The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-20
FARMER PARTLY BLAMED
BY CAIcAGO CONVENTION
csrpelils Control Of Stock
Raising he Real Remedy,
Il Is Claimed
(By Associated Press,


gates 10 the convention Of the United
Aastcr butchers OF America, now in
srksjon here, The following things arc
the cause u high prices OF meat.
The present tariff. siaugniering at
breeding time. education Of farmers
rl1ildren. inspection BY state and gov
eminent. unpwfitable' growth Of corn
for feeding purpoSes, anxiety on The
part OF the farmers TO market pro
ducts. lack OF farm labor. laxity Oh
the part OF the farmers.
Numerous Remedies.
The remedies Tor high prices as ad-
vOcAted BY the butchers are as fol
laws:
Hem0val Of the tariff on live stock;
C8fporate holding of live stock farms
passage Of law forbidding slaughter
three months OF the year, adjustment
0f*statc inspection
III join II. Schofield, secretary of the
national organization. laid the cause
ct higus prices at the door oil the lal.
MGR. v ho,- he said, is TOO hasty about
slAugtcring cattle, hogs and lambs.
The high prices OF meats he said,
Yis accredited 10 the high tariff This
may be true.
"i feel that the early slaugulering
Of cattle. hogs and other products is
the real cause. Congress should pass
= hill forhidding the slaughter OF live
stock at certain times during the
year. am a Democrat. but ] can not
xay that am III favor OF removing
the tariff from liye stock and meats
untoss "a sub-cxport tariff Is enacted.
What would the removal of the tar
1ff mean. First, the shortage would
De Increased Inferior cattle from
Mexico Argentina and Australia
would be shipped into this country.
The live stock markets In these coun-
tfies Is controlled by Chicago pack
crs and II would be just what they
want i think there Is need OF re-
Vision OF the tariff, but not with re-
gard to the meat industry.
With regard to slaughter. will
say that oftcntimes the cattle are kill.
ed during breeding time and II is
found that production has been hamp-
ercd. II there was a law forbidding
thi Il would be beneficial both to the
rdses and the future fooc supply or
the United States.y
kppohls to Farmers.
Fs0tto " Rohland, president OF the
s.. Paul, MINI, board of aldermen,
and also decgate 10 the convention,
denounced the tariff as partly the
cause OF high prices.
Henry Grcsc, Pittsburg. Pa, second
vice president, appealed to the farm-
rt0 go back TO stock raising that the
country might see iis say out of the
problem il uow faces.
The fsTmefA.must be encouraged
TO raise live Stock or the United
States will lose its grip As the live
stock country ofthe world The only
tolution that ] cah sec at the present
time. is the accumulation OF large
tracts of land by corpatiou for the
production Of live stock. The farmer
VI today Is different from that of years
ago.
lie Is becoming lax In his duties.
lie Is educating his children and send
Ing them 10 the city, thus taking labor
ffom the farm. The ciiy-bred citizen
dQfs not work on the farm. The price
he ran get for cereal products pays.
him better than feeding livestock ani
be does iiot bother With live stock
prVjuctIon
Tariff Paid by Consumer
~ The tariff were taken off I've
stock Il would be q great thing for
the consunpf lie is sufferer All
rhtpmrnts. Of live stock have 10 be
inspected BY the government and the
ceYer1ment Inspectors Sometimes
there arc as many as forty cattle or
hogs condemned In one consignment