Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-23
This, should it happen, would

AHS, SHouiu IL HdppeH, WOuiu
mean more than mere privation. 1t
will mean the working class of Amer
lea must live on a diet of rice and
potatoes and kindred foods. If that
time comes, which, come it certainly
will if there is not change in the
producing methods, national decline
will begin which will be rapid and
terrible in its consequences.
"Such a decline would affect not
only the economic, business and edu-
cational conditions, but it would 60
much further. 1t would be seen m
the change of racial characteristics.
We would become a nation of sloth-
full people, emulating orientals.
Packing houses would be closed,
millions of dollars invested in them
would be lost, and the workingmen
who are now making big wages and
have comfortable homes would be
thrown out of employment. Vast sums
of the nations capital would find its
way to foreign countries and we
would be nation of dependents"
Of the racial changes that could
be expected under such conditions M.
Bischoff spoke with equal positive
ness.
Much of the success of the Amer
lean people-much of our virile force
and splendid enterprise and achieve
ments," he said, "is due to the fact
that as race we are eaters of ricn.
juicy, red beef. Draw a comparison
between the meat-eating Americans
and the rice-eating Chinese. What is
more reasonable to suppose that
should our workingmen be confined
to diet of rice and potatoes their
characteristics will take on something
of those Of the Chinese"
AS to the remedy or rather pre-
ventitive agency Mr. Bischoff said:
I'VE need to get away from en-
couraging the farmers of foreign
countries to raise cattle to be Skinned
to US. We must rather encourage
our farmers and ranchers to devote
themselves more to the raising of cat
tie than ever before. Of course. ihe
ranchmen are doing all they can, gen
orally speaking but the agriculturists
are too frequently displacing the rails
ing of cattle with that of cereals for
the market. They must be taught that
they can raise livestock as profitabIv
as grain.
There are thousands and thou
sands of acres in the West that can
te made into money if farmers will
only raise cattle instead of sendinp
their grain to markets rather than
feed it. Then in the South the pos
siollities have been overlooked. The
Southern States could be made to
produce cattle far beyond ANYTHING
they have ever attempted The South
as well as the West, needs to be
encompassed in a great educational
campaign as to the necessity for live
stock raising from a national welfare
standpoint as well as from that OF
dollars and cents. This educational
campaign is one of the most urgent
calls of the times nd / believe that
before this convention is over steps
will have been taken to launch it in
such a vigorous way that it will
bring immediate results.
$50 far as Argentina or Australia
competition is concerned, we have
nothing to fear The beef that comes
to US from those countries is f.ozen
and poor in quality. But in any event
it can never supply the demand neces-
sary to offset the decrease il our
cattle-raising industry.
Another thing tnat must be made
clear in this campaign of education
is tEat re Staying of calves fc4. YEA
must stop. That is criminal waste