, 1908-01-10

try and the development Of our re-
sources If we would hold our own in
this great strife for commercial su.
premacy. While we have been mac
tive in politics, it now behooves us to
stand together to C both state
and national protection. While respect
is due our state and national represen.
tatives for their kind consideration of
our interests in the past, they are no
greater than the people who made
them, and 1t is our business to remedy
the weak points in our allied indus
try" He believes the tariff should be
retained on wool, hides, meat and an
imals.
Speed Limit Law.
The speed limit law is favored from
a humanitarian standpoint, and the
speaker believed that its enforcement
would mean better service for sheep
men. The president closed as fol.
lows:
Prepared to Lead.
Let the Wyoming sheepman be pre-
pared to lead in the gigantic enter
prises that await the development of
our resources. We must all work, ex-
pand and lead onward. We must raise,
the best, sell the best n keep in the
lead of the procession and allow no.
other state to excel in anything. There,
is no reason why the western man
should not love his broad expanse of
barren hills, forests and mountains.
He revels in the peacefulness of his
surroundings, and the productiveness
of the soil while his fiocks Craze DER
hill n vale.
Must Look Forward.
I'VE nave no time to court retro
spection. We must be ever on the
alert. There is no occasion for need
less alarm If the men most interest
ed, the intelligent n broadminded
men of the west, will GRASP. the prob
lens and demand their solution with
the same intrepid and answering de-
termination that has borne them so
nobly and grandly through the trials
and vicissitudes of the past, it will
only be a question of a short time un.
til Wyoming will be known as the
great progressive domain of the west"
Senator Clark's Telegram.
The following telegram from Sena-
tor C. D. Clark of Evanston was read
by Secretary Walker and received with
applause by the delegates:
ION train en- route to Washington.
January 10, 1908.
Wyoming Wool Growers Associa-
ton in Convention, Laramie.
81 regret exceedingly my inability
to be present at your convention.
Il congratulate the wool growers of
Wyoming on their splendid organiza-
ton. | heartily approve the stand they
have taken in the past in regard to the
segregation of the public domain, and
also the fight they have made against
the creation of forest reserves, which
have taken in agricultural and grazing
lands. Our state is prosperous, our
people are contented and happy; labor
is employed and our people are salts.
fled with present range conditions.
Any radical move at this time to
change present conditions, in my opin-
ion, would prove disastrous not only TO
the wool growers, but to all other in
~terests in the state.
&C. D. CLARK"
Committees Named.
President Delfelder announced the
appointment of the following commit
tee to audit the books of the secretary
and treasurer; Messrs. William Daley
of Rawlins, ]. NJ. Rumsey of Rawlins
and H. L. Patton of Casper.
The committee on resolutions, one
from each county as far as the coun.
ties are represented, is as follows:
Albany county,. S. King of Lara
mic.
Big Horn county-William R. Sleep,
er of Basin.
Converse county-George W. Met
calf.
Fremont county-Daniel Hanson.
Laramie county-T. A. Cosgrif.
Natrona county-Pat Sullivan.
Sheridan County-E. E. L~onabaugh.
Sweetwater county-Ed Rife.
Uinta county,. B. Nesbitt.
Weston county-W. D. Melon.
Growth of the Associations.
Colonel E. ]. Bell, vice president of
the Wyoming Wool Growers associa-
ton, has furnished the following fig
ures to show the growth of the Wyp
ming and national associations:
In April, 1905, when the Wyoming
association was organized, it had 10
members, In 1906 the membership was
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