The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
CATTLEMEN PESSIMISTIC.
North Montana Roundup Association
Adopts Resolutions Concerning
CniavOrable Conditions.
Special to The Evening Time.


CnfavOrable Conditions.
Special 10 The Evening Timex
Helena, April 24.-The transaction
of business by the North Montana
Roundup association was accomplish
under great difficulty, owing to the
absence of Secretary r. F. Clary, of
Fort Benton, who failed to reach the
city. President c. J. Mcnamara was
called east suddenly yesterday, and it
remained for the executive committee
to assume charge. NJ E. Miller, as
chairman of that committee, called
the meeting to order at 8 o'clock in
the rooms of the Helena Business
Mems association, and explained the
situation to the large gathering of
representative stOckmen from north
ern Montana. w. D. Coburn acted as
secretary pro TEN. Chairman Miner
appointed committee on resolutions
and another on nominations and re-
ports were soon forthcoming from
them. No financial report was had
because OF the absence of the records.
The committee on nominations recon-
mended these officers for the ensuing
year:
President-Henry Sieben, of Helena.
Vice President-John Survant, of
Malta.
y-Treasurer-W. D. Coburn,
Brookside.
Executive Committee-Same as last
year, with NJ. E. Miller as chairman.
The report was adopted. The report
of the committee on resolutions was
then read and adopted, as follows,
whereupon the meeting was adjourn
ed, to meet next year in Helena:
1T cannot be denied that the pres
ent is time of great depression in
the cattle business. The situation de-
rives emphasis from the we'll known
fact that the related industries of
sheep raising and horse raising never
were more prosperous and the same
happy state of affairs prevails through
out the United States in agriculture,
trade, railways, manufacturing, the
arts and in real estate.
The unsatisfactory condition re-
lating to cattle in Montana has been
aggravated by local causes, chief
among which has been the three con-
secutive years of drought; but the
blight upon the industry is more keen
and widespread than is caused by any
manifestation of nature; it is uniform
in its character and is universal in its
effects.
Not since the season of 1902 have
the cattle-growers received enough for
their beeves in the market to encour-
age them to remain in the business,
and there have been too many inpedi-
ments thrown in the way of getting
their product to the market in good
shape
If prices do not grow materially
better, commencing the present year,
some of the owners will have to con-
fess to bankruptcy and others will
engage in sheepraising, with the con-
sequent result that the cattle business
in Montana will, to considerable ex-
tent. die out.
1T is not probable that the blight
upon the industry will be removed by
the force of public opinion, expressed
in indignant utterances of the pro-
ducers and the consumers, nor has the
power of the United States government
in a tentative way, proved equal to the
case.
In the grave danger that besets
the national government as a result
of the increasing discomfort of the
masses, that has been caused by con-
templating the rapid concentration of
the wealth of this country in the hands
OF comparatively few people, COM
bined with the arrogance and the op-
pressive business acts of class of
disreputable citizens styled captains
of industry, who mostly ought to be
wearing stripes and doing time in
penal institutions, it has been most
encouraging to find the president
standing on the side of the people.
He has done SO to the best of his
ability, but in the senate his best
measures have been treated with
kind of contempt by some senator's of
his own political party, men of no
reputation for political honesty, but
who are narrow, sordid and vicious,
chief among whom are Aldrich. For
aker and Elkins.
Furthermore, in the exercise of his
powers, the president is handicapped
by these formidable nothings STYLED
official courtesy, and Difference to vest
ed capital, as exemplified in the collos-
sal free-booters of the nations black
est slums, called Wall street. How
ever, 1t is an unnecessary concession
to that class that the president should
stigmatize the able men who throw
light on such practices by their arti-
cles in magazines by styling them
the man with the muck rake I'm
stinted praise is due the able, daring
and intrepid spirits who Have the
ability to investigate legalized crime
and the courage to throw light upon it.
1T adds to the glory of wOmanhood
that one of the sex, Miss Tarbell, first
fully exposed to public detestation the
inventor of the Ubiquitous system
whose harmful practices and the ex-
ample set by the immense wealth a.
massed has been initiated by many
persons of kindred capacity for evil,
the net result being to fever the brain