the prices you have re eeived for the year at the big mar kets, you have not had money enough left after paying your freight (which is your mortgage and the 'intrust' to either ouy a ticket home or to stay where you have stranded.
 All stock shippers should be re turned free, because they go back to feed and breed other animals, thus preparing a golden harvest for the great transportation lines. which it ;. costs them nothing to secure but de cent treatment
 Another thing-a law should be passed by congress. compelling rail ways to E.ake at least twenty miles An hour with livestock shipments des- tined for market You have time freights, fruit, limitedcoffee specials from ocean to ocean, and yet the live stock industry in it's various branches pays the railways more cash per an. nun than all of the specials put together and We get any old time, and lay up hours at any old blind siding. rvaile these favored orange trains and tea specials pass at forty miles an nour. In my judgment. a good plan to aGopt by stockmen at every shipping point. is to load your animals. and then turn the shipment over to Fhe railway management as pesishable freight, just like they do fruit from California. or carloads of chickens. and tell them to deliver the let at the market in good order. or''suffer the consequences. as they do with other. perishabie stun. If they refuse to haul your stock. get out rnaudamus, and see what effect thcSsands of lawsuits would have on stock shippers passes. s
 We are still knocking at the doors of congress for five-year census of livestock 10 be taken and promptly disseminated, so all the stock raisers and feeders may know just what pro portion has been put on feed. in order that we may 6raw our own conclu. sions as 10 the proper time to ship market.
 We are. still. urging congress with ak our power to pass the Grosvenor Anti-Shoidy Bill, which seeks to com. pei every manufacturer to make in plain letters and figures just what percentage. of every yard of cloth wo- ven is wool, cotton, hair, shoddy, etc. We do not aim to cripple the manu- facturers of cloth, but we insist upon behalf of all cloth consumers of this land that ;he selling tag shall plainly reveal Q every purchaser just what sort Of a suit he is buying in order that the outrageous frauds against wooien .soods may be stopped.
 Another bill live stockmen are vi tally interested in is that with refer mce to foremost reserve. Stockmen have no objection to honest reserves where the-e are forests to protect or to foster -he growth thereof. ba< where millions of acres are set apar, by the secretary of the interior, when you could not locate a tree with q Lick obssrvatc-y telescope, which fl done only on account of the fine ma nipulation of some great land-graf railroad syndicate who wish to un load thcs- worthless holdings. on { suiii5ie government; this is the psin'