The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-12
Live Stock Men

when YOU cOuld not locate a tree
with a Lick Observatory telescope.
which is done only on ccount of the
fine manipulation of some great land
graft railroad syndicate. who wish
to unload their worthless holdings
on a guliible government. his is the
| point where the American stockman
insists on rising and entering a gen
eral and also a special demurrer.
This scheme is now being worked
in Arizona. in fact, in all the western
states and territories by some com
| bine or other. Land %grabbers are a
| blot on twentieth century civilization
and the old cowboy methods of deal
ing with horse thieves may have to
| be escorted to in order that the rap
| idly disappearing public lands may
be conserved for the needs of the
| coming generations.
Il regret to say hat the year last
past has witnessed SO many failures
among honest, Woodworking, patient
and accomplishing stockmen in the
United States. Without apparent rea
son, prices began to drop, and they
have gone from bad to worse until
we see the cattle kings in the Here
ford and Shorthorn world forced in
to bankruptcy, their ~hard-earne1 for
tunes d~issinated, and their careers
blighted. Will some one kindly give
us a positive reason for this loss of
hundreds Of millions of livestock va
lues. It must be conceded that the
consumption Of meat was never so
great, or the retail prices never so
high. It must be admitted that we
still have a growing foreign demand
rather than a closing of markets
against orr meat products. 1t is pat
ent to all that American labor is to-
dav receiving the highest average
wages ever enioyed in this Union.
Fina'ly. it must De conceded that
we have a general prosperity through
out the Union, and only the Wall
street grumblers and the army of
the fringe of responsibility, who cod
die their Deewee brains that they
can buck the tiger on the stock
market-and lose-as they always
dot is only these gamblers who
have honestly bit the dust fnan-
cialIy speaking. during the past year.
We can account for all their bad
and losses. But why the pro-
1ucer of meat. who feeds the world
should be singled out for financial
position. Here is where the great
called the Packing Kings
in. We all concede that they
nave made colossal fortunes. We all
they have converted the old
1eighborhood slaughter house. with
is odors and ~nuisances. to gigantic
Ill saved and every ounce of the an
NAL is turned to a profit. We produ-
,ers have paid for the hundreds of
millions represented by the Big
Four so-called. We commend their
access. but we protest against the
gigantic monopoly they have forced
IN the people of the whole country
10Th producer and nsum We !
against the withdrawal of {
'pen competition in each and all of
he great markets of this country, /
n the agreement made every dav 5
etween the buyers of these houses. /
I'VE demand laws that will pre- E
ent daily meetings of packers and d
their agents TO arbitrarily fix tine |
riceS to be paid on the hOOf, and y
lso on the block. Every stockman :
n this country is generous and will :
to give and take. but he certain l
= objects to giving the whole profit l
f raising and feeding of livestock =
, a merciless aggregation of pack ?
lg-hOuSe caDitaliStS who hy their