Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-26
Livestock Writer Has Some
thing to Say About Reel
procity and Pork
NO SUGAR BEET WEDDING IN HIS
Wants Congressman to Understand
That the West Needs German and
French Markets for Its Meat Prod
ucts-Reciprocity Not Confined to
Iowa "Factionalists."


regulation and reciprocity is not con-
fined to the factionalists of Iowa poll
tics can be noted the special Omaha
correspondence of Jas. e. Poole to the
Live Stock World at Chicago, stock
wards maket paper that goes to far
mers all over the western states He
says:
omaha. June 23.-There is some
thing doing in the west and you do
not have to place your ear very close
to the ground to detect it, either.
Sundry gentlemen who are supposed
to represent the progressive but. irate
west in Washington will do well to
read the handwriting on the wall. 1t
is sketched in bold characters.
Already the work begun at Denver
by organized live stock interests is
bearing fruit. The agrarian population
is aroused. Here and there stand
patter may be found, but he is lonely.
The stand patter, like the lobster, has
a retrograde movement-the west Is
nothing if not progressive.
Two new paramount issues have
been created since results of the last
presidential campaign were tabulated.
They are:
Federal control Of railroad rates.
Reciprocity.
Both are demands OF the west, the
developing and determined west, and
neither Aldrich nor Elkins, nor any of
that ilk can long block the wheels of
progress. The predatory organized
trusts of the east must capitulate In
part, at least: the stone wall OF exclu-
sion they have built up must be demol-
ished. The coping stone has already
been hurled to the ground.
OF primary and overshadowing inn
portance to the west is the live stock
industry. it is staggering under ham
dicap imposed by the Unprotected
combinations OF the east. These were
shouting defiance back at the west
when 1t first voiced it's reciprocity de-
mand; now the tone has changed. The
steel trust does not need it's present
tariff; neither does the sugar trust
nor a score of other trusts. To these
the western live stock producer owes
his exclusion from the markets OF
continental Europe. Ii is condition
that cannot last,
"Why don't you raise sugar beets?''
said an eastern man to a Nebraska
cattlennan the other day. when the lat
ter had enunciated views of this
sort"
Sugar beets!" sneered the Nebras-
kan. "Why sir, this state is not a
truck patch. When l get down on my
knees to weed a truck all day it will be
because every other means of subsist.
ence has failed. We are live stock
growers, and we want foreign market
for our beef pork and mutton. We
want restored to us, sir, the market
your damnable trusts have deprived
us Of .
This beet sugar chfmera is being in
dustriously exploited in the west, but
those WHO are wise will have none OF
it. Said a Nebraska man to me yes
terday. Beet sugar is fraud. All
these promoters want is bonuses. Ne
braska is full of dismantled beet sugar
refineries. We haven't the labor to
grow beets, and if we had, we don't
want to bother with 1t. Let us swap
beef, pork and mutton with Germany
for sugar. They have cheap labor over
there and can grow sugar. Let us send
our sausage to Germany and buy her
wines, toys, and, if necessary her tools
Give us a chance to do business with
France. We can't expect Europe to
buy everything from us and sell moth
ing"
Congress is going to hear more on
this reciprocity subject and that at an
early date. The west realizes that
if foreign markets are to be restore /
it must get busy. once in Washington
the average western congressman for
gets, speedily, the needs of his con-
stituents. His ear becomes enmeshed
among the back teeth of some plaus-
ible lobbyist and the welfare of the
west gets scant attention. The trusts
have practically closed all but one for
eign outlet for American meats and
that exception is the British market
Remarked reciprocity advocate:
"If we buy Germanys sugar, tina;
nation will take s4O,0O0,0O0 worth OF
our pork annually. This may not be
an attractive proposition to the cattle
men at first sight, but creation of such
a trade would undoubtedly increass
beef consumption, even if Germany did
not buy a pound of fresh meat And
what is more, the prosperity of the
west is inseparably bound up in tha
hog, and the more of him we can sci.
the better off we will be-"
Beef is drug on American markets
yet the German artisan and laborer l.:
eating horse flesh, and glad to get it
Partisan families make a luxurious
meal off a fricasee, the main ingredi-