The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-12
Kansas Worlds Fair Commits
sion Sights Live Stock.
Makes Appropriation of Only
$4,000 for Displays.
BREEDERS INCENSED.
They Handle the Board Without
Gloves.
Ex-Governor Click Delivers a
Pointed Address.

It is quite apparent that the mem
bers of the Kansas Improved Stock
Breeders association do not approve OF
the Kansas Louisiana Purchase com
mission. More than that. they do not
hesitate to express their disapproval
In fact, they are Indignant They seem
to look upon the worlds fair commits
sion as a body whose sole object it is
to suppress the live stock industry of
Kansas.
This indignation cropped out in the
very first meeting of the present an
uuaI session of the live stock bresders.
This session was held late Monday at
ternoon. and during the afternoon con-
siderable time was spent in throwing
tricks at the worlds fair commission
If the members of the commission had
been present they would have discov-
cred that the live stock industry is the
greatest thing in Kansas. and that
bIooded live stock is the chief branch
of the live stock industry.
The reason for all this indignation
and displeasure on the part of the i've
stock breeders is because the world 5
fair commission has seen fit to appro-
pirate only q paltry $4,000 towards an
exhibit of Kansas live stock at the st.
Louis exposition this year. The breed
ers think that $3S. 900 is the least pos
blDiG amount they can get GlOilS WILL
and some of them intimate that if they
can't get that sum Kansas might as
well not try to show off any of her live
Flock at St Louis the coming summer.
ItriS plainly evident that the size OF
that appropriation is worrying some OF
the breeders-perhaps not SO much be-
cause they need the money to help
them with their exhibits. because men
who own blooded live stock fit to go TO
a worlds fair and contest against the
world are generally fairly well TODD
and are able to show what they have
without asking aid from anybody: but
It's the idea that Kansas worlds fair
commission should think no more of
the live stock industry of a great live
stock state like Kansas than to set
aside only a little sum like $4,000 to aid
in a live stock exhibit-this is what
really hurts the breeders. It's the
slight that is put upon their special in
dustry.
SUTTON LEADS OFF.
The trouble started early. Charles e.
Sutton, of Russell, president of the
breeders association. in his annual ed-
dress at the opening of I'll meeting
had referred to the coming IDS fair
and the necessity that Kansas should
be well represented there. Then Prof
O. Err, the new professor of animal hus-
bandry at the State Agricultural college,
read a paper on kansas Must WIN at
the St. Louis Worlds Fair He told
lot of things q bout the greatness CT
Kansas is the recognized leader in some
other lines, but how the world does not
realize that some of the best blOoded
animals in the country come from Ken
sas, and he urged that Kansas owes it
to herself to make the best possible
showing at st. Louis.
The Kansas stock men have already
had considerable trouble with the
worlds fair commission over the live
stock appropriation and the manner in
which it shall be used. A committee or
two from the stock men, representing
all the breeds of all kinds of stock,
have already conferred with the COM
mission. and they secured the promise
of at least S10.000.'' according to the
statement Of Secretary Heath.
These committees had asked that $780,
600 be appropriated outright for the live
stock show from Kansas and that it be
given to the breeders to help pay their
expenses in preparing their stock for
the show. Instead the commission Of
Tered to duplicate all prizes which Kan
Bas live stock shall win at the fair
that is, If a breeder wins $500 of the
prize money offered by the fair the
commission will put $500 more on TOP
of it-and the commission further offer
ed to pay half of the freight in shipping
stock to the fair. They guaranteed that
the appropriation should be al least $1O,-
600 and as much more as will be neces-
eary to duplicate all prizes captured
by Kansas stock men.
The method of Offering the money is
another cause of friction between the
commission and the breeders. The COM
mission argued that an offer to dupli-
cate the prizes would do more to bring
out fine exhibit from Kansas thar
anything else, whereas if the money
were turned over to the breeders and
the expenses paid of all who took a no
ton to exhibit, a lot of ordinary STOCK
might be taken there just to get the
freight paid and then sold after the ex-
hibit.
Atchison was the first to shy a brick il
the direction of the commission 1t was
ridiculous, he said, to offer only S1OOOj
for a live stock exhibit when the mem
bers of the commission were drawing
sixty dollars a day in salaries for them.
selves. He did not explain that tn,
commission was limited to seventy-flv,
days pay last year and two hundred
days this year, and that they must serve
the rest OF the time for nothing and
must pay their expenses out of thei1
per diem.
Quite likely Governor Click did no
know this.
CLICK SPEAKS UP.
This was all Governor Click said a
the time, but as the president urged {
thorough discussion of Professor Err.
paper and as no one else seemed in.
clined to talk, Governor Click took tn,
floor again and said some more things
It was simply absurd, he asserted. /,
set aside only $4,000 for the live stool
industry of Kansas. It would reouir,
at least S35, 600 to make p credifa hi,
showing of what Kansas has in tn,
live stock line, and he was in favor O
the breeders association making an
other demand upon the commission 70
that amount. It was ridiculous. Cover
nor Click went on, for a state with al
the wealth that Kansas has and witt
her great bank deposits to be so mig
gardly as to appropriate only $1,000
for an exhibit of her great live stool
industry at a worlds fair
The more Governor Click talked tn
more indignant he became. He is
good old, miid-mannered gentleman
but he certainly did not think the liv
stock industry of Kansas was gettin
q square deal from the Worlds fai
commission.