The Winslow mail., 1913-05-17
PLEA OFFERED
FOR INDUSTRY
Live Stock Associations Join In Protest
to Senate Against Placing Live Stock
and Products on the Free List

The live stock and wool grow
ers' associations of the western
part Of the country are making a
determined fight before the SEN
ate. finance committee against
the placing of live stock and
meats and wool on the free list.
The American Live Stock asso-
citation, the National Growers
association, the Cattle Raisers
Association of Texas, the Pan
handle and South Western Stock
growers association, the Corn
Bit Meat Producers association,
the Western South Dakota Stock
Growers association, the Ari-
zona Cattle Growers association
and the California Wool Growers
association have joined in a state
ment and protest to the senate
I4ndnce Committee, urging tno
retention of a fair and unreason-
able duty on live stock and meat
products.
Say the statement: eve are
wiling to sand some du lion
Ia the present ouvies, but We
vigorously protest against the
placing of our products on the
free list. The United States is
today producing all the meat
needed for home consumption.
The much talked of shortage of
cattle is only an absence of the
surplus that was foremerly ex-
ported. The falling off in the
production of beef cattle is the
natural result of the depressed
prices that prevailed from 1855
to 1910. During that time there
was no attraction for capital in
the cattle business; indeed, the
capital already invested seized
every opportunity to get out and
many large and small holdings
in the range districts were liquid
ated as prices permitted doing so
with some profit, or at least,
without any loss.
! During the past two years
under the stimulus of better
prices there has been a wide
spread return to the business of
cattle breeding. Thousands of
farmers and ranchmen, both in
the corn belt and in the range
section of the west are establish
ing breeding herds, generally on
a small scale. On the Chicago
market May 5, 1918, the highest
price paid for beef cattle was
more than 81 less than the high
est price prevailing in Sentem-
Der, Qctaber and November 1912.
The result Of the tree ad-
mission of meets from other sur
i plus countries would be first OF
all, to discourage those who have
just embarked in the live stock
business or who contemplate do
ing so. Cows and calves Woulc
again be thrown upon the mar
ket from all parts of the country,
and If prices were forced to the
level of Argentina beef or Aus.
tralian mutton the business Of
stock raising would be so unpro
litable that this country woulC
soon cease to produce its owr
meat. The result of this woulc
Dc disas tfous, not only as q dll Y
"Fpr this uAseemly eonduct, I, the
Judge, fine you ten days at Squirrel
Inn. Beginning tomorrow morning
you will be the servile slave of the
ten young women whose feelings you
have outraged. Tomorrow you will
start alphabetically down the list sAf
for day you will do tha hlading oi
the girl who falls TO your lot. What
ever she fnstructs you to do, you viii
do. Should you again transgress yor
win be-be fined for life!" savagely
III. at the end of the tea days, yor
. have acquitted yourself honorably. yor
may so your way in peace. Have
you anything to say for yourself?"
His honor arose SubmissiVsiY.
Il accept the terms" he said, ca
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