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

decent treatment.
Another thing-a law should be
passed by congress compelling rail
ways to make at least twenty miles
an hour with livestock shipments
| destined for market You have time
freights, fruit. limited coffee specials
| from ocean to ocean, and yet the
| livestock industry in it's various
! branches pays the railways more of
cash per annum than all of the "spe-
| cials' put together, and we get any
old time, and lay UP for hours at
any old blind siding. while these IA
vored orange trains and tea specials
! pass at forty miles an hour. In my
stockmen at every shipping point is
| to load your animals and then turn
| the shipment over to the railway
management as perishable freight,
just as they do fruit from Califor-
MIA or carloads of chickens. and tell
them to deliver the lot at the market
in good order or suffer the conse-
quences, as they do with other per
ishable stuff II they refuse to haul
your stock get out a mandamus, and
see what effect thousands of lawsuits
would have on stock shippers pass
es. We must all go cunning (without
cry one of our districts. and see if
we cannot have the Interstate com
merce bill so written that it will
mission be a tribunal where we can
have some of these interstate ques
tons settled. and the DEGREES enforc-
ed the same as in a court of Justice |
1--WE are still knocking at the door |
of congress for five year census of |
livestock to be taken and promptly |
disseminated so all the stock raisers
and feeders may know just what |
proportion has been put on feed, in |
order that we may draw Our own |
conclusions as to the proper time to
ship to market
The President has recently ap-
pointed a public land commission, in
order that comprehensive reports
may be made as to the available pub
lie lands remaining. their proper
way they could be handled by the
officers Of the General Land Office
for the children to follow us. No
stockman in this broad domain ex-
poets or wants the government to
give him anything, or to run his bu-
SineSS but he does desire that no
special hindrances be thrown in his
way, so that it is made impossible
for him TO make a livelihood in the
way his father did, and their fathers
for one hundred years of our nation
al existence.
There is a right of way out of
beset us at the beginning Of the Goth
century 1t is your business and
mine to blaze the way for the right
bunch of do-nothings.
I'VE are still urging congress with
all our power to pass the Grosvenor
Anti-Shoddy Bill. which seeks to
compel every manufacturer to mark
in plain letters and figures just what
percentage of every yard of cloth
woven is wool, cotton, hair. shoddy.
etc. We do not aim to cripple the !
manufacturers of cloth. but we insist
upon behalf of all cloth consumers
of this land that the selling tag shall !
plainly reveal to every purchaser
lust what sort of suit he is buying
in order that the. outrageous frauds
against woolen goods may be stopped
Another bill livestock men are vi
tally interested in is that with ref
erence to forest reserves. Stockmen |
have no objection to honest reserves
where there are forests to protect |
or RI foster the growth thereof but |