Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-17
WOOL GROWERS IN CONVENTION AT
 P0CATELL0
HEAR NUMEROUS PAPERS AND DISCUSS TARIFF AND
 MANUFACTURING
CONDEMN FORESTRY METHODS
PUBLIC IS NOT PROPERLY IN FORMED AS TO METHODS
 IN PRACTICE

POCATELLO, January I6.-The second days session of the National Wool Growers association began with the reading of papers. "'Packing and Tieing of Fleeces," was treated by P. G. Johnson, of Blackfoot, Idaho, and C.. H. Hadnig, former president of the Ma tional Association of Wool Manufactur- CTS, of Philadelphia, read ap paper on "The Relations of the Manufacturer to the Wool Grower'
 After each address there was dis eussion, each speaker being limited to five minutes.
 The afternoon session was consumed in the reading and discussion of papers covering the objects of the association.
 Contending that any change in the existing protection on wool would work great injury ii the sheep industry in America, C. H. Harding of Philadelphia, former president of the National Asso- citation of Wool Manufacturers, com pared the recent hearing before the house committee on tariff revision ta minstrel show, with some of the con gressmen as end men.
 He took exceptions to suggestion of Eastern Vice-President Wing a speech yesterday regarding the wool tar if and argued that the existing tariff is not responsible for the prevailing high prices on manufactured wooden goods.
 Francis Perry Elliott spoke before the convention. He said in part:
 Public lands of the United States have ever been the shining target for some adventurous game. Just now there IS scheme of confscation men, acing the remnant that is left; it is pre- sented to congress adroitly disguised as an effort at conservation and regula- tion of our western ranges.
 1t is difficult to make plain all at once that Western people have no crit icism, but only the highest praise and gratitude for the institution of the for est reserve, and hard to lead readers to understand that which is under the ban is not the institution, but the present policies of the administration and ac- companying evils thereof, together with others which are gravely apprehended for the future.
 From the time it went into the land business, our government has acquirtd, for sale and disposal, nearly two billion acres of land on thls continent. We now have left in the United States the small remnant of some three or four million aeres-land unappropriated and spec tally solemnly reserved for settlers for free homes without any sort of imped- iment or handicap.
 "Our eastern fellow countrymen are fully acquainted with the fact that these lands may be taken up by any citizen of any state, under homestead entry. There is something our eastern friends do not know, and we must awak en to ask their congressman abOut namely, that before the present congress adjoulns an effort will be made by a selfshly interested lobby, backed by bureau officials, to railroad through con gress bill confseating these lands for settlement This conhscation bill has been very ingeniously disguised in pur- pose by its promoters. It is made to appear that it is wholly and solely to regulate the range and to save the for age upon the western ranges for pos terity.
 It may be that locking up the range for the exclusive use of those whi can pay for its benefits is best, but what shall it profit us if we save the range for the few and by so doing prorogue the settlement of this western country to a point beyond our own day and time?'
 E. s. Gosney of Flagstaff, Arizona, in an address, declared that justice to sheep men of the west demanded change in the resent methods of ad ministering range control. He assert ed that he could cite numerous incidents in his own state where favoritism, prej- udice and graft had entered in the ad- 1 ministration of the national forests.