The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-13
LIVE STOCK MEN
IN CONVENTION
National Association Meet in
Portland.
BETTER LAWS NEEDED
TO COMPEL RAILROADS TO TREAT
STOCK In TRANSIT AS
PERishAsLE.
BY Associated Press.

Associations met in joint convention
today
John ". Springer. president of the
live Stock Association. addressed the
convention. saying In part:
while we have knocked of a good
many rough edges to make smoother
the pathway of the stoekmen. there
remains still others vital to success,
and il is our business to see these
glaring wrongs wrighted and speed
lily,
I'VE cannot raise live stock without
adequate railway transportation, anu
better service than the industry Is
now receiving. Rates have been rails
ed on all live stock, and the average
running time is less satisfactory than
formerly. while transportation to ae'
tnal shippers has been arbitrarily cut
off. and this industry especial select
ed for crucihxtion, The railway
managers expect you to go to market
with your live stock, care for them
which keeps the management from
hiring professional keepers. and you
are then advised by the corporation
that you can pay your fare back home
or walk. AT the prices you have re
received for the year at the big mar
kets. you have not had enough money
left after paying your freight (which
Of course, is frst) and feed bills youi
mortgage and the interest to either
buy a ticket home or to stay where
yon had stranded.
"All live stock shippers should be
returned free, because they go bach
10 feed and breed other animals, thus
preparing a golden harvest for ths
great transportation lines, which !
costs them nothing to secure but de
cent treatment
Another thing-a law should b'
passed by congress, compelling rail
ways to make at least twenty-mile
an hour with live stock shipment
destined for market You have tim
freights, fruit. limited coffee special
from ocean to ocean. and yet the liv
stock industries " its varioW
branches pays the railways more aesI
per annum than all OF the specials
pat together and we get any old time
and lay up hours at any old bin
siding, while these favored orang
trains and tea specials pass at fort
miles an hour, In my judgement,
good plan to adopt by stockmen
every shipping point, is to load You
animals, and then turn your shil
ment over to the railway managemer
as perishable freight, just like they q
fruit from California. or carloads
chickens, and tell them to deliver IN
lot at the market In good order,
suffer the consequences. as they 4
with other perishable stuff II the
refuse to haul your stock. get out
mandamus, and sec what effect laN
suits would have on stock shipper
passes.
we must all go cunning (wi'
our ballotsD for the congressman
every one OF our districts. and 81
If we cannot have the inter sta
eomerce bill so written thta it W
amount to something. and the COZ
mission be tribunal where we CO
have some of these interstate que
lions settled, and the DEGREES enfol
cd the same as in a court Of jnstie
eve are still knocking at the doc
of congress for a five year census
live stock, to be taken and prompt
disseminated. SO all the stock raise
and feeders may know just what pl
portion has been put in feed, iii {
der that we may draw our own &C
illusions as to the proper time TO sh
10 market
I'VE are still urging congress wi
all our power tn pass the Grosyen
anti.shoddy bill; which seeks TO co
Del every manufactures TO mark
plain letters and figures just VII
percentage of every yard of Goth We
an is wool, cotton. hair, shoddy, G
We do not aim to cripple the mar
factnrers of cloth, but we insist up
behalf of all cloth consumers OF Il
land that the selling tag shall plaif
reveal to every purchaser just WI
sort of suit he is buying in ore
that the outrageous frauds agar
wooden goods may be stopped
Another bin live stock men
vitally interested in II that with r
erence to forest reserve. Stockm
have no objection to honest reserv
where there are forests TO protect
to foster the growth thereof
where millions of acres are set ap
by the secretary of the interior. VII
you could not locate a tree with
Lick observatory telescope. which
only done on account of the {
manipulation Of some great and.gf