The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-04-20
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PREHENsION OF OFFENDERS
Interested Parties Resort to Desperate
Tactics to Lower or Abolish Payne
Bill Duties on Wool.

Headquarters National Wool Growers
Association.
Cheyenne, Wyo, April 10, 1909
To the members Of the National Wool
growers Association and all affiliated
organizations, and wool growers gen
orally:
Our attention has been called to au
anonymous circular entitled, "Read
These 13 Good Reasons which has
mailed from the Kinzie Street station,
in the wool district, Chicago, Illinois,
about March ID, to members of con-
gress, prominent wool manufacturers,
dealers, and growers throughout the
country. The circular states that it
was "Issued by the Signal club (what-
ever that may be) of Boston, and on
the last page it bears this inscriptions:
For additional copies, apply to Geo. s.
Walker, Secretary, the National Wool
Growers Association, Cheyenne, Wyo."
The circular contains thirteen para
graphs or reasons "Why the present
high duty on raw wool should be great
ly reduced, or abolished entirely
Every paragraph is an absolute lie,
or misrepresentation of facts and
conditions, and the circular as whole
is an insult to the chief executive of
the nation. to members of congress and
the republican party, and is libel
against this association, its officers and
members, and wool growers generally.
The issuance Of this circular at this
time is evidently for the purpose of
misleading members of congress on the
wool question, and bring the National
Wool Growers Association, and the
work of its officers into disrepute, but
no intelligent person will be misied by
the work of these slanderers, who, like
assassins, strike in the back and from
behind And by this means the auth
ors also hope to punish this association
for establishing wool storage ware
houses of its own.
Last December letters were sent out
Kinzie street station, in the wool dis
trict, to prominent wool growers who
were influential in association circles,
in which the threat was made that un-
less the growers abandoned their ware
house and central market plans, a
f'Carnegie" would be sent down to
Washington to work for free wool. II
was made perfectly plain that the
storage plans of the growers did not
meet with the approval of one wool
commission house at least, and while
the wool dealers Carnegie has not
yet appeared in Washington, they have
shown their displeasure by issuing an
anonymous circular in which they
charge the growers, and especially the
members of this association, with being
In trust, with selling their votes;
that the sheepmen are the only employ
ers of labor in the world organized to
fight labor; that the sheepmen raise or
lower prices of wool as they see fit;
that the sheep clean up the ranges like
locusts, and come in in the spring
nothing more than moving skeletons;
that the sheepmen have combined to-
gether to fight the middlemen by or
ganizing corporations to market their
product, etc.
On behalf of the National Wool
Growers Association, and the many
affiliated associations of growers
breeders and Mohair raisers, and the
hundreds of thousands of other flock
masters throughout the country, | vm-
phatically deny each and every charge,
or paragraph in this scurrilous print,
and brand it as compilation of lies
from beginning to end
We have good grounds for suspecting
the identity of the authors of this
hbelous circular, and for the purpose
OF aiding in bringing them to justice,
the National Wool Growers Associa-
tion will pay the sum of $500 to any
one who will submit information that
will lead to the arrest and conviction
OF the authors, or any persons found
circulating the pamphlets in question.
We will appreciate the assistance of
all local growers, breeders and Others
IN ferreting out these assassins of
character, who have had their hands at
the thoats of the growers for many
years, but who now see their grip
ioosening with~the establishment of co
operative warehouses and the increas-
ing independence, of the growers ard
our determination TO have something to
say regarding the marketing of our
product. The battle for legitimate