Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-01-21
WOOLCROWERS
GET TOGETHER
Annual Meeting at Pocate1lo Productive of
Great Deal of Good Thought and Work
forest and reclamation projects. -

forest and reclamation projects. -
He compared private and govern
ment irrigation enterprises in Idaho
to the disadvantage of the govern
ment and argued for state control of
the forests and reclamation.
After outlining the plan for great
central wool market under the con-
troll of the growers themselves, to sell
directly to manufacturers, President
Gooding spoke Of the efforts made by
the buyers to defeat the project by
bidding up individual clips. He said :
stThere are about six or seven firms
in the city Of Boston that today con-
troll more than rs per cent Of all the
wool Of the United States and they
dictate the prices to the wool growers
regardless Of market conditions. They
see in this movement an opposition
which, if once started, will throttle
their profits and chance for the wool
growers to retain for themselves a
large portion of the rich harvests
which these commission men have
reaped for so long
Joseph E. Wing Of Mechanicsburg,
O., eastern vice president Of the Ma
tional Woolgrower' association, deliv-
cred the following address:
Gentlemen: It gives me peculiar
pleasure to address the members of
the woolgroWer' S association. / like
sheep and I love shepherds and sheep
owners. There is something about the
possession Of sheep, the care OF sneep,
the association with sheep that brings
with it a sense of kinship, of friend
ship and fellowship. Ever the shep-
herd has been man of cares, it is as
true today on the prairies of Wyom-
| ing, the mountain ranges of Utah or
the fields of Ohio as it was in the
DAYS when shepherds watched their
focks by night in Palestine of old,
and to those shepherds came angels to
announce the Glad tidings Of great
Joy. It is significant that these It'd
ings came to the simple-minded, hon
est, faithful shepherds. Not to the
rich, not to the great, but to the sim
pie shepherds Of the fields and rugged
hills of Palestine came these joyful
tidings
t'The association is good thing.
1t is good for shepherds to meet to.
gether, and for sheep owners te
meet together. We can learn much by
rubbing against each other. The writ.
er has sat by many campfire on the
range and while the stars shone doWf
4! BRIGHT and the keen night wind came
across the plain, bearing with II ths
distant howl of the wolf he has absorb
ed cheer. comfort, and wisdom from
shepherds, or sheep herders, as w
term them, some old and some grizzl
cd, some young and optimistic, al
alike versed in the strange lore OF tn
man who lives near to nature, who's
!. friends are the stars, the faithful
DOGS. the trees, and grass and flowers
!; whose thoughts are OF elementa
things, whose lives are often grea
in their simple devotion to duty, thel
tr1stworthiness their habit of earring
for their f1ocks. The isolation OF mel
/ is bad, it breeds distrust, and dislike
) it causes misunderstanding an
iealousies, and all sorts OF bitterness
1t is good to get together. 1t IS goo
to learn the underlying, fundamenta
things that are true. Truth never
! an evil thing in the long run, eve
though it may be distasteful when Y
G..e+ haar If