Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17

twelve years later, made him. in time,
a foreman.
Senator Kendrick for many years has
owned large ranches in Wyoming and
Montana. His cattle, it is said. are
now numbered by the thousand. Sher-
ldan. the town in which he lives, lies
within the shadows of the Big Horn
mountains. The Montana boundary is
but few miles distant.
Mainly, of course, Senator Kendrick
is stockman. Necessarily. if Incl
dentally. he is an agriculturist. He
has travelled all over the west in his
business of buying lean steers and
selling fat ones and has long been a
student of farming conditions.
1T is only within the last ten years"
he said, that agriculturists have made
money. Before their prosperity be-
gan they pinched and drudged and
their children, with their consent, went
away to work in towns and cities. Pro-
duction Of food fell off and consump-
ton of food increased. But that has
become a familiar story. Times now
with the farmer are growing better
and. because We went to war with Ger
many. proposals were Immediately made
to take over his crops and to estab-
lish maximum and minimum prices.
Suppose the government should say
to workman in stoneyard or fac
tory: All that you receive for your
labor over certain sum will be with
held and applied to other purposes
would the workman, let me ask, speed
up or slow down under such circum-
stances?
Farmers should be let alone at all
junctures. They will produce the
crops il the government doesn't inter-
fere with their business. The law of
should be permitted to operate natur-
ally. After the food is grown, how
ever. it ought to be transported prompt
ly and distributed scientifically. The
government might get busy in that di-
rection, not only for times Of war, but
during the days of peace.
Railroads should be managed like
banks, in at least one particular. I
know something about the banking
business. A bank, year by year, puts
away surplus-that is. if it Is
healthy and going establishment.
II told the managers of my ranches
that employment had to be found in
winter for all the men who worked for
has been successful. We are never
short of labor. In hard times rail-
roads pare their expenses by dismiss
ing thousands Of their workers. In
stead of getting ready for a rush OF
business and the return of prosperity.
they impair the facilities that they have
already. Seemingly, most railroad man
ayers lack courage and foresight.
81 am n cattleman. but there are plain
rules of business that can be applied
generally. Ny advice to the govern
ment is to let the farmers produce
their crops and sell them at the mar
ket, but to provide them with adequate
transportation and common-sense agcn-
cies of distribution.
More taxpayers have left the en-
ployment of Senator kendrick and
gone on to land Of their own. so it is
said in Wyoming, than has been the
west He gives his cowboys Il chance.
And they perceive what sobriety,
economy and industry have done for
their employer.
4Seven years ago. after he had built
beautiful home at Sheridan and planted
the grounds in large trees brought from
distan. forests, he was persuaded to be
candidate for the state senate. He was
elected as democrat although every
one, nearly, voted for him. Then, in 1913,
he ran against Francis f. Warren for
the United States senate and was beaten
in the legislature after a long and excit-
ing deadlock by one vote. 1t was during
this campaign that kendrick, the cattle
man. made his first speech.
Il left Cheyenne in company with a
friend,' he said, and travelled three
pointment at Jackson. which is just south
OF Yellowstone Park. The campaign COM
mttee said that 1 ought to go out and
meet and talk to the voters Meeting
them. i said, would be pleasure Talk
ing to them. / feared. might result in a
disaster. Besides. Jackson. where I was
to deliver my first speech, was unani-
mously republican.
i !:
1.-THE last part of our Journey was made
in an open mail wagon. We climbed the
Teton mountains over a parrow road
deep with mud and soft snow Part of
the time we rode, but most of the time
we walked. And some of the time was
spent in prying THE wagon out of holes
Going down the mountains was easier
than going up, but the snow turned to
rain and. as thought of the speech my
spirits sunk. In our descent we came to
little town the implanted houses of
which looked as If they had been emptied