Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
WOOL MEN ADJOURN.
r. R. Dooding, Of Idaho, New Presl
dent---Next Convention at Omaha.

F. R. Dooding, Of Idaho, New Presl
dent--Next Convention at Omaha.
Portland.-With three loud cheers
for Portland, the forty-seventh annual
convention Of the National Wool
Growers association adjourned Sat
urday afternoon at 4:30 O'clock in
the Armory to meet in Omaha next
year. This marked the close of the
most important convention yet held
by the organization, according to the
closing address of the newly elected
and the retiring officers, and one
feature upon which they congratu-
lated themselves and their fellow del
egates was the comparatively peace
full manner in which the deliberations
had been conducted.
Action at this convention makes it
Incumbent upon the association to
begin what promises to be a most
wide-spreading campaign for the edu.
cation of the nation to a realization
of the urgent necessity of a protec-
tive tariff on wool and wooden goods,
in order to save from alleged wreck
ana ruin, the sheep and wool in
dustries, so closely allied that the
killing of one means the inevitable
destruction of the other.
1t was explained by the various
speakers that with the duty free wool
from Australia, Asia, Africa, South
America or any other foreign coun-
try, the sheep industry would soon
dwindle to nothing, a condition that
would not only prove disastrous to
the wool-growers themselves, but
would deprive the American people of
one of it's most important sources of
food supply, one that will increase
in Importance at greater ratio than
the increase in the population.
1t was pointed out that the actual
cost of wool in the average suit of
clothes is SO small as to be almost
insignificant and that therefore the
duty protecting these two industries
and those closely related thereto is
therefore of such little moment to
the consumer that if the facts were
understood by the people at large
the sheep and woolgrowers need
never fear abolition of the duty or
even a reduction thereof.
The association will make it a part
of its work to carry on such an edu-
cational campaign as was advocated
in the report of Retiring Secretary
George S. Walker and by other
speakers, and man well versed in
every detail of the industries will
be sent to Washington and main
tanned there to guard against any
measures being enacted under mis-
apprehension. 1t was set forth dur
ing the sessions repeatedly that while
there is no reason to doubt that the
issues affecting the sheep and wool
industries are and have been treateu
in all fairness, misunderstanding
and unfamiliarity with actual condi-
tions have and may lead to measures
the effect of which would be any
thing but that intended.
The resolutions adopted indicate
also a better understanding between
the sheep and wool men and the
forest service and closer relations
and more friendly terms than in
the past The resolution provides
for a national advisory board, con-
sisting of a representative man from
each state and territory having a
reserve, to take up with the secre-
tary of agriculture and the forestry
changes which it is be-
lieved should be made in the inter
est of the sheep industry This ad-
visory board will also find it its duty
to make a careful consideration of
all complaints and of the regulations
Of the forest service.
The proposed speed limit measure
Is indorsed from the viewpoint of !
quicker transportation as we'll as
from a humanitarian point OF view.
The resolution carries a protest |
against the proposed Parsons bill
and authorizes the executive COM
mittee to take up the matter of
freight rates with the Interstate Com
nerce commission should this be
ieened necessary.
The election of officers went off in
accordance with a cut and dried pro-
gram, the delegations from the various
states having fixed up a slate prior
o entering the convention hail. DR..
J. NJ. Wilson, of Wyoming, who had
,een urged to accept the presidency,
'etired in favor of Frank R. Gooding,
If Gooding, Idaho, ex-governor of the
state, and younger brother of retir-
ng president F. W. Gooding OF Sho-
hone. Idaho The nomination of
Mr. Gooding was made by Frank r.
Iagenbrath of the Idaho delegation.
Utah was given the western vice
PRESIDENT by the election of George
Austin, of Salt Lake City, and there
,eing no rivalry for the position of
,astern vice president, A. ]. Knollin