Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-13
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Live Stock and Wool Growers
Associations Working For
Better Transportation
FlvE.YEAR LIVE STOCK CENSUS

aress to Obtain Ihis-Present Cono''
tions Arc lnjuriously Affecting thu
Live Stock Industry Of the Country
Portland. Ore. Jan. 13.-The mem
bers of the National Livestock and th'
National Wool Growers association.
met in Joint session here, with neari!
a thousand members of the two organ
izations, including some of the mos
prominent sheep and cattle raisers oil
the United States, in attendance. GOV
ernor George +. Chamberlain, May d
George H Williams and other promin-
ent men of Oregon and Portland eN-
tended welcome, and responses wers
made by representative members of tht
two great organizations.
John w. Springer of the Nationa
Livestock Association addressed the
convention. saying in part:
I'VE can not raise livestock without
adequate railway transportation, anc
better service than the industry is nov
receiving. Rates have been raised or
all livestock, and the average running
time is less satisfactory than formerly
while transportation to actual shippers
has been arbitrarily cut of, and THIS
industry especially selected for cruel
fixion. The railway managers eXpec'
YOU to go to market with your live
stock, care for them, which keeps the
management from hiring professional
shippers, and you are then advised by
the corporation that you can pay your
way back home or walk. AT the prices
you have received for the year at the
big markets you have not had money
enough left after paying your freight
(Which, of course. is tirsD and feed
bills, your mortgage and the intrust
to either buy a ticket home or stay
where you had stranded.
Another thing-a law should be
passed by congress, compelling rail-
ways to make at least twenty miles IN
hour with livestock shipments destined
for market.
we are still knocking at the doors OF
congress for tive-year census of live
stock, 10 be taken and promptly dis
seminated, 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.
II regret TO say that the year last
past has witnessed SO many failures
among honest. hard working. patient
and accomplishing stockmen in the
United states. Without apparent rea-
son, prices begansto drop. and they
have gone from bad to worse until we
see the cattle kings in the Hereford
and Shorthorn world forced into bank
ruptcy, their hard-earned fortunes dis
sipated and their careers hlighted. II
must be conceded that the consumption
OF meat was never so great, or the re-
tall prices never so high. 1t must be
admitted that we still have growing
foreign demand. rather than closing
of makets hsainst our meat pro-
ducts.
Here is where the great combine
called the packing kings" comes in.
We all concede they have made colos-
sal fortunes. we know they have con-
house, with 1t odors and nuisances. TO
gigantic abattoirs. where the by-pro-
ducts are all saved and every ounce OF
the animal Is turned to profit. We
producers have paid for the hundreds
of millions now represented by tbs
big Four" so-called. We commend
their success, but We protest against
the gigantic monopoly they have forced
on the people of the whole country
both producer and consumer. We pro-
test against the withdrawal of open
in each and all of the great
markets of this country. in the agree
lnent made every day between the buy
ers of these houses.
I'VE demand laws which Will pre-
vent daily meetings of packers and
their agents TO arbitrarily fix the prices
TO be paid on the hoof, and also on the
block. Every stockman in this coun-
Try Is generous and willing 10 give
and take. but he certainly objects to
giving the whole profit of raising and
of livestock to a merciless ag-
gregation OF packing house capitalists
who by their actions want the earth
II was these reasons which forced n
arge number of the biggest producers
10 meet in Kansas City and organize
the Independent Packing Company.
With capital of $5,000,0n0.'
No Excuse for Conditions.
President Springer introduced Gov
error Chamberlain, who delivered the
address of welcome upon behalf of the
state. Governor Chamberlain said there
S no excuse for conditions which exist
oday injurlously affecting the live
stock industry of the country. In one
short year and during an era OF un-
| falling off in the prices of livestock
If nearly S per cent. aggregating a
oss to the industry of 1865, 100000, OF
which $6S0,000.000 falls upon the rails
n of cattle. s12o.o00,000 upon the raiser
If sheep, and s65,000,O00 upon the rails
n Of hogs. This immense sum repre-
'ents nearly one fourth OF the total
;alue of the livestock of the United
States.
The organization by you of an in
dependent packers association" said
Governor Chamberlain, having In view
he erection of packing establishments
m the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards
or the export trade. and others in ter
itory more centrally located for local
rade, is a curative step. and one that
ommends itself to the intelligence %.
he country. If carried into execution
t will prove the proper remedy for
resent conditions
KILL 1000 RABBITS.