The Colorado statesman., 1905-05-13
ST0CKMEN'S MEETING
RAILROAD REGULATION URGED
American Stockgrowers' Association in
Session at Denver-Address by Col.
w. e. Hughes on Railroad Monop-

oily.
Denver, May 10.-When the first con-
Sention of the American Stockgrowers'
Association opened at the Broadway
Theatre yesterday morning the at
tendance was not SO large as was
hoped, but it was representative. Dur
Ing the day good many more drifted
in and in the next two days the attend
ance will be swelled.
Temporary Secretary A. L. De Ric-
qles called the meeting to order and
Col. William E. Hughes of Denver was
unanimously elected chairman. Mr.. De
Ricqles was made secretary, and Rev.
B. o. Aylesworth, president OF the
State Agricultural College, gave the
opening invocation.
Following the prayer, Governor Nc
Donald briefly welcomed the stock
men. Mayor Speer was to have fol-
lowed this with an address of welcome.
1T was announced that he was not well
enough to be present. John w.
Springer took his place and declared
that the mayor and himself had been
out the night before to. welcome an
otner old cowboy, President Roosevelt.
He declared the President to be the
biggest man that any one present
would ever live to see. Then he
I sounded the keynote of the meeting by
saying that the association must unite
for concerted work in the interest OF
enforcing the interstate law.
Hon. w. w. Turney of FL Paso,
Texas, president of the Texas associa-
ton, responded for the stockmen, and
made a humorous and witty speech.
The following working committees
were named and they We're immedi-
ately called together in rooms at the
Brown Palace hotel:
Credentials and Order of Business
| w. w. Tuney, w. B. Todd, Robert
Taylor, p. j. Shannon and +. p. John
son.
Ammons, Ora Haley, NJ. NJ. Sherman,
j. NJ. Boardman, F. b. Stewart, w. H..
Lane, A. j. Comstock, r. O'Donnell, S.
II. Cowan and NJ. X. Parsons.
Resolutions. T. Brown, F. ]. Ha-
genbarth, II. C. Wallace, r. j. Walsh
and A. NJ. Parrish.
The afternoon session was entirely
taken up in hearing an address by Col
w. E. Hughes on the subject, THE
American Stockgrower American
Ideals and American Monopoly" The
veteran Stocllman was warmly re-
ceived, and he declared that it was the
first time he had been seen in a con-
vention in ten years, because he had
felt that there was not much to be ac-
complished, but the time has come for
, action. In the last three years, during
prosperous times, the stockgrowers
have lost money owing to ruinous rates
and market in which there is no COM
petition. The theme of the address
was that the fathers had ideals in
founding the Nation. 1t was to be
place for individual liberty and indi-
vidual action. There was TO be a COM
plete change in every generation and
each should have its chance. 1t did
away with the law of primogeniture
and it did away with all else tending to
permanent establishment. The people
have permitted the corporations to eX-
ist and these never die or change. The
government has created Franken-
stein and it must regulate it. He would
not have the government take charge
of the railroads, because of the heavy
machinery in managing them, but it
should regulate them with fairness aud
justice to all.
In closing, Colonel Hughes said:
I'VE must get back at once to the
American, the fathers idea: Individ-
ualism must be again built up here;
heart again put into the common in
dividual man. 1t is he who does the
work. and let it be understood that We
now mean that this government, Gre
ated by, of and for the people, must
also be owned by them and not by cor
porations, and these corporations, now
exercising hurtful powers, mast once
and forever, with proper justice to all,
go under government control"
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