Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-07
THE MEAT MEN
State Convention of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association is Well
Attended-some Notable Speakers
on the Program

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 1.-THE state con-
vention of the Iowa Corn Belt Meat
Producers Association is we'll attend
ed and great deal of interest is be-
ing manifested. Addresses have been
made by many men prominent in con-
nection with the live stock business.
President Murdo Mackenzie of the Ma
tional Live Stock Association, made a
rate problem and told about the strug-
gle that had been made to bring the
issue up to its present status. He paid
a high tribute to Senator Deliver,
| whom he said is the one man who
wrote the Hepburn bill now before con-
gress on railway rate legislation, and
to President Roosevelt. He told of be-
ing member of the delegation of wes-
tern stock men who personally called
upon Roosevelt in June, 1908, and of
laying before him the conditions of the
stock shippers. From that time to this
he said the president had been working
hard to secure rate regulation.
IF the Hepburn bill becomes a law
it will secure railroad regulation. 1t
ought to be called the Dolliver bill,
though, for personally know he wrote
it and has worked hard upon It,"
Prof. C. +. Curtiss Of Ames, spoke
on the reasons money had been lost
of late in cattle feeding. He spoke Of
the changed conditions which make the
cost of cattle raising SO much more
than formerly, and urged raising pure
blooded cattle, as they would fatten in
shorter length of time. He also urg.
ed devoting more attention to balanced
rations in feeding and to better pas
ture, which will save the great expense
of corn feeding.
Foreign Markets.
In his address to the association yes.
terday morning President A. l.. Ames,
of Buckingham, strongly urged study
of foreign markets, saying that the
time has come when the Iowa feeder
must take up this matter of markets
if he wishes to maintain his present
standing in the business world.
Henry Wallace, editor of Wallace's
Farmer, responded. He said that the
prosperity VI DCS N1OlLSs was eNiiAC4
closely with that of the state, in fact
was identified with it and that the
prosperity of the state depends on the
meat producers.
Governor A. B. Cummins last even
ing told the members of the association
that they should take a hand in poll
tics 365 days in the year, for if they
did not look after their own interests
no one else would. He also said en-
phatically that he believed in the pri-
mary law because he was sure it was
right, and he was still further con-
WINGED when he saw all of the railroad
interests of the state lining up against
it.
In a short half hours talk Governor
Cummins aroused the greatest enthusl-
asm, and he was heartily cheered on
several occasions.
He reviewed the situation in Ger
many, which has closed her doors to
many of Americas meat products be-
cause Of the high tariff imposed in
America on goods from Germany.
eve are about to engage in tariff
war with Germany" he said. I'VE
are on the eve of suspending CONNER
cial relations with that country. To
me it seems it has required the COM
bined folly of the two nations to bring
about these conditions"